Patent Publication Number: US-2023154615-A1

Title: Experts Consulted System and Method for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting

Description:
FIELD OF THE INVENTION 
     The present invention relates to an expert consulted system and a method of execution the same, more particularly, an intelligent system and method for providing online expert consultancy to pregnant women, childbirth, and parenting. 
     BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 
     In the past when the birthrate was high, most women learned from their grandmother or from their own experience with multiple births in regard to pregnancy, childbirth, feeding their newborns, and even the subsequent raising of their babies. But nowadays, with fewer children, modern working women, and other factors, it is no longer able to rely on such traditional methods and it needs a more effective and more convenient way to assist women nowadays to smoothly get through the processes of birth and subsequent feeding and parenting. 
     With the popularity of smart devices in recent years, everyone owns their own mobile phone, tablet, computer, and high-speed Internet, and people&#39;s life is unable to leave these smart devices. Therefore, if information about women&#39;s pregnancy and childcare processes can be collected and processed properly, and useful information and advice can be given by a smart system, it will definitely bring great convenience to women. 
     SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 
     In order to overcome the various challenges that women may face in the processes of pregnancy and parenting, and suit the fact of popular use of smart devices nowadays, the primary objective of the present invention is to provide experts consulted system and method for pregnancy, childbirth, and parenting, which comprises a pregnancy and parenting system, a servo processing module, a data center, or an expert consulted module, executed by a smart device with one or more of any combinations of those that interact with each other with the messages or signals. 
     Wherein, the system includes a digital lactation assistant module, a pregnancy expert module, an infant behavior assessment module, and a basic information module for collecting information input by the user and transmitting it to the servo processing module, then sending it to the data center for comparison and analysis. 
     Wherein, the data center contains a lactation information database, a pregnancy information database, and an infant behavior information database. The data center compares and analyzes the incoming user&#39;s information in the databases and transmits the results to the expert consulted module. 
     Wherein, the expert consulted module contains a lactation assistant/feeding expert module, and it further contains several lactation assistant or feeding expert accounts to receive the results of the comparison and analysis from the lactation information database, the pregnancy information database, and the infant behavior information database in the data center, and create a feedback of a lactation advice information and/or feeding advice information to the pregnancy and parenting system and display it to the user on the smart device. 
     Wherein, the data center receives information obtained by the pregnancy and parenting system which is on a continuous basis, and the lactation advice and/or feeding advice information given by the expert consulted module will be adjusted according to the trends obtained from the continuous information. 
     Wherein, the digital lactation assistant module receives lactation information input by the user, including frequency, duration, volume, color, or texture of breast milk; the pregnancy expert module receives pregnancy information input by the user, including pregnancy period, expected delivery date, or nutritional status; the infant behavior assessment module receives infant behavior information input by the user, including infant feeding time, crying status, learning status or multiple growth and development statuses; and the basic information module receives physical quality basic information input by the user, including height, weight, age and gender of pregnant women and their infants. 
     Wherein, the lactation information database stores several categories of lactation data and advice information, and the digital lactation assistant module compares and analyzes the information obtained to the lactation information database via the servo processing module; the pregnancy information database stores several categories of pregnancy data and advice information, and the pregnancy expert module compares and analyzes the information obtained to the pregnancy information database via the servo processing module; and the infant behavior information database stores several categories of infant behavior data and advice information, and the infant behavior assessment module compares and analyzes the information obtained to the infant behavior information database via the servo processing module. 
     Wherein, the expert consulted module further comprises an artificial intelligence comparison module, the lactation and/or the feeding advice information is collected by the artificial intelligence comparison module, then transmitted to and recorded in the corresponding lactation information database, pregnancy information database, and infant behavior information database, and continuous learning and updating from the collected information, the comparison results, and the outcome of the assessment and analysis. 
     Wherein, the pregnancy and parenting system is electrically signaled to an external sensor terminal, and the inside of the pregnancy and parenting system is equipped with an additional sensor terminal data linkage module. 
     Wherein, the data center further contains a physique information database, correspondingly, the expert consulted module further contains a lactation/feeding/physique expert module, and the advice information fed back from the expert consulted module further contains the information of physique advice which includes pelvic toning or abdominal muscle training. 
     Further, another object of the present invention is to provide a method for executing the pregnancy and childbirth expert consulted service corresponding to the aforementioned system, the steps of which comprise: information inputting and generating: inputting and generating one or more of any combination of a lactation information, a pregnancy information, an infant behavior information and/or a physical quality basic information into a pregnancy and parenting system; information receiving and transmitting: the pregnancy and parenting system receives the aforementioned lactation information, pregnancy information, infant behavior information and/or physical quality basic information and transmits them to a data center via the servo processing module; information processing, comparing and analyzing: the data center stores the data and advice information of the lactation, pregnancy and/or infant behavior, and proceeds with the comparing and analyzing of the input and received lactation, pregnancy, infant behavior and/or the physical quality basic information, then transmits the results to the expert consulted module; and output an advice information: the expert consulted module is used to receive the aforementioned information compared and analyzed by the data center and generate a lactation advice and/or a feeding advice information message. 
     Preferably, the lactation advice information and/or the feeding advice information is further collected by the artificial intelligence comparison module and transmitted to and recorded in the corresponding data center as described above, and continuous learning and updating from the collected information, the comparison results, and the outcome of the assessment and analysis. 
     Preferably, the data center receives the information obtained by the pregnancy and parenting system which is on a continuous basis, and the lactation advice and/or feeding advice information given by the expert consulted module will be adjusted according to the trends obtained from the continuous information. 
     Preferably, the expert consulted module contains several lactation assistant or feeding expert accounts to receive the information of the comparison and analysis from the data center. 
     By the above description, it can be seen that the present invention has the following beneficial effects and advantages. 
     1. The present invention assists pregnant women and mothers in solving various problems during the growth of their babies more easily and precisely, and assists them in their infant feeding and nurturing behaviors and the needs before, during, and after pregnancy by integrating smart devices and databases together with digital lactation assistants and online consultation with experts, and so forth. 
     2. The main features of the pregnancy and childbirth expert consulted system provided by the present invention are the digital lactation assistant and expert online consultation, as well as the continuous information collection on the time-axis, and the assessment and advice given can be adjusted and fed back according to the continuous trends collected, to accomplish a more precise assessment and advice. 
    
    
     
       BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS 
       The present invention will be further illustrated by way of exemplary embodiments, which will be described in detail through the accompanying drawings. These embodiments are not limiting, and in these embodiments, the same numbers refer to the same structures, wherein: 
         FIG.  1    is a schematic diagram of the first preferred embodiment of an expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention; 
         FIG.  2    is a schematic diagram of the information trend on which the lactation advice information and/or the feeding advice information is given by the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention; 
         FIG.  3    is a schematic diagram of the second preferred embodiment of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention; 
         FIG.  4    is a schematic diagram of the third preferred embodiment of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention; and 
         FIG.  5    is a flowchart of the first preferred embodiment of a method of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention. 
     
    
    
     DESCRIPTION OF THE PREFERRED EMBODIMENTS 
     In order to more clearly illustrate the technical solutions of the embodiments of the present invention, the following is a brief description of the accompanying drawings that are required for use in describing the embodiments. Obviously, the drawings in the following description are only some examples or embodiments of the present invention, it is possible for those persons who are with ordinary skills in the art to apply the present invention to other similar situations based on these drawings without creative effort. Unless obvious from the linguistic context or otherwise noted, the same numbers in the drawings represent the same structures or operations. 
     One should understand that the terms “system”, “device”, “unit” and/or “module” as used herein is a method used to distinguish different components, elements, parts, sections or assemblies at different levels. However, if other terms can serve the same purpose, said terms may be substituted by other expressions. 
     As shown in the present invention, unless the context clearly suggests otherwise, the words “a” and/or “the” do not refer specifically to the singular, but may also include the plural. In general, the terms “include” and “contain” suggest only the inclusion of clearly identified steps and elements that do not constitute an exclusive list, and the method or apparatus may also contain other steps or elements. 
     An Expert Consulted System for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting. 
     Referring to  FIG.  1   , the first preferred embodiment of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting of the present invention, comprising: a pregnancy and parenting system  10 , a servo processing module  20 , a data center (or database)  30 , and an expert consulted module  40 , executed by a smart device, and interacting with each other with messages or signals, preferably using wired or wireless transmission of such signals or messages, including any form such as wired network, wireless network, or Bluetooth. 
     The Pregnancy and Parenting System. 
     The pregnancy and parenting system  10  contains one or more of any combination of a digital lactation assistant module  11 , a pregnancy expert module  12 , an infant behavior assessment module  13 , or a basic information module  14 . 
     The digital lactation assistant module  11  is used to receive lactation information input by users, including the frequency, duration, volume, color, or texture, etc., of breast milk. 
     This pregnancy expert module  12  is used to receive pregnancy information input by the user, including physical and mental information of pregnant women before and after the pregnancy, such as the duration of pregnancy, expected delivery date or nutritional status, etc. 
     The infant behavior assessment module  13  is used to receive infant behavior information input by users, including infant feeding time, infant crying status, infant learning status, or multiple growth and development statuses, etc. 
     The basic information module  14  is used to receive the physical quality basic information input by users, including height, weight, age, and gender of pregnant women and their infants. 
     The user information collected by the pregnancy and parenting system  10  will be transmitted to the servo processing module  20 , then the servo processing module  20  will send it to the data center  30  for further comparison and analysis. 
     The Data Center (Database). 
     The data center  30  contains at least one or more combinations of a lactation information database  31 , a pregnancy information database  32 , or an infant behavior information database  33 . 
     The lactation information database  31  stores several categories of lactation data and advice information, and the digital lactation assistant module  11  compares and analyzes the information obtained to the lactation information database  31  via the servo processing module  20 . 
     The pregnancy information database  32  stores several categories of pregnancy data and advice information, and the pregnancy expert module  12  compares and analyzes the information obtained to the pregnancy information database  32  via the servo processing module  20 . 
     The infant behavior information database  33  stores several categories of infant behavior data and advice information, and the infant behavior assessment module  13  compares and analyzes the information obtained to the infant behavior information database  33  via the servo processing module  20 . 
     The data center  30  transfers the all results of comparison and analysis from the database to the expert consulted module  40 . The data center  30  may receive the information obtained by the aforementioned pregnancy and parenting system  10  intermittently or continuously, but preferably, it collects the information continuously and transfers it to the expert consulted module  40 . 
     The Expert Consulted Module. 
     The expert consulted module  40  contains a lactation assistant/feeding expert module  41  and an artificial intelligence comparison module  42 . 
     The lactation assistant/feeding expert module  40  may preferably contain several lactation assistant or feeding expert accounts to receive the results of the comparison and analysis from the lactation information database  31 , the pregnancy information database  32 , and the infant behavior information database  33  in the data center  30 , and to generate feedback with lactation advice information  50  and/or feeding advice information  60  to the pregnancy and parenting system  10  and display them to the user on the smart device. 
     The lactation advice information  50  includes the plans, adjustments, or advice on lactation, and the feeding advice information  60  includes the advice on parenting, usage of products (optional) and courses, etc. 
     Preferably, the lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60  generated by the lactation assistant/feeding expert module  40  will be collected by the artificial intelligence comparison module  42 , and transmitted to and recorded in the corresponding lactation information database  31 , pregnancy information database  32 , and infant behavior information database  33 , and continuous learning and updating from the collected information, the comparison results, and the outcome of the assessment and analysis. 
     On the other hand, since the method of collecting information in the present invention is continuous on the time-axis, the lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60  given by the expert consulted module  40  will be adjusted and provided according to the trend. 
     More specifically, the so-called lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60  will be carried out according to a trend, for example, the user continuously inputs the required lactation information, pregnancy information, infant behavior information or physical quality basic information on the time-axis, and the data center  30  and the expert consulted module  40  of the present invention will actively compare and adjust the advice and inferences given according to the variation of information on the time-axis. For example, the continuous time-axis shown in  FIG.  2   , where a user&#39;s lactation volume and water intake are fluctuating in correlation, the data center  30  and the expert consulted module  40  will then collect the information based on this time variation to infer and give advice and assessment results to the user to suggest to drink more water. 
     Referring to  FIG.  3   , the second preferred embodiment of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting is essentially the same as the first preferred embodiment described above, except that the pregnancy and parenting system  10  is electrically signaled to an external sensor terminal  70 , and an additional sensor terminal data linkage module  111  is provided inside of the pregnancy and parenting system  10 . 
     A preferred embodiment of the sensor terminal  70  can be a breast pump, nursing bottle, or other devices with a sensing function. The user uses the sensor terminal  70  for breast pumping or breastfeeding, and the sensor terminal  70  has a sensor that continuously senses information data such as the amount of breast pumping or breastfeeding, and transmits the sensed data back to the pregnancy and parenting system  10 . 
     As to the sensor terminal data linkage module  111  will continuously collect the external information sensed by the sensor terminal  70  and transmit it via the servo processing module  20  to the data center  30  and the expert consulted module  40 , with the same method as the first preferred embodiment above, to feed back the lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60  to the user. 
     Referring to  FIG.  4   , the third preferred embodiment of the expert consulted system for pregnancy, childbirth and parenting is essentially the same as the first preferred embodiment described above, in that the data center  30  further contains a physique information database  34 . Also, the lactation assistant/feeding expert module  41  of the expert consulted module  40  is further updated as a lactation/feeding/physique expert module  43 , whereas the advice information fed back by the expert consulted module  40  further contains a physique advice information  70 . The physique information database  34  is used to receive physique information input by the user, including pelvic status, muscle mass and muscle growth status, such as abdominal muscle growth status, etc. 
     The physique information database  34  transmits the results of the comparison and analysis to the expert consulted module  40  where the lactation/feeding/physique expert module  43  compares the analyzed results and provides feedback with the physique advice information  70 , such as pelvic toning advice or abdominal muscle training advice, etc. 
     A Method of Executing the Expert Consulted System for Pregnancy, Childbirth and Parenting. 
     Referring to  FIG.  5   , the present invention provides a method for executing the aforementioned expert consulted system, with steps comprising: 
     S 1 : information inputting and generating: one or more of any combination of the lactation information, the pregnancy information, the infant behavior information and/or the physical quality basic information is input and generated into the pregnancy and parenting system  10 ; 
     S 2 : information receiving and transmitting: the pregnancy and parenting system  10  receives the lactation information, the pregnancy information, the infant behavior information and/or the physical quality basic information, and transmits them to the data center  30  via the servo processing module  20 ; 
     S 3 : information processing, comparing and analyzing: the data center  30  stores the data and advice information of the lactation, pregnancy and/or infant behavior, and proceeds with the comparing and analyzing of the input and received lactation, pregnancy, infant behavior and/or physical quality basic information, then transmits the results to the expert consulted module  40 ; whereas, the data center  30  may receive the information obtained by the pregnancy and parenting system  10  either intermittently or continuously; 
     S 4 : output advice information: the expert consulted module  40  contains several lactation assistant or feeding expert accounts to receive the information of the comparison and analysis from the data center  30  and generate the lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60 ; and 
     S 5 : artificial intelligence learning (optional): the lactation advice information  50  and/or the feeding advice information  60  is collected by the artificial intelligence comparison module  42  and then transmitted to and recorded in the corresponding data center  30 , and continuous learning and updating from the collected information, the comparison results, and the outcome of the assessment and analysis. 
     Finally, it should be understood that the embodiments described in the present invention are only used to illustrate the principles of the embodiments of the present invention, other variations may also fall within the scope of the present invention. Therefore, as an example and not as a limitation, alternative configurations of the embodiments of the present invention may be considered to be consistent with the teachings of the present invention. Accordingly, the embodiments of the present invention are not limited to those embodiments expressly introduced and described.