Patent ID: 9746455
Date: 2017-08-29
CPC Classifications: G01N,G06F,H04M

Claim:
1. A method of operating a portable electronic device enclosed in a housing with an integrated chemical sensor linked to a chemical sensor processing unit and being sensitive to the concentration of a component in a sample of air and having an operating system providing instructions for the control of the portable device, wherein the chemical processing unit uses under operating conditions a first set of instructions and a second set of instructions stored within the portable device, wherein the first set of instructions is part of the operating system level of instructions and the second set of instructions is part of a user level of instructions with the second set of instructions being linked to the operating system via an interface and wherein the second set of instructions is communicated to the portable device from a remote computing system based on access to measurements and/or operating conditions of the chemical sensor, wherein storage location used to store the second set of instructions is reserved by the operating system to prevent write access with data not transferred directly or indirectly from the remote system, and wherein the remote system receives sensor measurement data as measured by the chemical sensor; performs a remote analysis of the sensor measurement data; generates a personalized update for the chemical sensor based on the received sensor measurement data; and sends the personalized update to the portable electronic device.