Patent Issued for Triggered Sensor Data Capture In A Mobile Device Environment (USPTO 10,878,947)
2021 JAN 07 (NewsRx) -- By a
Patent number 10,878,947 is assigned to
The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “With the advent of wearable technology comes greater ability to collect data of interest, for instance health or medical-related data of an individual. This data may be useful in diagnosing and treating health conditions. Doctors typically ask patients about the circumstances surrounding a health event, such as what was happening at the time of the event and any specific symptoms that the individual experienced. This feedback may be subjective, without relevance to the cause of the event, incomplete and/or of little value without supporting data. Even if the individual is monitored by, for instance, a wearable device, often times data captured around the time of the event is lost by the time the individual can get to proper medical assistance. Even when some data has been logged, there may be an issue combining the data with information about what the patient was experiencing or doing at the time of the event to inform an intelligent diagnosis and therefore treatment of a potential problematic health condition.”
In addition to the background information obtained for this patent, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “Shortcomings of the prior art are overcome and additional advantages are provided through the provision of a computer-implemented method. The method monitors primary sensor data obtained from first wearable sensor device(s) to determine whether trigger condition(s) are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture. Based on recognizing a health event, the method obtains health status input from a user, configures second wearable sensor device(s) to obtain supplemental sensor data that includes additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtains the supplemental sensor data. The method provides the health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the health event for analysis. Based on the analysis, the method tunes at least one trigger condition of the trigger condition(s) to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture.
“Further, a computer program product including a computer readable storage medium readable by a processor and storing instructions for execution by the processor is provided for performing a method. The method monitors primary sensor data obtained from first wearable sensor device(s) to determine whether trigger condition(s) are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture. Based on recognizing a health event, the method obtains health status input from a user, configures second wearable sensor device(s) to obtain supplemental sensor data that includes additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtains the supplemental sensor data. The method provides the health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the health event for analysis. Based on the analysis, the method tunes at least one trigger condition of the trigger condition(s) to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture.
“Yet further, a computer system is provided that includes a memory and a processing unit in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method. The method monitors primary sensor data obtained from first wearable sensor device(s) to determine whether trigger condition(s) are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture. Based on recognizing a health event, the method obtains health status input from a user, configures second wearable sensor device(s) to obtain supplemental sensor data that includes additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtains the supplemental sensor data. The method provides the health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the health event for analysis. Based on the analysis, the method tunes at least one trigger condition of the trigger condition(s) to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture.
“Additional features and advantages are realized through the concepts described herein.”
The claims supplied by the inventors are:
“What is claimed is:
“1. A method comprising: monitoring primary sensor data obtained from at least one first wearable sensor device of one or more wearable sensor devices to determine whether one or more trigger conditions are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture; based on recognizing a first health event and on checking whether, and determining that, a threshold preventing obtaining self-perceived health status input from a user has not been satisfied, obtaining the self-perceived health status input from the user, configuring at least one second wearable sensor device of the one or more wearable sensor devices to obtain supplemental sensor data, the supplemental sensor data comprising additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtaining the supplemental sensor data; providing the self-perceived health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the first, health event for analysis; based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, tuning at least one trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture, wherein the one or more trigger conditions are defined and stored to a device, and wherein the tuning provides a changed trigger condition and stores a definition of the changed trigger condition to the device; recognizing a second health event based on a trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions being met; and based on determining that the second health event is recognized within a threshold amount of time after the recognizing the first health event, correlating the first health event and the second health event as a single health event, wherein the obtained self-perceived health status input is associated with the single health event absent obtaining additional self-perceived health status input from the user until at least the threshold amount of time has lapsed.
“2. The method of claim 1, wherein the first health event comprises the user providing the self-perceived health status input, wherein the providing the self-perceived health status input by the user triggers the configuring the at least one second wearable sensor device and the obtaining the supplemental sensor data.
“3. The method of claim 1, wherein the recognizing the first, health event comprises determining that one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions has been met, and wherein the method further comprises prompting the user to provide the self-perceived health status input in response to at least one question soliciting the self-perceived health status input from the user, the at least one question selected based at least in part on the one of the trigger conditions.
“4. The method of claim 3, wherein the determining that the one of the trigger conditions has been met uses reference data comprising at least one selected from the group consisting of: medical history of the user, environmental factors, and a body of generally-accepted medical knowledge.
“5. The method of claim 1, wherein one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions comprises one or more parameters, wherein the one of the trigger conditions is met based on the one or more parameters being satisfied.
“6. The method of claim 5, wherein a parameter of the one or more parameters comprises a dynamic threshold, the dynamic threshold set dynamically based on statistical analysis of values of the primary sensor data, such that occurrence of a statistical outlier in the values of primary sensor data exceeds the dynamic threshold and satisfies the parameter.
“7. The method of claim 1, further comprising, based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, modifying an established set of questions for future presentation to the user to solicit health status input from the user based on one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions being met, wherein the modifying is selected from the group consisting of: (i) adding one or more new questions to the established set of questions, and (ii) modifying an existing question of the established set of questions.
“8. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining a schedule for the providing the self-perceived health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data, the schedule based at least in part on an urgency associated with the recognized first health event.
“9. The method of claim 1, wherein a scope of the supplemental sensor data capture is an initial scope for obtaining the supplemental sensor data, wherein the tuning the at least one trigger condition changes one or more parameters of a triggering condition that control whether the one or more trigger conditions are satisfied to trigger supplemental data capture, wherein the changing the one or more parameters adjusts the initial scope of supplemental sensor data capture to an adjusted scope of supplemental sensor data capture that is different from the initial scope of supplemental sensor data capture.
“10. A computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage medium readable by a processor and storing instructions for execution by the processor for performing a method comprising: monitoring primary sensor data obtained from at least one first wearable sensor device of one or more wearable sensor devices to determine whether one or more trigger conditions are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture; based on recognizing a first health event and on checking whether, and determining that, a threshold preventing obtaining self-perceived health status input from a user has not been satisfied, obtaining the self-perceived health status input from the user, configuring at least one second wearable sensor device of the one or more wearable sensor devices to obtain supplemental sensor data, the supplemental sensor data comprising additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtaining the supplemental sensor data; providing the self-perceived health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the first health event for analysis; based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, tuning at least one trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture, wherein the one or more trigger conditions are defined and stored to a device, and wherein the tuning provides a changed trigger condition and stores a definition of the changed trigger condition to the device; recognizing a second health event based on a trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions being met; and based on determining that the second health event is recognized within a threshold amount of time after the recognizing the first health event, correlating the first health event and the second health event as a single health event, wherein the obtained self-perceived health status input is associated with the single health event absent obtaining additional self-perceived health status input from the user until at least the threshold amount of time has lapsed.
“11. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the first health event comprises the user providing the self-perceived health status input, wherein the providing the self-perceived health status input by the user triggers the configuring the at least one second wearable sensor device and the obtaining the supplemental sensor data.
“12. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the first health event comprises determining that one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions has been met, and wherein the method further comprises prompting the user to provide the self-perceived health status input in response to at least one question soliciting the self-perceived health status input from the user, the at least one question selected based at least in part on the one of trigger conditions.
“13. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions comprises one or more parameters, wherein the one of the trigger conditions is met based on the one or more parameters being satisfied, and wherein a parameter of the one or more parameters comprises a dynamic threshold, the dynamic threshold set dynamically based on statistical analysis of values of the primary sensor data, such that occurrence of a statistical outlier in the values of primary sensor data exceeds the dynamic threshold and satisfies the parameter.
“14. The computer program product of claim 10, wherein the method further comprises, based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, modifying an established set of questions to solicit health status input from the user based on one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions being met, wherein the modifying is selected from the group consisting of: (i) adding one or more new questions to the established set of questions, and (ii) modifying an existing question of the established set of questions.
“15. A computer system comprising: a memory; and a processing unit in communication with the memory, wherein the computer system is configured to perform a method, the method comprising: monitoring primary sensor data obtained from at least one first wearable sensor device of one or more wearable sensor devices to determine whether one or more trigger conditions are met for triggering supplemental sensor data capture; based on recognizing a first health event and on checking whether, and determining that, a threshold preventing obtaining self-perceived health status input from a user has not been satisfied, obtaining the self-perceived health status input from the user, configuring at least one second wearable sensor device of the one or more wearable sensor devices to obtain supplemental sensor data, the supplemental sensor data comprising additional data in addition to the primary sensor data, and obtaining the supplemental sensor data; providing the self-perceived health status input and the obtained supplemental sensor data as correlated health event data of the first health event for analysis; based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, tuning at least one trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions to adjust a scope of supplemental sensor data capture, wherein the one or more trigger conditions are defined and stored to a device, and wherein the tuning provides a changed trigger condition and stores a definition of the changed trigger condition to the device; recognizing a second health event based on a trigger condition of the one or more trigger conditions being met; and based on determining that the second health event is recognized within a threshold amount of time after the recognizing the first health event, correlating the first health even and the second health event as a single health event, wherein the obtained self-perceived health status input is associated with the single health event absent obtaining additional self-perceived health status input from the user until at least the threshold amount of time has lapsed.
“16. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the first health event comprises the user providing the self-perceived health status input, wherein the providing the self-perceived health status input by the user triggers the configuring the at least one second wearable sensor device and the obtaining the supplemental sensor data.
“17. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the first health event comprises determining that one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions has been met, and wherein the method further comprises prompting the user to provide the self-perceived health status input in response to at least one question soliciting the self-perceived health status input from the user, the at least one question selected based at least in part on the one of the trigger conditions.
“18. The computer system of claim 15, wherein one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions comprises one or more parameters, wherein the one of the trigger conditions is met based on the one or more parameters being satisfied, and wherein a parameter of the one or more parameters comprises a dynamic threshold, the dynamic threshold set dynamically based on statistical analysis of values of the primary sensor data, such that occurrence of a statistical outlier in the values of primary sensor data exceeds the dynamic threshold and satisfies the parameter.
“19. The computer system of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises, based on the analysis of the correlated health event data, modifying an existing set of questions to solicit health status input from the user based on one of the trigger conditions of the one or more trigger conditions being met, wherein the modifying is selected from the group consisting of: (i) adding one or more new questions to the established set of questions, and (ii) modifying an existing question of the established set of questions.”
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