Smartphone based identification, access control, testing, and evaluation

Abstract

A suite of testing and evaluation tools that run in conjunction with a smartphone that can be used to both enroll, and for subsequent enrollees, to gain secure access so that the program may measure, track and report on tests, including activities, that may indicate general health and wellness status. Here, the word “smartphone” includes any handheld or mobile device containing at least one processor. The smartphone can be used as the platform for this suite of tools that can include applications that run independently on the smartphone device, but can also include sensors and other data acquisition tools that can be peripheral to the smartphone and connected by wire or wirelessly.

1 . A health testing system comprising:
 a computer application adapted to be stored and executed on a processor in a mobile device having communication with a display screen, a first sensor, and a second sensor;   said application is further configured to take a first biometric information of a participant with the first sensor, wherein said first biometric information is recorded in the data record;   said application configured to make a measurement with the second sensor of a performance by the participant taking a test, the test comprising a presentation on the display screen, wherein the performance is movement by the participant and the measurement is recorded in a data record.   
     
     
         2 . The health testing system of  claim 1  wherein the second sensor comprises an accelerometer and the movement by the participant is of the mobile device in a spatial pattern. 
     
     
         3 . The health testing system of  claim 2 , where the spatial pattern is prescribed by the presentation on the display screen. 
     
     
         4 . The health testing system of  claim 2  wherein
 the measurement is representative of a range of motion of the participant. 
 
     
     
         5 . The health testing system of  claim 2  wherein
 the measurement is representative of pain in the participant. 
 
     
     
         6 . The health testing system of  claim 1  wherein the presentation comprises an image of an object to be tracked moving on the display screen. 
     
     
         7 . The health testing system of  claim 6  wherein the second sensor comprises a touch sensor on the display screen, the movement by the participant is of a finger on the display screen, and the measurement is representative of a neurological state of the participant. 
     
     
         8 . The health testing system of  claim 6  wherein the second sensor comprises a camera facing the participant, the movement by the participant is of at least one eye tracking the image of the object, and the measurement is representative of a neurological state of the participant. 
     
     
         9 . The health testing system of  claim 1  wherein said application is further configured to control access by the participant to an asset based on at least said first biometric information and the measurement 
     
     
         10 . An health testing system comprising:
 a computer application adapted to be stored and executed on a processor in a mobile device;   said application configured to record at least a first biometric information of the participant taken with a first sensor in communication with said mobile device and a measurement of movement by the participant registered with a second sensor as a test is taken by the participant, the test presented on a display screen, the second sensor and display screen having communication with the mobile device.   
     
     
         11 . The health testing system of  claim 10  wherein the second sensor comprises an accelerometer and the movement by the participant is of the mobile device in a spatial pattern. 
     
     
         12 . The health testing system of  claim 11  wherein said the test prescribes the spatial pattern. 
     
     
         13 . The health testing system of  claim 11  wherein the measurement is representative of a range of motion of the participant. 
     
     
         14 . The health testing system of  claim 11  wherein the measurement is representative of pain in the participant. 
     
     
         15 . The health testing system of  claim 10  wherein the test comprises an image of an object to be tracked moving on the display screen. 
     
     
         16 . The health testing system of  claim 15  wherein the second sensor comprises a touch sensor on the display screen, the movement by the participant is of a finger on the display screen, and the measurement is representative of a neurological state of the participant. 
     
     
         17 . The health testing system of  claim 15  wherein the second sensor comprises a camera facing the participant, the movement by the participant is of at least one eye tracking the image of the object, and the measurement is representative of a neurological state of the participant. 
     
     
         18 . The health testing system of  claim 10  wherein said application is further configured to control access by the participant to an asset based on at least said first biometric information and the measurement. 
     
     
         19 . A method for health testing comprising:
 providing a computer application adapted to be stored and executed on a processor in a mobile device, the mobile device having access to an account for a participant, the account comprising a first biometric information of the participant recorded in a database;   accepting with the application a second biometric information taken with a first sensor of the mobile device;   presenting a test to be taken by the participant with the application on a display screen of the mobile device;   making a measurement with the application of a movement by the participant during the test, the measurement made with a second sensor of the mobile device, the measurement indicative of a condition of the participant.   
     
     
         20 . The method for health testing of  claim 19  further comprising:
 one of allowing and denying the participant access to an asset based on a match of said first biometric information and the second biometric information and based on the measurement.