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`(12) Ulllted States Patent
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`(54) SYSTEM FOR MONITORING HEALTH,
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`WELLNESS AND FITNESS
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`Inventors: Eric Teller, Pittsburgh, PA (US); John
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`(73) Assignee: BODYMEDIA, Inc” Pittsburgh, PA
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`ABSTRACT
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`A method for assisting an individual to monitor, control and
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`modify certain aspects of the individual s physiological sta-
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`establishing the goal according to certain preselected physi_
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`ological parameters, affixing a physiological monitoring
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`device in proximity to the body of the individual, generating
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`data indicative of one or more measured parameters of the
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`individual using said device, and using the one or more mea-
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`sured parameters to determine status information indicative
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`formance with relation to the physiological status goal and
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`al’s performance to assist the individual in the achievement of
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`more physiological parameters of an individual and derived
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`more physiological parameters using a sensor device adapted
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`body. The at least one of the data indicative of one or more
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`physiological parameters and the derived data are transmitted
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`and retrievably stored in a storage device. Analytical status
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`data indicative of one or more physiological parameters, the
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`derived data and the analytical status data, and at least one of
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`the data indicative of one or more physiological parameters,
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`the derived data and the analytical status data is transmitted to
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`a recipient.
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`The sensor device includes one or more sensors for gener-
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