Electronic Agenda with Weight Management Function

• US 20080306775A1
• Filed: 12/21/2006
• Published: 12/11/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Original Assignee: Koninklijke Philips Electronics N.V. (Koninklijke Philips N.V.)
• Inventors: Bodlaender, Maarten Peter, Simons-Nikolova, Mariana, Schneider, Olivier, Nicolaas, Arvid Randal
• Granted Patent: US 8,478,606 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

A weight management system (10) comprising logging means (11) for logging past food intake events and past energy expenditure events, means for receiving (11) agenda entries and storage means (12) for storing the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries. The system further comprises a processor (13) for, based on the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries, scheduling at least one future food intake event or at least one future energy expenditure event and adding the future food intake event or the at least one future energy expenditure event to the storage means (12) as one of the agenda entries. An output (14) is provided for presenting the agenda entries to the user. The system (10) enables integrating a weight management system with a user'"'"'s personal agenda.

Claims

1. A weight management system (10) comprising:

logging means (11) for logging past food intake events and past energy expenditure events,

means for receiving (11) agenda entries,

storage means (12) for storing the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries,

a processor (13) for, based on the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries, scheduling at least one future food intake event or at least one future energy expenditure event and adding the future food intake event or the at least one future energy expenditure event to the storage means (12) as one of the agenda entries, and

an output (14) for presenting the agenda entries.

2. A weight management system (10) as claimed in claim 1, wherein

the logging of past food intake events comprises logging an amount of received metabolic energy,

the logging of past energy expenditure events comprises logging an amount of expended metabolic energy, and

the processor (13) is operative to schedule the at least one future food intake event or the at least one future energy expenditure event in such a way as to balance a difference between the received and the expended metabolic energy according to a predetermined balancing criterion.

3. A weight management system (10) as claimed in claim 1, wherein two successive agenda entries comprise respective geographical locations and wherein the processor (13) is operative to generate a travel advice for traveling between the respective geographical locations of the successive agenda entries, the travel advice comprising at least one tip on a means of conveyance to be used.

4. A weight management system (10) as claimed in claim 3, wherein the tip on the means of conveyance to be used is determined based on the distance between the respective geographical locations, on an amount of available time between the successive agenda entries and on an amount of metabolic energy needed for use of the means of conveyance.

5. A weight management system (10) as claimed in claim 3, wherein the tip on the means of conveyance to be used is determined based on the past and/or future food intake events and the past and/or future energy expenditure events.

7. A travel planner (40) as claimed in claim 7, being arranged for use in the system (10) according to claim 1 and further comprising a module for adding the travel advice to the storage means (12) as one of the agenda entries.

9. A computer program product, which program is operative to cause a processor to perform a method as claimed in claim 7.

6. A travel planner (40) comprising

a module for receiving (41) food intake information and/or energy expenditure information and two geographical locations, and

a module for generating (42) a travel advice for traveling between the geographical locations, the travel advice comprising at least one tip on a means of conveyance to be used, wherein the tip on the means of conveyance to be used is determined based on the received food intake information and/or energy expenditure information, on the two geographical locations and on an amount of metabolic energy needed for use of the means of conveyance.

8. A method of managing weight, comprising

storing (31) past food intake events, past energy expenditure events and agenda entries,

scheduling (32) at least one future food intake event or at least one future energy expenditure event, based on the past food intake events, the past energy expenditure events and the agenda entries,

storing (33) the at least one future food intake event or the at least one future energy expenditure event as one of the agenda entries, and

presenting (34) the agenda entries.