Patent ID: 8210849
Filing Date: 2012-07-03
Classification: G09B,G16H

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented online game to promote healthy behaviors, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving at a server from each of a plurality of computer users answers to a plurality of personal health questions; (b) determining at said server a score for each of said plurality of computer users according to said computer users' answers to said plurality of personal health questions; (c) assigning at said server for each of said plurality of computer users an avatar for use during game play wherein said avatar is selected for said computer users according to said users' scores; (d) prompting said computer users for answers to health knowledge questions; (e) modifying at said server said avatars for said computer users according to said computer users' answers to said health knowledge questions by increasing or decreasing physical weights depicted by said avatars; and (f) transmitting from said server to said user computers for display at said user computers said modified avatars.