TIMELY, GLANCEABLE INFORMATION ON A WEARABLE DEVICE

• US 20140308930A1
• Filed: 04/12/2013
• Published: 10/16/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 04/12/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Bao Tran
• Original Assignee: Bao Tran
• Inventors: Tran, Bao
• Application Number:
  US13/862,249
• Publication Number:
  US 20140308930A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/414.1
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/18 Information format or content conversion, e.g. adaptation by the network of the transmitted or received information for the purpose of wireless delivery to users or terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring

Abstract

Systems and methods are disclosed for receiving and interacting with downloadable glanceable content on a mobile device.

Claims

1. A method for receiving and interacting with content using a wearable device and a smart phone, comprising:

accessing data a wide area network through the smart phone and a low power transceiver in the wearable device;

running one or more user installable applications on either the smart phone or the wearable device;

receiving a plurality of glanceable contents through the low power transceiver; and

periodically cycling through the received contents and displaying each content for a predetermined period on a display.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising receiving one of:

a sports channel, a device skin channel, a weather channel, a stocks channel, a news channel, a traffic channel, a movies channel, a secured channel, a search channel and advertiser channel.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein each channel is aggregated by the smart phone or server and transmitted to the wearable device in a group to save power consumption by the wearable device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the wearable device provides a display and input/output for a game program on the smart phone.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user queries the Internet using at least one of text and voice.

6. The method of claim 1, further comprising running a predetermined search query on a periodic basis and displaying the result to the user.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising encrypting transmission with a secured channel when data comprises at least one of:

a bank summary, a credit card summary, and a brokerage financial summary.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising monitoring at least one of ECG, EKG, blood pulse, and motion pattern.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising using the monitoring to authenticate a user or to login into the smart phone or a remote system.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising aggregating data from applications on the watch into a single burst transmission or reception to save power.

11. The method of claim 1, further comprising displaying data from at least one social site when the user is meeting a person.

12. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing voice recognition on the smart phone and searching for information to display on the watch.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising looking curated content received from at least one social sources and displaying information on the wearable device.

14. The method of claim 1, further comprising paying for an item by swiping the wearable device over the item.

15. The method of claim 1, further comprising detecting arm and wrist motion of the user to select a desired operation on the wearable device.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising detecting the wrist and arm motion using the accelerometer and a human kinetic model.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising turning on the display in response to detecting that the user is viewing the wearable device based on the a wrist and arm motion.

18. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a human kinetic model to track health or calorie consumption.

19. The method of claim 1, further comprising applying a human kinetic model to control a user interface of the wearable device.

20. The method of claim 1, further comprising pushing a button during a conversation with a person to retrieve contents associated with the person, wherein the content is from the Internet or from a local computer file.

22. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending payment to another person wearing a second wearable device.

23. The method of claim 1, wherein the wearable device includes a camera, comprising capturing an image of food and estimating calorie consumption.

24. The method of claim 1, comprising detecting a wireless connection between the wearable device and the smart phone and if the wireless connection fails, notifying a user to locate the smart phone.

21. The method of claim 21, further comprising authenticating the person if the person is wearing a second wearable device and selectively sending content to the second wearable device.

25. A portable device, comprising

a wearable device including a wrist band or an eyeglass;

and

a processor to execute code for

accessing data a wide area network through a smart phone and a low power transceiver in the wearable device;

running one or more user installable applications on either the smart phone or the wearable device;

receiving a plurality of glanceable contents through the low power transceiver; and

periodically cycling through the received contents and displaying each content for a predetermined period on a display.