Body weight scale with visual notification system and method
AssigneeBby Solutions, Inc.
InventorAnshuman Sharma
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Abstract
An interactive body weight scale is presented. The body weight scale may have computing and data communication ability to track a user's weight by connecting to a number of different electronic devices. The body weight scale is capable of recording an audio message, converting the audio message to message text, and transmitting the message to a remote social network. The scale may also receive message responses from the remote network and play the messages back based on whether a particular message is a positive message. A scale use indicator provides a reminder for a user to use the body weight scale.
Claims10
A notification system comprising:
- a) a body weight scale having
- i) a light-emitting indicator on the scale,
- ii) a computer processor, and
- iii) a tangible, non-transitory scale memory;
- b) programming residing on the scale memory, the programming configured to
- i) record a scale use event including a weight measurement at a first time,
- ii) after a first predetermined time interval from the first time, cause the indicator to produce a visible use-scale light signal,
- iii) after a second predetermined time interval from the first time, cause the indicator to alter the use-scale light signal, and
- iv) when the scale is re-used, reset the first time to reflect the time of the scale re-use.
A notification system comprising:
- a) a body weight scale having
- i) a light-emitting indicator on the scale,
- ii) a computer processor, and
- iii) a tangible, non-transitory scale memory;
- b) programming residing on the scale memory, the programming configured to
- i) record a scale use event including a weight measurement at a first time,
- ii) detect a user-identifying signal from a device in proximity in the scale,
- iii) only after a predetermined time interval from the first time and only when the user-identifying signal is detected, cause the light-emitting indicator to produce a visible use-scale light signal, wherein the light-emitting indicator does not produce the visible use-scale light signal before the predetermined time interval, and further wherein the light-emitting indicator does not produce the visible use-scale light signal when the user-identifying signal is not detected.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.