BIOLOGICAL INFORMATION MANAGEMENT SYSTEM

• US 20100169110A1
• Filed: 04/03/2009
• Published: 07/01/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 12/26/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Nintendo Company Limited
• Inventors: SAWANO, Takao, Yamamoto, Kenji, Kaneshige, Tsutomu
• Granted Patent: US 8,612,247 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/2
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/214 for locating contacts on a surface, e.g. floor mats or touch pads
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/79 involving player-related data, e.g. identities, accounts, preferences or play histories
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/1068 being specially adapted to detect the point of contact of the player on a surface, e.g. floor mat, touch pad
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/5546 using player registration data, e.g. identification, account, preferences, game history
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8064 Quiz
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/00 ICT specially adapted for therapies or health-improving plans, e.g. for handling prescriptions, for steering therapy or for monitoring patient compliance
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/63 for local operation

Abstract

A healthcare professional terminal 90 creates a question message based on an input operation of a healthcare professional, and transmits the question message to a game apparatus 12. The game apparatus 12 creates, based on an input operation of a healthcare recipient, an answer message including an answer to a question contained in the question message received from the healthcare professional terminal 90, and transmits the answer message to the healthcare professional terminal 90 together with automatically obtained biological information (weight data, exercise time data, and step count data) of the healthcare recipient.

Claims

1. A biological information management system comprising a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the first information processing apparatus,

the first information processing apparatus including:

biological information obtaining means for obtaining biological information;

first message creation means for creating a first message based on an input operation of an operator of the first information processing apparatus; and

first message transmission means for transmitting the biological information obtained by the biological information obtaining means and the first message created by the first message creation means to the second information processing apparatus,

the second information processing apparatus including;

first message reception means for receiving the biological information and the first message from the first information processing apparatus; and

storage means for storing the biological information and the first message which are received by the first message reception means.

2. The biological information management system according to claim 1, wherein upon receiving a transmission instruction of the first message from the operator of the first information processing apparatus, the first message transmission means automatically obtains the biological information by the biological information obtaining means and transmits the obtained biological information together with the first message to the second information processing apparatus.

3. The biological information management system according to claim 1, further comprising a biological information measuring apparatus including:

biological information measuring means for measuring biological information; and

biological information transmission means for transmitting the biological information measured by the biological information measuring means to the first information processing apparatus,

wherein the biological information obtaining means includes biological information reception means for receiving the biological information from the biological information measuring apparatus.

4. The biological information management system according to claim 1, wherein the biological information obtaining means includes biological information measuring means for measuring biological information.

5. The biological information management system according to claim 3, wherein the biological information measuring means measures a weight, or counts the number of steps taken, as the biological information.

6. The biological information management system according to claim 3, wherein:

the first information processing apparatus further includes process means for executing a process using the biological information measuring means, and process time counting means for counting a time of the process executed by the processing means; and

the biological information obtaining means further obtains the time counted by the process time counting means.

7. The biological information management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the first information processing apparatus further includes storage means for storing the biological information obtained by the biological information obtaining means and measurement date information of the biological information; and

the first message transmission means refers to the measurement date information and transmits biological information of a predetermined period.

8. The biological information management system according to claim 1, wherein the first message transmission means transmits the biological information and the first message as one file to the second information processing apparatus.

9. The biological information management system according to claim 1, wherein:

the second information processing apparatus further includes;

second message creation means for creating a second message based on an input operation of an operation of the second information processing apparatus; and

second message transmission means for transmitting the second message created by the second message creation means to the first information processing apparatus;

the first information processing apparatus further includes;

second message reception means for receiving the second message from the second information processing apparatus; and

the first message creation means creates the first message based on the second message received by the second message reception means.

10. The biological information management system according to claim 9, wherein:

the second message is a question message;

the first information processing apparatus further includes question execution means for executing a question based on the question message received by the second message reception means; and

the first message creation means creates, as the first message, an answer message to the question executed by the question execution means.

11. A computer-readable storage medium storing a computer program for a biological information management system comprising a first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the first information processing apparatus, the computer program causing a computer of the first information processing apparatus to function as:

biological information obtaining means for obtaining biological information;

first message creation means for creating a f first message based on an input operation of an operator of the first information processing apparatus; and

first message transmission means for transmitting the biological information obtained by the biological information obtaining means and the first message created by the first message creation means to the second information processing apparatus.

12. An information processing apparatus used as a first information processing apparatus in a biological information management system comprising the first information processing apparatus and a second information processing apparatus capable of communicating with the first information processing apparatus, the information processing apparatus comprising:

biological information obtaining means for obtaining biological information;

first message creation means for creating a first message based on an input operation of an operator of the first information processing apparatus; and

first message transmission means for transmitting the biological information obtained by the biological information obtaining means and the first message created by the first message creation means to the second information processing apparatus.

13. A health guidance support system for a healthcare professional to perform health guidance for a health care recipient, the health guidance support system comprising:

a healthcare professional terminal operated by the healthcare professional; and

a healthcare recipient terminal operated by the healthcare recipient and capable of communicating with the healthcare professional terminal,

the healthcare professional terminal including;

question message creation means for creating a question message in accordance with an input operation of the healthcare professional; and

question message transmission means for transmitting the question message from the healthcare professional terminal to the healthcare recipient terminal,

the healthcare recipient terminal including;

question message reception means for receiving the question message from the healthcare professional terminal;

question message displaying means for displaying the received question message to the healthcare recipient;

answer message creation means for creating an answer message to the question message in accordance with an input operation of the healthcare recipient; and

answer message transmission means for, upon receiving a transmission instruction from the healthcare recipient, automatically obtaining biological information regarding health of the healthcare recipient from a storage unit that is provided in or connected to the healthcare recipient terminal, and transmitting the biological information together with the created answer message to the healthcare professional terminal,

the healthcare professional terminal further including;

answer message reception means for receiving the answer message together with the biological information from the healthcare recipient terminal; and

answer message displaying means for displaying the received answer message and the biological information to the healthcare professional.

14. The health guidance support system according to claim 13, wherein:

the healthcare recipient terminal is a game apparatus; and

the answer message transmission means obtains the biological information regarding the health of the healthcare recipient from saved data of a game executed previously in the healthcare recipient terminal.