Epidemic Management Platform Using Segmented Proximity Databases
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current methods for managing health epidemics struggle to effectively identify and contact potential carriers of viruses, particularly asymptomatic individuals who can transmit the virus, without compromising personal data or overburdening systems with large datasets.
Innovation Solution
A computer management platform uses a proximity base to associate identifiers with time-stamped geographical positions, determining contagion regions and potential carriers by classifying geographic positions, aggregating regions over time, and contacting individuals anonymously, while considering geographic and temporal proximity to reduce the risk of contamination.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If the proximity database includes all time-stamped geographic positions for all individuals, then the completeness of contact tracing is improved, but the system complexity and data processing burden increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the large proximity database into smaller geographic regions (contagion regions) and time periods. Instead of processing all individual positions globally, the system divides the territory into multiple regions and processes contact tracing separately for each region and time period, reducing memory requirements and computational complexity while maintaining complete contact tracing capability.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent introduces geographic region as an additional dimension for organizing and processing data. By mapping individual positions to geographic regions and processing contacts at the region level rather than directly at the individual level, the system reduces the dimensionality of the search space and simplifies the overall data processing architecture.
2Measurement precision
If the proximity database stores detailed geographic positions for all individuals, then the accuracy of identifying potential carriers is improved, but the amount of data to be processed increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent extracts only the necessary information from the proximity database for contact tracing purposes. Instead of processing all individual geographic positions, the system extracts and processes only the positions that fall within contagion regions and time periods relevant to identified carriers, reducing data volume while maintaining identification accuracy.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent performs preliminary classification of geographic positions into contagion regions before conducting contact tracing analysis. By pre-organizing data into relevant geographic and temporal categories, the system reduces the amount of data that needs to be processed during actual contact tracing operations while preserving the ability to accurately identify potential carriers.
3Reliability
If the system processes contact information for all identified carriers, then the thoroughness of epidemic control is improved, but the time required for processing increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent segments the contact tracing process by geographic region and time period, allowing parallel processing of multiple regions simultaneously. This segmentation enables the system to maintain thorough epidemic control across all regions while reducing overall processing time through concurrent execution of contact tracing analyses in different geographic areas.
4Measurement precision
If the contagion region is defined with high precision, then the accuracy of contact identification is improved, but the computational complexity of determining overlapping zones increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements a dynamic approach to defining contagion regions, adjusting the precision and boundaries of regions based on the specific carrier's movement patterns and the time period being analyzed. This dynamic region definition maintains high accuracy for contact identification while adapting the computational complexity to the actual data distribution, avoiding unnecessary calculations in low-density areas.
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AI summary
A method for managing a health epidemic due to at least one virus in a predetermined territory by means of a computer management platform (10), the territory comprising a plurality of identified carriers (P), each identified carrier (P) being equipped with at least one telecommunications device associated with an identifier (NUM), the method comprising a search step (E3) in a proximity database (DB1) of all time-stamped geographic positions (GD(A)) for a primary identifier (NUM_A) over a predetermined period of contagion (T_CONT), a determination step (E4), in the proximity database (DB1), of secondary identifiers (NUM_B(A)), having secondary time-stamped geographic positions (GD(B)) which are common so as to determine a database of potential carriers (DB_PP), and a contact step (E5) of the individuals associated with the secondary identifiers (NUM_B(A)) of the database of potential carriers (DB_PP).