System and method for evaluating and providing nutrigenomic data, information and advice

• US 7,877,273 B2
• Filed: 01/08/2003
• Issued: 01/25/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 01/08/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fredric David Abramson
• Original Assignee: Fredric David Abramson
• Inventors: Abramson, Fredric David
• Primary Examiner(s): Le; Michelle Linh
• Application Number:
  US10/338,026
• Publication Number:
  US 20030158756A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,939 Days
• Field of Search: 705/2, 705/3, 600/300, 709/224
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: A61J 3/007 Marking tablets or the like apparatus for printing on tablets or the like B41F17/36
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/20 for computer-aided diagnosis, e.g. based on medical expert systems
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/30 for calculating health indices; for individual health risk assessment
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 70/60 relating to pathologies
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass

Abstract

A method for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease including providing personal information of an individual, querying a first database of disease information with the personal information to determine a disease for which the individual has a predisposition for developing, wherein the query produces disease information, querying one or more second databases with at least a portion of the disease information and/or personal information for obtaining second information for reducing the risk for the individual developing the disease and communicating a result of the query of the lifestyle database to the individual.

Claims

1. A system for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the system comprising:

inputting means for inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

first communicating means for communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving means for receiving the code by the remote system;

determining means for determining the product associated with the code;

querying means for querying a database to determine whether the product or a closely related product is contained therein, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

second communicating means for communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

2. A computer readable medium having computer instructions provided thereon for enabling a computer to perform a method for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving the code by the remote system;

determining the product associated with the code;

querying means for querying a database to determine whether the product or a closely related product is contained therein, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

3. An application program operational on a computer system for performing a method for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving the code by the remote system;

determining the product associated with the code;

querying means for querying a database to determine whether the product or a closely related product is contained therein, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

4. A method for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving the code by the remote system;

determining the product associated with the code;

determining the associated nutritional profile of the product;

querying a database to determine whether the nutritional provide of the product fall within a lifestyle of the individual, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

5. The method according to claim 4, wherein inputting comprising scanning the product with a scanner in communication with the wireless communication device.

6. The method according to claim 4, wherein the wireless communication is selected from the group consisting of:

cell phone, a pager, an email device, a radio, and a camera.

7. The method according to claim 4, wherein the wireless communications device includes a keypad for inputting alphanumerics.

8. The method according to claim 4, wherein the lifestyle database includes personalized data associated with the individual for at least one of dietary, nutritional, genetic, medical conditions, hereditary, behavior and habits of the individual.

9. The method according to claim 4, wherein inputting comprises speaking the code into the wireless communications device.

10. A computer readable medium having computer instructions provided thereon to enable a computer to perform a method for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving the code by the remote system;

determining the product associated with the code;

determining the associated nutritional profile of the product;

querying a database to determine whether the nutritional provide of the product fall within a lifestyle of the individual, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

11. An application program operational on a computer system for performing a method for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving the code by the remote system;

determining the product associated with the code;

determining the associated nutritional profile of the product;

querying a database to determine whether the nutritional provide of the product fall within a lifestyle of the individual, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state; and

communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

12. A system for determining whether consumption of an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the system comprising:

inputting means for inputting a code of a product for consumption by an individual into a wireless communication device;

first communicating means for communicating the code via the wireless communications device to a remote system;

receiving means for receiving the code by the remote system;

first determining means for determining the product associated with the code;

second determining the associated nutritional profile of the product;

querying means for querying a database to determine whether the nutritional provide of the product fall within a lifestyle of the individual, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing disease state; and

second communicating means for communicating the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device.

13. A method for determining whether an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

providing an electronic identification on the lifestyle item;

communicating the electronic identification via a wireless communication device to a remote system;

determining the lifestyle item associated with the electronic information;

querying a database to determine whether the lifestyle item is associated with data contained therein, data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

forwarding the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device; and

presenting the analysis with the wireless communication device.

14. A system for determining whether an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the system comprising:

an electronic identifier provided on the lifestyle item;

communicating means for communicating the information contained in the electronic identifier via a wireless communication device to a remote system;

determining means for determining the lifestyle item associated with the electronic information;

querying means for querying a database to determine whether the lifestyle item is associated with data contained therein, wherein said database comprises data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

forwarding means for forwarding the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device; and

presenting means for presenting the analysis with the wireless communication device.

15. A computer readable medium having computer instructions provided thereon for enabling a computer to perform a method for determining whether an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

providing an electronic identification on the lifestyle item;

communicating the electronic identification via a wireless communication device to a remote system;

determining the lifestyle item associated with the electronic information;

querying a database to determine whether the lifestyle item is associated with data contained therein, data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

forwarding the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device;

and presenting the analysis with the wireless communication device.

16. An application program operational on a computer for performing a method for determining whether an item falls within a lifestyle for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease, the method comprising:

providing an electronic identification on the lifestyle item;

communicating the electronic identification via a wireless communication device to a remote system;

determining the lifestyle item associated with the electronic information;

querying a database to determine whether the lifestyle item is associated with data contained therein, data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

forwarding the analysis from the remote system to the wireless communication device;

and presenting the analysis with the wireless communication device.

17. A method for producing a customized supplement for an individual for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease and/or maintaining health, the method comprising:

providing personal information of an individual;

querying a database to determine a disease for which the individual has a predisposition for developing,

data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

querying a supplement database to determine one or more dietary supplements to be ingested by the individual to minimize the individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing the disease and/or maintaining health.

18. The method according to claim 17, further comprising packaging the supplements found in the query of the supplement database to produce a supplement package and delivering the supplement package to the individual.

19. A computer readable medium having computer instructions provided thereon for enabling a computer system to perform a method for producing a customized supplement for an individual for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease and/or maintaining health, the method comprising:

providing personal information of an individual;

querying a database to determine a disease for which the individual has a predisposition for developing,

data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

querying a supplement database to determine one or more dietary supplements to be ingested by the individual to minimize the individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing the disease and/or maintaining health.

20. The medium according to claim 19, wherein the method further comprising packaging the supplements found in the query of the supplement database to produce a supplement package and delivering the supplement package to the individual.

21. A computer application program operable on a computer system for enabling the computer system to perform a method for producing a customized supplement for an individual for minimizing an individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing a disease and/or maintaining health, the method comprising:

providing personal information of an individual;

querying a database to determine a disease for which the individual has a predisposition for developing,

data domains comprising a scientific domain, genetic domain, and transactional domain, wherein the transactional domain comprises the code for the product;

analyzing means for interpreting the data in the data domains to determine whether the consumption of the product is related to minimizing a disease state;

querying a supplement database to determine one or more dietary supplements to be ingested by the individual to minimize the individual'"'"'s predisposition for developing the disease and/or maintaining health.

22. The computer application program according to claim 21, wherein the method further comprising packaging the supplements found in the query of the supplement database to produce a supplement package and delivering the supplement package to the individual.