Peripheral electronic device with health safety status determination

1. A peripheral electronic device, configured to determine a health safety status of the device, comprising at least:

a usage detector, configured to recurrently detect usage status information of the peripheral electronic device;

a change status determination circuit, connected with the usage detector and configured to determine, using the usage status information, a first status change from an unused device status of the peripheral electronic device to a used device status of the peripheral electronic device;

a device memory; and

a health safety status processing circuit, wherein

the health safety status processing circuit is configured to enable a dirty bit in the device memory in case the first status change is determined.

2. The peripheral electronic device of claim 1 , wherein in case the first status change is determined, the health safety status processing circuit is further configured to provide a health safety status notification.

3. The peripheral electronic device of claim 2 , further comprising a communication interface, connected with the health safety status processing circuit; wherein the health safety status processing circuit is configured to provide the health safety status notification to at least one further device.

4. The peripheral electronic device of claim 1 , wherein the change status determination circuit is further configured, using the usage status information, to determine a second status change from a used device status of the peripheral electronic device to an unused device status of the peripheral electronic device.

5. The peripheral electronic device of claim 4 , wherein the health safety status processing circuit is configured so that in case the second status change is determined, a utility modification notification is provided.

6. The peripheral electronic device of claim 5 , further comprising a processor, configured to provide one or more peripheral device functionalities; wherein the processor is connected to the health safety status processing circuit; and wherein the processor is configured upon reception of the utility modification message to disable at least a peripheral device functionality of the one or more peripheral device functionalities.

7. The peripheral electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the utility modification message is provided to one or more of a user and at least one further device.

8. The peripheral electronic device of claim 6 , wherein the peripheral electronic device is a communication device and the peripheral device functionality is conducting a call.

9. The peripheral electronic device of claim 6 , wherein the peripheral electronic device is a video conferencing system and the peripheral device functionality is conducting a video conference.

10. The peripheral electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the utility modification message is provided to at least one further device to disable a device functionality of the further device.

11. The peripheral electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the health safety status processing circuit is further configured to determine when a predefined health safety time has passed after the second status change is determined and, in this case, to provide a utility reset message.

12. The peripheral electronic device of claim 11 , further comprising a processor, configured to provide one or more peripheral device functionalities; wherein the processor is connected to the health safety status processing circuit; and wherein the processor is configured upon reception of the utility reset message to enable at least a peripheral device functionality of the one or more peripheral device functionalities.

13. The peripheral electronic device of claim 5 , wherein the health safety status processing circuit is further configured to provide the utility reset message upon user confirmation.

14. The peripheral electronic device of claim 11 , wherein the utility reset message is provided to one or more of a user and at least one further device.

15. The peripheral electronic device of claim 1 , further comprising an antimicrobial surface treatment.

16. A system for determining a health safety status of one or more peripheral electronic devices, comprising at least:

a safety monitoring server, comprising at least a communication interface to communicate with one or more peripheral electronic devices, wherein each of the one or more peripheral electronic devices comprises:

a usage detector, configured to recurrently detect usage status information of the peripheral electronic device;

a change status determination circuit, connected with the usage detector and configured to determine, using the usage status information, a first status change from an unused device status of the peripheral electronic device to a used device status of the peripheral electronic device;

a communication interface; and

a health safety status processing circuit, wherein

the health safety status processing circuit is configured to provide a health safety status notification in case the first status change is determined.

17. A method of determining a health safety status of a peripheral electronic device, comprising at least:

recurrently detecting usage status information of the peripheral electronic device;

using the usage status information, determining a change from an unused device status to a used device status of the peripheral electronic device; and

in case the change is determined, at least enabling a dirty bit in a memory.

18. A non-transitory computer-readable medium including contents that are configured to cause a peripheral electronic device to conduct the method of claim 17 .

19. The system of claim 16 , furthermore comprising an intermediate electronic device comprising at least:

one or more communication interfaces to connect to at least one peripheral electronic device and to a safety monitoring server; and

a processor, wherein the processor is configured to receive one or more of a health safety status notification, a utility modification notification, and a utility reset message from the at least one peripheral electronic device and to provide a corresponding notification or message to the safety monitoring server.