Communicative water bottle and system thereof

• US 10,664,571 B2
• Filed: 08/30/2017
• Issued: 05/26/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/13/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xennial IP LLC
• Original Assignee: Xennial IP LLC
• Inventors: Wernow, Kathryn A., Wernow, Howard L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Grant, Michael C
• Application Number:
  US15/691,144
• Publication Number:
  US 20170364656A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,000 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 system 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;

a record of information for a previous period at a fixed time interval, and the record of information is displayed in one of the first display and the second display;

a cap repeatably attachable and detachable from the bottle body, and wherein the sensor is carried by the cap; and

cap sensor placement-specific algorithms executed by the fluid information logic during the previous period 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 executed during the previous period to cancel out excessive movements of the cap.

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

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.

3. The communicative sports water bottle system of claim 2, further comprising 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.

4. The communicative sports water bottle system of claim 3, 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.

5. 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.

6. The communicative sports water bottle system 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.

7. The communicative sports water bottle system of claim 6, wherein the automatic packet detection logic monitors input sources for incoming packets periodically in order to lower power consumption.

8. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 7, wherein the frequency of periodic listening events is varied to balance power consumption and the time to detection.

9. The communicative sports water bottle of claim 6, wherein the automatic packet detection logic monitors input sources for incoming packets continuously in order to decrease detection latency.

10. A communicative sports water bottle system 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;

a record of information for a previous period at a fixed time interval, and the record of information is displayed in one of the first display and the second display; and

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.

11. The communicative sports water bottle system of claim 10, further comprising:

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.

12. A method for displaying fluid consumption by a human comprising:

generating digital data associated with fluid in a communicative bottle via fluid information logic electronically coupled with a first sensor carried by the communicative bottle;

sending digital data via data transmission and reception logic to the wrist-worn remote device and receiving 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 a source of the packet;

displaying digital data associated with a first amount of fluid within the communicative bottle in a first display integrated in a wrist-worn remote electronic device distinct from the communicative bottle;

wherein the wrist-worn remote device is a wrist-worn health activity tracker that displays information, in the first display, 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;

connecting the data transmission and reception logic and the wrist-worn remote device via electronic network connectivity, 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;

recording the data associated with the first amount of fluid;

predicting, via artificial intelligence configured to learn the recorded data associated with the first amount of fluid to detect behavior signatures, which is implemented in one or more processors, a likelihood of a subject has certain activity levels at a present time;

recognizing an adjustment of the first amount of fluid in the communicative bottle by one of the following (a) fluid dispensed from the communicative bottle and (b) fluid added to the communicative bottle;

sensing the amount of adjusted fluid with the first sensor coupled to the communicative bottle to create data associated with a second amount of fluid within the communicative bottle;

sending data associated with the second amount of fluid to the first display in the wrist-worn remote electronic device;

displaying data associated with the second amount of fluid within the communicative bottle in the first display integrated in the wrist-worn remote electronic device distinct from the communicative bottle;

displaying an amount of water to be consumed determined by a difference of the data associated with the second amount of data from the predicted activity levels at the present time.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

receiving activity information of a person at the communicative bottle from a second sensor on the wrist-worn remote electronic device; and

adjusting the data associated with the first amount of fluid, based at least in part, on the activity information received from the second sensor, and displaying data associated with a third amount of fluid in the display integrated in the wrist-worn remote electronic device distinct from the communicative bottle.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the first sensor is integral to the communicative bottle.

15. The method of claim 13, further comprising:

displaying data associated with a third amount of fluid to be consumed by a person in the first display integrated in the wrist-worn remote electronic device distinct from the communicative bottle;

receiving activity information of the person from the wrist-worn remote electronic device; and

adjusting the third amount of fluid to be consumed by the person based, at least in part, on the activity information received from the wrist-worn remote electronic device, and displaying a second amount of fluid to be consumed in the display integrated in the wrist-worn remote electronic device distinct from the communicative bottle.

16. The method of claim 12, wherein the first sensor is a flow sensor and the activity information is drinking the fluid by the person, further comprising the steps of:

sensing the difference between the second amount of fluid and the first amount of fluid after the person has drank the fluid creating consumption data;

transmitting the consumption data from the communicative bottle to the wrist-worn remote electronic device selected from a group comprising a remote activity tracker and a mobile application executable on a smartphone and an application executable on a smartwatch.

17. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

syncing the communicative bottle with the wrist-worn remote electronic device based, at least in part, on the activity information obtained from the first sensor.

18. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

transmitting fluid consumption instructions for increased consumption from the wrist-worn remote electronic device to the communicative bottle for display thereon when a second sensor, located on the wrist-worn remote electronic device, detects one of the following an increase in physical activity by the user and an absence of drinking activity over a certain time period by the user.

19. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

tapping the bottle to initiate user input recognized by fluid information logic connected with the communicative bottle.