Wearable Device User Identifier Assignment via Sensor Detection
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Solution Overview
Problem
Conventional wearable devices with sensors lack an efficient user interface for easy interaction, and existing medical telemetry systems generate false alarms during medical procedures, leading to resource inefficiency and environmental disruption.
Innovation Solution
A wearable device system with sensors that detects user information, including activities and health metrics, and assigns a unique user identifier, allowing for real-time monitoring and feedback, while integrating a communication system to manage user accounts and profiles within a telemetry system.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Adaptability or versatility
If conventional user interfaces with more pushbuttons and complex menu systems are used, then device functionality is improved, but ease of operation deteriorates
Solution Approach 1:
The system automatically performs user identification and data association without requiring manual configuration. The wearable device self-services by detecting user presence, retrieving stored biometric data, and automatically linking sensor data to the correct user profile, eliminating the need for complex menu navigation or button sequences.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent replaces mechanical pushbutton interfaces with sensor-based detection systems. Optical, acoustic, or other non-mechanical sensors detect user characteristics and automatically identify users, substituting the need for physical interaction with buttons and menus.
2Reliability
If traditional medical telemetry systems are used, then monitoring capability is improved, but reliability deteriorates due to false alarms
Solution Approach 1:
The system incorporates feedback loops where sensor data is continuously monitored, compared against user-specific baseline profiles, and adjusted accordingly. The automated identification system feeds user characteristics back into the monitoring algorithm, allowing the system to learn and adapt to individual user patterns, thereby reducing false alarms while maintaining monitoring sensitivity.
Solution Approach 2:
The patent applies personalized monitoring thresholds and parameters specific to each user's characteristics, biometric data, and health profile. Instead of using uniform monitoring criteria for all users, the system tailors the monitoring parameters to each individual, improving alarm accuracy by detecting deviations specific to each user's normal patterns.
3Ease of operation
If automated user identification systems are implemented, then ease of operation is improved, but device complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
User biometric data and identification parameters are pre-stored in the system during an initial enrollment phase. The wearable device is pre-configured with user characteristics before actual use, so that during operation, the system only needs to perform simple matching operations rather than complex real-time analysis, thereby reducing operational complexity.
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AI summary
A system provides assignment of a wearable device user identifier to a wearable device user. A wearable device has one or more sensors that detect or measure wearable device user information selected from of at least one of, a wearable device user's activities, behaviors and habit information, and a wearable device user's health. The wearable device includes a communication system, and a pathway system. A telemetry system has a database of wearable device user profiles. The telemetry system includes a processor and a wearable device user database. The processor has at least one of, access to the wearable device user database, at least partially creates the wearable device user database and at least partially determines a wearable device user profile. A wearable device user identifier of a wearable device user is assigned to the wearable device user before or after the wearable device user receives the wearable device.