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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Dec. 22, 2015
Filed:
Jun. 23, 2006
Stephen J. Brown, Woodside, CA (US);
Stephen J. Brown, Woodside, CA (US);
Robert Bosch Healthcare Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method for monitoring a physiological condition of a user with an apparatus in a computer network is disclosed. The method generally includes the steps of (A) storing authorization information in a nonvolatile condition within the apparatus, the authorization information being suitable for identifying at least one of (i) one or more authorized patients among a plurality of medical patients of a health monitoring service and (ii) one or more authorized types among a plurality of patient types of the health monitoring service, (B) sensing biometric data from the user of the apparatus and (C) identifying the user as a particular patient from at least one of (i) the authorized patients and (ii) the authorized types in response to matching the biometric data to the authorization information.