Patent Document ID: 8795170
Application ID: 11564679
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A method for monitoring the health status of a human, comprising the steps of: obtaining an input observation of multiple vital signs from the human, a vital sign being a direct sensor measurement of a biological signal or a transformation thereof; providing in a computer accessible memory a set of exemplary observations of said multiple vital signs characteristic of the interrelationships between said multiple vital signs under normal health conditions for the monitored human; generating with a computer an estimate of at least one of said multiple vital signs as a function of said input observation, using a linear combination of at least some of the exemplary observations, determined from a kernel-based comparison of the input observation and at least some exemplary observations; differencing with a computer said estimate and the corresponding measured value of the at least one of said multiple vital signs in said input observation to yield a residual value upon which a determination is made related to the health status of the human.