Prior art — US Patent 10219199

Based on a review of the patent citations listed in US Patent 10219199, the most relevant prior art for potentially anticipating the claimed invention under 35 U.S.C. § 102 is US6595929B2. This patent closely aligns with several key limitations of the independent claims of US10219199, particularly those related to physiological parameters and dual-mode communication using different frequency types.

Most Relevant Prior Art

US6595929B2

Full Citation: US6595929B2, "System for monitoring health, wellness and fitness having a method and apparatus for improved measurement of heat flow," inventors Thomas A. Thomson, et al., assigned to Bodymedia, Inc.
Publication/Filing Date:
- Publication Date: July 22, 2003.
- Filing Date: March 30, 2001.
- Both dates precede the priority date of US10219199 (November 4, 2008).
Brief Description: This patent describes a body-worn physiological monitor (BWM) designed to measure physiological parameters, such as heat flow and skin temperature. The BWM wirelessly transmits this collected physiological data to a remote communication device (RCD). The RCD can be a mobile phone (a type of smartphone), a personal computer, or a personal digital assistant (PDA). The RCD, in turn, can further transmit the physiological data to a central database or server over a wider network, such as the Internet. The short-range wireless link between the BWM and the RCD is explicitly described as potentially being a "Bluetooth interface", and if the RCD is a cellular phone, its connection to the central database could be a "wireless cellular link".
Which claim(s) it potentially anticipates under 35 U.S.C. § 102:
US6595929B2 potentially anticipates Independent Claims 1 (Method) and 10 (System) of US10219199, as it discloses the following key limitations:
- Smartphone: The remote communication device (RCD) is described as potentially being a "mobile phone", which can function as a smartphone.
- Entity: The body-worn physiological monitor (BWM) acts as the "entity" with which the smartphone interacts.
- Proximity Condition: The wireless communication between the BWM and the RCD requires them to be in close proximity.
- Physiological Parameter: The BWM measures and transmits various "physiological parameters," such as heat flow and skin temperature.
- First Air Interface (short-range, unlicensed) for entity interaction: The patent explicitly states that the BWM can transmit data using a "Bluetooth interface". Bluetooth operates on unlicensed frequencies, fulfilling the "unlicensed frequencies" requirement for the short-range communications link used by the first air interface. The smartphone (RCD) "wirelessly receives information from the entity" (physiological data) via this link.
- Second Air Interface (licensed) for network service: If the RCD is a cellular phone, it can transmit data to a central database via a "wireless cellular link". Cellular links operate on licensed frequencies and provide a "communications service" (e.g., data upload to a server).
- Entity not involved in providing communications service from wireless network: The BWM (entity) communicates solely with the RCD and is not directly involved in providing the cellular communication service to the RCD or the connection to the central database.
- Independence and absence of entity involvement in network service reception: The communication between the BWM and RCD is distinct from the RCD's communication with the central database/server. The cellular link is used by the smartphone for interacting with the server, "absent providing by the smartphone information to the entity, and absent receiving by the smartphone information from the entity" via that second air interface.
While US6595929B2 describes the BWM transmitting data and the RCD receiving it, the explicit "providing by the smartphone... information to the entity" aspect of US10219199's claims and the precise phrasing of "in response to a physiological parameter" as a triggering event for enabling a mode on the smartphone to exchange information with the entity may require a broader interpretation to meet the strict "all limitations present" requirement for direct anticipation under 35 U.S.C. § 102. However, it strongly discloses most, if not all, of these elements.