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Portable monitoring devices and methods of operating the same

  • US 9,098,991 B2
  • Filed: 09/17/2013
  • Issued: 08/04/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/15/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A device comprising:

  • one or more motion sensors for sensing motion of the device and providing activity data indicative of the sensed motion;

    one or more feedback devices for providing indications to a user based on the activity data, the one or more feedback devices including one or more vibrating devices for providing vibrating indications to the user;

    a memory for storing one or more activity goals;

    one or more processors for;

    monitoring the activity data;

    determining one or more activity metrics based on the activity data;

    accessing one or more of the stored activity goals;

    setting, selecting or modifying one or more vibration patterns or other vibrational characteristics of the vibrating indications associated with respective ones of the stored activity goals based on user input; and

    causing one or more of the vibrating devices to produce a vibrating indication as set, selected or modified based on the user input to indicate to the user that a particular one of the activity goals has been achieved by the user based on one or more of the activity metrics, the vibrating indication being produced without displaying a corresponding indication unless additional user input is received from the user after the vibrating indication has begun; and

    a portable housing that encloses at least portions of the motion sensors, the processors and the feedback devices.

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