Controller With Network Access and Unique ID for Personal Electronic Devices

Abstract

An add-on module for an electronic cigarette or vaporizer providing an electronic means to communicate with remote computers and electronic devices and to provide a dynamic means to control temperature over time, manage and save device settings, dynamically control temperatures, monitor sensors, and transmit and read this data from remote computing devices for display, alteration and storage

We claim: 
     
         1 . An add-on module for a device having a vaporizer that provides a user with an inhalable vapor during a vaporization cycle, said control module comprising:
 one or more sensors for collecting data related to the operation of said device, at least one of said one or more sensors detecting the initiation of said vaporization cycle by a user of said device;   a communications module capable of communicating with a remote computing device; and   a processor and memory for storing data and executing software for performing the functions of:
 dynamically altering the operation of said vaporizer during said vaporization cycle or from cycle-to-cycle to vary a vaporization temperature based on data stored in said memory; 
 collecting data from said one or more sensors and storing said collected data in said memory; and 
 exchanging data with a remote computing device via said communications module; 
   wherein said add-on module can provide a unique identifier associated with said device to said remote computing device.   
     
     
         2 . The module of  claim 1  wherein said function of exchanging data includes receiving data from said remote computing device regarding the operation of said device and storing said data in said memory. 
     
     
         3 . The module of  claim 1  wherein said function of exchanging data includes sending data collected from said one or more sensors to a remote computing device. 
     
     
         4 . The module of  claim 3  wherein one or said one or more sensors is capable of sensing the power remaining in a battery powering said device. 
     
     
         5 . The module of  claim 3  wherein one or said one or more sensors is capable of sensing the quantity of a substance in said vaporizer. 
     
     
         6 . The module of  claim 3  wherein said exchanged data includes information regarding the number of times a user has inhaled vapor from said device. 
     
     
         7 . The module of  claim 2  wherein data received from said remote computing device is associated with said unique identifier. 
     
     
         8 . The module of  claim 7  wherein only a subset of data received from a remote computing device is associated with said unique identifier and further wherein said device only processes said subset of said data associated with said unique identifier. 
     
     
         9 . The module of  claim 2  wherein said data received from said remote computing device includes a operational profile specifying a timed or continuous sequence of two or more temperatures to be used by said vaporizer. 
     
     
         10 . The module of  claim 9  wherein said operational profile may be named. 
     
     
         11 . The module of  claim 9  wherein a remote computing device with which data is being exchanged, coordinates the managing, organizing and naming of operational profile data. 
     
     
         12 . The module of  claim 9  wherein, during said vaporization cycle, the heating of a substance in said vaporizer varies in temperature according to a timed or continuous sequence of varied temperatures specified in said operational profile. 
     
     
         13 . The module of  claim 3  wherein said data sent to said remote computing device includes data useful for determining compatibility of components of said device. 
     
     
         14 . The module of  claim 12  wherein a user using an application on said remote computing device can perform the functions of:
 creating, viewing and managing one or more operational profile; 
 associate said unique identifier with said one or more operational profiles, and 
 transmitting said one or more operational profiles via a uniquely addressable electronic connection to said device. 
 
     
     
         15 . The module of  claim 1  further comprising a sound module for communication of information with a user via sound 
     
     
         16 . The module of  claim 1  wherein said module has access to power after completion of said vaporization cycle, said module completing secondary tasks during the time between the end of said vaporization cycle and the loss of power. 
     
     
         17 . The module of  claim 1  wherein said module can communicate said unique identifier to a first remote computing device and further where a second remote computing device can retrieve information necessary to discover and initiate communications with said device using said unique identifier. 
     
     
         18 . The module of  claim 12  wherein said operational profile is used to vary the vaporization temperature such as to cause the vaporization of mixed substances at different times during said vaporization cycle. 
     
     
         19 . An electronic cigarette comprising:
 a vaporization chamber capable of having the temperature within varied;   a power supply;   a user interface, allowing a user to inhale vapors produced by vaporizing substances placed into said vaporization chamber;   one or more sensors for collecting data related to the operation of said device, at least one of said one or more sensors detecting the initiation of said vaporization cycle by a user of said device;   a communications module capable of communicating with a remote computing device; and   a processor and memory for storing data and executing software for performing the functions of:
 dynamically altering the operation of said vaporizer during said vaporization cycle or from cycle-to-cycle to vary a vaporization temperature based on data stored in said memory; 
 collecting data from said one or more sensors and storing said collected data in said memory; and 
 exchanging data with a remote computing device via said communications module; 
   wherein said add-on module can provide a unique identifier associated with said device to said remote computing device.   
     
     
         20 . The device of claim wherein said function of exchanging data includes receiving data from said remote computing device regarding the operation of said device and storing said data in said memory and sending data collected from said one or more sensors to a remote computing device.