Monitoring fitness using a mobile device

• US 10,583,325 B2
• Filed: 05/30/2017
• Issued: 03/10/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 03/15/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Crankson, Kwamina, White, Kristen Laina, Orenstein, Michael Levi, Hoffman, Michael T., Nims, Jason
• Primary Examiner(s): Chan, Allen
• Application Number:
  US15/608,271
• Publication Number:
  US 20170259118A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,015 Days
• Field of Search: 700 91
• CPC Class Codes: A43C 19/00 Attachments for footwear, not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0025 Tracking the path or location of one or more users, e.g. players of a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0056 for statistical or strategic analysis
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0021 Tracking a path or terminating locations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/003 Repetitive work cycles; Sequence of movements
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/02 with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a sensor; and

a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

identify one or more attributes of a user of the apparatus;

determine one or more other users having one more attributes having a threshold level of similarity to the one or more attributes of the user;

select one or more participants to participate in a first activity challenge with the user by determining, from the one or more other users, those users having a current workout route similar to a current workout route of the user;

generate a scheduler that suggests a schedule for performing an athletic activity associated with the first activity challenge and a first performance level associated with the first activity challenge;

initiate the first activity challenge associated with the first performance level and including the user and the one or more participants;

send, during the first activity challenge and to the one or more participants, a request to adjust the first performance level associated with the first activity challenge to a second performance level;

receive, from at least one of the one or more participants, indications that the request to adjust the first performance level to the second performance level is accepted;

initiate, during the first activity challenge, a second activity challenge associated with the second performance level and including the user and the at least one of the one or more participants;

collect, using the sensor and during the first activity challenge and the second activity challenge, data corresponding to the athletic activity performed by the user;

determine one or more metrics from the collected data;

determine an accumulated total of the one or more metrics;

determine whether the accumulated total of the one or more metrics has met a first predetermined threshold associated with the first performance level and a second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level; and

in response to determining the accumulated total of the one or more metrics has met the first predetermined threshold associated with the first performance level and the second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level, determine that the user has completed the first activity challenge and the second activity challenge.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the schedule includes the first predetermined threshold associated with the first performance level, and

wherein the first predetermined threshold is determined based on the one or more participants and based on one or more metrics of past performances by the user.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the one or more attributes of the user includes at least one of an age, a weight, a height, a fitness level, a resting heart rate, a current location, and a current route traversed, and

wherein selecting the one or more participants is based on whether the current workout route of a participant is within a vicinity of the current workout route of the user or whether the current workout route of the participant is a similar distance as the current workout route of the user.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory stores further computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

transmit first information related to the first activity challenge to the one or more participants; and

transmit second information related to the second activity challenge to the at least one of the one or more participants.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory stores further computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

generate a first user display indicating that the user has met the second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level, wherein the second performance level is greater than the first performance level.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory stores further computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

after determining that the user has completed the first activity challenge and the second activity challenge;

compare the accumulated total of the one or more metrics for the user to accumulated totals of the one or more metrics for the one or more participants to determine a winner of the first activity challenge; and

compare the accumulated total of the one or more metrics for the user to accumulated totals of the one or more metrics for the at least one of the one or more participants to determine a winner of the second activity challenge.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the memory stores further computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

initiate the second activity challenge based on receiving, from a threshold percentage of the one or more participants, the indications that the request to adjust the first performance level to the second performance level is accepted.

8. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first performance level and the second performance level are performance levels of a plurality of predefined sequential performance levels,

wherein each of the plurality of predefined sequential performance levels is associated with a unique color, and

wherein the first user display indicating that the user has met the second predetermined threshold includes a display of the unique color associated with the second performance level.

9. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first user display includes an icon indicative of a current performance metric of the user.

10. The apparatus of claim 5, wherein the first user display includes a message indicating one or more metrics associated with the second performance level.

11. A method for determining an athletic activity performance of a user comprising:

identifying one or more attributes of the user;

determining one or more other users having one or more attributes having a threshold level of similarity to the one or more attributes of the user;

selecting one or more participants to participate in a first activity challenge with the user by determining, from the one or more other users, those users having a current workout route similar to a current workout route of the user;

generating and displaying a scheduler that suggests a schedule for performing an athletic activity associated with the first activity challenge and a first performance level associated with the first activity challenge;

initiating the first activity challenge associated with the first performance level and including the user and the one or more participants;

sending, during the first activity challenge and to the one or more participants, a request to adjust the first performance level associated with the first activity challenge to a second performance level;

receiving, from at least one of the one or more participants, indications that the request to adjust the first performance level to the second performance level is accepted;

initiating, during the first activity challenge, a second activity challenge associated with the second performance level and including the user and the at least one of the one or more participants;

collecting, using a sensor and during the first activity challenge and the second activity challenge, data corresponding to the athletic activity performed by the user;

displaying a representation of an athletic activity performance of the user including an icon indicative of a current performance level of the user;

determining an accumulated total of a performance metric for the user and determined from the collected data;

determining whether the accumulated total of the performance metric has met a first predetermined threshold associated with the first performance level and a second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level; and

in response to determining that the accumulated total of the performance metric has met the first predetermined threshold associated with the first performance level and the second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level, determining that the user has completed the first activity challenge and the second activity challenge.

12. The method of claim 11, further comprising selecting the second performance level from a plurality of predefined sequential performance levels, wherein the first performance level precedes the second performance level based on predetermined thresholds associated with each of the plurality of predefined sequential performance levels.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

generating a user display indicating that the user is within a user-specific range of the second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein displaying the icon indicative of the current performance level includes displaying a first color associated with the current performance level of the user, and

wherein generating the user display indicating that the user is within the user-specific range of the second predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level includes displaying a second color associated with the second performance level, the second color being different than the first color.

15. The method of claim 11, wherein displaying the icon indicative of the current performance level includes displaying a portion indicating a proximity to the second performance level.

16. An apparatus comprising:

a processor;

a sensor;

a display panel; and

a memory storing computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

generate, on the display panel, an indication of a current performance level of a user based on an accumulated performance metric;

identify one or more attributes of the user;

determine one or more other users having one or more attributes having a threshold level of similarity to the one or more attributes of the user;

select one or more participants to participate in an activity challenge with the user by determining, from the one or more other users, those users having a current workout route similar to a current workout route of the user;

generate a scheduler that suggests a schedule for performing an athletic activity associated with the activity challenge and a first performance level associated with the activity challenge;

initiate the activity challenge associated with the first performance level and including the user and the one or more participants;

send, during the activity challenge and to the one or more participants, a request to adjust the first performance level associated with the activity challenge to a second performance level;

receive, from the one or more participants, indications that the request to adjust the first performance level to the second performance level is accepted;

based on receiving indications from each of the one or more participants that the request to adjust the first performance level to the second performance level is accepted, update the activity challenge to be associated with the second performance level;

collect, using the sensor and during the activity challenge, data corresponding to the athletic activity performed by the user;

update the accumulated performance metric based on the collected data;

determine whether the accumulated performance metric exceeds a predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level, the second performance level being associated with a higher accumulated performance metric than the current performance level of the user; and

in response to determining that the accumulated performance metrics exceeds the predetermined threshold associated with the second performance level, generate, on the display panel, an indication that the user has reached the second performance level.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the current performance level and the second performance level are predefined discrete performance levels, each associated with a unique color.

18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein generating the indication that the user has reached the second performance level includes displaying the unique color associated with the second performance level.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the memory stores further computer-readable instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to:

receive a user performance level query; and

responsive to receiving the user performance level query, provide an interface on at least a portion of the display panel indicating a proximity of the user to the second performance level.

20. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the indication of the current performance level includes an icon indicative of proximity of the user to the second performance level.