Diet compliance system
First Claim
1. A computer-based system for monitoring and increasing a user'"'"'s diet program compliance, the system comprising:
- a computer having means for receiving and storing personal information about the user, including the user'"'"'s name, telephone number and user-defined compliance goal;
means for remotely and automatically contacting the user at least once per day and inquiring of a user'"'"'s compliance for the three meals of that day;
means for receiving and storing a user'"'"'s compliance information in the form of a yes or no response for each meal;
processing means for calculating a user'"'"'s new rate of compliance to the dietary program based on the compliance information received remotely from the user, comparing that new rate of compliance to the user'"'"'s compliance goal and automatically generating a feedback message; and
means for automatically transmitting that feedback message to the user; and
remote means by which the user can receive from the computer a compliance inquiry, input to the computer the user'"'"'s compliance information, and receive from the computer the feedback message.
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Abstract
A computer-based system for monitoring and improving a user'"'"'s dietary compliance by providing the user with multiple forms of feedback designed to encourage adherence to a dietary program. In one embodiment the system comprises a personal computer having a commercially available telephony card and a cellular telephone carried by the user. The system automatically calls the user each evening and prompts the user to input whether the user adhered to the dietary program for each of that day'"'"'s meals. The system accepts and stores the input, calculates whether the user is achieving their dietary goal, and gives the user positive or negative audio feedback based on whether the user is meeting their dietary compliance target.
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11 Claims
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1. A computer-based system for monitoring and increasing a user'"'"'s diet program compliance, the system comprising:
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a computer having means for receiving and storing personal information about the user, including the user'"'"'s name, telephone number and user-defined compliance goal;
means for remotely and automatically contacting the user at least once per day and inquiring of a user'"'"'s compliance for the three meals of that day;
means for receiving and storing a user'"'"'s compliance information in the form of a yes or no response for each meal;
processing means for calculating a user'"'"'s new rate of compliance to the dietary program based on the compliance information received remotely from the user, comparing that new rate of compliance to the user'"'"'s compliance goal and automatically generating a feedback message; and
means for automatically transmitting that feedback message to the user; andremote means by which the user can receive from the computer a compliance inquiry, input to the computer the user'"'"'s compliance information, and receive from the computer the feedback message. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method of monitoring and increasing the compliance of a user following a dietary program, the method comprising the steps of:
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the user inputting into a computer system a user'"'"'s identification and contact data and a dietary compliance goal; at a predetermined time each day the computer system automatically requesting the user to input into the computer system whether the user did or did not adhere to the dietary program for each of that day'"'"'s meals; the user entering a yes or no response into the computer system via a remote device; the computer system calculating the percentage of times the user has adhered to the dietary program and comparing that percentage compliance to the user'"'"'s dietary compliance goal; and the computer system providing the user with remote feedback regarding whether the user is currently in compliance with the user'"'"'s dietary compliance goal. - View Dependent Claims (8, 9, 10, 11)
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