Patent ID: 8200453
Filing Date: 2012-06-12
Classification: G16H

Abstract:
1. A system for managing body weights of multiple human users, comprising: a controller for recording personal data for, and for communicating with, each user, the personal data including identification data for uniquely identifying each user to the controller, and communications preference data for specifying how each user wishes to be communicated with by the controller; and an actuatable weight sensor device in bidirectional communication with, and located remotely from, the controller, the weight sensor device having a platform on which a user stands during weighing, and a load cell operatively connected to the platform for generating, and sending to the controller, an electrical weight signal indicative of the body weight of the standing user, the weight sensor device being actuated and operated by the standing user who is identified to the controller by the identification data, the weight sensor device itself providing no indication to the standing user of the standing user's body weight, wherein the controller processes the weight signal received from the weight sensor device, and sends a body weight status communication to each user in accordance with the communications preference data specified by each user.