System and Method for a Telephone Feedback System for Fitness Programs

• US 20080306347A1
• Filed: 11/23/2005
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 11/23/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fred Deutsch
• Original Assignee: Fred Deutsch
• Inventors: Deutsch, Fred
• Application Number:
  US11/720,064
• Publication Number:
  US 20080306347A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring

Abstract

A diet management system and method thereof is disclosed, which aids in the facilitation of a diet and fitness feedback and tracking. In particular, a communication module, text-to-speech converter, VOX, and server are used in the diet management system. Several communication devices are employed that allows the dieter a broad choice of communicating dietary information. Moreover, the processing and storing of dietary reports are maintained by a network server.

Claims

1. A diet management system for providing feedback to a dieter comprising:

a communication module configured to receive dietary information from said dieter;

a server configured to store said dietary information and provide dietary reports in response to a dieters request.

2. A diet management system of claim 1, wherein said communication module receives said dietary information in the form of a voice or text message from dieter.

3. A diet management system of claim 2, wherein said the communication module includes a Voice to Text converter for translating voice messages received from the dieter into the stored dietary information.

4. The diet management system of claim 1, wherein the communication module is configured to receive exercise information for a dieter.

5. The diet management system of claim 1, wherein the server is configured to update the dieter regarding the dieter'"'"'s diet progress.

6. The diet management system of claim 5, wherein the server provides diet updates by sending an electronic message to the dieter

7. The diet management system of claim 5, wherein the server provides diet updates by initiating a phone call with the dieter.

8. The diet management system of claim 4, wherein the server provides instantaneous reports to a dieter based on a combination of the dieter'"'"'s stored dietary information and stored exercise information.

9. A diet management system of claim 8, wherein the dietary reports is converted to voice through said TTS module and communicated to the dieter by telephone or cellular phone.

10. A diet management system of claim 9, wherein the stored dietary information is accessible by the dieter through a computer network.

11. A diet management system of claim 10, wherein the server comprises a web server that is connected to the Internet.

12. A diet management system of claim 9, wherein the voice is synthesized and morphed for reinforcement and branding of a particular external fitness resource.

13. A diet management system of claim 12, wherein the voice is synthesized and morphed to report into a foreign language.

14. A diet management method for providing feedback to a dieter comprising the steps of:

receiving dietary information from the dieter and communicating the dietary information to a server;

storing said dietary information and processing dietary reports in response to a dieter'"'"'s request by the server.

15. A diet management method of claim 14, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

converting the report into voice using a Text-to-Speech (TTS) module.

16. A diet management method of claim 15, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

synthesizing said converted voice response using a VOX module.

17. A diet management method of claim 16, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

playing back the synthesized voice response to said dieter.

18. A diet management method of claim 14, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

synthesizing said voice to report in a foreign language, wherein said step is performed after said TTS conversion.

19. A diet management method of claim 14, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

sending real-time dietary feedback to said dieter.

20. A diet management method of claim 14, wherein said method further comprises the step of:

communicating said voice response to the dieter by telephone, cellular phone or text messaging device.