Method for correlating consumable intakes with physiological parameters

• US 6,032,676 A
• Filed: 11/03/1998
• Issued: 03/07/2000
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Steven Jerome Moore
• Original Assignee: Steven Jerome Moore
• Inventors: Moore, Steven Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US09/185,133
• Time in Patent Office: 490 Days
• Field of Search: 128/898, 128/921
• US Class Current: 128/898
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 19/2227 with means for amusing or giving information to the user A47G23/16 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A47G 2019/225 vessels with thermometers
• CPC Class Codes: G09F 19/02 incorporating moving display members
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/10 relating to drugs or medications, e.g. for ensuring correct administration to patients
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

A computer-assisted system and method for adjudging the effect of consumable intakes on physiological parameters is disclosed wherein a consumer records in a database a plurality of consumable identifiers identifiying consumables consumed, the amounts of each consumable consumed, times of consumption of each consumable, a plurality of physiological measurements and time of physiological measurements, and such information is computationally related to consumption information, such as nutritional information, linked to the consumable identifier in another database.

Claims

1. A method in a computer system for determining the effect of consumptions over a period of time on one or more physiological parameters comprising:

(a) correlating in a computer readable data structure consumable identifier(s) with data pertaining to the contents of said consumable(s);

(b) Correlating in a computer readable data structure said one or more consumable identifier(s) with the amount of consumable consumed and the time of consumption,

(c) computationally resolving by computer readable program code physiological algorithms relating one or more physiological parameters to consumption using the correlated data of step (a) and step (b);

(d) providing advice on the effect of consumptions over a period of time on physiological parameters based on computational resolution of said physiological algorithms.

2. A method for determining the effect of consumptions over a period of time on one or more physiological parameters comprising:

(a) correlating in a computer readable data structure;

data pertaining to consumable identifier(s) identifiable with one or more consumable(s), data pertaining to the contents of said one or more consumable(s), and data pertaining to the amount of said one or more consumable(s) consumed, and the time of consumption of said one or more consumable(s), with respect to the consumption of said one or more consumable(s) by a particular individual;

(b) employing a program of machine executable instructions to resolve one or more physiological algorithms using the data structure of step (a) and to generate advice for said particular individual on the effect of said particular individual'"'"'s consumptions over a period of time on the individual'"'"'s physiological parameters based on the computational resolution of said physiological algorithms, said machine executable instructions performing the method steps comprising;

(1) computationally resolving one or more physiological algorithms relating one or more physiological parameters to consumption using the data structure of step (a);

(2) generating advice for said particular individual on the effect of consumptions over a period of time on the particular individual'"'"'s physiological parameters based on computational resolution of said physiological algorithms.

3. A method in a computer system for determining the effect of consumptions over a period of time on one or more physiological parameters, the method comprising:

(a) receiving for each of one or more consumables associated with a consumable identifier;

a consumable identifier, data pertaining to the amount of said consumable consumed by an individual, and the time of consumption of said consumable by said individual;

(b) receiving data correlating said consumable identifier with data pertaining to the contents of said consumable;

(c) resolving one or more physiological algorithm(s) relating one or more physiological parameter s to consumption using the data received in steps (a) and (b);

(d) outputting advice to said individual on the effect of individual'"'"'s consumptions over a period of time on said individual'"'"'s physiological parameters based on computational resolution of said physiological algorithms.