Controlling user devices based on biometric readings

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-2016339300-A1
Application number	US-201514718496-A
Country	US
Kind code	A1
Filing date	May 21, 2015
Priority date	May 21, 2015
Publication date	Nov 24, 2016
Grant date	—

Abstract

A system and method for controlling one or more devices in the vicinity of a user based on biometric of the user and a target user state. The system and method determines the target state, which is characterized by biometric measurements, through either a user entered command or a prediction based on historic user entered commands. Using biometric readings of the user as feedback, the one or more devices are controlled to cause the biometrics of the user to change towards the target state.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1 . A system comprising:
one or more processors coupled to a memory that executes instructions from the memory to perform steps comprising:
determining a first state for a user;
receiving at least one biometric reading for a biometric of the user from a first user device;
determining an action for a second user device based at least in part on the at least one biometric reading and the first state for the user;
controlling the second user device to perform the action.

2 . The system of claim 1 , wherein the first state is characterized by at least one predetermined biometric measurement.

3 . The system of claim 2 , wherein determining the action for the second user device based at least in part on the at least one biometric reading and the first state of the user comprises determining that the action will cause the biometric of the user to change towards the at least one predetermined biometric measurement.

4 . The system of claim 3 , wherein the steps further comprises:
receiving, after controlling the second user device to perform the action, an update to the at least one biometric reading; and controlling the second device to stop the action when a difference between the updated to the at least one biometric reading and the at least one predetermined biometric measurement is larger than a difference between the at least one biometric reading and the at least one predetermined biometric measurement.

5 . The system of claim 1 , the second user device comprises at least one of: a light source, media player, and an exercise machine.

6 . The system of claim 1 wherein, the action comprises at least one of: changing the brightness of a light source, playing a song, changing the volume of a media player, changing chapters on a DVD, and changing the difficulty of an exercise machine.

7 . A computer implemented method comprising:
determining a first state for a user; receiving a biometric reading for a biometric of the user from a first user device; determining a target biometric reading for the biometric of the user based on the first state; determining an action for a second user device based at least in part on the target biometric reading and the biometric reading.

8 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the first state is a motivated state.

9 . The method of claim 7 , wherein the target biometric reading is calories burnt over a period of time.

10 . The method of claim 9 , wherein the available second user device is an exercise device.

11 . The method of claim 10 , wherein the method further comprises controlling the second user device to perform the action.

12 . The method of claim 11 , wherein the action is changing a difficulty of the exercise device.

13 . The method of claim 8 , wherein the motivated state is a biometric signature comprising a plurality of biometric values including the target biometric reading.

14 . A non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions that, when executed by a processor, performs a method comprising:
determining a first state for a user; receiving a biometric reading for a biometric of the user from a first user device; determining a target biometric reading based on the first state; determining a first stimulus based on the biometric reading and the target biometric reading; determining an available second user device capable of providing the first stimulus; and controlling the second user device to introduce the first stimulus to the user.

15 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the method further comprises receiving an update to the biometric reading after controlling the second user device and storing the update in a training set associated with the first stimulus.

16 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein the method further comprises receiving an update to the biometric reading after controlling the second user device and determining whether the update to the biometric reading is closer to the target biometric reading than the biometric reading.

17 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 1 , wherein the method further comprises controlling a third user device to introduce a second stimulus with a second device.

18 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 16 , wherein the method further comprises controlling a third user device to introduce a second stimulus with a second device when the update to the biometric reading is not closer to the target biometric reading.

19 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , wherein determining the first state for the user comprises receiving a user command.

20 . The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 14 , determining the first state of for the user comprises:
receiving a plurality of user commands for the first state over a predetermined period of time; recognizing a pattern for the plurality of user commands; and determining the first state of the user based on the pattern.

Assignees

• Ebay Inc

Inventors

• Todasco Michael Charles

Classifications

• A61B5/6803

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• A61B5/4866

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• A61B5/1118

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• A61B5/024

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