GENERAL HEALTH AND WELLNESS MANAGEMENT METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR A WELLNESS APPLICATION USING DATA ASSOCIATED WITH A DATA-CAPABLE BAND

• US 20140125493A1
• Filed: 11/08/2012
• Published: 05/08/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/08/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: JB IP Acquisitions LLC
• Original Assignee: AliphCom, Inc. (AliphCom Corp.)
• Inventors: Utter, Max Everett II
• Application Number:
  US13/672,392
• Publication Number:
  US 20140125493A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/870.02
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment

Abstract

Health and wellness management techniques and devices are described including receiving data representing an activity profile defining parameters upon which a target score is established based on health-related activities, acquiring sensor data representing subsets of acquired parameters based on sensors disposed in a wearable computing device, determining values for the subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the activity profile, calculating an activity score based on the values, the activity score representing an attained portion of the health-related activities, causing presentation of a representation of an overall score comprising the activity score, adjusting a determination upon which to modify the target score, the target score being indicative of one or more standards against which to compare one or more groups of values aggregated to form the target score, and modifying the activity profile using an activity profile manager.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving data representing an activity profile defining parameters upon which a target score is established based on one or more health-related activities;

acquiring sensor data representing one or more subsets of acquired parameters based on one or more sensors disposed in a wearable computing device;

determining values for the one or more subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the activity profile;

calculating at a first processor an activity score based on the values, the activity score representing an attained portion of the one or more health-related activities;

causing presentation of a representation of an overall score comprising the activity score;

adjusting a determination upon which to modify the target score, wherein the target score is indicative of one or more standards against which to compare one or more groups of values aggregated to form the target score; and

modifying the activity profile using an activity profile manager.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises changing the target activity score.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein changing the target score comprises changing a quantity of motion actions associated with an activity used in a computation of the target score.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein changing the target score comprises changing a quantity of time units associated with an activity used in a computation of the target activity score.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises adding an activity to a computation of the target score.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises removing an activity from a computation of the target score.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises substituting an activity used in a computation of the target score with another activity.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises deemphasizing, using a weighting factor, an activity used in a computation of the target score.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises emphasizing, using a weighting factor, an activity used in a computation of the target score.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises applying a weighting factor associated with an activity used in a computation of the target score until an event occurs.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises changing a point value for a classification associated with the activity profile.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein modifying the activity profile comprises receiving data representing an environmental parameter using a data interface.

13. A device comprising:

a first interface configured to receive data representing acquired parameters from one or more sensors, at least one sensor being disposed in a wearable computing device;

a processor configured to implement an aggregation engine comprising an activity manager and a conversion module, the aggregation engine configured to determine values for the one or more subsets of the acquired parameters based on reference values for the parameters set forth in the activity profile, to calculate an activity score based on the values, the activity score representing an attained portion of the one or more health-related activities, to adjust a determination upon which to modify the target score, wherein the target score is indicative of one or more standards against which to compare one or more groups of values aggregated to form the target score, and to modify the activity profile using an activity profile manager; and

a second interface configured to cause presentation of a representation of an overall score comprising the activity score.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the conversion module comprises a score generator configured to calculate the activity score based on the values.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the first interface further is configured to receive data representing an environmental parameter.

16. The device of claim 13, wherein the activity manager comprises an activity profile manager configured to modify the activity profile.