DATA COMMUNICATION METHOD AND DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM

• US 20150304402A1
• Filed: 05/11/2015
• Published: 10/22/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 04/21/2014
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Kimree Hi-tech Inc.
• Original Assignee: Kimree Hi-tech Inc.
• Inventors: LIU, Qiuming
• Application Number:
  US14/708,703
• Publication Number:
  US 20150304402A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/10 Devices using liquid inhalable precursors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/51 Arrangement of sensors
• CPC Class Codes: A24F 40/65 Devices with integrated communication means, e.g. wireless communication means
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0251 Targeted advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/53 using third party service providers
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/55 Push-based network services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/08 Access security
• 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 data communication method and a data communication system are provided. The data communication method includes: detecting, by an electronic cigarette, a behavior characteristic of a user; generating, by the electronic cigarette, a triggering signal if the behavior characteristic of the user meets a reporting condition, wherein the triggering signal indicates a current behavior of the user; transmitting, by the electronic cigarette, the triggering signal to a user terminal bound to the electronic cigarette; transmitting, by the user terminal, the triggering signal to a service platform transparently; and pushing, by the service platform, corresponding information to the user terminal based on the triggering signal.

Claims

1. A data communication method, comprising:

detecting, by an electronic cigarette, a behavior characteristic of a user;

generating, by the electronic cigarette, a triggering signal if the behavior characteristic of the user meets a reporting condition, wherein the triggering signal indicates a current behavior of the user;

transmitting, by the electronic cigarette, the triggering signal to a user terminal bound to the electronic cigarette;

transmitting, by the user terminal, the triggering signal to a service platform transparently; and

pushing, by the service platform, corresponding information to the user terminal based on the triggering signal.

2. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

establishing, by the electronic cigarette, a correlation between the electronic cigarette and the user terminal.

3. The method according to claim 2, wherein the correlation between the electronic cigarette and the user terminal is established by the electronic cigarette through a Bluetooth connection, a WIFI connection, an infrared connection or an NFC connection.

4. The method according to claim 1, further comprising:

determining, by the electronic cigarette, whether the user is smoking with the electronic cigarette; and

determining that the behavior characteristic of the user meets the reporting condition, if the user is smoking with the electronic cigarette.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein the generating, by the electronic cigarette, the triggering signal comprises:

generating a pulse signal and transmitting the pulse signal to a processor in the electronic cigarette, by a sensor in the electronic cigarette; and

generating, by the processor in the electronic cigarette, the triggering signal based on the pulse signal, wherein the triggering signal indicates that the user is smoking with the electronic cigarette.

6. The method according to claim 5, wherein the sensor is an airflow sensitive switch or a key switch;

and

wherein the key switch is a tact switch or a sensitive switch.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the pushing, by the service platform, corresponding information to the user terminal based on the triggering signal comprises:

pushing, by the service platform, advertising information or news contents to the user terminal.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the pushing, by the service platform, corresponding information to the user terminal based on the triggering signal comprises:

determining whether users of a plurality of electronic cigarettes meet an interaction condition, by the service platform on reception of triggering signals of the plurality of electronic cigarettes; and

pushing, by the service platform, interaction information to user terminals of users meeting the interaction condition, wherein the users meeting the interaction condition interact with each other.

9. The method according to claim 8, wherein the determining whether users of a plurality of electronic cigarettes meet an interaction condition, by the service platform comprises:

determining, by the service platform, whether distances between the users of the plurality of electronic cigarettes are smaller than a preset distance; and

determining that the users of the plurality of electronic cigarettes meet the interaction condition, if the distances between the users of the plurality of electronic cigarettes are smaller than the preset distance.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein before transmitting, by the user terminal, the triggering signal to a service platform transparently, the method further comprises:

determining, by the user terminal, whether the user has an interaction permission; and

triggering the step of transmitting the triggering signal to the service platform transparently, if the user has the interaction permission.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the determining, by the user terminal, whether the user has an interaction permission comprises:

determining, by the user terminal, whether a smoking frequency of the user reaches a preset value; and

determining that the user has the interaction permission if the smoking frequency of the user reaches the preset value.

12. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user terminal is a mobile phone, a personal computer, a laptop or a tablet computer.

13. A data communication system, comprising:

an electronic cigarette, a user terminal and a service platform;

wherein the electronic cigarette is configured to, detect a behavior characteristic of a user, generate a triggering signal if the behavior characteristic of the user meets a reporting condition, and transmit the triggering signal to the user terminal bound to the electronic cigarette, the triggering signal indicating a current behavior of the user;

the user terminal is configured to transmit the triggering signal to the service platform transparently; and

the service platform is configured to push corresponding information to the user terminal based on the triggering signal.

14. The data communication system according to claim 13, wherein a correlation between the electronic cigarette and the user terminal is established by the electronic cigarette through a Bluetooth connection, a WIFI connection, an infrared connection or an NFC connection.

15. The data communication system according to claim 14, wherein the electronic cigarette at least comprises a sensor and a processor;

wherein the sensor is configured to generate a pulse signal and transmit the pulse signal to the processor in the electronic cigarette, when the user is smoking; and

the processor in the electronic cigarette is configured to generate the triggering signal based on the pulse signal, the triggering signal indicating that the user is smoking with the electronic cigarette.

16. The data communication system according to claim 15, wherein the sensor is an airflow sensitive switch or a key switch;

and

wherein the key switch is a tact switch or a sensitive switch.

17. The data communication system according to claim 13, wherein the user terminal is further configured to, determine whether the user has an interaction permission, and transmit the triggering signal to the service platform transparently if the user has the interaction permission.

18. The data communication system according to claim 13, wherein the user terminal is a mobile phone, a personal computer, a laptop or a tablet computer.