US 12,232,541 B2
Data exchange features for an electronic smoking device
Ramon Alarcon, Los Gatos, CA (US); and Jason Healy, Charlotte, NC (US)
Assigned to Fontem Ventures B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed by Fontem Ventures B.V., Amsterdam (NL)
Filed on Apr. 21, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/236,932.
Application 17/236,932 is a division of application No. 15/917,324, filed on Mar. 9, 2018, granted, now 11,013,269.
Application 15/917,324 is a continuation of application No. 15/877,768, filed on Jan. 23, 2018, granted, now 10,966,462, issued on Apr. 6, 2021.
Application 15/877,768 is a continuation of application No. 14/529,984, filed on Oct. 31, 2014, granted, now 9,907,338, issued on Mar. 6, 2018.
Application 14/529,984 is a continuation of application No. 13/099,266, filed on May 2, 2011, granted, now 9,439,455, issued on Sep. 13, 2016.
Claims priority of provisional application 61/330,140, filed on Apr. 30, 2010.
Prior Publication US 2021/0307410 A1, Oct. 7, 2021
Int. Cl. A24F 47/00 (2020.01); A24F 40/485 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); A24F 40/51 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); A24F 40/90 (2020.01); A24F 40/95 (2020.01); B05B 1/30 (2006.01); H02J 7/00 (2006.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01)
CPC A24F 40/95 (2020.01) [A24F 40/485 (2020.01); A24F 40/50 (2020.01); A24F 40/51 (2020.01); A24F 40/65 (2020.01); A24F 40/90 (2020.01); A24F 47/00 (2013.01); B05B 1/30 (2013.01); H02J 7/0047 (2013.01); A24F 40/10 (2020.01); A24F 40/46 (2020.01)] 14 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. An electronic smoking system comprising:
a first pack communicatively linked to a first electronic smoking device, the first pack configured to hold or charge the first electronic smoking device; and
the first electronic smoking device including a communication unit configured to communicate data between the first electronic smoking device and the first pack, the communicated data including at least one of the following: usage data, reference data, diagnostics data, error data, user information, and product information;
a first computer configured to be communicatively linked to the first pack and to at least one communication channel;
wherein the first computer is configured to transmit data to the at least one communication channel, the transmitted data including information about at least one of the following: product information about the first electronic smoking device or the first pack, and user information about a user of the first electronic smoking device or the first pack, and
wherein a social network is configured to match a first user of the first pack with a second user of a second pack according to the transmitted data.