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Cite as: [2023] UKIntelP o8523, [2023] UKIntelP o008523
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Patent decision
- BL number
- O/0085/23
- Concerning rights in
- GB1820346.3
- Hearing Officer
- Miss J Pullen
- Decision date
- 27 January 2023
- Person(s) or Company(s) involved
- Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd
- Provisions discussed
- Section 1(2)
- Keywords
- Excluded fields (refused)
- Related Decisions
- None
Summary
The invention relates to determining a cause of a trend in vital sign data of a subject over a time period, in particular, determining whether a user has performed a certain action such as taking specified medication. The vital sign data is analysed to determine a trend over time and a most likely cause of the trend over is determined dependent on one or more stored weights each associated with one or more possible causes, including missed medication. A machine learning algorithm is used to assign weights to possible causes. If the most likely cause is determined to be a missed medication event an alert can be outputted.
The hearing officer found that the contribution lay in the excluded field of a program for a computer as such and therefore refused the application.
Full decisionO/0085/23 
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