Method and system for signal fingerprinting geographic location of a person or object
OwnerMichael Mittelman, Dirk J. Rassloffinventors
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Abstract
A method for geographic fingerprinting for monitoring of home services Interactions between a provider of a home service and a patient. The method and system are directed to presence determination (who is at a specific location at a specific time) rather than GPS location services (pinpointing that location). This service will uses a multi-pass authentication system to verify the co-located presence of a patient and service provider along with verification of time and geographic location of the patient and provider against multiple pre-specified static and dynamic parameters.
Claims1
A system for verifying that a patient and a provider are in the same location at a prescribed time, the system comprising:
- a readable NFC-enabled object or Bluetooth® beacon in possession of the patient;
- a computing device in possession of the provider, said computing having multiple wireless transceivers which can be used to geographically locate the computing device to form a geographic fingerprint and having a reader for reading said NFC-enabled object or Bluetooth® beacon;
- at least one wireless communication network that the computing device can access;
- and
- a remote data server in communication with said wireless communication network, wherein
- when the provider's device and the patient's NFC-enabled object tag or Bluetooth® beacon come into contact, the provider's device captures and/or sends the following data points to the remote data sever:
- A—ID of the health care provider or of the electronic device;
- B—ID of the patient or of the tag;
- C—Current time as indicated by electronic device;
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- D—Current location as indicated by said geographical fingerprint.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.