ALARM SETTING AND INTERFACING WITH GESTURE CONTACT INTERFACING CONTROLS

• US 20150102923A1
• Filed: 12/22/2014
• Published: 04/16/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Fitbit, Inc. (Alphabet Inc.)
• Inventors: Messenger, Jayson, Yuen, Shelten
• Granted Patent: US 9,646,481 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/527
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0214 of power generation or supply
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2560/0242 adapted to measure environmental factors, e.g. temperature, pollution
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 2562/0219 Inertial sensors, e.g. accelerometers, gyroscopes, tilt switches
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0022 Monitoring a patient using a global network, e.g. telephone networks, internet
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/02055 Simultaneously evaluating both cardiovascular condition and temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/021 Measuring pressure in heart or blood vessels A61B5/0205 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/024 Detecting, measuring or recording pulse rate or heart rate A61B5/0205, A61B5/021 take precedence
• 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 5/222 combined with detection or measurement of physiological parameters, e.g. heart rate
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4809 Sleep detection, i.e. determining whether a subject is asleep or not
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4812 Detecting sleep stages or cycles
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/4815 Sleep quality
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/6838 Clamps or clips
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/7264 Classification of physiological signals or data, e.g. using neural networks, statistical classifiers, expert systems or fuzzy systems neural networks per se G06N3/00; expert systems per se G06N5/00
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G08B 25/008 Alarm setting and unsetting, i.e. arming or disarming of the security system
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

A device configured for capture of activity data for a user includes a housing, a sensor, a motor, a memory, and a processor. The sensor is disposed in the housing to track activity data of the user. The motor causes vibration of the housing. The memory stores an alarm setting that defines a time of day for triggering an alarm on the device. The processor activates the alarm upon reaching the time of day defined by the alarm setting, with the alarm causing the motor to produce the vibration of the housing. The sensor, which is interfaced with the processor, is configured to detect a current level of activity of the user. The processor is configured to automatically deactivate the alarm if the current level of activity qualifies for deactivating the alarm. The deactivating of the alarm causes the vibration of the device to be suspended.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

receiving an alarm setting that defines a time of day for triggering an alarm on a device for tracking activity data of a user;

activating the alarm upon reaching the time of day defined by the alarm setting, the alarm producing a vibration of the device;

determining a level of activity of the user detected by the device for tracking activity data of the user when the alarm is activated;

automatically deactivating the alarm if the level of activity qualifies for deactivating the alarm, the deactivating causing the vibration of the device to be suspended, wherein the method is executed by a processor.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the vibration being suspended transitions the alarm into one of a snooze mode or an off mode.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the snooze mode continues for a predetermined period of time before reactivating the alarm;

and the method further includes;

transitioning into the snooze mode one or more times until entering the off mode or processing the vibration for a threshold period of time.

4. The method of claim 2, wherein the vibration being suspended transitions the alarm into the off mode.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the level of activity that qualifies for deactivating the alarm is a predetermined number of steps.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the predetermined number of steps is detected after the alarm is activated.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the predetermined number of steps is detected during a period of time that includes a time period before the alarm is activated.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the alarm setting is received wirelessly from a computing device.

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the alarm setting is transferred from a server to the computing device over the Internet and from the computing device to the device via a wireless Bluetooth connection.

10. A device configured for capture of activity data for a user, comprising:

a housing;

a motor for causing vibration of the housing of the device;

a sensor disposed in the housing to track activity data of the user;

a memory for storing an alarm setting that defines a time of day for triggering an alarm on the device; and

a processor for activating the alarm upon reaching the time of day defined by the alarm setting, the alarm causing the motor to produce the vibration of the housing, the sensor being interfaced with the processor and configured to detect a current level of activity of the user, and the processor being configured to automatically deactivate the alarm if the current level of activity qualifies for deactivating the alarm, the deactivating causing the vibration of the device to be suspended.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the housing is part of a wearable wrist attachable structure, or an attachable structure that can be carried or worn by the user.

12. The device of claim 10, wherein the wearable wrist attachable structure is defined at least partially from a plastic material.

13. The device of claim 10, wherein the housing further includes wireless communication logic.

14. The device of claim 13, wherein the wireless communication logic includes one of WiFi processing logic, or Bluetooth (BT) processing logic, or radio processing logic.

15. The device of claim 13, wherein the wireless communication logic is configured to pair with a portable computing device or a computer, and the portable computing device or the computer is configured for communication over the Internet with a server, the server having processing instructions for configuring the alarm settings.

16. The device of claim 10, wherein the vibration being suspended transitions the alarm into one of a snooze mode or an off mode.

17. The device of claim 16, wherein the processor configures the snooze mode to continue for a predetermined period of time before reactivating the alarm, and the processor transitions into the snooze mode one or more times until entering the off mode or processing the vibration for a threshold period of time.

18. One or more non-transitory computer readable media including instructions which, when executed by a processor, perform the following operations:

receive an alarm setting that defines a time of day for triggering an alarm on a device for tracking activity data of a user;

activate the alarm upon reaching the time of day defined by the alarm setting, the alarm producing a vibration of the device;

determine a level of activity of the user detected by the device for tracking activity data of the user when the alarm is activated; and

automatically deactivate the alarm if the level of activity qualifies for deactivating the alarm, the deactivating causing the vibration of the device to be suspended.

19. The computer readable media of claim 18, wherein the vibration being suspended transitions the alarm into one of a snooze mode or an off mode.

20. The computer readable media of claim 19, wherein the snooze mode continues for a predetermined period of time before reactivating the alarm;

and the operations performed further include;

transitioning into the snooze mode one or more times until entering the off mode or processing the vibration for a threshold period of time.

21. The computer readable media of claim 18, wherein the vibration being suspended transitions the alarm into the off mode.

22. The computer readable media of claim 18, wherein the level of activity that qualifies for deactivating the alarm is a predetermined number of steps.

23. The computer readable media of claim 22, wherein the predetermined number of steps is detected after the alarm is activated.

24. The computer readable media of claim 22, wherein the predetermined number of steps is detected during a period of time that includes a time period before the alarm is activated.