Physiological Data Format Translation for Unified Health Monitoring
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Solution Overview
Problem
Users face challenges in consolidating and viewing physiological data from various devices, as these devices often provide data in different formats, making it difficult to access and utilize comprehensive health information through a single interface.
Innovation Solution
A method that translates physiological parameters from different data formats into a common format for storage and display, allowing users to view human-readable health characteristics across multiple devices through a unified interface, and permits third-party applications to access and display this information.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If physiological parameters are stored in device-specific data formats, then each device can maintain its own data structure, but users cannot view and consolidate health data from multiple devices through a single interface
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a common data format as an intermediary layer between device-specific formats and the unified user interface. This mediator enables translation and consolidation of physiological parameters from multiple devices without requiring changes to the devices themselves, resolving the contradiction between maintaining device-specific formats and achieving unified data access.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent creates a universal data structure that can accommodate physiological parameters from different device types and formats. This universal interface allows the system to handle diverse data sources through a single standardized mechanism, eliminating the need for separate applications for each device while preserving device-specific data characteristics.
2Reliability
If multiple separate applications are used to access physiological data from different devices, then each application can be optimized for its specific device, but users must manage and switch between multiple applications
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the functionality of multiple device-specific applications into a single unified application interface. By consolidating access to physiological parameters from various devices through one interface, users no longer need to switch between multiple applications, while the underlying system maintains device-specific data integrity through the common data format translation layer.
3Adaptability or versatility
If physiological parameters are translated into a common data format, then data from multiple devices can be consolidated, but translation processing time and computational resources are required
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements preliminary action by pre-defining the common data format structure and translation rules before actual data consolidation is needed. This preparation work establishes a standardized framework that enables efficient, automated translation of physiological parameters when data from multiple devices needs to be integrated, reducing the time and computational resources required during actual data consolidation operations.
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AI summary
Techniques for combining physiological and health information are provided. An example method includes receiving one or more physiological parameters of a user from one or more devices in data formats specific to the devices, translating the received physiological parameters from their respective data formats into a common data format, storing the translated physiological parameters into a common data structure configured to store data in the common data format, retrieving the stored physiological parameters for display in a user interface, wherein the user interface displays one or more human-readable physiological characteristics of the user based on the retrieved physiological parameters, and repeating the translating, the storing and the retrieving, upon receipt of one or more other physiological parameters from the devices, to update the displayed human-readable physiological characteristics.