Merchandizing, socializing, and/or gaming via a personal wellness device and/or a personal wellness platform

• US 10,133,849 B2
• Filed: 06/19/2012
• Issued: 11/20/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 06/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: ActivBody, Inc.
• Original Assignee: ActivBody, Inc.
• Inventors: Yanev, Kostadin Dimitrov, Vassilev, Angel Georgiev, Yanev, Ivo Kostadinov
• Primary Examiner(s): Ganesan, Sundhara
• Application Number:
  US13/527,437
• Publication Number:
  US 20130337975A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,345 Days
• Field of Search: 482 1, 482 8, 482 9
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/11 Measuring movement of the entire body or parts thereof, e.g. head or hand tremor, mobility of a limb for measuring pulse A61B5/02 ;A61B5/1038 takes precedence; motion detection to correct for motion artifacts in physiological signals A61B5/721
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/14532 for measuring glucose, e.g. by tissue impedance measurement
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/222 combined with detection or measurement of physiological parameters, e.g. heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/0452 Specially adapted for transcutaneous muscle stimulation [TMS]
• CPC Class Codes: A61N 1/36003 of motor muscles, e.g. for walking assistance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A personal wellness system may facilitate merchandizing and/or socializing via personal wellness devices. The personal wellness devices may be portable, handheld devices configured to facilitate personal exercise as well as socializing and/or merchandizing using the devices. The personal wellness devices may be configured to facilitate electronic social networking interactions and/or gameplay with other users. This may enhance a user'"'"'s personal wellness experience with a personal wellness device. The personal wellness devices may provide a portal to a virtual marketplace, where online services, virtual goods, third-party software, games, media, guru content, and/or other information may be obtained. Third-party content may be developed for the personal wellness devices, which may be obtained via the virtual marketplace. The personal wellness devices may be configured to present multimedia, present map information, and/or browse the Internet.

Claims

1. A personal wellness device configured to provide one or more of socializing or merchandizing services to a user of the personal wellness device, the personal wellness device comprising:

at least one housing body configured to receive compressive force during personal exercise;

a force sensor configured to generate a force output signal that conveys first information related to compressive force exerted on the at least one housing body, the force sensor being housed by the at least one housing body;

a user interface comprising one or more input devices and one or more output devices, the user interface being configured to receive user-provided information from the user via voice entry or manual entry, the user interface being further configured to provide information for one or both of visual or audio presentation to the user, the user interface being housed by the at least one housing body; and

one or more physical processors housed by the at least one housing body, the one or more physical processors being configured by machine-readable instructions to;

transmit via a network one or both of the first information or the user-provided information to a second personal wellness device associated with a second user via a personal computing platform and/or personal wellness platform server;

receive secondary information via the network and the personal computing platform and/or personal wellness platform server from the second personal wellness device, the secondary information being related to compressive force exerted on a housing body of the second personal wellness device including a force magnitude profile as a function of time; and

provide the secondary information for presentation to the user via the user interface.

2. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that:

one or both of the first information or the user-provided information transmitted via the network to the second personal wellness device is routed via the network through one or more third-party electronic social networking servers; and

the secondary information received via the network from the second personal wellness device is routed via the network through the one or more third-party electronic social networking servers.

3. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of a website or application on the user interface, the website or application including a virtual marketplace, the virtual marketplace enabling one or more of online services, virtual goods, third-party software, games, media, or guru content to be accessed via the website or application.

4. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

provide the force output signal as control inputs for controlling one or more games being executed by the one or more physical processors.

5. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of multimedia content via the user interface.

6. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

effectuation transmission of information received from the user via the user interface to a web server;

receive information from the web server; and

provide the information received from the web server to the user via the user interface.

7. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of map images on the user interface.

8. The personal wellness device of claim 1, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

receive information from a third-party user not associated with the personal wellness device, the information being associated with one or more of non-executable content or executable content, the one or more of the non-executable content or executable content being configured for presentation via the user interface.

9. A personal wellness platform configured to provide one or more of socializing or merchandizing services to users via individual personal wellness devices associated with individual users, the personal wellness platform comprising:

one or more physical processors configured by machine-readable instructions to;

facilitate transmission and reception of information via a network between the personal wellness platform and individual ones of the personal wellness devices including a first personal wellness device and a second personal wellness device; and

facilitate transmission and reception of information via the network and personal wellness platform server between individual ones of the personal wellness devices including between the first personal wellness device and the second personal wellness device;

wherein the first personal wellness device comprises;

at least one housing body configured to receive compressive force during personal exercise;

a force sensor configured to generate a force output signal that conveys first information related to compressive force exerted on the at least one housing body, the force sensor being housed by the at least one housing body;

a user interface comprising one or more input devices and one or more output devices, the user interface being configured to receive user-provided information from the user via voice entry or manual entry, the user interface being further configured to provide information for one or both of visual or audio presentation to the user the user interface being housed by the at least one housing body; and

one or more physical processors housed by the at least one housing body, the one or more physical processors being configured by machine-readable instructions to;

transmit via a network one or both of the first information or the user-provided information to the second personal wellness device associated with a second user;

receive secondary information via the network from the second personal wellness device, the secondary information being related to compressive force exerted on a housing body of the second personal wellness device including a force magnitude profile as a function of time; and

provide the secondary information for presentation to the user via the user interface.

10. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions such that one or more of the first information, the user-provided information, or the secondary information transmitted and received between individual ones of the personal wellness devices is routed via the network through one or more third-party electronic social networking servers.

11. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of a website or application on user interfaces of individual ones of the personal wellness devices, the webpage or application including a virtual marketplace, the virtual marketplace enabling one or more of online services, virtual goods, third-party software, games, media, or guru content to be accessed via the website or application.

12. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

provide individual force sensor outputs generated by individual force sensors of corresponding personal wellness devices as control inputs for controlling one or more games being executed by the corresponding personal wellness devices.

13. The personal wellness platform of claim 12, wherein individual ones of the one or more games are executed by groups of personal wellness devices, wherein individual personal wellness devices of a given group are remote from other ones of the personal wellness devices of the given group, and wherein a given game is played between individual users associated with individual personal wellness devises included in the given group.

14. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of multimedia content via individual user interfaces of individual ones of the personal wellness devices.

15. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

effectuate transmission of information received from individual users via individual user interfaces of individual personal wellness devices to one or more web servers;

receive information from the one or more web servers; and

provide the information received from the one or more web servers to individual ones of the personal wellness devices.

16. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to effectuate presentation of map images on individual user interfaces of individual ones of the personal wellness devices.

17. The personal wellness platform of claim 16, wherein individual ones of the personal wellness devices include a geo-location sensor, a given geo-location sensor being configured to generate a location output signal related to a geo-location of a given personal wellness device in which the given geo-location sensor is included, and wherein a given map image presented on a given user interface of the given personal wellness device represents a current geo-location of the given personal wellness device determined from a corresponding location output signal.

18. The personal wellness platform of claim 9, wherein the one or more physical processors are further configured by machine-readable instructions to:

receive information from one or more third-party users not associated with the personal wellness devices, the information being associated with one or more of non-executable content or executable content, the one or more of the non-executable content or executable content being configured for presentation via individual user interfaces of individual ones of the personal wellness devices.