QUICK LOGIN TO USER PROFILE ON EXERCISE MACHINE

• US 20150082408A1
• Filed: 09/25/2013
• Published: 03/19/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/17/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Sony Corporation (Sony Group Corp.)
• Inventors: Yeh, Sabrina Tai-Chen, Hironaka, Takashi, Young, David Andrew, Friedlander, Steven
• Application Number:
  US14/037,263
• Publication Number:
  US 20150082408A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 726/9
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Abstract

A personal mobile device such as a music player or mobile telephone is equipped with the capability to easily authenticate users into a public gym and into individual exercise equipment at the gym.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

at least one computer readable storage medium bearing instructions executable by a processor;

at least one processor configured for accessing the computer readable storage medium to execute the instructions to configure the processor for;

providing identifying data of a user automatically to an exercise facility using near field communication (NFC) facilitated by at least one NFC element communicating with the processor as the user enters the facility; and

providing identifying data of the user automatically to at least one exercise machine in the exercise facility using NFC.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the processor when executing the instructions is configured for:

providing exercise information to at least one processor in the exercise facility using NFC.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the exercise information includes a schedule of machine use in the facility, and machines on the scheduled are automatically locked out to use by people other than the user according to the schedule of machine use.

4. The device of claim 3, wherein the processor when executing the instructions is configured for unlocking a first exercise machine in the exercise facility by establishing NFC pairing with the first exercise machine.

5. A system for an exercise facility comprising:

one or more computer readable storage media bearing instructions executable by a processor;

one or more processors each being configured for accessing at least one of the one or more computer readable storage media to execute the instructions to configure the processors for;

receiving identifying data of a user automatically using near field communication (NFC) facilitated by at least one NFC element communicating with the one or more processor as the user enters the facility; and

receiving identifying data of the user automatically at at least one exercise machine in the exercise facility using NFC.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the one or more processors when executing the instructions are configured for permitting the user to access the facility based only upon receiving the identifying data via NFC without requiring the user to manually sign in or manually authenticate himself.

7. The system of claim 5, wherein at least one processor in the system when executing the instructions is configured for preloading preferred settings of the user onto one or more exercise machines in the system responsive to receiving identifying data of the user automatically using NFC.

8. The system of claim 5, wherein at least one processor in the system when executing the instructions is configured for playing music from a play list associated with the user on at least one speaker in the facility responsive to receiving identifying data of the user automatically using NFC.

9. The system of claim 5, wherein at least one processor in the system when executing the instructions is configured for sending, to a user account, machine operational data reflecting the user'"'"'s activity on the machine, the user account being identified in the identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC.

10. The system of claim 5, wherein at least one processor in the system when executing the instructions is configured for, based on an exercise plan in a user'"'"'s account identified in the identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC, automatically reserving a next exercise machine for use by the user.

11. The system of claim 5, wherein at least one processor in the system when executing the instructions is configured for, based on an exercise plan in a user'"'"'s account identified in the identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC, automatically prompting the user to move to a next machine in the exercise plan.

12. A method comprising:

authenticating a user device at an exercise facility using NFC; and

automatically locking out exercise machines at the exercise facility for exclusive use of a user of the user device at specific times based at least in part on information received using NFC.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

permitting the user to access the exercise facility based only upon receiving identifying data via NFC without requiring the user to manually sign in or manually authenticate himself.

14. The method of claim 12, further comprising:

preloading preferred settings of the user onto one or more exercise machines in the exercise facility responsive to receiving identifying data of the user automatically using NFC.

15. The method of claim 12, comprising playing music from a play list associated with the user on at least one speaker in the exercise facility responsive to receiving identifying data of the user automatically using NFC.

16. The method of claim 12, comprising sending, to a user account, machine operational data reflecting the user'"'"'s activity on the machine, the user account being identified in identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC.

17. The method of claim 12, comprising, based on an exercise plan in a user'"'"'s account identified in identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC, automatically reserving a next exercise machine for use by the user.

18. The method of claim 12, comprising, based on an exercise plan in a user'"'"'s account identified in identifying data of the user received automatically using NFC, automatically prompting the user to move to a next machine in the exercise plan.