US 12,033,745 B2
Optimized shipboard telehealth
Eunha Kim, Miami, FL (US)
Assigned to Royal Caribbean Cruises, Ltd., Miami, FL (US)
Filed by Royal Caribbean Cruises Ltd., Miami, FL (US)
Filed on Mar. 22, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/209,195.
Prior Publication US 2022/0301696 A1, Sep. 22, 2022
Int. Cl. G16H 40/20 (2018.01); G01C 21/20 (2006.01); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.01); H04W 4/029 (2018.01)
CPC G16H 40/20 (2018.01) [G01C 21/206 (2013.01); G16H 40/67 (2018.01); H04W 4/024 (2018.02); H04W 4/029 (2018.02); G06F 3/0482 (2013.01)] 15 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method for optimized shipboard health, comprising:
registering different mobile devices, in a data store of a computer, each for one of a multiplicity of different passengers on an oceangoing vessel;
monitoring a state of each of different personal protective equipment (PPE) dispensaries on board the vessel including a supply of PPE at each of the dispensaries by receiving an indication of a supply level of a dispenser of the PPE from an optical sensor sensing the supply level, and a number of passengers present at each of the dispensaries by processing imagery from a camera into a degree of crowdedness; and,
responsive to a request by one of the passengers received by way of a corresponding one of the registered different mobile devices, presenting in a user interface of the corresponding one of the registered different mobile devices a listing of dispensaries each corresponding one of the dispensaries in the listing having a monitored threshold level of supply of the PPE and having less than a monitored threshold number of the passengers present at the corresponding one of the dispensaries in the listing.