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Methods, systems, and products for monitoring athletic performance

  • US 9,415,265 B2
  • Filed: 10/22/2010
  • Issued: 08/16/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2007
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of monitoring athletic performance, comprising:

  • receiving, by a device having a global positioning system, global positioning system information indicating the device is in movement;

    determining, by the device, a velocity of the movement and a distance traversed during the movement based on the global positioning system information received from the global positioning system;

    retrieving, from a local memory operating in the device, a threshold velocity below which exercise is assumed;

    retrieving, from the local memory, a cumulative distance associated with the device;

    comparing, by the device, the velocity of the movement determined from the global positioning system information to the threshold velocity retrieved from the local memory;

    determining, by the device, the velocity of the movement is less than the threshold velocity;

    adding, by the device, the distance traversed determined from the global positioning system information to the cumulative distance in response to the velocity of the movement being less than the threshold velocity;

    querying, by the device, an electronic geography database for the global positioning system information received from the global positioning system, the electronic geography database having electronic database associations between different topographical information and different global positioning system information including the global positioning system information received from the global positioning system;

    retrieving, by the device, topographical information from the electronic geography database, the topographical information having an electronic database association to the global positioning system information;

    querying, by the device, an electronic database of difficulty for the topographical information retrieved from the electronic geography database, the electronic database of difficulty having other electronic database associations between different levels of difficulty and the different topographical information including the topographical information retrieved from the electronic geography database;

    retrieving, by the device, a level of difficulty from the electronic database of difficulty, the level of difficulty having another electronic database association with the topographical information retrieved from the electronic geography database; and

    storing, by the device in the local memory, an electronic association between the level of difficulty to the distance traversed during the movement.

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