Performance tracking systems and methods

• US 20050069853A1
• Filed: 09/27/2004
• Published: 03/31/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 09/26/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Athletic IQ, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Athletic IQ, Inc.
• Inventors: Kenyon, Keith Edward, Peterson, Kevin Edward, Tyson, William Randal, Wayt, John Augustus III, Lac, Ming Q., Thomas, Erwin R., Bouthillier, Robert Joseph, Tomas, Jorge
• Application Number:
  US10/950,864
• Publication Number:
  US 20050069853A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/247
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0537 Measuring body composition by impedance, e.g. tissue hydration or fat content
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1124 Determining motor skills
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1127 using markers
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/117 Identification of persons methods or arrangements for recognising patterns, e.g. fingerprints, G06F18/00, G06V40/00; identification of persons by analysing their voice or speech G10L17/00
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/22 Ergometry; Measuring muscular strength or the force of a muscular blow exercising apparatus A63B21/00 ; measuring of work or force in general G01L
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0009 Computerised real time comparison with previous movements or motion sequences of the user
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0065 Evaluating the fitness, e.g. fitness level or fitness index
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/30 Maintenance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0006 Computerised comparison for qualitative assessment of motion sequences or the course of a movement
• 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: A63B 69/00 Training appliances or apparatus for special sports training of parachutists B64D23/00
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/03 Athletic drills or obstacles for sport training, other than foot obstacles for skipping
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 50/70 for mining of medical data, e.g. analysing previous cases of other patients

Abstract

Embodiments of a performance tracking system and method are disclosed. One method embodiment, among others, includes receiving standardized physical performance test data over a network from a test site, the standardized physical performance test data corresponding to physical performance for a plurality of individuals, and processing the standardized physical performance test data to provide standardized data of physical performance among the plurality of individuals.

Claims

1. A physical test performance tracking method, comprising:

receiving standardized physical performance test data over a network from a test site, the standardized physical performance test data corresponding to physical performance for a plurality of individuals; and

processing the standardized physical performance test data to provide standardized data of physical performance among the plurality of individuals.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving includes receiving from a plurality of test sites located at different geographic locations.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the standardized physical performance test data includes data corresponding to occupational physical skills assessment.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the standardized physical performance test data includes data corresponding to athletic physical skills assessment.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein processing includes providing at least one of a statistical numerical comparative score and a distinct set of numerical values.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein processing includes statistical processing.

7. The method of claim 1, further including providing access to the comparable data for an individual of the plurality of individuals to at least one of the individual and a third party.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein the third party includes at least one of an occupational institution and an academic institution.

9. The method of claim 1, further including informing at least one individual of the plurality of individuals that a third party is interested in contacting the individual based on the physical performance of the individual.

10. A physical test performance system, comprising:

a central database; and

a processor configured with first logic to receive standardized physical performance test data over a network, the standardized physical performance test data corresponding to physical performance for a plurality of individuals, the first logic configured to process the standardized physical performance test data to provide standardized data of physical performance among the plurality of individuals and store the standardized data in the central database.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured with the first logic to receive from a plurality of test sites located at different geographic locations.

12. The system of claim 10, wherein the standardized physical performance test data includes data corresponding to at least one of occupational physical skills assessment and athletic physical skills assessment.

13. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured with the first logic to provide at least one of a statistical numerical comparative score and a distinct set of numerical values.

14. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured with the first logic to provide a web-interface that enables secured access to the comparable data for an individual of the plurality of individuals to at least one of the individual and a third party.

15. The system of claim 10, wherein the processor is further configured with the first logic to inform at least one individual of the plurality of individuals that a third party is interested in contacting the individual based on the physical performance of the individual.

16. The system of claim 10, further including a test site server, the test site server configured with second logic that receives the standardized physical performance test data from a plurality of testing stations and uploads the standardized physical performance test data to the central database in cooperation with the first logic.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the second logic is configured on a computer readable medium.

18. The system of claim 10, wherein the first logic is configured on a computer readable medium.

19. A physical test performance tracking system, comprising:

means for receiving standardized physical performance test data over a network from a plurality of test sites separated geographically, the standardized physical performance test data corresponding to physical performance for a plurality of individuals; and

means for processing the standardized physical performance test data to provide standardized data of physical performance among the plurality of individuals.