“Artificial Intelligence-Aided Family Health Care System” in Patent Application Approval Process (USPTO 20240071631): Patent Application

2024 MAR 14 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- A patent application by the inventors Cao, Wei (Beijing, CN); Chu, Laphoi Philip (Beijing, CN), filed on October 20, 2021, was made available online on February 29, 2024, according to news reporting originating from Washington, D.C., by NewsRx correspondents.

This patent application has not been assigned to a company or institution.

The following quote was obtained by the news editors from the background information supplied by the inventors: “Modern families tend to be smaller, and the members of the extended family, such as parents, brothers and sisters usually do not live together. There is lack of interaction between family members in terms of health and life styles, leading to a low happiness index of family life and even slow response from the family members in case of accidents in life.

“Through search, the Chinese patent with patent No. CN109903825A discloses a health management system based on artificial intelligence, including a data acquisition module configured to record user information; a data cleaning module, a clustering module, a health management prediction module and an importance assessment module of health management factors.

“The above patent has the following defects: devices and systems are designed for individual device users, and the understanding and feedback of user family members on the health status of the device users are not incorporated into the analysis and interpretation of health index data. Therefore, an AI-aided family health care system is proposed.”

In addition to the background information obtained for this patent application, NewsRx journalists also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent application: “The purpose of the present disclosure is to provide an AI-aided family health care system in order to solve the defects in the prior art, which incorporates the understanding and feedback of user family members on the health status of device users into the analysis and interpretation of health index data to form a more comprehensive and accurate family health care service.

“To achieve the above purpose, the present disclosure adopts the following technical solution:

“An AI-aided family health care system includes an AI cloud engine subsystem which is connected with a user mobile application program through first interface. The AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a third-party platform through second interface. The AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with an operation management interface through https. The AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a home gateway through a third interface. And the AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a health monitoring subsystem and an environment monitoring subsystem through the home gateway.

“Preferably, the AI cloud engine subsystem includes a health index interaction combination customized by family members and interaction indexes of other family members; the health index interaction combination comprises heart rate, respiration, blood oxygen, blood pressure, body temperature, temperature, humidity, smoke, brightness and exercises, sleep time, water, electricity and gas switches, door opening and closing status induction, window opening and closing status induction, light switch, stove switch status induction, refrigerator door opening and closing status induction, water leakage induction, gas leakage induction and air quality induction; and the interaction indexes of other family members comprise attention indexes, attention time and attention frequency.

“Preferably, the health monitoring subsystem includes a exercises sensor, a pulse and blood pressure measuring module, a blood oxygen and blood glucose measuring module, a body temperature measuring module, an emergency button, and an emergency call and fall sensing module.

“Preferably, the environment monitoring subsystem includes a temperature sensor, a smoke sensor, an intelligent illuminating lamp, an intelligent switch, water, electricity and gas switches, door opening and closing status induction, window opening and closing status induction, a light switch, stove opening and closing status induction, refrigerator door opening and closing status induction, water leakage induction, gas leakage induction and air quality induction.

“Preferably, the home gateway is configured to conducts personalized configuration for various devices and modules of the health monitoring subsystem and the environment monitoring subsystem, and transmits the statuses and data of the devices and the modules back to the AI cloud engine subsystem for analysis, statistics and interpretation.

“Preferably, the AI cloud engine subsystem forms an interactive closed loop with the mobile application program on mobile phones of family members of a user.

“Preferably, the home gateway, the user mobile application program and the emergency call module conduct voice communication via Bluetooth, a wireless network or a mobile communication network through scheduling of the AI cloud engine subsystem.

“Preferably, a use method of the AI-aided family health care system includes the following steps:

“S1: downloading the user mobile application program with a user mobile phone and the mobile phones of the user family members, and connecting the user mobile phone with the AI cloud engine subsystem through the wireless network or the mobile communication network;

“S2: conducting personalized configuration by the user on various devices and modules of the health monitoring subsystem and the environment monitoring subsystem through the home gateway;

“S3: reporting, by the user mobile phone, the sensor data in a Bluetooth device to cloud health data through a Bluetooth gateway and the wireless network or mobile communication, receiving a cloud control command, and receiving a management command of the user mobile application program through a cloud; and

“S4: connecting the user mobile application program in the mobile phone of the user family members with the AI cloud engine subsystem through the mobile communication network.

“Preferably, operatable items of the user family members in the mobile application program includes a customized overview panel, a customized home page, personalized customization parameters, attention points, an operation path, attention time and attention frequency.

“The present disclosure has the following beneficial effects:

“1. The present disclosure introduces the interaction of family members into the artificial intelligence analysis of health data to form a closed loop, which not only can improve the accuracy of interpreting the health statuses of the elderly and the disabled in a family, but also promotes benign interaction among the family members in terms of health and safety, and improves the overall happiness of family life.

“2. The present disclosure introduces the understanding of other family members for the health condition of the concerned family members into the analysis and interpretation of the health data, enhances accuracy and pertinence of analysis results, reminds the family member users through customization to interact with each other to create a good family care environment and improves the happiness and health level of family life.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. An artificial intelligence (AI)-aided family health care system, comprising an AI cloud engine subsystem connected with a user mobile application program through a first interface; wherein the AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a third-party platform through a second interface; the AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with an operation management interface through a https; the AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a home gateway through a third interface; and the AI cloud engine subsystem is connected with a health monitoring subsystem and an environment monitoring subsystem through a home gateway.

“2. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the AI cloud engine subsystem comprises a health index interaction combination customized by family members and interaction indexes of other family members; the health index interaction combination comprises heart rate, respiration, blood oxygen, blood pressure, body temperature, temperature, humidity, smoke, brightness and exercises, sleep time, water, electricity and gas switches, door opening and closing status induction, window opening and closing status induction, light switch, stove switch status induction, refrigerator door opening and closing status induction, water leakage induction, gas leakage induction and air quality induction; and the interaction indexes of other family members comprise attention indexes, attention time and attention frequency.

“3. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the health monitoring subsystem comprises an exercises sensor, a pulse and blood pressure measuring module, a blood oxygen and blood glucose measuring module, a body temperature measuring module, an emergency button, and an emergency call and fall sensing module.

“4. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the environment monitoring subsystem comprises a temperature sensor, a smoke sensor, an intelligent illuminating lamp, an intelligent switch, water, electricity and gas switches, door opening and closing status induction, window opening and closing status induction, a light switch, stove opening and closing status induction, refrigerator door opening and closing status induction, water leakage induction, gas leakage induction and air quality induction.

“5. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the home gateway is configured to conduct personalized configuration for various devices and modules of the health monitoring subsystem and the environment monitoring subsystem, and transmits the statuses and data of the devices and the modules back to the AI cloud engine sub system for analysis, statistics and interpretation.

“6. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the AI cloud engine subsystem forms an interactive closed loop with the mobile application program on mobile phones of family members of a user.

“7. The AI-aided family health care system of claim 1, wherein the home gateway, the user mobile application program and the emergency call module conduct voice communication via Bluetooth, a wireless network or a mobile communication network through scheduling of the AI cloud engine subsystem.

“8. An artificial intelligence-aided family health care system, with a use method comprising the following steps: S1: downloading the user mobile application program with a user mobile phone and the mobile phones of the user family members, and connecting the user mobile phone with the AI cloud engine subsystem through the wireless network or the mobile communication network; S2: conducting customized configuration by the user on various devices and modules of the health monitoring subsystem and the environment monitoring subsystem through the home gateway; S3: reporting, by the user mobile phone, the sensor data in a Bluetooth device to cloud health data through a Bluetooth gateway and the wireless network or mobile communication, receiving a cloud control command, and receiving a management command of the user mobile application program through a cloud; and S4: connecting the user mobile application program in the mobile phones of the user family members with the AI cloud engine subsystem through the mobile communication network.

“9. The method of claim 8, the mobile application program of the artificial intelligence-aided family health care system, with an optional customized use method comprising the following steps: S1: configure a customized overview panel. S2: configure a customized home page. S3: configure a set of customized combination of parameters, concerns, operation path, attention schedule, attention span and attention frequency.”

URL and more information on this patent application, see: Cao, Wei; Chu, Laphoi Philip. Artificial Intelligence-Aided Family Health Care System. U.S. Patent Application Number 20240071631, filed October 20, 2021 and posted February 29, 2024. Patent URL (for desktop use only): https://ppubs.uspto.gov/pubwebapp/external.html?q=(20240071631)&db=US-PGPUB&type=ids

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