Intelligent device and data network
AssigneeFitSense Technology, Inc.
InventorsThomas Quinlan, Paul J. Gaudet, Thomas P. Blackadar, Norbert Ohlenbusch
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Abstract
A network for electronic communications in which disparate anonymous devices may transmit and receive information, such as in a secure manner. A method for collecting health-related data may, for example, comprise detecting, at a first time, that a sensor has moved within a detection range of a link component, the sensor having not been identified to the link component prior to the first time; receiving data collected by the sensor relating to activity by and/or health of a human subject associated with the sensor; and processing the data to determine at least one indicator of the human subject's health.
Claims20
A communication method for use in a system comprising a plurality of sensor devices, a link component, a server component, and at least one network coupling the plurality of sensor devices, the link component and the server component, the method comprising acts of:
- (A) receiving, by the link component, first data sent by a sensor device;
- (B) sending, via the at least one network, second data to the server component, the second data comprising at least a portion of the first data;
- (C) determining, by the server component, whether the sensor device can be identified as one of the plurality of sensor devices based at least in part on an analysis of the second data;
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- (D) processing, by the server component;
- the second data in a manner which depends on the determination in the act (C).
A system, comprising:
- a link component, comprising at least one communications interface configured to receive first data sent by a first sensor device, and to send second data via at least one network, the second data comprising at least a portion of the first data;
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- a server component, comprising:
- at least one communications interface configured to receive the second data sent via the at least one network;
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- at least one processor programmed to determine, based at least in part on an analysis of the second data, whether the first sensor device can be identified as a valid sensor device, and to process the second data in a manner which depends on the determination.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.