Patent Publication Number: US-2009239709-A1

Title: Health management feedback method using fitness equipments

Description:
BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     (a) Field of the Invention 
     The invention is related to a health management feedback method using fitness equipments, more particularly to a health management feedback system to allow users to obtain feedback by using fitness equipments. 
     (b) Description of the Prior Art 
     As modern people are pursuing for body health, more and more people value the importance of exercises, and many people has the habits to use fitness equipments. However, it is often found that many people are unable to maintain using the fitness equipments persistently, i.e. users usually stop using the fitness equipments due to laziness or lack of time. 
     Regarding present market trend, there are many health management relevant institutions, wherein insurance companies are the most obvious. Usually, policyholder purchases insurance policy from the insurance company for basic insurance protection, however, the insurance premium is usually dependent on health conditions of the policyholder, and the insurance company pays insurance compensation to the policyholder only when conditions of the policyholder conform to the contents of insurance policy. Therefore, it is only a passive insurance for policyholder without more active benefits to the actual heath of policyholder. 
     Nevertheless, there are insurance companies who are cooperating with gym centers, wherein the policyholder goes to the gym center cooperated with the insurance company for exercise, and the gym center seals presence records as the proof to obtain insurance compensation feedback. Further, there are insurance companies who establish interactive platforms on the internet, wherein the policyholder signs in to the individually independent account and enters the website platform to input his/her basic physical data during exercise period, while the physical data before and after the exercise are compared as the proof for insurance compensation feedback. 
     For both methods of the above described cooperation between insurance company and gym center or the internet website platform established by insurance company to interact with policyholder, it is necessary to confirm policyholder&#39;s identification to prevent cheating, i.e. the policyholder may find somebody else for substitution to go gym center for exercise, or fake his/her basic physical data to obtain insurance compensation feedback. 
     Hence, how to solve above said problems is the main emphasis by the invention. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     The main purpose of the invention is to disclose a health management feedback method using fitness equipments, wherein through the use of the fitness equipment matched with feedback plan by user and further through the integration by health management feedback system, when the execution result by user conforms to the one predefined by feedback unit, the seductive factor is realized by feedback unit to user, thereby to allow user not only to maintain a long term exercise habit, but also to obtain the feedback from the feedback unit, and the feedback plan objective of the feedback unit can also be achieved through the execution result by user  1 . 
     To achieve above purpose, the invention includes that a feedback unit proposes at least one seductive health management feedback plan for feedback to user and the health feedback plan having an fitness equipment to match with the predefined objectives of the health management feedback plan is through internet to be online with a health feedback system for realizing results of the predefined seductive factors predefined by the feedback unit, wherein the execution result by the user using the fitness equipment being confirmed for self-use by the anti-cheating mechanism of health management feedback system during the feedback plan period is transmitted back to the feedback unit through the health management feedback system after the feedback plan is completed, once execution result conforms to the one predefined by the feedback unit, the seductive factors are then realized by the feedback unit  2  through feedback to the resource obtained by user. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
         FIG. 1  is a schematic view showing the feedback flow in the first embodiment of the invention. 
         FIG. 2  is a schematic view showing the feedback flow in the second embodiment of the invention. 
     
    
    
     DETAIL DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     Referring to  FIG. 1 , wherein a selected embodiment of the invention is shown for description only, and is not intended to limit the scope of patent application. 
     A health management feedback method by using fitness equipments is disclosed in the embodiment which comprises that: a feedback unit  2  proposes at least one seductive health management feedback plan for feedback to user  1  and the health feedback plan having an fitness equipment  3  to match with the predefined objectives of the health management feedback plan is through internet  4  to be online with a health management feedback system  5  for realizing results of the predefined seductive factors predefined by the feedback unit  2 , wherein, the execution result  6  by user  1  using fitness equipment  3  being confirmed for self-use by the anti-cheating mechanism of health management feedback system  5  during feedback plan period is transmitted back to feedback unit  2  through health management feedback system  5  after the feedback plan is completed, once execution result conforms to the one predefined by the feedback unit  2 , the seductive factors are then realized by feedback unit  2  through feedback to the resource obtained by user  1 . 
     In the embodiment, the fitness equipment  3  having a detector device  31  for detecting fitness data of user  1  during exercise is transmitted to health management feedback system  5  through a sending/receiving device  32  being online with internet  4 , wherein health management system  5  can be managed by a specially assigned company, and it can also be monitored by a software or the internet unquestionably. The system  5  includes a data storage unit  51  for storing fitness data of user  1 , and a data comparison unit  52  for comparing fitness data of user  1  and for matching with the anti-cheating mechanism, whereby fitness data of user  1  is stored and compared by the system  5  during feedback plan period to produce the execution result  6  after feedback plan period is over. 
     The fitness data of user  1  when using the fitness equipment for exercise is obtained and tracked by the health management feedback system  5  for comparison and analysis wherein the fitness data includes not only the basic physical data such as weight, oxygen level in the blood, heat beats, blood pressure, etc. detected by the fitness equipment  3 , but it also can be exercise parameters when the fitness equipment  3  is used by user  1  (such as running speed detected by a speed detector, running time detected by a timer, or running mileage detected by an odometer, etc. when a running machine is used by user  1 ). 
     In case that the fitness data of user  1  in exercise is pulse, wherein each time the pulse of user  1  using the fitness equipment  3  being detected by detector device  31  to draw the pulse wave and being stored in data storage unit  51  is accessed by the anti-cheating mechanism of health management feedback system  5  for comparing with the pulse wave of user  1  through data comparison system  52 , thereby to confirm the self-use of user  1  with fitness equipment  3 . 
     Storage unit  51  setting value cannot be revised after initial setting is done. The sending/receiving device  32  is a computer system which is through a storage interface (such as USB disk or SD memory card, etc) to access fitness data of user  1  from fitness equipment  3  and save it back to the sending/receiving device  32  for transmission to health management feedback system  5  through internet  4  for analysis and comparison. Further, sending/receiving device  32  can be directly mounted in fitness equipment  3  and online with internet  4  to directly transmit fitness data of user  1  to health management feedback system  5  for analysis and comparison. 
     For instance, if feedback unit  2  is an insurance company for communication with health management feedback system  5  through internet  4 , the feedback plan is an insurance policy which is either a new one to be joined by user  1 , or an existing one for obtaining feedback, the resource obtained by insurance company is the insurance premium paid by user  1 , wherein the seductive factor proposed by insurance company is to provide a premium discount to user  1  when the execution result  6  defined by the feedback plan is reached by using fitness equipment  3 . If the feedback plan period is one year and fitness equipment  3  is an electrical running machine, pre-defined result of feedback unit  2  is that user  1  is required to maintain exercise in five days per week and minimum one hour per day within the one year period, wherein pulse of user  1  in exercise using fitness equipment  3  is detected by a detector device  31  installed thereon to obtain a pulse wave shape, whereby physical data of user  1  is further through sending/receiving device  32  to be directly or indirectly transmitted back to health management feedback system  5  through internet  4  for access by data storage unit  51  of system  5  to compare with the pulse wave shape of user  1  for self-use in the exercise. After the one-year feedback period is over, the execution result  6  of five days per week and minimum one hour per day exercise is transmitted back to feedback unit  2  through health management feedback system  5 , and if execution result  6  conform to the one predefined by feedback unit  2 , the feedback unit  2  then provide premium discount feedback to user  1  due to realization of the seductive factor. Regarding fitness equipment  3 , besides the electrical running machine used for exercise by user  1  in the embodiment, the fitness equipment can also be a detector for detecting the basic physical data of user  1  such as a pedometer, a blood pressure monitor, or a blood sugar machine, etc., wherein basic physical data of user  1  can be transmitted by a transmission interface (such as USB) to health management feedback system  5 . 
     Therefore, through the use of fitness equipment  3  matched with feedback plan by user  1  and further through the integration by health management feedback system  5 , when execution result  6  by user  1  conforms to the one predefined by feedback unit  2 , the seductive factor is realized by feedback unit  2  to user  1 , thereby to allow user  1  not only to maintain a long term exercise habit, but also to obtain the feedback from the feedback unit, and the feedback plan objective of the feedback unit can also be achieved through the execution result  6  by user  1 . Of course, as pulse of user  1  is confirmed by anti-cheating mechanism of the invention, the self-use of fitness equipment  3  by user  1  can be ensured to prevent any possibilities of faking identity of user  1  to obtain feedback. 
     Of course, there exist many examples of the invention with only detail variations. The second embodiment of the invention is shown in  FIG. 2 , wherein health management feedback system  5  is further installed with a data analysis unit  53  for analyzing the fitness data of user  1  which is obtained by health management feedback system  5  to define a fitness model  7  on the fitness equipment  3 , so that physical data of user  1  under fitness model  7  is routinely tracked by health management feedback system  5  is compared and analyzed by health management feedback system  5  to produce execution result  6  after the feedback plan period is over. 
     The fitness model  7  is the setting model for fitness equipment use by user  1  defined at initial feedback period, such as the applicable parameters setting for the fitness equipment according to user&#39;s health condition in the initial use. 
     During the exercise period of user  1  under fitness model  7 , fitness data of user  1  in exercise is analyzed and compared by the health management feedback system  5  and is further routinely provided with a feedback by modification model  8 , wherein fitness data of user  1  in exercise is analyzed and compared with the predefined healthy physical data (analysis of physical data changes such as weight, oxygen level in blood, heart beat, blood pressure, etc.) through data analysis unit  53  and data comparison unit  52  to produce the routine modification model  8  thus allowing user  1  to modify the initial fitness mode  7  of fitness equipment  3  for advance use. Such as that fitness data of user  1  after exercise for three months shall be better than the initial one, therefore, the original fitness model  7  is revised to the more difficult modification model  8 . The modification model  8  is transmitted back to fitness equipment  3  through internet  4  to modify the initial fitness model  7 . 
     As can be seen in the embodiment, besides that long term exercise habits of user  1  in first embodiment can be achieved, it can also provide challenging or different degree of pleasure of user  1  in using fitness equipment  3  through the revision of fitness model  7  during feedback period. 
     Of course, feedback unit  2  referred by the invention is not limited to insurance company only, such as that it can be an fitness equipment supplier company for communication with health management feedback system  5  through internet  4 , wherein the resource obtained by fitness equipment supplier company is the price for user  1  to buy fitness equipment  3 , while the seductive factor of health management feedback plan proposed by fitness equipment supplier company is the feedback money given to user  1  when the execution result  6  defined by feedback plan is achieved by using fitness equipment  3 .