Multi-Activity Platform and Interface

• US 20130197679A1
• Filed: 01/18/2013
• Published: 08/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 01/19/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Convay, Wade, Greer, Tara, Balakrishnan, Ashok, Davis, Christopher W., Lyman, Jefferson, Setti, Sridhar, Mathure, Gaurabh, Thorwarth, Christopher C.
• Granted Patent: US 9,323,868 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 700/91
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2503/10 Athletes
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1112 Global tracking of patients, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/1118 Determining activity level
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4866 Evaluating metabolism A61B5/083 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/681 Wristwatch-type devices
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7435 Displaying user selection data, e.g. icons in a graphical user interface
• CPC Class Codes: F04C 2270/0421 Controlled or regulated
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 17/40 Data acquisition and logging for input to computer G06F3/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 15/00 ICT specially adapted for medical reports, e.g. generation or transmission thereof
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/40 relating to mechanical, radiation or invasive therapies, e.g. surgery, laser therapy, dialysis or acupuncture
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/1095 Replication or mirroring of data, e.g. scheduling or transport for data synchronisation between network nodes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

A multi-activity system may be configured to receive, upload, synchronize and process data for a variety of different activity types and/or recorded using multiple types of activity monitoring devices. In one example, an application interface may be defined with a multiple functions that are each useable by various types of devices and for processing multiple types of data. Additionally or alternatively, data for different activity types and/or recorded using different types of monitoring devices may be processed differently. Synchronization of data may further be handled on a device-by-device basis, device-type basis and/or activity-type basis using various tracking parameters.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a processor; and

memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the system to;

provide an application interface configured to facilitate uploading and downloading of physical activity data, wherein the application interface includes one or more functions configured to be invoked for a plurality of types of activity monitoring devices used by a user and for a plurality of types of physical activity performed by the user;

receive physical activity data, wherein the received physical activity data includes at least one of;

physical activity data from a plurality of types of activity monitoring devices and physical activity data for a plurality of types of physical activity;

store the physical activity data including categorizing the received physical activity data based on at least one of;

type of activity monitoring device used and type of physical activity performed;

providing a visualization of the received physical activity data, wherein different visualizations are provided depending on the at least one of the type of activity monitoring device used and the type of physical activity performed;

determine a number of activity points earned by the user based on the received physical activity data; and

determine whether the user has reached an activity point goal.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is further caused to:

generate a first set of metrics for a first portion of the received physical activity data, wherein the first portion of the received physical activity data corresponds to at least one of;

a first type of physical activity and a first type of activity monitoring device; and

generate a second set of metrics for a second portion of the received physical activity data, wherein the second portion of the received physical activity data corresponds to at least one of;

a second type of physical activity and a second type of activity monitoring device,

wherein the first set of metrics includes at least one activity metric not included in the second set of metrics.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is further caused to:

determine a first type of activity associated with a first portion of the received physical activity data;

determine a first predefined set of activity tags used for the first type of activity; and

process the first portion of the received physical activity data to extract one or more values for the first predefined set of activity tags.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the system is further caused to:

determine a second type of activity associated with a second portion of the received physical activity data;

determine a second predefined set of activity tags used for the second type of activity; and

process the second portion of the received physical activity data to extract one or more values for the second predefined set of activity tags.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is further caused to categorize the determined number of activity points based on the at least one of:

type of activity monitoring device used and type of physical activity performed.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is further caused to determine whether the user has achieved a streak of two or more consecutive goal time periods in which a corresponding activity point goal has been reached.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the system is further caused to recommend at least one of a product and an athletic activity based on the received physical activity data.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein recommending the at least one of the product and the athletic activity includes:

determining one or more types of athletic activity performed or one or more types of activity monitoring devices used based on the received physical activity data; and

determining a frequency of performance of the one or more types of athletic activity performed or a frequency of use of the one or more types of activity monitoring devices.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein the system is further caused to:

process a challenge between a first user and a second user;

receive a first set of physical activity data from the first user, the first set of physical activity data is characterized by at least one of;

being recorded using a first type of activity monitoring device and resulting from a first type of physical activity;

receive a second set of physical activity data from the second user, the second set of physical activity data is characterized by at least one of;

being recorded using a second type of activity monitoring device and resulting from a second type of physical activity; and

determine a winner of the challenge based on the first and second sets of physical activity data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein determining the winner includes normalizing the first and second sets of physical activity data.

11. The system of claim 1, wherein storing the physical activity data further includes:

storing a first portion of the physical activity data corresponding to at least one of;

a first type of activity monitoring device and a first type of physical activity performed in a first storage area;

storing a second portion of the physical activity data corresponding to at least one of;

a second type of activity monitoring device and a first second of physical activity performed in a second storage area; and

storing a first synchronization offset for the first storage area and a second synchronization offset for the second storage area, wherein the first and second synchronization offsets specify a respective point at which synchronization of the respective first and second portions of the physical activity data is to begin.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the system is further caused to:

store a third synchronization offset for the first storage area; and

store a fourth synchronization offset for the second storage area,

wherein the third and synchronization offsets are configured to specify a synchronization point for a first device while the first and second synchronization offsets are configured to specify their respective synchronization points for a second device.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functions of the application interface includes a function having an activity type as a parameter and that is configured to provide data specific to the activity type.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the function having the activity type as a parameter is configured to return a list of activity sessions corresponding to the activity type.

15. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functions of the application interface includes a function having an activity monitoring device type as a parameter and that is configured to provide data specific to the activity monitoring device type.

16. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more functions of the application interface includes a function having a demographic parameter, wherein the function is configured to provide activity data specific to a group of individuals matching the demographic parameter.

17. The system of claim 16, wherein the activity data specific to the group of individuals includes a number of challenges completed by the group of individuals over a specified time period.

18. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

memory operatively coupled to the processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

receive physical activity data, wherein the received physical activity data includes at least one of;

physical activity data from a plurality of types of activity monitoring devices and physical activity data for a plurality of types of physical activity;

store the physical activity data including categorizing the received physical activity data based on at least one of;

a type of activity monitoring device used and a type of physical activity performed;

store a first synchronization offset for a first portion of the physical activity data corresponding to at least one of;

a first type of activity monitoring device used and a first type of physical activity performed; and

store a second synchronization offset for a second portion of the physical activity data corresponding to at least one of;

a second type of activity monitoring device used and a second type of physical activity performed,

wherein the first and second synchronization offsets specify a respective point at which synchronization of the respective first and second portions of the physical activity data is to begin.

19. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

store a third synchronization offset for the first portion of the physical activity data; and

store a fourth synchronization for the second portion of the physical activity data,

wherein the third and synchronization offsets are configured to specify a synchronization point for a first device while the first and second synchronization offsets are configured to specify their respective synchronization points for a second device.

20. The apparatus of claim 18, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

store a third synchronization offset for the first portion of the physical activity data; and

store a fourth synchronization offset for the second portion of the physical activity data,

wherein the third and synchronization offsets are configured to specify a synchronization point for a first device type while the first and second synchronization offsets are configured to specify their respective synchronization points for a second device type.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising:

synchronizing the second portion of the physical activity data with a device of the second device type; and

updating the second synchronization offset without modifying the fourth synchronization offset.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the first portion of the physical activity data corresponds to data recorded using a first type of activity monitoring device, and

wherein the second portion of the physical activity data corresponds to data recorded using a second type of activity monitoring device.

23. The apparatus of claim 20, wherein the first portion of the physical activity data corresponds to a first type of physical activity, and

wherein the second portion of the physical activity data corresponds to data recorded using a second type of physical activity.

24. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

memory operatively coupled to the processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

define a first data offset for synchronizing physical activity data with a first device;

define a second data offset for synchronizing the physical activity data with a second device, wherein the first data offset is different from the second data offset;

receive an instruction to synchronize data with the first device;

synchronize at least a portion of the physical activity data with the first device; and

update the first data offset upon synchronizing the data with the first device.

25. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine whether the first data offset is greater than the second data offset; and

in response to determining that the first data offset is greater than the second data offset, update the second data offset to equal the first data offset,

otherwise, maintaining the second data offset without modification.

26. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the first data offset is updated without modifying the second data offset.

27. The apparatus of claim 24, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

determine that the first device has synchronized the at least a portion of the physical activity data with the second device; and

in response to determining that the first device has synchronized the at least a portion of the physical activity data with the second device, update the second data offset.

28. The apparatus of claim 27, wherein updating the second data offset includes updating the second data offset to equal the first data offset.