Social media networking based on physiologic information

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10084880-B2
Application number	US-201414532786-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Nov 4, 2014
Priority date	Nov 4, 2013
Publication date	Sep 25, 2018
Grant date	Sep 25, 2018

Abstract

A method comprising receiving physiologic information at a social-networking system from a body-associated personal communicator is disclosed. A social-networking system configured to receive physiological information from a body-associated personal communicator and a body-associated personal communicator configured to receive physiologic information and communicate the physiologic information to a social-networking system also are disclosed.

First claim

The invention claimed is:

1. A social-networking system comprising:
a network addressable computing system configured to host an online social network, the computing system configured to receive, store, display, and transmit social network information from a body-associated client device, the social network information comprising physiologic or ingestion information, each of the physiologic or ingestion information obtained from the body-associated client device, the computing system comprising:
a processor coupled to a memory, the memory comprising machine executable instructions that when executed by the processor cause the processor to:
receive communications from one or more body-associated client devices, each communication including social network information identifying a user associated with one of the one or more body-associated client devices, the social network information obtained from each user by way of electrodes electrically coupled to a body of said user;
detect the physiologic information or ingestion information associated with each user, each of the physiologic information or ingestion information generated by an ingestible event marker ingested by said user;
associate each of the one or more body-associated client devices with a respective user account of one or more user accounts of the social-networking system, wherein each of the one or more user accounts correspond to a respective user of the social-networking system; and
generate a user profile of each user associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices, each user profile comprising the physiologic information, if detected, or the ingestion information, if detected.

2. The social-networking system of claim 1 , wherein the user profile is a first user profile, and wherein the online social network comprises a plurality of user profiles, wherein the plurality of user profiles comprises the first and a second user profile, wherein the social-networking system is configured to store relationship information between the first and second user profiles, and wherein the relationship information is based on the physiologic information, if detected, or the ingestion information, if detected.

3. The social-networking system of claim 1 , further comprising an authorization server, wherein the authorization server is configured to provide each user with an option to choose whether actions associated with the physiologic or ingestion information are logged by the social-networking system.

4. The social-networking system of claim 1 , wherein the social-networking system is configured to receive identification information of each user based on the physiologic or ingestion information and to provide access to each user based on the user identification information.

5. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a social-networking system, communications from one or more body-associated client devices, each communication including information identifying a user associated with one of the one or more body-associated client devices, the user identifying information comprising physiologic or ingestion information, each of the physiologic or ingestion information obtained from each user by way of electrodes electrically coupled to a body of said user;
detecting physiologic information or ingestion information associated with each user, each of the physiologic information or the ingestion information generated by an ingestible event marker ingested by said user;
associating each of the one or more body-associated client devices with a respective user account of one or more user accounts of the social-networking system, wherein each of the one or more user accounts correspond to a respective user of the social-networking system; and
generating a user profile of each user associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices, each user profile comprising at least one of the physiologic information, if detected, or the ingestion information, if detected.

6. The method of claim 5 , further comprising generating a timeline for each user associated with the one or more body-associated client devices on the social-networking system based on the physiologic or ingestion information, wherein the timeline is at least one of a private timeline or a public timeline.

7. The method of claim 6 , further comprising automatically updating the timeline based on additional physiologic or ingestion information received by the social-networking system from each of the one or more body-associated client devices associated with the respective user account of the one or more user accounts of the social-networking system.

8. The method of claim 5 , further comprising providing at least one of rewards, awards, or incentives based on the physiologic or ingestion information to each user of the social-networking system associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

9. The method of claim 5 , further comprising providing an analytical framework based on the at least one of the physiologic or the ingestion information to authorized users of the social-networking system, wherein each of the authorized users is associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

10. The method of claim 5 , further comprising grouping based on the physiologic or ingestion information a plurality of users of the social-networking system, wherein each of the plurality of users is associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

11. The method of claim 5 , further comprising identifying at least a mentor or leader based on the physiologic or ingestion information from a plurality of users of the social-networking system, wherein each of the plurality of users is associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

12. The method of claim 5 , further comprising determining at least one of a mood or an emotional state based on the physiologic or ingestion information of each user of the social-networking system associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

13. The method of claim 5 , further comprising determining identification information of each user based on the physiologic or ingestion information received from each user of the social-networking system associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

14. The method of claim 13 , further comprising providing access to each user by the social-networking system based on the identification information.

15. The method of claim 5 , wherein the physiologic information comprises at least one of information related to skin impedance, electro cardiogram signals, conductively transmitted current signals, position, temperature, heart rate, perspiration rate, humidity, altitude, pressure, global positioning system (GPS), proximity, bacteria levels, glucose level, chemical markers, or blood oxygen levels or the ingestion information of the user wherein the ingestion information comprises at least one of information associated with an event marker, a dose amount and type of medication ingested by each user of the social-networking system associated with the respective body-associated client device of the one or more body-associated client devices.

16. A receiver comprising:
a body-asso

Assignees

• Proteus Digital Health Inc

Inventors

• Thompson Andrew
• Thompson Todd
• Behzadi Yashar
• Abraham Danielle Cojuangco
• Duck Robert
• Ionescu Arna
• Lee Ray
• Suchan Robin
• Turner William
• Muralidharan Veeraperumanallu
• Karplus Erika
• Savage George

Classifications

• H04L67/306 Primary

  User profiles · CPC title

• H04W4/21

  for social networking applications · CPC title

• G16H10/60

  for patient-specific data, e.g. for electronic patient records · CPC title

• G06F19/3418

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04W4/80

  Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication · CPC title