INTRAVAGINAL MONITORING SUPPORT ARCHITECTURE
An intravaginal monitoring device supporting network infrastructure, including a smart phone with applications supporting female's healthcare diagnostics. The intravaginal monitoring device communicates via a communication interface to local external devices. The intravaginal monitoring device also communicates with external (central) support servers, smart phones, healthcare professional's supporting systems and devices, research and development systems and devices, pharmaceutical computing systems and devices via wired and/or wireless network pathways. The data flows from the intravaginal monitoring device, to a remote device, e.g. smart phone, and includes image (or sensor) data collected within a memory (e.g. a built-in memory or memory stick) of the intravaginal monitoring device, and then is delivered for inspection, suggestions, annotations, recommendations, discussions and/or treatment, to another device communicatively linked to a cellular network, and Internet, used by a user, one or more healthcare professionals, one or more user forums, research and developmental or pharmaceutical professionals or for secure storage at a remote site. The data is sent in an encrypted form so as to be able to maintain privacy of a female, that is, without the female's (user's) authorization the data cannot be seen or used by anyone within the support network infrastructure in an unauthorized manner.
1 . A method used by a server in a communication network, the communication network also having a plurality of sensor devices and a support computer, each of the plurality of sensor devices capturing sensor data via a vaginal channel of a female reproductive system, the method comprising:
establishing communication with the plurality of sensor devices;
receiving the sensor data captured by at least one of the plurality of sensor devices via the vaginal channel of the female reproductive system;
generating display data based on the sensor data received; and
delivering the display data to the support computer.
2 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication established flows via the communication network.
3 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the server supports a forum relating to the female reproductive system.
4 . The method of claim 1 , wherein the server supports sales relating to the female reproductive system.
5 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing medical referral data.
6 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising providing medical research data.
7 . A method used by a server in a communication network to make a related data selection from a plurality of data, the communication network comprising a medical sensor device that captures sensor data via a vaginal channel of a female reproductive system, the method comprising:
establishing communication with the medical sensor device;
receiving the sensor data captured by the medical sensor device; and
selecting the related data from the plurality of data, the selection being based at least in part on the sensor data received.
8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of data comprises a plurality of advertisement data.
9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of data comprises a plurality of sales data.
10 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of data comprises medical research data.
11 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the plurality of data comprises referral data.
12 . The method of claim 7 , further comprising at least assisting in drawing a conclusion based at least in part on the sensor data received, and the selection that is based at least in part on the sensor data received comprising a selection based at least in part on the conclusion drawn.
13 . A method performed by at least one device associated with a female reproductive system, the female reproduce system having a physiological state, the method comprising:
retrieving first data captured by a first sensor located within the reproductive system of a female;
retrieving second data captured by a second sensor associated with the female; and
presenting a visual working environment on a screen, the visual working environment containing visual data related to the first data and the second data to support drawing of a conclusion related to the physiological state.
14 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the retrieval of the first data and the second data occurs during a session in which the first data and the second data are captured.
15 . The method of claim 14 , wherein the presentation of the visual working environment occurs during the session.
16 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the retrieval of the first data and the second data occurs over a plurality of sessions, in each of the plurality of sessions a portion of the first data and a portion of the second data are captured.
17 . The method of claim 16 , wherein a first portion of the first data corresponding to a first of the plurality of sessions and a second portion of the first data corresponding to a second of the plurality of sessions are presented in contrast to also support the drawing of the conclusion.
18 . The method of claim 13 , wherein the conclusion related to the physiological state comprising a fetal condition.
19 . The method of claim 13 , further comprising delivering an alert related to the physiological state based on the first data captured by the first sensor.
20 . The method of claim 19 , further comprising generating the alert based at least in part on the first data captured by the first sensor.