Method and apparatus for monitoring infection risk during an epidemic and pandemic
AssigneeAura Home, Inc.
InventorsOphir Frieder, Abdur Chowdhury, Eric Jensen
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Abstract
A method, system, and/or apparatus for automatically monitoring for possible infection or other physical health concerns, such as from Covid-19. The method or implementing software application uses or relies upon location information available on the mobile device from any source, such as cell phone usage and/or other device applications. The method and system automatically uses and/or learns user location and activity patterns and determines and infection risk that can be communicated as a warning to community members.
Claims20
A method of determining infection risks for individuals during an epidemic or pandemic, such as Covid-19, the method executed by a computer system and comprising:
- automatically determining positional destinations of a user using a first mobile electronic device of the user;
- automatically determining context information about each of the positional destinations without input by the user;
- automatically deducing as user information a location type and/or user activity of each of the positional destinations from the context information;
- assigning a user risk assessment to the user according to locations and/or activities of the user during a predetermined timeframe;
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- providing the user risk assessment to a community member via a community member electronic device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.