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.
And are there not contractors collecting and keeping our health information? A lot of this info is outsourced. There’s no reason why Apple can’t become the health collector of choice for the government. COTS solutions save the government money.
From the article:
"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.
A device that mounts on the ignition of a car is not a reminder on a mobile phone that is user configurable. If you are going there, then the mandatory user input to unlock a computer is similar. . . but still not the same.
This invention can require input from a specified remote device such as a WIFI or Bluetooth capable digital scale, bluetooth sphygmomanometer for blood-pressure, or an onboard device such as the camera. That is new.
Indeed, I missed a key point and I thought I did read the article.
Technology seems to pander to or even to create neurotics.
If all of civilized history thus far was about exploring the natural world and the universe and understanding creation, it now seems to be turning to focusing on the self and the information all the selves generate...which seems a recipe for mass neurosis.
/Yakov Smirnoff
Probably been mentioned already, but it appears these are user settings. You have to set the requirement yourself. The article did a poor job explaining it, in any case.
Are you referring to the buyers of over 1,000,000,000 iOS devices as a CULT?
Read the second to last paragraph in the article. It says:
"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."
"Option."
This is user controllable.
You - "Siri, call mom."
iPhone - "Why should I, you always scream at her."
You in a louder voice - "Siri, I really need you to call mom."
iPhone - "I think you need to calm down. Maybe I'll let you talk to her later. Maybe. Don't even think about it now."
The Security by Obscurity canard has been shot down multiple times. . . and in multiple ways.
How do you explain the Witty Worm, written for the 20,000 Black Ice protected computers that had not been updated with a patch released a year before Witty came out. Within 35 minutes of the worm being released into the wild, every single one of the 20,000 vulnerable Windows machines was infected. There are many more examples of small populations of devices where malware was successfully written that infected them yet none has ever been successful on the Apple Devices. The reason is not Security by Obscurity as you claim.
There are almost 100 Million OS X Macs in the wild with 99% of them operating completely without any kind of anti-virus, anti-malware installed. . . and statistically Apple users have more disposable income than PC and Android users. They are for hackers and malware writers essentially OS X Macs should be sitting ducks. Yet in 14 years in the wild, with now an almost 100 million juicy target rich environment to aim for, not one successful computer virus has been written, not one computer worm has found its way onto a Mac, and only 57 Trojans are in the wild and every one of them is recognized by the OS and blocked unless the user gives specific permission with an Administrator's name and password to go ahead and download and install it. The reason is NOT because they just don't want to write viruses and worms because it is "an obscure platform" and certainly if they were successful, fame would redound to the successful cracker/hacker who successfully wrote one to get into an OS X Mac.
But the concept is for adhering to a behavior, non-court ordered I might add, as opposed just for id or a contract.
Not when it is the USER who turns it on and off. It is a USER SELECTABLE OPTION! Read the 2nd to last paragraph, for Pete's sake! SHEESH!
I guess I am going to have to file my patent for an html form
Apple and cell phone companies can kiss my hip pockets. They ain’t getting the info. Just the other day some guy called our house and wanted to speak to my wife. I told him she was not home. I asked what he wanted, and I don’t remember what company he was from (another one of those India speaking dudes), and said he wanted to talk to my wife about her medical information, wanted to talk about something to do with it. I told him we did not know him from Sam and we were telling him any danged thing about my wife’s medical info with him. He kept saying I had too, and I told him he could kiss my round white ass, he wasn’t getting anything. My wife is under Medicare, so I know he was not from them, but he kept pressing, I told him we were done. He said he would call back later and I told him we’d hang up on his sorry ass.
Some people have the fun job of coming up with whatever crazy stuff they can. Others have the fun job of taking that craziness and figuring out how to exploit it.
Sometimes, the job is to come up with stuff they DON’T want ANYONE to use, so they patent it, don’t use it, and sue the he11 out of anyone who does.
“Apple and cell phone companies can kiss my hip pockets. They ain’t getting the info.”
Read #72.
IT’S A USER SELECTABLE OPTION for those who, for whatever reason, _do_ want to use it.
You would be amazed at how much idiocy IS patented.
Using a USB cable inside a kiosk box? patented.
Nor more ignorantly.
It’s a PROPOSAL, patenting an IDEA, which gives users the OPTION of turning it on.
Kinda like me making the suggestion - just a suggestion - of having a FR option - just an option - to ask you “are you really done with your work and have time to waste on FR?” before letting you browse & post.
For Check Weight can I step on the phone? :)
Has Huckabee endorsed it yet?
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