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US 8,819,837 B2Granted
Medical and personal data retrieval system
AssigneeLifeQode, LLC
InventorMichael P Lacey
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Abstract
A system for confidentially retrieving data from a person, such as by authorized personnel. One embodiment provides a data carrier item such as jewelry, having encrypted data imparted upon the item in manner that is only intelligible after being unencrypted. Such data can be encrypted and/or invisibly disposed such that the data is not identifiable by the public, but can be quickly and accurately retrieved by authorized personnel.
Claims13
A system for providing health-related information about a person, comprising:
- a data carrier comprising an existing article of the person and which is coupled about or carried by said person, wherein the existing article has an alerting indication configured for visible coupling about said person;
- a two-dimensional barcode indicative of the health-related information, the barcode being detachably or permanently affixable to the data carrier, wherein the alerting indication is further configured so as to be recognizable to another person as indicating the presence of said barcode;
- and,
- a microprocessor which is programmed to wirelessly receive information of the barcode optically scanned via a wireless device.
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A method of providing health-related information about a person, comprising:
- providing a two-dimensional barcode indicative of the health-related information about the person, the barcode being detachably or permanently affixable to an existing article which is coupled about or carried by the person, wherein the existing article has an alerting indication configured for visible coupling about the person so as to be recognizable to another person as indicating the presence of said barcode;
- optically scanning the barcode with a wireless device configured to detect and recognize said barcode;
- processing scanned information from the barcode at a location remote from the wireless device;
- and
- displaying the health-related information corresponding to the scanned information upon the wireless device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.