Koninklijke Philips Corporation N.v.

Renjun Yu

Saeed Reza Bagheri

Xin Li

Choo Chiap Chiau

Michael Martin Scheja

Yugang Jia

Mina Deng

Hanqing Cao

Vikrant Suhas Vaze

Xiaoxin Wang

Huanhuan Zhang

Xin Chen

Aizhi Yang

Axelle Stephanie Maud Ducos

Disclosed is a computer-implemented method () of assigning a task to a mobile communication device () belonging to a pool () of mobile communication devices, wherein each mobile communications device is associated with a trusted owner and is locatable by means of location information, the method comprising generating () a task to be performed; generating a set of task locations at which the task can be performed; receiving () location information for said mobile communications devices; deriving () a location for each mobile communications device from said location information; using the derived location to calculate () a cost score for each mobile communication device, said cost score indicating the cost of the trusted owner of said mobile communication device to reach a target location; and assigning () the task to a selected location in said set and to one of said mobile communications devices, wherein the task is assigned to the one of said mobile communications devices based on the calculated cost scores. A computer program product including program code for executing this method on a computer processor and a system adapted to execute this method are also disclosed.

Task assignment method, computer program product and task assignment system

The invention proposes a device () and a corresponding method, wherein the device () comprises: a first element () to be attached to a breast of a breastfeeding mother; and a first marker () located on the outer surface () of the first element (), wherein the first marker () is used for indicating a position of a mother's breast that the baby's lip is expected to contact in order to correctly hold the mother's breast. With the device () attached to the mother's breast, the first marker () indicates a position that the baby's lip is expected to contact, and the breastfeeding mother can have a clear view of whether the baby correctly holds the mother's breast according to the distance between the first marker () and the baby's lip.

Device and method for guiding latch-on

A method of providing an indication as to the amount of milk remaining in a breast during lactation based on a determined fat content of milk that has been expressed from said breast is disclosed. The method of determining said fat content comprises measuring an optical characteristic of milk following expression and by comparing said measured optical characteristic with data representing a corresponding optical characteristic of a sample of milk having a known fat content to determine the fat content of said expressed milk which is indicative of the amount of milk remaining in the breast.

Method for providing an indication as to the amount of milk remaining in a breast during lactation

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Renjun Yu