Indirect bio-feedback health and fitness management system

• US 10,347,152 B2
• Filed: 11/29/2016
• Issued: 07/09/2019
• Est. Priority Date: 12/02/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Dan Ariely, Natan Lavi
• Original Assignee: Dan Ariely, Natan Lavi
• Inventors: Lavi, Natan, Ariely, Dan
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Milap
• Application Number:
  US15/364,220
• Publication Number:
  US 20170365182A1
• Time in Patent Office: 952 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

A health and fitness management system that employs an algorithm to determine suggested recommended actions for a user to improve their health and fitness. The system obtains a user'"'"'s weight from a scale. The user is never informed of their weight. Other data can be collected and included when calculating a health index number. Base line data, such as age, ideal age, initial weight, current weight, ideal weight, etc. can be considered in the algorithm. Examples include the user'"'"'s environment, sleep habits, exercise routines, medical records, and the like. The health index number is used to determine recommended actions, which can include changes to environments, routines, activities, etc. Data collection, the algorithm, and other features of the system can be provided by an Application operating on a portable computing device. Features of the portable computing device can be employed to automatically acquire data for the algorithm.

Claims

1. A method of managing health and fitness of an individual, the method comprising steps of:

a) acquiring a weight value of the individual while the individual is weighed on a weight acquisition device, wherein the weight acquisition device is configured to not directly or indirectly convey the acquired weight value to the individual being weighed by the weight acquisition device;

b) providing an output including the weight value from the weight acquisition device to a computer processing device, wherein the computer processing device is remote from the weight acquisition device and operates in accordance with an algorithm included within an operating instruction set;

c) calculating, by the computer processing device, a health index number of the individual as a function of the output including the weight value and at least one age value associated with the individual, in accordance with the operating instruction set;

d) utilizing, by the computer processing device, the individual'"'"'s health index number to determine a trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness at a current time compared to a previous time;

e) utilizing, by the computer processing device, the trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness to determine and present guidance, by at least one display device coupled to the computer processing device, to the individual, wherein the guidance is configured to improve the management of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness; and

f) presenting, by the at least one display device, at least one of the individual'"'"'s health index number and the trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness to the individual.

2. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

obtaining an individual'"'"'s current age;

obtaining an individual'"'"'s ideal age;

obtaining an individual'"'"'s starting weight;

obtaining an individual'"'"'s current weight in accordance with step a;

obtaining an individual'"'"'s ideal weight;

utilizing, by the computer processing device, the following equation for calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number;

3. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

acquiring background data of the individual, wherein the background data includes at least one of;

a current age of the individual,

an ideal age of the individual,

a starting or initial weight of the individual,

and

an ideal weight of the individual;

entering the acquiring background data of the individual into a device in signal communication with the computer processing device; and

including the acquired background data of the individual when calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number.

4. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

acquiring health and fitness data associated with the individual, wherein the health and fitness data includes at least one of;

exercise habits of the individual,

a diet of the individual,

sleep habits of the individual,

daily routines of the individual,

medical history of the individual,

lab results of the individual,

social media content respective to the individual, and

genome of the individual; and

entering the acquiring health and fitness data associated with the individual into a device in signal communication with the computer processing device; and

including the acquired health and fitness data associated with the individual when calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number.

5. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising a step of:

employing a feedback loop to improve the results of the step of calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number over time,

wherein the feedback loop compares data acquired prior to disclosing weight management system recommended actions with data acquired following the disclosure of the weight management system recommended actions.

6. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

utilizing the acquired multiple health index numbers to establish a series of Bollinger Bands;

presenting the multiple health index numbers within the series of Bollinger Bands.

7. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

utilizing the acquired multiple health index numbers to establish a series of Bollinger Bands;

presenting the multiple health index numbers within the series of Bollinger Bands,

wherein the series of Bollinger Bands are oriented respective to an axis representative of time, the orientation being indicative of one of;

a trending improvement, sustaining with limited change, or a trending degradation.

8. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising a step of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

wherein the step of calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number further comprises a consideration of the period of time considered to be an anomaly.

9. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

wherein an initial cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates an initial individual'"'"'s health index number at the previous time,

wherein each intermediate cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a respective intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number at each respective intermediate current time,

wherein a current cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a current individual'"'"'s health index number at the current time,

storing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number and the associated previous time;

storing each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number and each associated intermediate current time;

determining a period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time;

comparing the determined period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time with a pre-established period of time;

in a condition where the determined period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time is greater than the pre-established period of time, returning the health index number to a baseline number.

10. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 1, the method further comprising steps of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

wherein an initial cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates an initial individual'"'"'s health index number at the previous time,

wherein each intermediate cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a respective intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number at each respective intermediate current time,

wherein a current cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a current individual'"'"'s health index number at the current time;

storing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number and the associated previous time;

storing each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number and each associated intermediate current time;

determining a period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time;

determining a trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness by comparing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number, each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number, and the current individual'"'"'s health index number with one another; and

utilizing a trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness to provide curated content to the individual.

11. A method of managing health and fitness of an individual, the method comprising steps of:

a) acquiring a weight value of the individual while the individual is weighed on a weight management scale, wherein the weight management scale is configured to not directly or indirectly convey the acquired weight value to the individual being weighed on the weight management scale;

b) providing the weight value obtained from the weight management scale to a computer processing device, wherein the computer processing device operates in accordance with an algorithm included within an operating instruction set, the computer processing device being integrated into one of;

(i) the weight management scale, (ii) a computing device, and (iii) a portable computing device;

c) calculating, by the computer processing device, a health index number of the individual as a function of the weight value acquired from the weight management scale and at least one age value associated with the individual, the computer processing device operating in accordance with the operating instruction set;

d) utilizing, by the computer processing device, the individual'"'"'s health index number to determine a trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness at a current time compared to a previous time;

e) presenting, to the individual by way of display device coupled to at least one of (i) the weight management scale, (ii) the computing device, and (iii) the portable computing device, at least one of the individual'"'"'s health index number and the trend of an individual'"'"'s health and fitness; and

f) presenting, to the individual by way of the display device, feedback based on the trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness configured to improve the management of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness.

12. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11,

wherein the computer processing device is integrated into the portable computing device, and

wherein the instruction set is included in a weight management application residing on the portable computing device.

13. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method comprising steps of:

communicating information from the weight management scale to the portable computing device; and

acquiring additional data using features integrated into the portable computing device,

wherein the step of calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number includes considerations to the acquired additional data.

14. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising a step of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

utilizing the acquired multiple health index numbers to establish a series of Bollinger Bands;

presenting the multiple health index numbers within the series of Bollinger Bands.

15. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising a step of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d over a period of time including the current time and the previous time to acquire multiple health index numbers,

utilizing the acquired multiple health index numbers to establish a series of Bollinger Bands;

presenting the multiple health index numbers within the series of Bollinger Bands,

wherein the Bollinger Bands are oriented respective to an axis representative of time, the orientation being indicative of one of;

a trending improvement, sustaining with limited change, or a trending degradation.

16. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising a step of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d,

wherein an initial cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates an initial individual'"'"'s health index number at the previous time,

wherein each intermediate cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a respective intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number at each respective intermediate current time,

wherein a current cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a current individual'"'"'s health index number at the current time;

storing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number and the associated previous time;

storing each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number and each associated intermediate current time;

determining a period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time;

determining a trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness by comparing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number, each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number, and the current individual'"'"'s health index number with one another; and

utilizing the trend of the individual'"'"'s health and fitness to provide curated content to the individual.

17. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising a step of:

employing a feedback loop to improve the results of the step of calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number over time,

wherein the feedback loop compares data acquired prior to disclosing weight management system recommended actions with data acquired following the disclosure of the weight management system recommended actions.

18. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11,

wherein the step of calculating the individual'"'"'s health index number further comprise a consideration of a period of time considered to be an anomaly.

19. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising steps of:

repeating steps a, b, c, and d,

wherein an initial cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates an initial individual'"'"'s health index number at the previous time,

wherein each intermediate cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a respective intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number at each respective intermediate current time,

wherein a current cycle of steps a, b, c, and d generates a current individual'"'"'s health index number at the current time,

storing the initial individual'"'"'s health index number and the associated previous time;

storing each intermediate individual'"'"'s health index number and each associated intermediate current time;

determining a period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time;

comparing the determined period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time with a pre-established period of time;

in a condition where the determined period of time between the current time and the most recent intermediate current time is greater than the pre-established period of time, returning the health index number to a baseline number.

20. A method of managing the health and fitness of the individual as recited in claim 11, the method further comprising a step of:

acquiring additional data for calculating the health index number from at least one of;

an activity tracking device,

a Global Positioning System (GPS) receiver,

a third party application,

a scheduler,

a questionnaire, and

a series of rules.