System and method for educating users, including responding to patterns

US10424219B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Dexcom, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Peter C. Simpson · Irvine, US
• Robert J. Boock · Carlsbad, US
• David DeRenzy · San Diego, US
• Laura J. Dunn · San Diego, US
• Matthew Lawrence Johnson · Encinitas, US
• Katherine Yerre Koehler · Solana Beach, US
• Apurv Ullas Kamath · San Diego, US
• Andrew Attila Pal · San Diego, US
• David Price · Carlsbad, US
• Eli Reihman · San Diego, US
• Mark Wu · Shanghai, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: May 6, 2016
• Grant date: Sep 24, 2019
• Expiry date: Jan 4, 2037

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y02A90/10
• WIPO field: Medical technology
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

Provided are systems and methods using which users may learn and become familiar with the effects of various aspects of their lifestyle on their health, e.g., users may learn about how food and/or exercise affects their glucose level and other physiological parameters, as well as overall health. In some cases the user selects a program to try; in other cases, a computing environment embodying the system suggests programs to try, including on the basis of pattern recognition, i.e., by the computing environment determining how a user could improve a detected pattern in some way. In this way, users such as type II diabetics or even users who are only prediabetic or non-diabetic may learn healthy habits to benefit their health.