Patent Issued for Precision data collection for health monitoring (USPTO 11321062): VigNet Incorporated

2022 MAY 20 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- VigNet Incorporated (Fairfax, Virginia, United States) has been issued patent number 11321062, according to news reporting originating out of Alexandria, Virginia, by NewsRx editors.

The patent’s inventors are Cao, Yue (Vienna, VA, US), Jain, Neeta (Fairfax, VA, US), Jain, Praduman (Fairfax, VA, US), Klein, Dave (Oakton, VA, US).

This patent was filed on July 15, 2020 and was published online on May 3, 2022.

From the background information supplied by the inventors, news correspondents obtained the following quote: “Applications for computers, mobile devices, and other devices can provide useful functionality to users. However, it can be very costly and time consuming to create, distribute, and maintain an application.

“Typically, it is very difficult for organizations to create and distribute mobile applications and other solutions that can meet the needs of their members. Different organizations have widely varying health policies. For example, different organizations may have different insurance options and health goals for their members. Similarly, individuals have widely varying healthcare needs.”

Supplementing the background information on this patent, NewsRx reporters also obtained the inventors’ summary information for this patent: “In some implementations, a system provides a platform that allows efficient creation and distribution of customized program modules to users. Individual users can download a single application from a server for an application store or marketplace. Separately, a publishing system provides modules for the application that define different sets of functionality and different user experiences. Various organizations can use the publishing system to quickly create and customize a program module to meet their needs, based on predetermined templates offered by the publishing system. For example, the publishing system allows an organization to customize the module templates to use the organization’s own name, logo, media, and other branding assets. Organizations can also select which aspects of the application will be made available to the user and in what manner. By creating a custom module, an organization can define a unique, branded user experience for an application, e.g., for a mobile device such as a smartphone or tablet computer, without requiring the organization to invest the time and effort to code, test, publish, and maintain an application.

“When a user downloads and installs the application associated with the publishing system, the user can select and download an appropriate customized module. The module can include a variety of elements that adjust the user’s experience. For example, a module can include custom content from the organization that customized it, as well as interactive elements, media, and features from the template used to generate the module. After downloading the module, the application may reconfigure its interface as directed by the module, as if the organization that customized the module had provided the user a customized, stand-alone application.

“In some implementations, organizations may use the publishing system to customize modules that enhance the wellbeing of users. For example, an organization may provide various modules that support health initiatives of a company. Using the publishing system, the employer may select module templates for various aspects of wellbeing, such as general fitness, weight loss, diabetes management, and so on. The module templates may include clinically validated information and recommendations tailored for a specific medical condition or health goal. This template information provides the employer effective, validated techniques to improve a user’s health, without requiring the employer to invest in research to identify appropriate user experiences supporting health. The employer may customize the template, for example, specifying additional goals or incentives specific to the employer, as well as health insurance information that is applicable for the employer. Additionally, the employer may include the employer’s name, logo, and other content, so that once the module is downloaded and incorporated into the application, the application may appear as if it were a fully customized application from the employer. In a similar manner, health insurance companies, doctors and hospitals, government entities, and other organizations may all create their own respective customized modules to be published.

“In some implementations, customized health management modules can be used to provide organization-specific information on user interfaces of mobile applications from a third-party application store. The customized health management modules can be published by a publishing system that supports data collection and monitoring processes associated with health management programs provided by multiple healthcare providers. The customized health management modules can be used to integrate various types of information from different entities associated with healthcare services such as insurance companies, providers, pharmacies, and patients into a common platform with limited costs of implementation for organizations that provide modules through the publishing system.

“In one general aspect, a computer-implemented method includes: providing, by a server system, a user interface for designing a health management module, the user interface identifying a plurality of health management module templates; receiving, by the server system, data indicating a user input received through the user interface that selects of one of the plurality of module templates; receiving, by the server system, customization parameters that customize the selected module template for a particular organization; generating, by the server system, a customized health management module for the particular organization based on the selected template and the customization parameters; and publishing, by the server system, the customized health management module for the particular organization, the customized health management module including instructions that configures an application provided by a third-party application store.”

The claims supplied by the inventors are:

“1. A method performed by one or more computers, comprising: providing, by the one or more computers, a user interface for creating a customized module to customize behavior of an application, wherein the user interface for creating the module identifies templates that each specify one or more user forms to be provided by the application, the templates being configured such that generating a module based on one of the templates creates a module configured to cause the application to present the one or more user forms specified by the template, wherein the user forms being configured to present one or more input fields and to receive information through the one or more input fields; receiving, by the one or more computers, data indicating a user input received through the user interface that selects of one of the templates to be used in generating the customized module, wherein the selected template specifies content for the application to present including a first user form; receiving, by the one or more computers, customization data entered using the user interface, wherein the customization data specifies one or more changes to the content that the selected template specifies for the application to present; generating, by the one or more computers, the customized module based on the selected template and the customization data such that the customized module is configured to cause the application, when updated with the customized module, to present the content specified by the selected template with the one or more changes indicated by the customization data; and providing, by the one or more computers, the customized module over a computer network, the customized module being configured to cause a device having the application installed to present the first user form customized according to the customization data in response to the device receiving the customized module.

“2. The method of claim 1, wherein the templates include information configured to provide recommendations tailored for a specific medical condition or health goal.

“3. The method of claim 1, wherein the templates include templates corresponding to different medical conditions.

“4. The method of claim 1, wherein the selected template is associated with one or more interactive elements or media, and wherein customized module is generated using the one or more interactive elements or media associated with the selected template.

“5. The method of claim 1, wherein the customized module is generated to specify one or more conditions for presenting the first user form.

“6. The method of claim 5, wherein the customized module designates the first user form to be presented in response to one or more predetermined actions.

“7. The method of claim 1, wherein the customization data customizes at least one of content of the first user form, layout of the first user form, or one or more conditions for causing the first user form to be presented.

“8. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated module includes one or more rules configured to cause a device to provide one or more interventions in response to data received through the first user form.

“9. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated module specifies rules for processing data received through the first user form and one or more conditional actions for a device having the generated module to perform conditioned on results of the processing.

“10. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the customized module comprises providing the customized model to a client device; and wherein the generated module is configured to cause the client device to collect sensor data using one or more sensors of the client device.

“11. The method of claim 1, wherein providing the customized module comprises providing the customized model to a client device; wherein the generated module is configured to cause the client device to monitor one or more physiological parameters of a user of the client device.

“12. The method of claim 1, wherein the generated module specifies a series of interactions to initiate with a user or a series of dialogs to present to the user.

“13. A system comprising: one or more computers; and one or more computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: providing, by the one or more computers, a user interface for creating a customized module to customize behavior of an application, wherein the user interface for creating the module identifies templates that each specify one or more user forms to be provided by the application, the templates being configured such that generating a module based on one of the templates creates a module configured to cause the application to present the one or more user forms specified by the template, wherein the user forms being configured to present one or more input fields and to receive information through the one or more input fields; receiving, by the one or more computers, data indicating a user input received through the user interface that selects of one of the templates to be used in generating the customized module, wherein the selected template specifies content for the application to present including a first user form; receiving, by the one or more computers, customization data entered using the user interface, wherein the customization data specifies one or more changes to the content that the selected template specifies for the application to present; generating, by the one or more computers, the customized module based on the selected template and the customization data such that the customized module is configured to cause the application, when updated with the customized module, to present the content specified by the selected template with the one or more changes indicated by the customization data; and providing, by the one or more computers, the customized module over a computer network, the customized module being configured to cause a device having the application installed to present the first user form customized according to the customization data in response to the device receiving the customized module.

“14. The system of claim 13, wherein the templates include information configured to provide recommendations tailored for a specific medical condition or health goal.

“15. The system of claim 13, wherein the templates include templates corresponding to different medical conditions.

“16. The system of claim 13, wherein the selected template is associated with one or more interactive elements or media, and wherein customized module is generated using the one or more interactive elements or media associated with the selected template.

“17. The system of claim 13, wherein the customized module is generated to specify one or more conditions for presenting the first user form.

“18. The system of claim 17, wherein the customized module designates the first user form to be presented in response to one or more predetermined actions.

“19. The system of claim 13, wherein the customization data customizes at least one of content of the first user form, layout of the first user form, or one or more conditions for causing the first user form to be presented.

“20. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions that, when executed by one or more computers, cause the one or more computers to perform operations comprising: providing, by the one or more computers, a user interface for creating a customized module to customize behavior of an application, wherein the user interface for creating the module identifies templates that each specify one or more user forms to be provided by the application, the templates being configured such that generating a module based on one of the templates creates a module configured to cause the application to present the one or more user forms specified by the template, wherein the user forms being configured to present one or more input fields and to receive information through the one or more input fields; receiving, by the one or more computers, data indicating a user input received through the user interface that selects of one of the templates to be used in generating the customized module, wherein the selected template specifies content for the application to present including a first user form; receiving, by the one or more computers, customization data entered using the user interface, wherein the customization data specifies one or more changes to the content that the selected template specifies for the application to present; generating, by the one or more computers, the customized module based on the selected template and the customization data such that the customized module is configured to cause the application, when updated with the customized module, to present the content specified by the selected template with the one or more changes indicated by the customization data; and providing, by the one or more computers, the customized module over a computer network, the customized module being configured to cause a device having the application installed to present the first user form customized according to the customization data in response to the device receiving the customized module.”

For the URL and additional information on this patent, see: Cao, Yue. Precision data collection for health monitoring. U.S. Patent Number 11321062, filed July 15, 2020, and published online on May 3, 2022. Patent URL: http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&Sect2=HITOFF&d=PALL&p=1&u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.htm&r=1&f=G&l=50&s1=11321062.PN.&OS=PN/11321062RS=PN/11321062

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