Patent Application
20240057914
This invention generally relates to a system for gathering data regarding moods, and more specifically to a mood aggregation system for receiving and aggregating mood data, including time of day, day of week, location and the like associated with users' moods for analysis and reporting.
Moods throughout a day are often consistently changing. The moods of individuals affect much of what they do, how productive they are, what they eat, and the like. There currently does not exist a system that can gather and track such information. Further, there is not a way to search through such gathered and tracked information in order to draw conclusions from a historical collection of moods throughout the days.
Accordingly, what is needed is a mood aggregation system for receiving and aggregating mood data, including time of day, day of week, location and the like associated with users' moods for analysis, reporting and/or sharing.
An embodiment includes a mood aggregation system for receiving and aggregating mood data, including time of day, day of week, location and the like associated with users' moods for analysis and reporting.
An embodiment includes a mood aggregation system comprising: a server having a memory storing user information; and a user computing device coupled to the server, wherein the server is programmed to: automatically generate a mood request with response capabilities and send the mood request to the user computing device for display in response to the user computing device accessing the system; receive and store mood data sent from the user computing device, wherein the mood data may comprise a mood selection, a time the mood selection was sent, and a location of the user computing device when sending the mood selection; receive a report request of mood data stored for a user associated with the user computing device; and automatically access the stored mood data and generate a report responsive to the report request. The mood selection may comprise at least two moods. There may be a distinction between the at least two moods. The at least two moods may comprise excited, good, average, bad and terrible. The mood data may be paired with other collected data. The other collected data may be health monitoring data and/or daily event schedule data. The user computing device may be a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may be wearable. The mobile computing device may comprise a mood app installed on the mobile computing device and operable on the mobile computing device. The mood app operating on the mobile computing device may provide a user interface for the mood selection. The mobile computing device may further comprise a camera and wherein the user interface operates to utilize the camera of the mobile computing device to capture an animation of a user's face,
Another embodiment includes a mood aggregation system comprising a server having a memory storing user information; and a plurality of user computing devices, each of the plurality user computing devices coupled to the server, wherein the server is programmed to: automatically generate a mood request with response capabilities and send the mood request to each of the plurality of user computing devices for display, in response to each of the plurality of user computing devices accessing the system; receive and store mood data sent from each of the plurality of user computing devices, wherein the mood data comprises a mood selection, a time the mood data was sent and a location of each of the plurality of user computing devices when sending the mood data; receive a report request of mood data stored for each user associated with each of the plurality of user computing devices; and automatically access the stored mood data and generate a report responsive to the report request. The mood aggregation system may further comprise a reward system to reward each of the users for utilization of the mood aggregation system to collect and share the mood data. The mood selection may comprise at least two moods. There may be a distinction between the at least two moods. The at least two moods may comprise excited, good, average, bad and terrible. The mood data may be paired with other collected data. The other collected data may be health monitoring data and/or daily event schedule data. The user computing device may be a mobile computing device. The mobile computing device may be wearable. The mobile computing device may comprise a mood app installed on the mobile computing device and operable on the mobile computing device. The mood app operating on the mobile computing device may provide a user interface for the mood selection.
The foregoing and other features and advantages of the invention will be apparent to those of ordinary skill in the art from the following more particular description of the invention and the accompanying drawings.
A more complete understanding of the present invention may be derived by referring to the detailed description and claims when considered in connection with the Figures, wherein like reference numbers refer to similar items throughout the Figures, and:
Embodiments of the present invention relate to a mood aggregation system for receiving and aggregating mood data, including time of day, day of week, location, and the like, associated with users' moods for analysis and reporting. The system may include the use of a mobile application operating on a user computing device that may be a mobile computing device like a smartphone, a tablet, a wearable, and the like; and/or the system may operate on any type of computing device as a downloadable application or even as a web application.
The server 14 may include a memory storing various data. The memory of the server 14 may store user information, such as demographic information, and may further store mood data, given and received, relating to a user from the user computing device 12 and associated with the user information corresponding to the user computing device 12 sending the mood data. The server 14 may operate to aggregate the mood data in a mood database of the memory of the server 14.
The user computing device 12 may be coupled to the server 14, and, referring to
Referring to the drawings again,
In some embodiments, as depicted in
Other user devices 15 are shown in
The system 10 may allow a user to obtain historical mood data through requesting a report. For example, and without limitation, a user may request a report for his or her own mood on a particular day, as depicted in
A second embodiment of the system 10 may include an app operating on a user computing device 12 having a user interface 50, as shown in
Referring further to the drawings,
Embodiments of the mood aggregation system 10 may be utilized for an individual to collect personal data to create charts and the like in reports for the user's own needs or desired uses. Others may utilize the system and share the data and/or reports with friends through social media posts and the like. In other embodiments, the system may be accessed by third party entities, wherein the aggregated mood data is anonymously provided to a third party entity for study or the like comparing groups of individuals to determine factors that may affect the mood of larger groups of people in certain areas. In some embodiments, data may be collected for groups of people, such as students in a same college class.
In some embodiments, the system may include a reward system to reward users for utilization of the system to collect and share mood data, such as through advertisements for business to see how the mood in certain businesses is affected and to determine how adjustments to the business environment affects mood. The rewards may be coupons, discounts, or the like.
It is anticipated that the interaction with the system 10 may be fun for users and the activity and entry of moods may be extremely high for some individuals throughout a day, ranging from 3-5 up to possibly 1,000 in a day. The system 10 is equipped to handle as many or as little mood data inputs as a user enters throughout a day.
The data may be used to analyze trends in a user's day, trends in a group of people's days, or any other uses for such aggregation of mood data. The user may utilize the mood aggregation data to correspond to other health metrics tracked and logged to better determine overall health of the user or a group of users. Health metrics may include heart rate, blood oxygen level, temperature, electrocardiogram, sleep/wakefulness, calories burned, fitness tracking, steps walked, distance traveled, and so forth. Medical studies may utilize the system as part of their studies and trials. Further, such a system may be incorporated into opinion input, such as real-time reactions for events like awards shows, political debates, and other real-time or near instant feedback scenarios and/or events.
There are many uses of embodiments of the mood aggregation system 10. Such uses may be personal, for sharing in a social manner, for groups of people like students, employees or the like, for self-satisfaction, for health organizations or personal health. The system allows for pairing of mood data with other collected data, such as health monitoring, daily events, and the like. The system can be adapted for specific use at an event or with an audience utilizing the already-built ecosystem of the mood aggregation system 10 to apply to the event or audience.
Embodiments may be available on or through the internet, such as through domain names reserved and owned by Applicant that include mood-meter.com, checkmood.com, moodtick.com and the like.
As will be appreciated by one skilled in the art, aspects of the present invention may be embodied as a system, method, or computer program product. Accordingly, aspects of the present invention may take the form of an entirely hardware embodiment, an entirely software embodiment (including firmware, resident software, micro-code, etc.) or an embodiment combining software and hardware aspects that may all generally be referred to herein as a “circuit,” “module” or “system.” Furthermore, aspects of the present invention may take the form of a computer program product embodied in one or more computer readable medium(s) having computer readable program code embodied thereon.
Any combination of one or more computer readable medium(s) may be utilized. The computer readable medium may be a computer readable signal medium or a computer readable storage medium. A computer readable storage medium may be, for example, but not limited to, an electronic, magnetic, optical, electromagnetic, infrared, or semiconductor system, apparatus, or device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. More specific examples (a non-exhaustive list) of the computer readable storage medium would include the following: an electrical connection having one or more wires, a portable computer diskette, a hard disk, a random access memory (RAM), a read-only memory (ROM), an erasable programmable read-only memory (EPROM or Flash memory), an optical fiber, a portable compact disc read-only memory (CD-ROM), an optical storage device, a magnetic storage device, or any suitable combination of the foregoing. In the context of this document, a computer readable storage medium may be any tangible medium that can contain or store a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
A computer readable signal medium may include a propagated data signal with computer readable program code embodied therein, for example, in baseband or as part of a carrier wave. Such a propagated signal may take any of a variety of forms, including, but not limited to, electro-magnetic, optical, or any suitable combination thereof. A computer readable signal medium may be any computer readable medium that is not a computer readable storage medium and that can communicate, propagate, or transport a program for use by or in connection with an instruction execution system, apparatus, or device.
Program code embodied on a computer readable medium may be transmitted using any appropriate medium, including but not limited to wireless, wire-line, optical fiber cable, RF, etc., or any suitable combination of the foregoing.
Computer program code for carrying out operations for aspects of the present invention may be written in any combination of one or more programming languages, including an object-oriented programming language such as Java, Smalltalk, C++ or the like and conventional procedural programming languages, such as the “C” programming language or similar programming languages. The program code may execute entirely on the user's computer, partly on the user's computer, as a stand-alone software package, partly on the user's computer and partly on a remote computer or entirely on the remote computer or server. In the latter scenario, the remote computer may be connected to the user's computer through any type of network, including a local area network (LAN) or a wide area network (WAN), or the connection may be made to an external computer (for example, through the Internet using an Internet Service Provider).
Aspects of the present invention are described herein with reference to flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams of methods, apparatus (systems) and computer program products according to embodiments of the invention. It will be understood that each block of the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, and combinations of blocks in the flowchart illustrations and/or block diagrams, can be implemented by computer program instructions. These computer program instructions may be provided to a processor of a general-purpose computer, special purpose computer, or other programmable data processing apparatus to produce a machine, such that the instructions, which execute via the processor of the computer or other programmable data processing apparatus, create means for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
These computer program instructions may also be stored in a computer readable medium that can direct a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, or other devices to function in a particular manner, such that the instructions stored in the computer readable medium produce an article of manufacture including instructions which implement the function/act specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The computer program instructions may also be loaded onto a computer, other programmable data processing apparatus, cloud-based infrastructure architecture, or other devices to cause a series of operational steps to be performed on the computer, other programmable apparatus or other devices to produce a computer implemented process such that the instructions which execute on the computer or other programmable apparatus provide processes for implementing the functions/acts specified in the flowchart and/or block diagram block or blocks.
The flowchart and block diagrams in the Figures illustrate the architecture, functionality, and operation of possible implementations of systems, methods and computer program products according to various embodiments of the present invention. In this regard, each block in the flowchart or block diagrams may represent a module, segment, or portion of code, which comprises one or more executable instructions for implementing the specified logical function(s). It should also be noted that, in some alternative implementations, the functions noted in the block may occur out of the order noted in the figures. For example, two blocks shown in succession may, in fact, be executed substantially concurrently, or the blocks may sometimes be executed in the reverse order, depending upon the functionality involved. It will also be noted that each block of the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, and combinations of blocks in the block diagrams and/or flowchart illustration, can be implemented by special purpose hardware-based systems that perform the specified functions or acts, or combinations of special purpose hardware and computer instructions.
The embodiments and examples set forth herein were presented in order to best explain the present invention and its practical application and to thereby enable those of ordinary skill in the art to make and use the invention. However, those of ordinary skill in the art will recognize that the foregoing description and examples have been presented for the purposes of illustration and example only. The description as set forth is not intended to be exhaustive or to limit the invention to the precise form disclosed. Many modifications and variations are possible in light of the teachings above without departing from the spirit and scope of the forthcoming claims.
This application is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 18/149,360, filed Jan. 3, 2023, which is a Continuation of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 17/169,794, filed Feb. 8, 2021, which claims priority to U.S. Provisional Patent Application Ser. No. 62/971,121, filed Feb. 6, 2020, the disclosures of which are hereby incorporated entirely herein by reference.
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| 62971121 | Feb 2020 | US |
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| Parent | 18149360 | Jan 2023 | US |
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