NUTRITIONAL OPTIMIZATION SYSTEM AND METHOD

• US 20070055551A1
• Filed: 08/29/2006
• Published: 03/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/27/1996
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Smeaton Pump LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Original Assignee: Smeaton Pump LLC (Intellectual Ventures LLC)
• Inventors: Szabo, Andrew
• Application Number:
  US11/467,934
• Publication Number:
  US 20070055551A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/3
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/60 for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/60 relating to nutrition control, e.g. diets
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 128/921 Diet management

Abstract

A method and system for proposing nutritional supplementation for a person comprising the steps of receiving personal information, e.g., relating to health and diet, about the person, determining a health model for the person, determining an effect on the health model for at least two nutritional supplements, optimizing a proposed nutritional supplementation for the person based on the personal information about the person and effect for the at least two nutritional supplements, health model, and outputting a proposed nutritional supplementation including amounts of the at least two nutritional supplements. The system may also receive economic considerations, e.g., a budget, for the nutritional supplementation, and further optimize the nutritional supplementation based on the economic considerations.

Claims

1. A method for outputting a set of records, comprising the steps of:

(a) defining a user characteristic;

(b) classifying the user based on the defined user characteristic;

(c) receiving a specification from the user for a class of information relating to a plurality of records;

(d) determining economic parameters for each of the plurality of records; and

(e) optimizing a presented set of records based on the determined economic parameters and the defined user characteristic.

2. The method according to claim 1, wherein the defined user characteristic comprises a population grouping.

3. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of records relates to nutritional supplementation for a person.

4. The method according to claim 1, wherein the user characteristic relates to health and nutritional information.

5. The method according to claim 1, wherein the presented set of records relates to health and nutritional information.

6. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of determining a risk tolerance of the user and further optimizing the presented set of records to achieve a maximum benefit within the determined risk tolerance.

7. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the step of analyzing the presented set of records for safety to the user.

8. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of receiving feedback from the user relating to the presented set of records and re-optimizing the presented set of records to generate a revised presented set of records.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising repeating the re-optimization as many times as the user provides feedback.

10. The method according to claim 1, wherein the determined economic parameters comprise a budget.

11. The method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of records is in a stored database.

12. The method according to claim 11, wherein the database is remote from the user.

13. The method according to claim 1, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of optimization procedures and selecting at least one of the optimization procedures for optimizing a presented set of records for the user.

14. A method for presenting records to a user, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving an input from the user;

(b) defining a subset of records selected from an electronic database containing a set of records, based on an information content of a respective record and the user input;

(c) quantifying a risk associated with reliance on an information content of a respective record;

(d) determining economic parameters associated with the subset of records; and

(e) presenting the subset of records automatically jointly optimized based on the determined economic parameters, and the quantified risk associated with the selected record.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the user input comprises health information.

16. The method according to claim 14, wherein the user input comprises a risk tolerance.

17. The method according to claim 14, wherein a user interface is provided to assist the user in making selections.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the economic parameters correspond to a cost associated with a respective selected record.

19. The method according to claim 14, wherein the input comprises a semantic expression.

20. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the steps of determining a user preference and further optimizing the presented set of records based on the determined user preference.

21. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the steps of receiving feedback from the user relating to the presented set of records and re-optimizing the presented set of records to generate a revised presented set of records.

22. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of optimization procedures and selecting at least one of the optimization procedures for optimizing a presented set of records for the user.

23. The method according to claim 14, further comprising the step of transacting a sale relating to a subject of at least one presented set of records with the person.

24. The method according to claim 23, wherein said sale comprises an electronic data transmission between a client system and a server system.

25. The method according to claim 24, wherein the electronic data transmission between the client system and the server system is carried over the Internet.

26. A computer readable medium having recorded thereon a series of computer implemented instructions for controlling a computer to execute the method according to claim 14.

27. The medium according to claim 26, further comprising the steps of generating a graphic user interface and interacting with the user through the graphic user interface.

28. An apparatus for outputting a set of records, comprising:

(a) an input defining a user characteristic;

(b) classifying the user based on the defined user characteristic;

(c) receiving a specification from the user for a class of information relating to a plurality of records;

(d) determining economic parameters for each of the plurality of records; and

(e) optimizing a presented set of records based on the determined economic parameters and the defined user characteristic.

29. A method for presenting records to a user, comprising the steps of:

(a) determining a user characteristic of the user;

(b) defining a set of records based on a classification of information therewithin;

(c) determining economic parameters for each of the set of records; and

(d) presenting the set of records optimized based on the determined economic parameters and the defined user characteristic.

30. The method according to claim 29, wherein the user characteristic comprises health information.

31. The method according to claim 29, wherein the user characteristic comprises a nutritional status.

32. The method according to claim 29, wherein each record corresponds to a respective nutritional supplement.

33. The method according to claim 32, wherein the economic parameters correspond to a cost of a respective nutritional supplement.

34. The method according to claim 29, wherein said presenting comprises outputting a sorted list of the set of records having an order dependent on the determined economic parameters and the defined user characteristic.

35. The method according to claim 29, wherein the user characteristic comprises a population grouping.

36. The method according to claim 29, further comprising the steps of determining a risk tolerance of the user and further optimizing the presented set of records based on the determined risk tolerance.

37. The method according to claim 29, further comprising the steps of receiving feedback from the user relating to the presented set of records and re-optimizing the presented set of records to generate a revised presented set of records.

38. The method according to claim 29, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of optimization procedures and selecting at least one of the optimization procedures for optimizing a presented set of records for the user.

39. The method according to claim 29, further comprising the step of transacting a sale of at least one presented set of records with the person.

40. The method according to claim 39, wherein said sale comprises an electronic data transmission between a client system and a server system.

41. The method according to claim 40, wherein the electronic data transmission between the client system and the server system is carried over the Internet.

42. A computer readable medium having recorded thereon a series of computer implemented instructions for controlling a computer to execute the method according to claim 29.

43. The medium according to claim 42, further comprising the steps of generating a graphic user interface and interacting with the user through the graphic user interface.

44. A method for presenting records to a user, comprising the steps of:

(a) determining a user relevance parameter;

(b) defining a set of records based on a classification of information therewithin;

(c) determining economic parameters for each of the set of records; and

(d) presenting the set of records optimized based on the determined economic parameters and the determined relevance parameter.

45. The method according to claim 44, wherein the user characteristic comprises health information.

46. The method according to claim 44, wherein the user characteristic comprises a nutritional status.

47. The method according to claim 44, wherein each record corresponds to a respective nutritional supplement.

48. The method according to claim 47, wherein the economic parameters correspond to a cost of a respective nutritional supplement.

49. The method according to claim 44, wherein said presenting comprises outputting a sorted list of the set of records having an order dependent on the determined economic parameters and the defined user characteristic.

50. The method according to claim 44, wherein the user characteristic comprises a population grouping.

51. The method according to claim 44, further comprising the steps of determining a risk tolerance of the user and further optimizing the presented set of records based on the determined risk tolerance.

52. The method according to claim 44, further comprising the steps of receiving feedback from the user relating to the presented set of records and re-optimizing the presented set of records to generate a revised presented set of records.

53. The method according to claim 44, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of optimization procedures and selecting at least one of the optimization procedures for optimizing a presented set of records for the user.

54. The method according to claim 44, further comprising the step of transacting a sale of at least one presented set of records with the person.

55. The method according to claim 54, wherein said sale comprises an electronic data transmission between a client system and a server system.

56. The method according to claim 55, wherein the electronic data transmission between the client system and the server system is carried over the Internet.

57. A computer readable medium having recorded thereon a series of computer implemented instructions for controlling a computer to execute the method according to claim 44.

58. The medium according to claim 57, further comprising the steps of generating a graphic user interface and interacting with the user through the graphic user interface.

59. A method for outputting a set of records, comprising the steps of:

(a) receiving a specification from the user for a class of information relating to a plurality of records, said plurality of records having associated economic parameters;

(b) determining a relevance parameter; and

(c) optimizing a presented ranking of the records based on the economic parameters and the relevance parameter.

60. The method according to claim 59, wherein the defined user characteristic comprises a population grouping.

61. The method according to claim 59, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of optimization procedures and selecting at least one of the optimization procedures for optimizing a presented set of records for the user.

62. The method according to claim 59, further comprising the steps of providing a plurality of relevance profiles, and selecting a relevance profile to define the relevance parameter.

63. The method according to claim 59, further comprising the step of transacting a sale of at least one record with the user.

64. The method according to claim 59, further comprising the steps of providing a client terminal having an interface for the user, providing a server for receiving information from the user and generating the presented ranked records, and communicating between the client terminal and server over a computer network.

65. A computer readable medium having recorded thereon a series of computer implemented instructions for controlling a computer to execute the method according to claim 59.

66. The medium according to claim 65, further comprising the steps of generating a graphic user interface and interacting with the person through the graphic user interface.

67. A method of producing a ranked set of results for a user inquiry, comprising the steps of:

(a) determining a set of characteristics for a class of users;

(b) classifying a user with respect to the class based on a user characteristic;

(c) receiving an inquiry from the user;

(d) producing a set of responses to the inquiry, at least one response having an associated economic parameter; and

(e) ranking a set of query results based on the set of characteristics and economic parameter.

68. The method according to claim 67, further comprising providing a plurality of classes, wherein said classifying step comprises classifying the user within a single class.

69. The method according to claim 67, wherein the economic parameter comprises a price.

70. The method according to claim 67, wherein the ranking gives preference to relevant and economically feasible results.

71. The method according to claim 67, wherein the economic parameter is defined for the user.

72. The method according to claim 67, wherein the user characteristic is defined by the user.

73. The method according to claim 67, wherein the user characteristic is determined automatically.