Patent ID: 9031643
Filing Date: 2015-05-12
Classification: A61B

Abstract:
1. A method of communicating a Heart Rate Variability (HRV) fields of two or more users participating in an on-line collaboration environment via respective client devices over a network via a server device, said method comprising: detecting, at a respective client device of a respective user, a Heart Rate Variability (HRV) field emitted by that user at a respective device while the users participating in the on-line collaboration environment; recording, at said respective client devices of the users, the Heart Rate Variability (HRV) field of the respective users; encoding, at the client devices of the users, the recorded Heart Rate Variability (HRV) field as data; transmitting, from the client devices of the users, the encoded HRV field data together with a message to a server device; receiving, at the server device, the encoded HRV field data with the message; decoding, at the server device, the encoded HRV field data; summing, at the server device, each of the decoded HRV field data of the users currently participating in the on-line collaboration environment and encoding the summed HRV field data; transmitting the encoded summed HRV field data to each user client device in the on-line collaboration environment; decoding, at the each user client device in the on-line collaboration environment, the transmitted encoded summed HRV field data to obtain the summed HRV field of the two or more users; displaying, at the each client user device, the message; and simultaneously broadcasting, at the each user client device, the decoded summed HRV field data of the two or more users as an electromagnetic signal for direct application to each user in the on-line collaboration environment to influence a physical state of the each user in the on-line collaboration environment, the simultaneously broadcasting including: transforming the decoded summed HRV field data to an effect for sensing by the each user in the on-line collaboration environment; and emitting the effect to the each user in the on-line collaboration environment in order for the each user in the on-line collaboration environment to experience the effect.