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Apple concept would require users to input health data to keep using their iPhone
AppleInsider (via Rush Limbaugh) ^ | Thursday, March 26, 2015, 06:49 am PT (09:49 am ET) | By Neil Hughes

Posted on 03/28/2015 6:47:58 AM PDT by 9thLife

Apple has explored presenting iPhone users with non-dismissable notifications, such as requiring personal health data to be entered before resuming normal use of their device, in a concept that could help break bad habits.

The details were revealed in a newly published Apple patent application, discovered on Thursday by AppleInsider. Entitled "Notifications with Input-Based Completion," the filing describes prompts on an iPhone that would actively block access to using the device until certain data is entered.

The most prominent examples given by Apple in the filing are health-related. For example, screenshots show the user being prompted to check their weight or blood pressure through the iOS Reminders app.

Given Apple's recent launch of HealthKit and the accompanying Health app in iOS 8, along with the new fitness-focused Apple Watch, it's possible that Apple could use this method to encourage iPhone owners to keep up to date on the status of their health, rather than avoiding it.

In the application, Apple notes that data for these prompts can be received from connected third-party accessories. So in the case of checking blood pressure each day at 10 a.m., the data could be collected from an external sensor.

Other concepts presented by Apple include calories burnt per day, blood pressure, and body mass index. The system could also alert users when certain data exceeds a pre-set value, potentially helping the user to avoid serious health complications.

Of course, these non-dismissable alerts could also extend to actions beyond health data. In one example, the user is reminded to "take a picture of the construction," and the notification includes a quick link to the iPhone's camera.

Accompanying input boxes would also be found within the iOS Reminders app, with Apple showing text fields for blood pressure and weight, and as well as a camera button for the construction photo, next to the user-created tasks.

In the filing, Apple shows a new option for creating reminders entitled "Required User Input." Apple's concept also adds the ability to include tags, such as "Health" or "Projects," to reminders.

Published by the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office this week, the proposed invention was originally filed by Apple in September of 2013. It is credited to Gencer Cili.


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Computers/Internet; Conspiracy; Health/Medicine
KEYWORDS: data; iphone
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To: 9thLife

People from Europe are amazed that we are paying the State to spy on us.


21 posted on 03/28/2015 7:02:13 AM PDT by redgolum ("God is dead" -- Nietzsche. "Nietzsche is dead" -- God.)
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To: ctdonath2
I'd deny the patent because it's not so different from that car device that forces the driver to have blow into a device before enabling the ignition.

Wasn't there one [code entry device] for car loans for people with bad credit too?

22 posted on 03/28/2015 7:02:35 AM PDT by Calvin Locke
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To: Gaffer

I would keep the iPhone I’ve got until the time comes to replace it, and I would not give them accurate info until then. But I’d never get another, if this is the case.


23 posted on 03/28/2015 7:04:01 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (Nom Nom Nom)
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To: Shimmer1

I have two non-cell iPhones I keep for the home wifi use. One active for calling, but I’m pretty close to going all Landline all the time, myself. My wife and kids never answer me on the phone anyway.


24 posted on 03/28/2015 7:07:26 AM PDT by Gaffer
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To: ctdonath2

There’s that. It could actually be a way of preventing it from being done. But I gather it’s most likely to ensure Apple’s first rights of refusal on something they see as possible or likely— something that the marketplace might deem a logical extension of the technology.


25 posted on 03/28/2015 7:08:50 AM PDT by 9thLife ("Life is a military endeavor..." -- Pope Francis)
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To: Gaffer

LOL!


26 posted on 03/28/2015 7:09:30 AM PDT by Shimmer1 (An armed society is a polite society... Robert A. Heinlein.)
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To: 9thLife

Tim Cook can take his iPhone and give himself a colon exam/ check for gay STDs.


27 posted on 03/28/2015 7:09:53 AM PDT by Theophilus (Be as prolific as you are pro-life.)
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To: 9thLife

With a Homosexual running the company, it’s no surprise that they are trying to release their inner Nazi.


28 posted on 03/28/2015 7:13:54 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: ctdonath2
It’s a patent. Businesses often patent ideas they will never use, just so they can control the idea and profit from variations & use by others.

They ought not be allowed to do that. If they don't develop the idea, they oughten to stand in the way of others who will.

29 posted on 03/28/2015 7:15:07 AM PDT by DiogenesLamp
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To: redgolum

“People from Europe are amazed that we are paying the State to spy on us.”

LOL. With their smug satisfaction that theirs does it for free.


30 posted on 03/28/2015 7:15:25 AM PDT by Lurkina.n.Learnin (It's a shame nobama truly doesn't care about any of this. Our country, our future, he doesn't care)
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To: 9thLife

Hello Android!


31 posted on 03/28/2015 7:24:48 AM PDT by sauropod (I am His and He is mine.)
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To: DiogenesLamp

Like it or not, that’s much of what patents are used for.
He who comes up with an idea first gets to own it, even if he doesn’t develop on it.


32 posted on 03/28/2015 7:26:22 AM PDT by ctdonath2 (Si vis pacem, para bellum.)
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To: 9thLife
Perhaps if it’s entirely user-configurable; i.e. a personally enabled nag, it might be seen as reasonable. If that’s the case, the article should have made it clear early on.

Yeah, but who would have read that article?

33 posted on 03/28/2015 7:28:40 AM PDT by Bubba Ho-Tep
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To: InterceptPoint; Gaffer

It’s more like you patent everything and then maybe it might be used in the future. Apple has said this before (about ideas) ... that they will have a thousand no’s and one yes.

This one sounds like one of the thousand no’s ... LOL ...

But in any case they have to keep their people “brainstorming”!


34 posted on 03/28/2015 7:31:44 AM PDT by Star Traveler (Remember to keep the Messiah of Israel in the One-World Government that we look forward to coming)
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To: 9thLife

Shades of Revelation 13, which has always appeared to me to be a technology statement around some form of data processing controls,

” . .and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed.”

I’ve used an iPhone and iPad daily for many years,

Its not difficult to imagine a future scenario where If you don’t acknowledge some form of allegiance via clicking ‘okay’ on some new government mobile app requirement, maybe you don’t get to make a purchase or do any buying and selling,

The Christians singled out for persecution in the first century, were killed merely because they refused to eat the goods in the market place after they had been dedicated to idols by sprinkling water on them,


35 posted on 03/28/2015 7:34:56 AM PDT by captmar-vell
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To: 9thLife

Welcome to Democrat run America - a Police State disguising itself as a Nanny State!


36 posted on 03/28/2015 7:37:37 AM PDT by anonsquared
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To: Gaffer

The Apple Cult will keep Culting no matter what Apple does to them , LOL


37 posted on 03/28/2015 7:40:58 AM PDT by molson209 (Blank)
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To: Gaffer

They already have really neat features including keeping track of foot steps you take. However, it only works if you literally carry the phone throughout the entire day which I guess some do, but I know many who put their phone down at times and forget to pick it up again when casually walking around the house. All these features are great but they are not yet reliable, but can work as a tool for those who want to. By the way with regards to weight, put down whatever weight you want and continue on with your cell phone use. The phone cannot determine the weight of a person and probably never will be able to. These are all tools which some will find great and some won’t like it.....wow talk about how life is.


38 posted on 03/28/2015 7:43:32 AM PDT by napscoordinator (Walker for President 2016. The only candidate with actual real RESULTS!!!!! The rest...talkers!)
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To: ShadowAce

Apple ping


39 posted on 03/28/2015 7:46:31 AM PDT by raybbr (Obamacare needs a deatha panel.)
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To: denydenydeny
How to kill brand loyalty in one easy lesson.

Which is why this will never happen. You don't become a trillion dollar company by being stupid.

Then again, I can't seem to delete that iWatch app that came with the last iOS update. I have several Apple products but I'll never own an iWatch.

40 posted on 03/28/2015 7:48:22 AM PDT by Drew68
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