Communicative water bottle and system thereof

• US 9,792,409 B2
• Filed: 03/13/2015
• Issued: 10/17/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xennial IP LLC
• Original Assignee: Howard Leigh Wernow, Kathryn A. Wernow
• Inventors: Wernow, Kathryn A., Wernow, Howard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, Michael
• Application Number:
  US14/657,300
• Publication Number:
  US 20150182797A1
• Time in Patent Office: 949 Days
• Field of Search: 434247
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4875 Hydration status, fluid retention of the body
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6887 mounted on external non-worn devices, e.g. non-medical devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6895 Sport equipment
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7455 characterised by tactile indication, e.g. vibration or electrical stimulation
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/13 delivered from dispensers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A communicative water bottle includes communication logic and wireless transmission logic technology electronically connected with a variety of sensors either on the water bottle or located remote from the water bottle. The sensors on the bottle create digital data associated with amount of fluid in the bottle and change thereof. The sensors remote from the bottle, which can be on an activity tracker, create digital data associated with an activity being performed by a user, such as running, or the absence of activity, such as remaining sedentary. A display on the bottle can indicate to the user the amount of fluid consumed or a reminder that fluid should be consumed. The fluid consumption data syncs with other remote devices such as mobile applications executable on smartphones.

Claims

1. A communicative sports water bottle comprising:

a bottle body having a base and an upwardly extending sidewall therein defining a fluid chamber and a first display coupled to the bottle body;

a sensor determining one or more of the following an amount of fluid in the fluid chamber, an amount of fluid being dispensed from the fluid chamber, and a physical movement of the bottle body;

fluid information logic electronically coupled with the sensor creating digital data associated with fluid in the chamber;

data transmission and reception logic configured to send the digital data to a remote device and receive digital data from the remote device, wherein the data transmission and reception logic monitors wireless input sources for incoming wireless packets and analyzes any received packets in order to detect a source of the packet transmission and decide whether to sync the digital data associated with fluid in the chamber with the source of the packet;

wherein the remote device is a wrist-worn health activity tracker including a second display that displays information associated with one or more of the following;

the amount of fluid in the chamber, the amount of fluid dispensed from the chamber, an amount of time since fluid was last dispensed from the chamber, an amount of fluid dispensed over a given time period, a reminder notification if fluid has not been dispensed over a given time period, a reminder to consume an adjusted amount of fluid based, at least in part, on activity information obtained from the remote device;

network connectivity electronically connecting the data transmission and reception logic and the remote device, wherein in the network connectivity is selected from a group comprising of;

Bluetooth connection, wireless internet connection, wired internet connection, internet, and 3G/4G connection; and

a record of information for a previous period at a fixed time interval;

artificial intelligence configured to learn the record of information to detect behavior signatures from the previous period, which is implemented to predict a likelihood of a subject has certain activity levels at a present time.

2. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 1, further comprising:

a cap repeatably attachable and detachable from the bottle body; and

wherein the sensor is on the cap;

cap sensor placement-specific algorithms executed by the fluid information logic to determine the one or more of the following the amount of fluid in the fluid chamber, the amount of fluid dispensed from the fluid chamber, the physical movement of the bottle body, the amount of time since fluid was last dispensed from the chamber, the amount of fluid dispensed over a given time period, and the reminder notification if fluid has not been dispensed over a given time period; and

adaptive filtering logic to cancel out excessive movements of the cap.

3. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 1, wherein the sensor is on the sports water bottle body;

further comprising;

bottle body sensor placement-specific algorithms executed by the fluid information logic to determine the one or more of the following the amount of fluid in the fluid chamber, the amount of fluid dispensed from the fluid chamber, the physical movement of the bottle body, the amount of time since fluid was last dispensed from the chamber, the amount of fluid dispensed over a given time period, and the reminder notification if fluid has not been dispensed over a given time period; and

adaptive filtering logic to cancel out excessive movements of the bottle.

4. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 1, in combination with seven layers of OSI modeling including a physical layer, a data link layer, a network layer, a transport layer, a session layer, a presentation layer, and an application layer.

5. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 4, wherein the sensor operates in one of the physical and data link layers, and the sensor initiates data collection of fluid consumption through at least one of a plurality of triggers, wherein the plurality of triggers is selected from the group comprising a first trigger of a detectable motion intensity signature of movement of bottle detected by a trigger algorithm receiving sensor output and a second trigger of a detectable motion intensity signature of exercise movement detected by a body movement algorithm performed by the remote device worn on the wrist.

6. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 4, wherein the data transmission logic operates in one of the physical, data link, network, transport, and session layers, wherein the data transmission logic receives data to be relayed including a relay indicator inherent to the data itself, wherein the relay indicator includes a certain type of encryption and the encryption type indicates that the data transmission and reception logic should forward the data to the remote device.

7. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 1, further comprising:

automatic packet detection logic monitoring input sources for packets and analyzes packets embedded within an application launched by an operating system of the bottle.

8. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 7, wherein the automatic packet detection logic monitors input sources for incoming packets periodically in order to lower power consumption.

9. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 8, wherein the frequency of periodic listening events is varied to balance power consumption and the time to detection.

10. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 7, wherein the automatic packet detection logic monitors input sources for incoming packets continuously in order to decrease detection latency.