Advertising method using automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus, and automatic blood pressure measuring apparatus having advertising function

• US 6,726,633 B2
• Filed: 06/14/2001
• Issued: 04/27/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2000
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Omron Healthcare Company Limited (Omron Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Colin Corporation (Fukuda Denshi Company Limited)
• Inventors: Kitagawa, Hiroya
• Primary Examiner(s): WOLFE JR, WILLIS RAY
• Application Number:
  US09/879,897
• Publication Number:
  US 20020002341A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,048 Days
• Field of Search: 600/301, 600/485, 600/490, 600/493, 600/499, 600/483, 600/494, 705/14, 705/1, 709/203, 709/217, 709/224, 709/232
• US Class Current: 600/499
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/022 by applying pressure to close blood vessels, e.g. against the skin; Ophthalmodynamometers
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements

Abstract

An advertising method, including the step of displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of an automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus including an inflatable cuff and a display device, an advertisement on the display device.

Claims

1. An automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, comprising:

an inflatable cuff which is adapted to be worn on a body portion of a living subject to press the body portion;

a display device;

a plurality of advertisement recording media on which at a plurality of different advertisements are recorded respectively, and a first one of the plurality of advertisement recording media is replaceable with a second one of the plurality of advertisement recording media;

a display control device which controls the display device to display the plurality of different advertisements recorded on the plurality of different advertisement recording media, during at least a portion of a time period in which a pressing pressure of the cuff applied to the body portion of the subject is changed; and

a summary recording medium on which a summary comprising a number of times of displaying of the plurality of different advertisements by the display device is recorded,

wherein said summary is transmitted to a terminal of a client who transmitted said each one of the plurality of different advertisements to a host computer so that the host computer stores an advertisement data base comprising each one of the plurality of different advertisements.

2. An advertising method, comprising:

transmitting, from a host computer which stores an advertisement data base comprising a plurality of advertisements, each one of the advertisements, to at least one of a plurality of automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses each of which includes an inflatable cuff and a display device and is connected to the host computer via a communication line, according to a predetermined relationship between the advertisements and the automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatuses;

displaying, during a blood-pressure measuring operation of said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus which has received said each one advertisement, said each one advertisement on the display device of said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus; and

transmitting a summary comprising a number of times of displaying of said each one advertisement by said one automatic blood-pressure measuring apparatus, to a terminal of a client who transmitted said each one advertisement to the host computer so that the host computer stores the advertisement data base comprising said each one advertisement.

3. An advertising method according to claim 2, further comprising a step of determining the relationship based on an advertising condition which is transmitted, together with said each one advertisement, from the terminal of the client to the host computer.