Computer-assisted method for analyzing consumptions

• US 6,387,049 B1
• Filed: 01/26/2000
• Issued: 05/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 01/02/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Steven Jerome Moore
• Original Assignee: Steven Jerome Moore
• Inventors: Moore, Steven Jerome
• Primary Examiner(s): Kamm, William E.
• Application Number:
  US09/491,844
• Time in Patent Office: 839 Days
• Field of Search: 128/921, 600/300
• US Class Current: 600/300
• 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 computer-assisted method for retrieving information pertaining to a consumable comprising:

storing in a computer readable data structure consumption information with regard to a consumable having a unique encoded product identifier thereon;

retrieving said consumption information from said computer readable data structure upon receipt of a digital data signal for such consumption information, said digital data signal being initiated by input of said unique encoded product identifier into a computer remote from said computer readable data structure;

transmitting said consumption information to said remote computer.

2. The method as recited in claim 1 further comprising the step of:

recording the time of receipt of said digital data signal seeking such consumption information.

3. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein said consumption information relates to the contents of said consumable.

4. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the consumption information is nutritional information.

5. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the consumable is a foodstuff.

6. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the consumable is a drug.

7. The method as recited in claim 1 wherein the consumable is a pre-packaged good.