Patent Application: Monitoring User Emotional States from Devices
Summary
The USPTO has published a patent application (US20260083370A1) detailing methods for monitoring, tracking, and reporting user emotional states from a managed device. The application describes systems that analyze communication and operational data to determine emotional patterns and transmit reports to a managing device, potentially triggering alerts for negative emotional states.
What changed
This patent application, US20260083370A1, filed by inventors Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jyothsna Bandameedipalli, and Thirumarai Selvi Seerangan, outlines a method for monitoring user emotional states via electronic devices. The system records data from a managed device, identifies emotional patterns, and generates reports transmitted to a managing device. This managing device can then display alerts if negative emotional states are detected, potentially allowing for control over the managed device's functionality.
While this is a patent application and not a regulation, it highlights emerging technologies in user monitoring and data analysis. Compliance officers in sectors dealing with user data, particularly in healthcare or consumer technology, should be aware of such innovations. The potential for monitoring and reporting emotional states raises significant data privacy and ethical considerations that may inform future regulatory developments or internal policy reviews regarding user data collection and analysis.
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MONITORING, TRACKING, AND REPORTING USER EMOTIONAL STATES FROM A MANAGED DEVICE
Application US20260083370A1 Kind: A1 Mar 26, 2026
Inventors
Amit Kumar Agrawal, Jyothsna Bandameedipalli, Thirumarai Selvi Seerangan
Abstract
A method provides techniques for monitoring, tracking, and reporting user emotional states from a managed device. Data relating to communications and operations occurring on a first electronic device associated with a first user is monitored and recorded. Patterns associated with one or more emotional states of the first user are determined based on the monitored data. A report indicating dominant emotional states is generated and transmitted to a second electronic device associated with a second user. The second electronic device can be a managing device, where the managing device can monitor and/or control functionality of the first electronic device. Disclosed embodiments can include displaying an alert on a managing device when a negative emotional state or condition of a user associated with a managed device is detected.
CPC Classifications
A61B 5/165 A61B 5/0205 G06F 40/30 G08B 21/182
Filing Date
2024-09-25
Application No.
18896627
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