System for monitoring health, wellness and fitness with feedback

• US 9,204,798 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2013
• Issued: 12/08/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hello, Inc.
• Inventors: Proud, James
• Primary Examiner(s): Nguyen, Phillip H
• Application Number:
  US13/961,511
• Publication Number:
  US 20140247147A1
• Time in Patent Office: 853 Days
• Field of Search: 717/172, 600/300, 379/106.01, 379/106.02
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0233 Special features of optical sensors or probes classified in A61B5/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/08 Sensors provided with means for identification, e.g. barcodes or memory chips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0024 for multiple sensor units attached to the patient, e.g. using a body or personal area network
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0205 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular conditions and different types of body conditions, e.g. heart and respiratory condition
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/443 Evaluating skin constituents, e.g. elastin, melanin, water
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6831 Straps, bands or harnesses
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6898 Portable consumer electronic devices, e.g. music players, telephones, tablet computers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/743 Displaying an image simultaneously with additional graphical information, e.g. symbols, charts, function plots
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 2310/23 The load being a medical device, a medical implant, or a life supporting device
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/10 using inductive coupling
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 50/80 involving the exchange of data, concerning supply or distribution of electric power, between transmitting devices and receiving devices
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00034 Charger exchanging data with an electronic device, i.e. telephone, whose internal battery is under charge
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 : specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 : Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 11/002 : with telemetering systems telemetering in general G08C
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 : using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/70 : Services for machine-to-machine communication [M2M] or machine type communication [MTC]

Abstract

A system is provided for obtaining monitored information about an individual and create life activities data. A monitoring device has that detect or measure individual information selected from of at least one of, an individual'"'"'s activities, behaviors and habit information, and an individual'"'"'s health. The monitoring device includes ID circuitry with an ID storage that contains a unique individual ID, a communication system which reads and transmits the unique individual ID from the ID storage, a power source and a pathway system. A telemetry system includes a database that receives the individual information from the telemetry device. One or more analysis tools at the telemetry system analyze the individual information and create life activities data.

Claims

1. A system for obtaining sleep information about an individual, comprising:

a monitoring device that includes a microphone, an RF transmitter and sensors to determine air quality, sound level/quality, light quality and ambient temperature near the individual, the RF transmitter serving as a communication system;

an accelerometer configured to detect a user'"'"'s movement sounds, the accelerometer and the monitoring system configured to assist to determine individual sleep information and sleep behavior information, the microphone configured to record user movement sounds detected by the accelerometer, the accelerometer configured to cause the microphone to stop recording user movement sounds when the movement sounds are not directed to a sleep related parameter; and

a telemetry system with a database coupled to the monitoring device, the telemetry system configured to receive the user'"'"'s movement information and monitoring device information, the telemetry system analyzing the user'"'"'s movement information and the monitoring device information to calculate or derive sleep onset and wake time, sleep interruptions, and the quality and depth of sleep; and

producing analysis information for the user'"'"'s sleep onset and wake time, sleep interruptions, and the quality and depth of sleep that can be stored at the database and providing feedback to the individual.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the individual selects one or more goals that are used by the telemetry system.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the telemetry system in operation receives an individual survey.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the feedback includes information relating sleep.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the update information included updated base standards.

6. The system of either claim 1, wherein feedback is supplied in graphical form.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the telemetry system in operation generates one or more web pages containing feedback.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the one or more analysis tools includes an analysis element.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the database includes base standards for at least one of individual sleep.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the individual information received from the monitoring device is analyzed relative to the base standards in the database.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the base standards in operation are updatable.

12. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

an activity manager that associates one or more contexts of sleep.

13. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a feedback system or subsystem at the telemetry system in communication with the one or more analysis tools.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more analysis tools is included in the database.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the one or more analysis tools is not included in the database.