Payment System for Wearable or Implantable Sensor Data

Abstract

This invention is a data collection system for collecting data from one or more sensors worn by, or implanted in, a person or from one or more sensors in the environment of the person. The data collection comprises one or more sensors equipped with a short range communication link; a mobile communication device configured to communicate through the short range communication link with the sensors, and equipped with a wide area network communication link; a server in communication through the wide area network with the mobile communication device; and a financial institution also in communication through said wide area network with said server. Sensor data is transmitted from the sensors to the mobile communication device, where it is processed and then retransmitted to the server, and used to calculate a payment as a function of a business agreement. The financial institution executes the payment.

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