IP Library Granted Patent US 11,871,798
Granted Patent B2
US 11,871,798 · App. 18/056,553 · Granted Jan 16, 2024

Electronic smoking substitute device and mobile device with feedback application

Inventors: Daniel Fard (Liverpool, GB); Oliver Talbot (Liverpool, GB)
Assignee: Imperial Tobacco Limited
A24F40/65A24F40/53A24F40/60H04M1/72412A24F40/10H04M2250/56
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Patent No.
US 11,871,798
App. No.
18/056,553
Granted
Jan 16, 2024
Kind
B2
Abstract

A mobile device is described. The mobile device includes an application installed thereon. The application is configured to communicate with a smoking substitute device, wherein the application is configured to: instruct a user to perform an operation at the smoking substitute device; verify whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the smoking substitute device; and inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed.

Claims (22)

1. A system for managing an electronic smoking substitute device, the system comprising:

a mobile device; and

an electronic smoking substitute device;

wherein the mobile device comprises:

an application installed thereon, the application configured to

communicate with the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the application is configured to;

instruct a user to perform an operation at the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the operation is inserting an electronic consumable into a main body of the electronic smoking substitute device;

verify whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device; and,

inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed;

wherein the electronic smoking substitute device is configured to communicate with the application, and

wherein the electronic smoking substitute device is configured to inform the user whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device by providing feedback to the user, the feedback provided to the user by the electronic smoking substitute device includes one or more actions selected from the list of actions performed by the electronic smoking substitute device consisting of: operating a light, operating a light in a predetermined color; operating a flashing light in a predetermined sequence; operating a flashing light in a predetermined color, providing haptic feedback, and producing a sound.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic consumable is incorrectly inserted and the application is further configured to inform the user the electronic consumable is inserted incorrectly until the electronic consumable is inserted correctly.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein verifying whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device includes the application communicating with the electronic smoking substitute device to instruct the electronic smoking substitute device to determine whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device.

4. The system of claim 1 , wherein the application informs the user whether the operation has been correctly performed by displaying a notification on a screen of the mobile device.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic smoking substitute device communicates information to the application indicating whether the operation has been performed correctly, and the application informs the user whether the operation has been performed correctly based on the information received from the electronic smoking substitute device.

6. A method of using a mobile device on which an application is installed, wherein the application is configured to communicate with an electronic smoking substitute device, the method comprising the steps of:

instructing, by the application, a user to perform an operation at the electronic smoking substitute device, wherein the operation is inserting an electronic consumable into a main body of the electronic smoking substitute device;

verifying, by the application, whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device; and

informing the user whether the operation has been correctly performed;

communicating, by the electronic smoking substitute device, with the application; and

providing feedback, by the electronic smoking substitute device, to the user, the feedback indicating whether the operation has been correctly performed by the user at the electronic smoking substitute device, the feedback provided to the user by the electronic smoking substitute device includes one or more actions selected from the list of actions performed by the electronic smoking substitute device consisting of: operating a light, operating a light in a predetermined color; operating a flashing light in a predetermined sequence; operating a flashing light in a predetermined color, providing haptic feedback, and producing a sound.

7. A non-transitory computer-readable medium having computer-executable instructions configured to cause a mobile device to perform the method according to claim 6 .

Assignments (2)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Aug 22, 2023
From: NERUDIA LTD
To: IMPERIAL TOBACCO LIMITED
Reel/Frame 064671/0788 →
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 19, 2022
From: FARD, DANIEL; TALBOT, OLIVER
To: NERUDIA LIMITED
Reel/Frame 062143/0085 →
Priority Claims (1)
GB 1803028 · Feb 26, 2018 · national
Continuity (3)
Continuation 17002054 · Aug 25, 2020
Continuation PCTEP2019053505 · Feb 13, 2019
Related Publication 20230078703A1 · Mar 16, 2023
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