Quantified-self machines and circuits reflexively related to food-and-nutrition machines and circuits

• US 9,364,151 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2014
• Issued: 06/14/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 03/31/2014
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Elwha LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Hyde, Roderick A., Ishikawa, Muriel Y., Kare, Jordin T., Leuthardt, Eric C., Levien, Royce A., Lord, Richard T., Lord, Robert W., Malamud, Mark A., Tegreene, Clarence T., Whitmer, Charles, Wood, Lowell L. Jr., Wood, Victoria Y. H., Myhrvold, Nathan P., Sweeney, Elizabeth A.
• Primary Examiner(s): SMALL, NAOMI J
• Application Number:
  US14/230,625
• Publication Number:
  US 20150279185A1
• Time in Patent Office: 806 Days
• Field of Search: 340/539.12
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/40 Animals
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/06 Arrangements of multiple sensors of different types
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1113 Local tracking of patients, e.g. in a hospital or private home
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/18 for vehicle drivers or machine operators
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4806 Sleep evaluation A61B5/4821 takes precedence; devices for inducing sleep A61M21/02
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4833 Assessment of subject's compliance to treatment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6801 specially adapted to be attached to or worn on the body surface
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/74 Details of notification to user or communication with user or patient indicating measured values G01D7/00; user input means input or output arrangements for computers G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets

Abstract

A method substantially as shown and described in the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein. A device substantially as shown and described in the detailed description and/or drawings and/or elsewhere herein.

Claims

1. A computationally-implemented method, comprising:

electronically receiving user biological status information from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions;

electronically obtaining one or more user ingestion preference indications; and

electronically providing instruction to electronically direct at least in part one or more factors of electronically controlled dispensing of manually administrable orally ingestible material based upon the electronically receiving user biological status information from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions and based upon the electronically obtaining one or more user ingestion preference indications;

electronically accessing record data associated with ingestible material dispensing by one or more dispensing machines to one or more individuals;

electronically accessing record data associated with one or more biological user conditions of the one or more individuals collected by the one or more dispensing machines;

electronically reporting regarding one or more relationships between the record data associated with the ingestible material dispensing by the one or more dispensing machines to the one or more individuals and the record data associated with the one or more biological user conditions of the one or more individuals collected by the one or more dispensing machines;

electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user physiological aspect data of an electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels;

electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted reception of food-based ingredient information from one or more food-based ingredient information resources involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels;

electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted transmission of food-based fabricator operational indication to one or more food fabricator machines involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels based at least in part on the electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user physiological aspect data of an electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestrated manipulation of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and based at least in part on the electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted reception of food-based fabricator information involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels;

electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information;

electronically receiving electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted reception of user-menu-selection display-choice data associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-level-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information;

electronically formulating electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted determination of food-production-machine-performance direction transmittable to one or more food production machines for performance direction thereof based upon the receiving electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted reception of user-menu-selection display-choice data associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-level-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information;

electronically achieving transistor-based communication from one or more automated-food-item production locations with one or more data centers for machine-assisted updating of food-item production data at the one or more automated-food-item production locations regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing;

electronically performing transistor-based amalgamation of food-item production data for electronically exhibiting machine-assisted presentation of one or more updated food-item selection alternatives at the one or more automated-food-production locations based at least in part on the machine-assisted updating of the food-item-production data regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing;

electronically apprising the one or more data centers from the one or more automated-food-item-production locations at least in part associated with selection information received in response to the electronically exhibiting machine-assisted presentation of one or more updated food-item selection alternatives;

electronically performing transistor-based reception of first query selection data related to electronic transistor-based presentation of first query selection options regarding allocation data associated with machine-automated food allocation to one or more users;

electronically performing transistor-based reception of second query selection data related to electronic transistor-based presentation of second query selection options regarding user data associated with user parameter status of the one or more users;

electronically performing transistor-based transmission of correlation analysis data between allocation data and user data in response to transistor-based reception of the first and second query selection data;

electronically effecting state-machine-based emission of first-indication data indicative of first-requested-characteristic data descriptive of one or more human subjects elicited at least in part by electronic state-machine-based presentation of one or more characteristic-data-candidate prompts;

electronically effecting state-machine-based emission of second-indication data indicative of second-requested-food-product data descriptive of one or more food products fabricated for the one or more human subjects elicited at least in part by electronic state-machine-based presentation of one or more food-product-data-candidate prompts; and

electronically effecting electronic-state-machine-based reception of electronic-state-machine-generated resultant data at least in part related to the first-requested-characteristic data descriptive of one or more human subjects and to the second-requested-food-product data descriptive of one or more food products fabricated for the one or more human subjects.

2. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically receiving user biological status information from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions comprises:

electronically receiving user biological status information at least in part involving user functional status information including electronically receiving user biological status information at least in part involving user sleep status information.

3. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically receiving user biological status information from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions comprises:

electronically receiving user biological status information at least in part involving user ambulatory status information including electronically receiving user biological status information at least in part involving user motor skills status information.

4. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically receiving user biological status information from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions comprises:

electronically receiving from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions regarding at least in part disease including electronically receiving from electronically involved detection of one or more biological user conditions regarding at least in part chronic disease.

5. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically accessing record data associated with ingestible material dispensing by one or more dispensing machines to one or more individuals comprises:

electronically accessing record data involving at least in part user related outcome including electronically accessing record data involving at least in part one or more goals of another.

6. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically accessing record data associated with ingestible material dispensing by one or more dispensing machines to one or more individuals comprises:

electronically accessing record data regarding one or more electronically controlled dispensing procedures including electronically accessing record data regarding manually oral-delivered consumable substance packaging procedures.

7. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically accessing record data associated with ingestible material dispensing by one or more dispensing machines to one or more individuals comprises:

electronically accessing biological user condition record data at least in part involving user functional status information including electronically accessing biological user condition record data at least in part involving user ambulatory status information.

8. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user physiological aspect data of an electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels comprises:

electronically monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part electronically-involved user ambulatory status monitoring including electronically monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part electronically-involved user walking performance monitoring.

9. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user physiological aspect data of an electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels comprises:

electronically monitoring of user physiological aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part invasive or noninvasive user physiological aspect data.

10. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user physiological aspect data of an electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels and performing electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device-assisted monitoring of user behavioral aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user involving in part orchestration of electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based voltage levels including electronically monitoring of user physiological aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part user physiological aspect data regarding at least in part disease comprises:

electronically monitoring of user physiological aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part user physiological aspect data regarding at least in part disease including electronically monitoring of user physiological aspect data of the electronic-semiconductor-transistor-based-device user as at least in part user physiological aspect data regarding at least in part life-style induced disease.

11. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information comprises:

electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with collection of user-conduct information regarding at least in part electronically-involved user performance status including electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with collection of user-conduct information regarding at least in part electronically-involved vocationally-related user performance status.

12. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information comprises:

electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with obtaining food-based information regarding food nutrition factors from one or more food nutrition information services including electronically outputting electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted-user-menu-selection display associated with obtaining food-based information for one more ingredient quantities.

13. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically receiving electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted reception of user-menu-selection display-choice data associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor- transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-level-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information comprises:

electronically receiving electronic-semiconductor-transistor- voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted reception of user-menu-selection display-choice data associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-physiological information, associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted collection of user-conduct information, and associated with electronic-semiconductor-transistor-level-level-based-state-machine-assisted obtaining of food-based information including electronically receiving electronic-semiconductor-transistor-voltage-level-based-state-machine-assisted reception of user-menu-selection display-choice data associated with collection of physiological information and collection of user-conduct information as at least in part portable-electronically-involved monitoring.

14. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically achieving transistor-based communication from one or more automated-food-item production locations with one or more data centers for machine-assisted updating of food-item production data at the one or more automated-food-item production locations regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing comprises:

achieving transistor-based communication for transistor-based updating with food composition data submitted by one or more members of one or more member-based social networks including achieving transistor-based communication for transistor-based updating with food composition data involving social-network-member-submitted data on micronutrient related food ingredient availability.

15. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically achieving transistor-based communication from one or more automated-food-item production locations with one or more data centers for machine-assisted updating of food-item production data at the one or more automated-food-item production locations regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing comprises:

electronically achieving transistor-based communication from one or more automated-food-item production locations with one or more data centers for machine-assisted updating of food-item production data at the one or more automated-food-item production locations regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing including achieving transistor-based communication for transistor-based updating food composition data from one or more food material supply related electronic data centers associated with one or more recipe subscription services.

16. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically achieving transistor-based communication from one or more automated-food-item production locations with one or more data centers for machine-assisted updating of food-item production data at the one or more automated-food-item production locations regarding one or more aspects of machine-automated-food-item providing comprises:

achieving transistor-based communication for transistor-based updating food recipe related information from one or more analytical electronic data centers associated with one or more correlation studies including achieving transistor-based communication for transistor-based updating food recipe related information including correlation data regarding one or more food ingredient manufacturing procedures.

17. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically performing transistor-based reception of first query selection data related to electronic transistor-based presentation of first query selection options regarding allocation data associated with machine-automated food allocation to one or more users comprises:

electronically performing transistor-based reception of first query selection data related to electronic transistor-based presentation of first query selection options regarding allocation data associated with machine-automated food allocation to one or more users including electronically performing reception of first selection data regarding one or more user related outcome goals.

18. The computationally-implemented method of claim 1, wherein the electronically effecting state-machine-based emission of first-indication data indicative of first-requested-characteristic data descriptive of one or more human subjects elicited at least in part by electronic state-machine-based presentation of one or more characteristic-data-candidate prompts comprises:

electronically effecting state-machine-based emission of first-indication data at least in part descriptive of human subjects quantified-self information including electronically effecting state-machine-based emission of first-indication data at least in part descriptive of social network collected quantified-self metric data.