Patent ID: 7905832

Claim:
A method for monitoring status of a person, said method being performed at least in part by a monitoring server, said method comprising: acquiring status information of the person being monitored, the status information being acquired using at least one electronic device, and the status information including at least health information of the person; obtaining at least a first threshold condition and a second threshold condition for use in monitoring the person; determining, at the monitoring server, whether an action condition exists by comparing the health information with at least one or both of the first threshold condition and the second threshold condition; and initiating an action when said determining determines that the action condition exists, wherein the action includes sending a notification to at least one recipient, wherein the status information further includes location information of the person being monitored, and wherein at least the first threshold condition is dependent on the location information of the person being monitored, such that the first threshold condition is set to a first level when the person is at a first location, and the first threshold condition is set to a second level when the person is at a second location.