Measurement authenticating wellness devices

1 . A method for using a combination of a wearable device and one or more health measurement devices for determining and authenticating the provenance of a multiplicity of health measurements to be of a same pre-registered person, where the multiplicity is determined over a continuous duration of time for which the wearable device is confirmed to be affixed to the same pre-registered person, where the identity of the person is confirmed to match a pre-registered biometric ID only once and prior to taking any of the multiplicity of health measurements during the continuous duration, and where each of the wearable device and the health measurement device comprises a heartbeat sensor, comprising the steps of:

affixing the wearable device the body of the person such that the wearable heartbeat sensor is held in an operative sensing position respective of the body of the person for detecting a temporal heartbeat pattern of the person, where the wearable determines secured state information confirming and indicative of a current state of being affixed that begins the continuous period, where the continuous period is ended at such a subsequent time that the secured state information is indicative of the wearable device no longer being affixed to the body of the person;

at a time concurrent or subsequent to the beginning of the continuous period, using an authenticating device or otherwise ID sensor to concurrently determine a biometric ID comprising either of a facial image or a fingerprint of the person collocated with a first temporal heart beat pattern of the person, using the wearable heartbeat sensor to concurrently determine a second temporal heart beat pattern of the person, and (i) comparing the biometric ID to a prior known biometric of a pre-registered person, (ii) comparing the first and second concurrent temporal heart beat patterns, and (iii) authenticating that the person to whom the wearable is currently securely affixed is the pre-registered person upon the successful comparisons of (i) and (ii), and

at a time subsequent to authentication and still within the continuous period, establishing communications with a health measurement device, using the wearable device to determine a new second temporal heart beat pattern different from the authentication second temporal heart beat pattern, concurrently using the health measurement device to concurrently determine one or more health measurements along with a third temporal heart beat pattern of a currently measured person, receiving the one or more health measurements and the third temporal heart beat pattern from the health measurement device, (iv) comparing the new second temporal wearable heart beat pattern and third concurrent temporal health device heart beat patterns, (v) authenticating that the currently measured person of whom the health measurement device is currently sensing is the same person as the pre-registered person upon the successful comparison (iv), and aggregating the received one or more health measurements as authenticated measurements respective of the same pre-registered person.

2 . The method of claim 1 wherein the third temporal heartbeat is determined in colocation with the one or more health measurements such that determination is made from the same or an adjacent surface point on the body of the person prohibiting the measurement of two separate persons.

3 . The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of:

determining the third temporal heartbeat from the mouth area of the person when using a breath analyzer;

determining the third temporal heartbeat from a foot of the person when using a smart scale;

determining the third temporal heartbeat from a hand of the person when engaging with exercise equipment;

determining the third temporal heartbeat from the torso of the person when engaging with a chest band;

determining the third temporal heartbeat from the body point to which a patch is affixed to the person when engaging with a body patch;

determining the third temporal heartbeat from the fingertip of the person when engaging with a finger worn device, and

determining the third temporal heartbeat from the mouth area of the person when using a digital oral thermometer.

4 . The method of claim 1 further adapted for determining and maintaining an on-going current health status of the person, further comprising the steps of:

at a time prior to the continuous period, using the authenticating device to receive one or more public regiments comprising one or more rules for determining and maintaining the on-going current health status of the person, and

processing at least two health measurements separately determined and authenticated at different times based at least in part upon the one or more public regiments to determine and maintain the on-going current health status of the person.

5 . The method of claim 4 further adapted for assuring the public of the authenticated current health status of the person before granting the person access to a premises or otherwise gathering of people, further comprising the steps of:

providing an access control system for engaging with the person prior to granting access by the person to the premises or otherwise gathering of people, where the person uses either of the wearable device or the authenticating device to provide the on-going current health status of the person to the access control system during the engagement, and

using the access control system to grant or deny access by the person to the premises or otherwise gathering of people based at least in part upon the received current health status of the person.

6 . The method of claim 1 , wherein authentication of the wearable or health measurement device either additionally or alternatively to either of (ii) or (iv) comprises optical challenge-response signaling in which a control signal causes emission of a temporal light pattern that is validated to authenticate device association.

7 . The method of claim 1 wherein the step (ii) for comparing the first and second concurrent temporal heart beat patterns is alternatively replaced by step (ii-alt) concurrent temporal light signaling, where the authenticating device comprises or is further adapted to comprise a camera, where the wearable device comprises or is further adapted to comprise a light emitter, further comprising the steps of:

during authentication of the person to whom the wearable device is currently affixed, using the authenticating device camera to capture a multiplicity of images comprising both a view of the face of the person and the wearable device;

concurrently with the capturing of the multiplicity of images:

determining and communicating a control signal to the wearable device;

causing the wearable device to emit a response signal for imaging by the camera, where the response signal is based at least in part upon the control signal;

analyzing the multiplicity of images to determine a facial image of the person for use as the biometric ID of the person in the comparison (i);

analyzing the multiplicity of images to determine the response signal for use in (ii-alt) comparison of the control signal with the response signal, and

(iii-alt) authenticating that the person to whom the wearable is currently securely affixed is the pre-registered person upon the successful comparisons of (i) and (ii-alt).

8 . The system of claim 1 wherein either of the wearable device, a band for affixing the wearable to the body of the person, or a separate external device is or otherwise comprises the authenticating device or otherwise ID sensor.

9 . A health assessment system comprising a wearable device and one or more health measurement devices for determining on-going health information authenticated to be relating to a same pre-registered person, comprising:

(a) the wearable device comprising:

a wearable heartbeat sensor for determining a wearable heartbeat of the person, where the wearable heartbeat sensor is oriented to be in operative sensing contact with a wearable location on the body of the person, and where the wearable device is affixed to the body of person such that the wearable heartbeat sensor remains in operative and detectable contact with the wearable location during the on-going receiving and authenticating of the health information;

either of an ID sensor or communication means for exchanging data with an ID sensor, where the ID sensor concurrently determines from an ID location of the body of the person that is different from the wearable location both of a current biometric ID of the person and an ID sensor temporal heartbeat pattern of the person;

an optional wearable secured sensor for determining wearable currently secured to person data;

either of a first computing element or communication means for communicating with a first computing element, where the first computing element at an initial time concurrently (i) compares the current biometric ID with a pre-registered ID of a person, (ii) receives and compares the ID temporal heartbeat pattern with the concurrent wearable temporal heartbeat pattern, and (iii) at least in part uses either of the concurrent wearable temporal heartbeat pattern or the wearable currently secured data to determine if the wearable is currently affixed to the body of the person, and where upon successful determination of (i), (ii), and (iii) the first computing element associates any future wearable temporal heartbeat pattern determined by the wearable heartbeat sensor to be associated with the pre-registered ID during the on-going time commencing at the initial time up until such a subsequent time when the determination (iii) indicates that the wearable device is no longer in operative contact with the body of the person;

(b) the one or more health measurement devices, where each of the one or more health devices comprises:

a health sensor for determining any of the on-going health information;

either of the health sensor or a distinct health device heartbeat sensor for determining concurrent with the on-going health information a device temporal heartbeat pattern of a person currently engaging with the each health device;

communication means for providing the on-going health information and the concurrent device temporal heartbeat pattern to the wearable device or otherwise the first computing element, and

(c) where either of the first computing element or otherwise a second wearable computing element at an on-going time subsequent to the initial time concurrently (iv) receives and compares a concurrent wearable temporal heartbeat pattern with the concurrent device temporal heartbeat pattern, and where upon successful comparison of (iv) the first or second computing element (v) associates the concurrently provided on-going health information with the pre-registered ID such that the on-going health information is authenticated to be of the same pre-registered person.

10 . The system of claim 9 wherein the current biometric ID is any of a facial image, a fingerprint, or a heartbeat signature any of which are used for comparison with a pre-known and pre-registered biometric ID, wherein the comparison (iv) of the concurrent wearable temporal heartbeat pattern with the concurrent device temporal heartbeat pattern is performed without reference to stored biometric templates, pre-registered heartbeat characteristics, pre-known bio-information, or a biometric ID, such that the comparison establishes physiological correspondence between devices rather than biometric identification of the person.

11 . The system of claim 9 wherein the wearable secured sensor is any of a electro-mechanical sensor for sensing the open and closed state of a band being used to clasp the wearable to the person, or an electronic sensor such as a heartbeat sensor for determining a temporal heartbeat pattern, and wherein the secured to person data is at least representative of or otherwise interpretable as indicating the states of open or closed, affixed/attached to body or not affixed/not attached to body.

12 . The system of claim 9 wherein the ID sensor is either a camera or a fingertip sensor, where the camera is used to capture a multiplicity of images comprising a view of the face of the person to concurrently determine both the facial image for use as the current biometric ID and the ID sensor temporal heartbeat pattern, where the fingertip sensor is used to sense a surface of a fingertip of the person to concurrently determine both the fingerprint for use as the current biometric ID and the ID sensor temporal heartbeat pattern.

13 . The system of claim 12 wherein either of the wearable device, a band for affixing the wearable device to the body of the person, or a separate external device comprises both the ID sensor and the first computing element.

14 . The system of claim 9 wherein the one or more health measurement devices for determining any of the on-going health information comprise any one of:

a breath analyzer for measuring the breath, saliva, oral temperature, or other oral characteristics of the person, where the breath analyzer further comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from either the face, the lip, or the mouth of the person;

a smart scale for measuring the body weight and other body characteristics of the person, where the smart scale comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from the foot of the person;

an exercise equipment for measuring the energy expenditure or other body characteristics of the person, where the exercise equipment comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from the hand or otherwise body of the person;

a chest band for measuring the circulatory, respiratory, or other body characteristics of the person, where the chest band comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from the torso of the person;

a body patch for measuring bio-metrics of the person, where the body patch comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from a body-contact-point where the patch is affixed;

a finger-tip sensor for measuring the characteristics regarding the blood, or skin of the person, where the finger-tip sensor comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from the fingertip of the person, and a digital thermometer for measuring the temperature or orally accessible characteristics of the person, where the digital thermometer comprises the device heartbeat sensor for determining the temporal heartbeat pattern from the internal oral cavity of the person.

15 . The system of claim 9 wherein the first computing element further determines and updates a current assessment of a health status of the person, where the current assessment is determined based at least in part upon the use of one or more regiments conforming to a public protocol and specifying one or more rules and based at least in part upon two or more health datum comprising the on-going health information, where the two or more health datum are each determined at different times within the on-going time and each correspond to different device temporal heartbeat patterns taken on either of the same each health device or on different each health devices and are thus authenticated using different wearable temporal heartbeat patterns taken at different times.

16 . The system of claim 15 further comprising an access control system operated or otherwise used to limit access to either of a premises or otherwise gathering of people, where prior to entering the premises or gathering the person provides requisite data respective of the current health status of the person to the access control system, and where the access control system either allows or denies access to the premises or gathering based at least in part upon the current health status of the person.

17 . The system of claim 16 where the first computing element is a component of a mobile device in communications with the wearable device, where the first computing element or otherwise the mobile device obtains the one or more regiments and during the on-going time receives the two or more datum from either of the wearable device or the one or more health devices, and where the first computing element or otherwise the mobile device determines and updates the current assessment of the health status of the person and provides the sufficient requisite data respective of the current assessment of the health status of the person to the access control system.

18 . The system of claim 9 , wherein authentication of the wearable or health measurement device either additionally or alternatively to either of comparisons (ii) or (iv) comprises optical challenge-response signaling in which a control signal causes emission of a temporal light pattern that is validated to authenticate device association.

19 . The system of claim 9 where both the ID sensor and the first computing element are components of a mobile device in communications with the wearable device, where the ID sensor is a camera used for capturing a multiplicity of images comprising both a view of the face of the person and the wearable device, where the mobile device provides a control signal to the wearable device, where the wearable device either comprises or is further adapted to comprise a light emitting component and causes the light emitting component to emit a response signal based at least in part upon the control signal, and where either additionally or alternatively to the determination and use of the concurrent wearable temporal heartbeat pattern and the ID temporal heartbeat pattern for performing comparison (ii) the mobile device analyzes the multiplicity of images to both determine a facial image of the person for use as the current biometric ID for comparison (i) and to determine the response signal of the wearable device for a comparison (ii-alt) with the control signal, and where upon the successful comparison (ii-alt) either additionally or alternatively to (ii) the first computing device associates any future wearable temporal heartbeat pattern determined by the wearable heartbeat sensor to be associated with the pre-registered ID during the on-going time commencing at the initial time up until such a subsequent time when the determination (iii) indicates that the wearable device is no longer in operative contact with the body of the person.

20 . The system of claim 9 wherein the device temporal heartbeat is determined in colocation with the any of the on-going health information such that determination is made from the same or an adjacent surface point on the body of the person prohibiting the measurement of two separate persons.