WO2005034543A1

WO2005034543A1 - Diet service system using a mobile and method thereof

Info

Publication number: WO2005034543A1
Application number: PCT/KR2003/002601
Authority: WO
Inventors: Sang-Woon Lee
Original assignee: Naviway
Priority date: 2003-10-08
Filing date: 2003-11-28
Publication date: 2005-04-14
Also published as: AU2003284781A1; KR20030084848A; KR100574383B1

Abstract

The present invention relates to a dieting service system by using a mobile communication system and a method thereof, in which a predetermined low frequency and a dieting program are downloaded to a mobile communication system and a customer may obtain dieting effects without any harmful influences to his body by listening to the low frequency and the dieting music output from his communication system. The dieting service system includes a mobile communication system incorporating a solution for driving the dieting program, a dieting service server for formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and music and image sources to download the formatted transmission data to the mobile communication system with the low frequency as a download request is input from the mobile communication system via an information communication network, and a database for storing information required by the dieting service server and customers’ information provided from the dieting service server.

Description

DIET SERVICE SYSTEM USING A MOBILE AND METHOD THEREOF

Technical Field The present invention relates to a dieting service system by using a mobile communication system and a method thereof, for preventmg the obesity of users and obtaining diet effect by using a mobile communication system.

Background Art As a general diet method, people usually select exercising. However, dieting may be realized by the exercising only when users carry out regular exercise routines for a predetermined period steadily. If users want their dieting by exercising, they should continuously carry out the regular exercising for a predetermined period, which is very inconvenient and difficult so people often fails in the dieting. Furthermore, it is very difficult to obtain desired effect in a short period. Therefore, most people who wants the dieting, chooses the diet routines by taking medicines or healthy foods to get the desired effect in a short period. In this case, if people take the medicines or foods improperly, they suffer from side effects such as falling out of hair, rough skin, headache, stomachache and the like. Further, unreasonable diet causes the side effects such as constipation, stomachache, sleeplessness, eruption and the like. Especially, some people want the dieting often try by plastic operations. However, it has a disadvantage that the expense rendered for the plastic operations is very high. Further, it is very difficult to care the damages of the skin revealed as result of the plastic operations if the plastic operations are not successful. Disclosure of the Invention Therefore, the present invention is derived to resolve the above problems of the prior art and has an object to provide a dieting service system by mobile communications, in which the dieting effect may be obtained without physical harms by a predetermined low frequency and diet music output from a mobile communication system, wherein the low frequency and the diet music may be output from the mobile communication system by downloading the low frequency and diet programs. It is another object of the present invention to provide a dieting service method by mobile communications, which may provide the dieting effect without physical harm by a predetermined low frequency and diet music output from a mobile communication system, wherein the low frequency and the diet music may be output from the mobile communication system by downloading the low frequency and diet programs. In order to achieve the above and other objects of the present invention, according to an aspect of the present invention, a dieting service system by mobile communications according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention, includes a mobile communication system incorporating a solution for driving a predetermined dieting service program, a dieting service server for formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and image and audio sources for dieting as a request for downloading the predetermined dieting program is input via an information communication network, and downloading the transmission data to the mobile communication system with a predetermined low frequency signal, and a database storing information required by the dieting service server, and storing customers' information from the dieting service server. Preferably, the dieting service server includes a control part for controlling the composition of the transmission data, programming the composed transmission data with the predetermined low frequency signal to download to the mobile communication system, and a transmission data composing part for composing the transmission data under the control of the control part and transmitting the transmission data to the control part. The data base includes a customer database for storing information on the customers connected to the dieting service server, a dieting service music database storing a plurality of dieting service music data, a plurality of image data base storing a plurality of image data, and a low frequency data base storing the predetermined low frequency signal. According to another aspect of the present invention, a method for dieting service by using a mobile communication system, includes the steps of requesting the download of a dieting service program for a mobile communication system by connecting to a dieting service server via an information communication network, formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and image and audio sources by the dieting service server and downloading the transmission data to the mobile communication system with a predetermined low frequency signal, and outputting a dieting service music is output with the predetermined low frequency signal as well as images to a screen, as the dieting service program including the transmission data having the predetermined performance program sources, and the image and audio sources as well as the predetermined low frequency signal is stored to the mobile communication system and performed.

Brief Description of the Drawings The accompanying drawings, which are included to provide a further understanding of the invention and are incorporated in and constitute a part of this specification, illustrate embodiments of the invention and together with the description serve to explain the principles of the invention Fig. 1 is a view for showing the construction of a dieting service system by using a mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 2 is a view for showing the internal construction of a dieting service server of Fig. 1; Fig. 3 a to Fig. 3 c respectively show examples of data formatting of dieting service programs downloaded to the mobile communication system of Fig. 1; Fig. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the procedure for storing the dieting service program to the mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 respectively show examples of screens to explain methods for using and downloading the dieting service program of the present invention, wherein Fig. 5 a to Fig. 5d show the examples of screens for explaining the method for using the dieting service program, and Fig. 6a to Fig. 6c show the examples of screens for explaining the method for downloading the dieting service program to the mobile communication system; Fig. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the procedure for carrying out the dieting service program in the mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention; Fig. 8 is a graph for showing the change of cortisol in the human blood after exposure to a low frequency; and Fig. 9 is a graph for showing the change of serotonin in the human blood after the exposure to the low frequency. Best Mode For Carrying Out the Invention Reference will now be made in detail to preferred embodiments and modifications of the present invention, examples of which are illustrated in the accompanying drawings. Fig. 1 is a view for showing the construction of a dieting service system by using a mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. In Fig. 1, the dieting service system includes a mobile communication system 10 incorporating a solution for driving a predetermined dieting service program and capable of connecting to a mobile communication network 12, a WAP server 14 for converting WAP protocol and internet TCP/IP protocol between the mobile communication network 12 and internet 16 for the mobile communication system 10 to access the internet such as WEB, a WEB server 18 for carrying out the service in connection with WEB and especially carrying out the service to search information requested by the mobile communication system 10 in a dieting service server to transmit the searched information to the mobile communication system, a dieting service server 20 for formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and image and audio sources for dieting as a request for downloading a predetermined dieting program is input from the mobile communication system 10 via an mobile communication network 12 and the internet 16, and downloading the transmission data to the mobile communication system 10 with a predetermined low frequency signal, and a database 22 storing information required by the dieting service server 20, and storing information on customers from the dieting service server 20. The mobile communication system 10 is to be a terminal such as a mobile phone and a PDA phone, which are capable of connecting to the mobile communication network 12, wherein the dieting service program downloaded to the mobile communication system 10 is stored to a flash memory(not shown) in the mobile communication system 10. The data base 22 includes a customer database 22a for storing information on the customers connected to the dieting service server 22, for example, a telephone number of a mobile phone, an ESN of the mobile phone and the like, a billing data base 22b for storing billing information per customer, a dieting service music database 22c for storing a plurality of dieting service music data, a plurality of image data base 22d for storing a plurality of image data, and a low frequency data base 22e for storing predetermined low frequency signals. Even though the low frequency signal is set to be in the range of 300Hz ~ 500Hz in the present invention, signals lower than the range may be used if the signals do not badly influence on the human bodies. The dieting service server 20, as shown in Fig. 2, includes a control part 20a for controlling the composition of the transmission data having the predetermined performance program sources, and the dieting service music and image sources, programming the composed transmission data with the predetermined low frequency signal, and downloading the dieting service program to the mobile communication system, a transmission data composing part 20b for composing the transmission data under the control of the control part and transmitting the transmission data to the control part, and a billing part 20c for billing a customer when the predetermined dieting service program is downloaded to the mobile communication system 10. The transmission data composed in the transmission data composing part 20b has different data length according to the performance such as the chords and color of the mobile communication system 10. For example, in the case of a mobile phone having 16 chords and 4 colors, the transmission data is formed of a performance program source of 18KB, a music source of 15KB, and an image source 70KB as shown in Fig. 3 a. In the case of a mobile phone having 16 chords and 256 colors, the transmission data is formed of a performance program source of 18KB, a music source of 15KB, and an image source of 120KB, as shown in Fig. 3b. In the case of 16 chords and 257 ~ 65000 colors, the transmission data is formed of a performance program source of 18KB, a music source of 35KB, and an image source of 120KB, as shown in Fig. 3c. Of course, the format of the transmission data is variable as desired. Now, the operations of the dieting service system by using a mobile communication system according to the present invention will be described in more detail hereinafter. Fig. 4 is a flow chart for explaining the procedure to store a dieting service program in the mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. Fig. 5 and Fig. 6 respectively show examples of screens to explain methods for using and downloading the dieting service program of the present invention, wherein Fig. 5a to Fig. 5d show the examples of screens for explaining the method for using the dieting service program, and Fig. 6a to Fig. 6c show the examples of screens for explaining the method for downloading the dieting service program to the mobile communication system. At first, a customer to loose weight manipulates his own mobile communication system 10 to connect the mobile communication network 12, and connect to a dieting service site, for example," www.nate.com" provided by the dieting service server 20 (step SI 00). After that, the customer selects an item having contents on the dieting service programs. According to the selection, a screen as shown in Fig. 5a is displayed to a display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer. The customer selects detailed menu as desired while watching the screen as shown in Fig. 5a (step SI 10). If the customer selects any other detailed menu than "dieting service program download" from the screen of Fig. 5a ("NO" in step S120), the mobile communication system 10 carries out the operations corresponding to the selected detailed menu. For example, if the customer selects "Using method of a dieting service program" from the screen of Fig. 5a, then the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer is changed to a screen as shown in Fig. 5b. After that, if the customer selects "Usage/Suggestions" from the screen of Fig. 5b, then explanation as shown in Fig. 5c is displayed on the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer. On the other hand, if the customer selects "Principle and Effects" from the screen as shown in Fig. 5b, then explanation as shown in Fig. 5d is displayed on the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer. However, if the customer selects "dieting service program download" from the screen of Fig. 5a ("YES" in step S120), then the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer is changed to a screen as shown in Fig. 6a. If the customer selects "download to my mobile phone" from the screen as shown in Fig. 6a, then the mobile communication system 10 of the customer transmits signals corresponding to this selection to the dieting service server 20 via the WAP server 14 and the WEB server 18. Then the dieting service server 20, which receives the selection signal of "download to my mobile phone", formats a predetermined performance program source, a dieting service music source and image source on the basis of the information stored in the data base 22 (for example, one of Fig. 3a to Fig. 3c). After that, the dietmg service server 20 programs the formatted transmission data with a predetermined low frequency signal in the range of 300Hz ~ 500Hz, for example into GVM format, thereby downloading the program to the mobile communication system 10 (step S140). At this time, the dietmg service server 20 randomly selects the music and image sources. Of course, the customer may select the music and image sources as desired. During the selected dieting service program is downloaded to the mobile communication system 10, a screen as shown in Fig. 6b is displayed to the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 for informing the customer of the download. In the meantime, during the downloading of the selected dieting service program to the mobile communication system 10, the dieting service server 20 bills the customer (step SI 50). As the download of the selected dieting service program is finished, the selected dieting service program downloaded to the mobile communication system 10 is stored to the flash memory (not shown) in the mobile communication system 10 in general(step SI 60). On the other hand, if the customer selects "gift" instead of "download to my mobile phone" from the screen of Fig. 6a, the display screen of the mobile communication system 10 of the customer is changed to a screen as shown in Fig. 6c. After that, if the customer inputs the telephone number of a person to whom the gift is to be sent and desired messages, the selected dieting service program stored in the mobile communication system 10 of the customer is transmitted to the person. Fig. 7 is a flow chart for explaining the procedure for carrying out the dieting service program in the mobile communication system according to a preferred embodiment of the present invention. First, the customer reads the dieting service program by using the solution of the mobile communication system 10 to perform the dieting service program stored in the mobile communication system 10 (step S200). After that, the customer presses a performance button ("YES" in step S210). Accordingly, the mobile communication system 10 drives the dieting service program by the solution. As the dieting service program is driven, corresponding dieting service music and the low frequency are output via a speaker or an earphone for a predetermined time, for example for about 10 minutes, and corresponding images are displayed to the display screen (step S220). As the predetermined time elapsed("YES" in step S230), the mobile communication system 10 finishes the driven dieting service program (step S240). If the customer selects repetition after that("YES" in step S250), the routine returns to step S220 and the above operations are repeated. If the user selects ending instead of repetition("NO" in step S250), the mobile communication system 10 does not carry out the dieting service program any more. If the dieting service program of the present invention is carried out for about 10 minutes three times a day, a big dieting effect may be exhibited. Especially, the dieting service program of the present invention directly helps to loose weight by increasing Serotonin, which is a particular hormone used as a diet treatment agent, and to reduce Cortisol, which promotes the increase of waist size. Serotonin is a neufrofransmitter existing in the inward hypothalamus and serves as an important controller in the appetite and food selection. If serotonin is increased locally, the appetite becomes decreased and if the serotonin is decreased, the appetite becomes increased. Cortisol is a stress hormone to make the appetite vigorous while reducing energy consumption in the case of frustration caused by stress, thereby decreasing the water regulation in the human body and decreasing the calorie consumption. If the secretion amount of cortisol is increased, activity energy is mobilized as storage energy, increasing the fat in the waist part. In order find out the effects of the dieting program according to the preferred embodiment of the present invention as described hereinabove, clinical demonstration was carried out. Concentrations of cortisol and serotonin in blood were measured by a green cross medical foundation for 10 healthy persons (male 5 persons and female 5 persons respectively, hereinafter to be called as "patient"), who are 26 to 37 years old, and have never administrated medicines or been suffered from diseases possibly influencing to serotonin (supervisor of the clinical demonstration: Kim, Bum-taek, the chief of obesity clinic in Ajou University Medical Center). In the study, after sleeping for more than 8 hours during 48 hours before taking experiments, and after fasting for 8 hours, blood samples were taken from the patients and the patients were exposed to the low frequency of 300Hz and dieting music for 10 minutes. After that, the blood samples were taken from the patients again. As for the statistics, the concentrations of cortisol and serotonin in the blood taken before and after the exposure to the low frequency were compared with each other by Wilcoxon Signed Rank test as the nonparametric analysis. Attention level was set to 0.05. The clinical demonstration according to the above conditions exhibits the results as shown in table 1 in the case of cortisol per patient.

[TABLE 1 ]

The clinical demonstration according to the above conditions exhibits the results as shown in table 2 in the case of serotonin per patient. [TABLE 2]

The results as shown in table 1 and table 2 were graphed respectively as shown in Fig. 8. In Fig. 8, the concentration of cortisol in blood was reduced from 12.18μ g/dL to l l.OOμ g/dL after the exposure to the low frequency(including the dieting music), which was not noticed statistically (P=0.093). The concentration of serotonin as shown in Fig. 9, was noticeably increased from 55.79μ g/dL to 60.37μ g/dL after the exposure to the low frequency (including the dieting music)(P=0.017).

Industrial Applicability In the meantime, it will be apparent to those skilled in the art that various modifications and variations can be made to the device of the present invention without departing from the spirit and scope of the invention. The present invention covers the modifications and variations of this invention provided they come within the scope of the appended claims and their equivalents. For example, even though the dieting effect is obtained by performing the dieting program downloaded and stored to the mobile communication system in the preferred embodiments of the present invention, it is also possible to obtain the dieting effect by downloading and storing the dieting program by a computer connected to a dieting service server via an internet and performing the stored dieting program to output the low frequency with the dieting music via speakers while displaying images to a monitor screen. According to the present invention as described hereinabove in detail, the obesity which causes troubles in the human health and personal relationships may be prevented and removed, so that the commands of customers who need the dieting are satisfied. Further, the dieting programs may be used semi-permanently without any ill effects such as stomachache, constipation, headache and the like by storing the dieting programs in a mobile communication system, which is one of the most essential living necessaries usable without any limitation in the place or time. Furthermore, the dieting programs may be updated as desired, so that improved high quality-dieting programs may be easily provided to customers, thereby minimizing the cost and efforts required for the dieting. By the dieting programs of the present invention, the customers may have superior effects in the skin beauty since stresses may be resolved and the increase of the sebum may be controlled. Further, the dieting programs of the present invention have effects in the melancholia treatment. Also, the system and the method for dieting service by using a communication system are very epoch-making inventions to carry out the dieting joyfully while listening the low frequency and the dieting music, which are not harmful to the human body.

Claims

1. A dieting service system, comprising: a mobile communication system incorporating a solution for driving a predetermined dieting service program; a dieting service server for formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and image and audio sources for dieting as a request for downloading the predetermined dieting service program is input via an information communication network, and downloading the transmission data to the mobile communication system with a predetermined low frequency signal; and a database storing information required by the dieting service server, and storing customers' information from the dieting service server.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein the dieting service server comprises: a control part for controlling the composition of the transmission data, programming the composed transmission data with the predetermined low frequency signal and downloading the dietmg service program to the mobile communication system; and a transmission data composing part for composing the transmission data under the confrol of the control part and transmitting the transmission data to the control part.

3. The system according to claim 2, wherein the dieting service server further comprises a billing part for billing a customer when the predetermined dieting service program is downloaded to the mobile communication system.

4. The system according to claim 1, wherein the database comprises: a customer database for storing information on the customers connected to the dieting service server; a dieting service music database storing a plurality of dieting service music data; a plurality of image data base storing a plurality of image data; and a low frequency database storing the predetermined low frequency signal.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the database further comprises a billing data base storing billing information per customer.

6. The system according to claim 1, wherein as the dieting service program downloaded and stored to the mobile communication system is performed, the dieting service music is output with the predetermined low frequency signal for a predetermined time period as well as the image is output to a screen.

7. The system according to claim 1, wherein the predetermined low frequency signal is in the range of 300Hz ~ 500Hz.

8. A method for dieting service by using a mobile communication system, comprising the steps of: requesting the download of a dieting service program for a mobile communication system by connecting to a dieting service server via an information communication network; formatting transmission data having predetermined performance program sources, and image and audio sources by the dieting service server and downloading the transmission data to the mobile communication system with a predetermined low frequency signal; and outputting a dieting service music is output with the predetermined low frequency signal as well as images to a screen, as the dieting service program including the transmission data having the predetermined performance program sources, and the image and audio sources as well as the predetermined low frequency signal is stored to the mobile communication system and performed.

9. The method according to claim 8, further comprising the step of billing when the dieting service server downloads the dieting service program to the mobile communication system.

10. The method according to claim 8, wherein the predetermined low frequency signal is in the range of 300Hz ~ 500Hz.

11. The method according to claim 8, wherein serotonin becomes increased and cortisol becomes decreased when the mobile communication system continuously carries out the dieting service program for a predetermined time period over several times.

12. The method according to claim 8, wherein the dieting service program stored in the mobile communication system may be transmitted to another mobile communication system assigned by the customer.