Systems and Methods For Monitoring Compliance with Recovery Goals
OwnerMichael Jerome Sengerinventor
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Abstract
Systems and methods for incentivizing a user to satisfy a goal for attending twelve step meetings. The method includes the steps of: providing the user with a mobile device; detecting the presence of the mobile device at a first location and at a first time selected by the user; comparing the first time and the first location to a database of approved meetings, wherein the comparing is substantially contemporaneous with the first time; and providing a reward to the user upon confirming that: i) the first time and the first location correspond to an approved meeting; and ii) the user is proximate the mobile device at the first time.
Claims14
A method of facilitating attendance compliance at a meeting organized by a meeting organizer having a first financial account, the method comprising the steps of:
- populating a database of affiliates associated with the meeting organizer, including a meeting time and a meeting location for each affiliate;
- providing a user with a mobile device having a processor configured to execute a monitoring application;
- funding a second financial account associated with the mobile device;
- detecting the presence of the mobile device at a first meeting location at a corresponding first meeting time;
- determining, substantially contemporaneously with the first meeting time, whether the first meeting time and the first meeting location correspond to an affiliate within the database;
- prompting the user to authorize a transfer of funds from the second account to the first account substantially contemporaneously with the first time upon confirming that the first meeting time and the first meeting location correspond to an affiliate within the database.
A method of facilitating a user's attendance compliance with a recovery plan that includes attending a predetermined number of approved meetings within a predetermined time period and avoiding at least one no-go zone, the method comprising the steps of:
- providing the user with a mobile device including a global positioning system (GPS) module, a monitoring application in operable communication with the GPS module, and the user's sobriety data recorded on a memory device comprised in the mobile device;
- providing an electronic benefit to the user based upon compliance with the recovery plan;
- populating an electronically searchable database with at least one approved meeting, each approved meeting comprising a meeting time and a meeting location;
- populating the electronically searchable database with at least one no-go zone, having an associated geo-fence;
- determining, using the GPS module, instances in which the mobile device is one of not physically present at one of the approved meetings and crosses the at least one geo-fence;
- terminating the electronic benefit upon confirming that the mobile device was not physically present at the meeting location at the meeting time;
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- terminating the user benefit upon confirming that the electronic device has breached a geo-fence.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.