ENCOURAGING ACHIEVEMENT OF HEALTH GOALS

• US 20160253918A1
• Filed: 02/26/2016
• Published: 09/01/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: IFIT Incorporated (Amynta Agency, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: ICON Health & Fitness Incorporated (HF HOLDINGS INC)
• Inventors: Watterson, Scott R.
• Granted Patent: US 10,388,183 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0092 Nutrition
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/125 the stations being mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

A method may include receiving a health goal of a user and receiving data describing a status of the user. The status of the user may be related at least in part to the health goal. The method may also include determining that the user has not achieved the health goal based at least in part on comparing the status of the user and the health goal. The method may further include sending an instruction to an environment-altering device associated with a location of the user. The instruction may be configured to generate an altered environment at the location. The altered environment may be configured to encourage the user toward achieving the health goal.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a health goal of a user;

receiving data describing a status of the user, the status of the user related at least in part to the health goal;

determining that the user has not achieved the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the status of the user and the health goal; and

sending an instruction to an environment-altering device associated with a location of the user, the instruction configured to generate an altered environment at the location, the altered environment configured to encourage the user toward achieving the health goal.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining that the user is not projected to achieve the health goal based at least in part on the comparison of the status of the user and the health goal.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

receiving data describing an updated status of the user after sending the instruction to the environment-altering device; and

sending an updated instruction to the environment-altering device associated with the location of the user, the updated instruction configured to generate an updated environment at the location.

4. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining that the user is actively working toward achieving the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

5. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining that the user is not actively working toward achieving the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to further encourage the user toward achieving the health goal.

6. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining that the user has achieved the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

7. The method of claim 3, further comprising determining that the user is projected to achieve the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving an operating parameter from the user, wherein the altered environment is further based at least in part on the operating parameter.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the location of the user is associated with an ambient temperature and the instruction sent to the environment-altering device is configured to instruct the environment-altering device to lower the temperature of the location of the user relative to the ambient temperature.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered environment is associated with blocked access to a network location.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered environment is associated with a change in lighting of the location.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the altered environment is associated with blocked access to a device located at the location.

13. One or more tangible computer-readable media storing one or more programs that are configured, when executed, to cause one or more processors to perform a method comprising:

receiving a health goal of a user;

receiving data describing a status of the user, the status of the user related at least in part to the health goal;

determining that the user has not achieved the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the status of the user and the health goal; and

sending an instruction to an environment-altering device associated with a location of the user, the instruction configured to generate an altered environment at the location, the altered environment configured to encourage the user toward achieving the health goal.

14. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises determining that the user is not projected to achieve the health goal based at least in part on the comparison of the status of the user and the health goal.

15. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the method further comprises:

receiving data describing an updated status of the user after sending the instruction to the environment-altering device; and

sending an updated instruction to the environment-altering device associated with the location of the user, the updated instruction configured to generate an updated environment at the location.

16. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining that the user is actively working toward achieving the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

17. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining that the user is not actively working toward achieving the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to further encourage the user toward achieving the health goal.

18. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining that the user has achieved the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

19. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 15, wherein the method further comprises determining that the user is projected to achieve the health goal based at least in part on a comparison of the updated status of the user and the health goal, wherein the updated environment is configured to negate the altered environment.

20. The one or more tangible computer-readable media of claim 13, wherein the altered environment is associated with at least one of:

a change in a temperature of the location, a blocked access to a network location, a change in lighting of the location, and blocked access to a device located at the location.