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.
My Kiss of Death to Apple with respect to what I’d buy and use from them in the future. If this is their attitude, they can suck it.
A portable, nagging busybody. Yay.
Wow , you could beat Josh Steiner lying to his diary with this. Lie to your I phone.
Health information is protected under HIPAA.
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I would give Apple a little room on this one. Yes, it does look like 1984 all over again but I think the application is “your aging and living alone mother or father”.
Or, it could be 1984, Apple-style.
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.
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.
Yes, and your 4th amendment rights are guaranteed under the Constitution - just ask the NSA.
No difference anymore. One man's hammer is another man's bludgeon.
How to kill brand loyalty in one easy lesson.
you can disclose whatever you want to about yourself, I don’t see how Apple is a healthcare provider covered by HIPPA.
BFD - I’m back to cycling so I’m going to use this app, if/when I go to the 6.
Prolefeed, from 1984, is all around us already; and Apple has nothing to do with it.
The context as I read the post is “forced” participation. In that vein, anything like this Apple might require is BS. I’d have none of it.
I gave up wearing a watch mostly because I had the time on the mobile phone I carried. I also like to be able to wifi to the internet to keep up with things here. Beyond that, I really don’t need Apple for sh!t other than as a good efficient product. The moment it starts being other than that, I’ll drop it like a bad habit and not look back.
I’ve never been an Apple product user, but this guarantees I NEVER, EVER will be.
How in the world would this idiocy be patentable?
The phone.only a neurotic could.love
Post 9 is corrected
It will be certainly user-configurable
This is thought provoking.
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