EXERCISE MANAGEMENT APPARATUS, EXERCISE MANAGEMENT METHOD, AND RECORDING MEDIUM

• US 20120166257A1
• Filed: 12/20/2011
• Published: 06/28/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 12/27/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Original Assignee: Fujitsu Limited
• Inventors: SHIRAGAMI, Minoru, Naito, Shoji
• Application Number:
  US13/331,547
• Publication Number:
  US 20120166257A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/14.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0207 Discounts or incentives, e.g. coupons or rebates
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0601 Electronic shopping [e-shopping]
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0631 Item recommendations

Abstract

An exercise management apparatus includes, a storage unit that stores information that identifies an item selected by a user and a target level of an amount of exercise determined by the user, a determination unit that receives the amount of exercise measured according to exercise by the user and determining whether the received amount of exercise has reached the target level stored in the storage unit, and a notification unit that transmits notification information including information about the item stored in the storage unit to the user through a network when the determination unit determines that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level.

Claims

1. An exercise management apparatus, comprising:

a storage unit that stores information that identifies an item selected by a user and a target level of an amount of exercise determined by the user;

a determination unit that receives the amount of exercise measured according to exercise by the user and determining whether the received amount of exercise has reached the target level stored in the storage unit; and

a notification unit that transmits notification information including information about the item stored in the storage unit to the user through a network when the determination unit determines that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level.

2. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notification information includes guidance information for introducing a purchase procedure for the item.

3. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notification information includes incentive information about the selected item to be given to the user in response to a state until the received amount of exercise reaches the target level.

4. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the notification unit changes the contents of the incentive information in response to a period until the received amount of exercise reaches the target level or in response to the target level.

5. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 3, wherein

the incentive information is a discount rate of a price of the selected item.

6. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notification information includes information about another commercial item which is recommended for purchase by the user.

7. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 6, wherein

the notification information includes, as information about another item, guidance information that guides the user to store another item in the storage unit as a new item, while guiding the user to determine a new target level of the amount of exercise.

8. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notification information includes a recommended target level or a recommended target level range which is recommended next for the user to store in the storage unit.

9. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 8, wherein

the notification information includes guidance information for guiding the user to store a new target value based on the recommended target value or the recommended target value range in the storage unit and select another item as a new item to be stored in the storage unit.

10. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the storage unit stores the information about the item and the target value corresponding to the information in common for a plurality of users,

the determining unit receives the amount of exercise of each of the plurality of users through a network and determines whether the amount of exercise of each user has reached the target level, and

the notification unit transmits the notification information so as to notify one of the pluralities of users of the information about the item when the determination unit determines that the amount of exercise of the one user has reached the target level.

11. The exercise management apparatus according to claim 1, wherein

the notification unit transmits approval request information for requesting approval of notifying the information about the item to an acknowledger through a network when the determination unit determines that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level, and

the notification unit transmits the notification information when the acknowledger receives approval information that indicates that the acknowledger has approved in response to the approval request information.

12. A method for exercise management performed by a computer, the method comprising:

storing information for identifying an item selected by a user and a target level of an amount of exercise determined by the user in a storage unit;

receiving the amount of exercise measured according to exercise by the user;

determining whether the received amount of exercise has reached the target level stored in the storage unit; and

transmitting notification information including information about the item stored in the storage unit to the user through a network when it is determined that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level.

13. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the notification information includes guidance information for introducing a purchase procedure for the item.

14. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the notification information includes incentive information about the selected item to be given to the user in response to a state until the received amount of exercise reaches the target level.

15. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the notification information includes information about another commercial item which is recommended for purchase by the user.

16. The method according to claim 15, wherein

the notification information includes, as information about another item, guidance information that guides the user to store another item in the storage unit as a new item, while guiding the user to determine a new target level of the amount of exercise.

17. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the notification information includes a recommended target level or a recommended target level range which is recommended next for the user to store in the storage unit.

18. The method according to claim 12, wherein

the information about the item and the target value corresponding to the item is stored in the storage unit in common for a plurality of users,

determining whether the amount of exercise has reached the target level includes receiving the amount of exercise of each of the plurality of users through a network and determining whether the amount of exercise of each user has reached the target level, and

transmitting notification information includes transmitting the notification information so as to notify one of the plurality of users of the information about the item when it is determined that the amount of exercise of the one user has reached the target level.

19. The method according to claim 12, wherein when transmitting notification information includes transmitting approval request information for requesting approval of notifying the information about the item to an acknowledger through a network when it is determined that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level, and

transmitting the notification information when the acknowledger receives approval information that indicates that the acknowledger has approved in response to the approval request information.

20. A non-transitory computer-readable recording medium storing an exercise management program causing a computer to perform a method, the method comprising:

storing information for identifying an item selected by a user and a target level of an amount of exercise determined by the user, in a storage unit;

receiving the amount of exercise measured according to exercise by the user;

determining whether the received amount of exercise has reached the target level stored in the storage unit; and

transmitting notification information including information about the item stored in the storage unit to the user through a network when it is determined that the received amount of exercise has reached the target level.