SOCIAL MEDIA NETWORKING BASED ON PHYSIOLOGIC INFORMATION

• US 20150127737A1
• Filed: 11/04/2014
• Published: 05/07/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 11/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc. (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Original Assignee: Proteus Digital Health, Inc. (Otsuka Holdings Company Limited)
• Inventors: Thompson, Andrew, Thompson, Todd, Behzadi, Yashar, Cojuangco, Danielle, Duck, Robert, Muralidharan, Veeraperumanallu, Karplus, Erika, Savage, George, Ionescu, Arna, Lee, Ray, Suchan, Robin, Turner, William
• Granted Patent: US 10,084,880 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication

Abstract

A method comprising receiving physiologic information at a social-networking system from a body-associated personal communicator is disclosed. A social-networking system configured to receive physiological information from a body-associated personal communicator and a body-associated personal communicator configured to receive physiologic information and communicate the physiologic information to a social-networking system also are disclosed.

Claims

1. A social-networking system comprising:

a network addressable computing system configured to host an online social network, the computing system configured to receive, store, display, and transmit information received from a body-associated client device, the information comprising physiologic or ingestion information obtained from the body-associated client device, the computing system comprising;

a processor coupled to a memory, the memory comprising machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to;

receive communications from one or more body-associated client devices, each communication including information identifying a user associated with the body-associated client device, the information obtained from the user by way of electrodes electrically coupled to a body of the user and configured to detect both physiologic information or ingestion information associated with the user, the ingestible information generated by an ingestible event marker ingested by the user;

associate the body-associated client device with one or more user accounts of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device; and

generate a user profile of the user associated with the body-associated client device, the user profile comprising the physiologic information or the ingestion information.

2. The social-networking system of claim 1, wherein the user profile is a first user profile, and wherein the social-networking platform comprises a plurality of user profiles, wherein the plurality of user profiles each comprise relationship information between a first user profile and a second user profile, and wherein the relationship information is based on the received physiologic or ingestion information.

3. The social-networking system of claim 1, further comprising an authorization server, wherein the authorization server is configured to provide a user with an option to choose whether actions associated with the physiologic or ingestion information are logged by the social-networking platform.

4. The social-networking system of claim 1, wherein the social-networking platform is configured to receive identification information of the user based on the physiologic or ingestion information and to provide access to the user based on the identification information.

5. A method, comprising:

receiving, by a social-networking system, communications from one or more body-associated client devices, each communication including information identifying a user associated with the body-associated client device, the information obtained from the user by way of electrodes electrically coupled to a body of the user and configured to detect both physiologic information or ingestion information associated with the user, the ingestible information generated by an ingestible event marker ingested by the user;

associating the body-associated client device with one or more user accounts of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device; and

generating a user profile of the user associated with the body-associated client device, the user profile comprising at least one of the physiologic information or the ingestion information.

6. The method of claim 5, further comprising generating a timeline for the user associated with the body-associated client device on the social-networking system based on the physiologic or ingestion information, wherein the timeline is at least one of a private timeline or a public timeline.

7. The method of claim 6, further comprising automatically updating the timeline based on additional physiologic or ingestion information received by the social-networking system from the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

8. The method of claim 5, further comprising providing at least one of rewards, awards, or incentives based on the physiologic or ingestion information to users of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

9. The method of claim 5, further comprising providing an analytical framework based on the at least one of the physiologic or the ingestion information to authorized users of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

10. The method of claim 5, further comprising grouping based on the physiologic or ingestion information a plurality of users of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

11. The method of claim 5, further comprising identifying at least a mentor or leader based on the physiologic or ingestion information from a plurality of users of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

12. The method of claim 5, further comprising determining at least one of a mood or emotional state based on the physiologic or ingestion information of a user of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

13. The method of claim 5, further comprising determining identification information of a user based on the physiologic or ingestion information received from the user of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

14. The method of claim 13, further comprising providing access to any of the users by the social-networking system based on the identification information.

15. The method of claim 5, wherein the physiologic information comprises at least one of information related to skin impedance, electro cardiogram signals, conductively transmitted current signals, position, temperature, heart rate, perspiration rate, humidity, altitude, pressure, global positioning system (GPS), proximity, bacteria levels, glucose level, chemical markers, or blood oxygen levels or the ingestion information of the user wherein the ingestion information comprises at least one of information associated with an event marker, a dose amount and type of medication ingested by the user of the social-networking system associated with the body-associated client device associated with the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

16. A receiver comprising:

a body-associated client device comprising a processor coupled to a non-transitory memory, wherein the non-transitory memory comprises machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor, cause the processor to receive at least one of physiologic or ingestion information from a body of a user associated with the body-associated client device;

wherein the processor of the body-associated client device is configured to communicate the physiologic or ingestion information to a social-networking system.

17. The receiver of claim 16, wherein the processor of the body-associated is configured to receive physiologic information from the body of the user based on physical contact with the body of the user.

18. The receiver of claim 16, wherein the processor of the body-associated is configured to receive transbody conductive signals.

19. The receiver of claim 17, wherein the processor of the body-associated is configured to receive the transbody conductive signals from an ingestible event marker.

20. The receiver of claim 16, wherein the processor of the body-associated is configured to communicate the physiologic information to the social-networking system via wireless communication.