Patent ID: 8170609

Claim:
A personal virtual assistant system, comprising: a remote station configured to be carried by a user; an electronic medical device to sense physiological information about the user, the electronic medical device coupled to the remote station; a control processor coupled to the remote station via a bidirectional communication link; and a rules engine coupled to the control processor, wherein the control processor and rules engine use a combination of user input data and the sensed physiological information to determine whether a medical trend exists and, based on the determination of the medical trend, automatically provide advice relating to the medical trend, wherein the control processor and rules engine are configured to determine whether advice relating to the medical trend was previously provided and if it is determined previous advice was provided and that the trend persists, providing different advice relating to the medical trend based on a combination of previously provided advice, the medical trend, and the user input data, and wherein the user input data includes diet information.