Electronic smoking substitute device and mobile device with feedback application
AssigneeImperial Tobacco Limited
InventorsDaniel Fard, Oliver Talbot
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Abstract
A mobile device is described. The mobile device includes an application installed thereon. The application is configured to communicate with a smoking substitute device, wherein the application is configured to: instruct a user to perform an operation at the smoking substitute device; verify whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the smoking substitute device; and inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed.
Claims7
A system for managing an electronic smoking substitute device, the system comprising:
- a mobile device;
- and
- an electronic smoking substitute device;
- wherein the mobile device comprises:
- an application installed thereon, the application configured to
- communicate with the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the application is configured to;
- instruct a user to perform an operation at the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the operation is inserting an electronic consumable into a main body of the electronic smoking substitute device;
- verify whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device;
- and,
- inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed;
- wherein the electronic smoking substitute device is configured to communicate with the application, and
- wherein the electronic smoking substitute device is configured to inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device by providing feedback to the user, the feedback provided to the user by the electronic smoking substitute device includes one or more actions selected from the list of actions performed by the electronic smoking substitute device consisting of:
- operating a light, operating a light in a predetermined color;
- operating a flashing light in a predetermined sequence;
- operating a flashing light in a predetermined color, providing haptic feedback, and producing a sound.
A method of using a mobile device on which an application is installed, wherein the application is configured to communicate with an electronic smoking substitute device, the method comprising the steps of:
- instructing, by the application, a user to perform an operation at the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the operation is inserting an electronic consumable into a main body of the electronic smoking substitute device;
- verifying, by the application, whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device;
- and
- informing the user whether the operation has been correctly performed;
- communicating, by the electronic smoking substitute device, with the application;
- and
- providing feedback, by the electronic smoking substitute device, to the user, the feedback indicating whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device, the feedback provided to the user by the electronic smoking substitute device includes one or more actions selected from the list of actions performed by the electronic smoking substitute device consisting of:
- operating a light, operating a light in a predetermined color;
- operating a flashing light in a predetermined sequence;
- operating a flashing light in a predetermined color, providing haptic feedback, and producing a sound.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.