Patent ID: 7747735

Claim:
An apparatus to provide user data through an always-on virtual monitor, alert, control, and share (MACS) device on a computer system comprising: a processor to execute instructions for the always-on virtual MACS device, wherein the instructions cause the processor to include: a data receiving logic to receive intermittent data from a user about readings from a real sensor, monitor or device (SMD), and to add the data to a database without verifying the data; a verification engine to perform a two phase verification of the data to verify that the data is accurate, wherein a first phase of the two phase verification includes determining whether the data could be accurate for a human being and a second phase of the two phase verification includes determining whether the data is reasonable for the user, wherein the second phase is not performed if the data could not be accurate for a human being, wherein unverified data expires and is removed from the database if verification of the unverified data is not performed within a specified time period; an intelligent notification engine to communicate with the user; and a presentation layer to enable a user to interface with the always-on virtual MACS device, the always-on virtual MACS device representing the real SMD, and providing data regardless of a status of the real SMD.