Method and apparatus for application optimization and collaboration of wearable devices

• US 9,729,998 B2
• Filed: 09/07/2016
• Issued: 08/08/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 09/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Motorola Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Kreitzer, Stuart S, Corretjer, Jesus F
• Primary Examiner(s): Urban, Edward
• Assistant Examiner(s): Justus, Ralph H
• Application Number:
  US15/258,777
• Publication Number:
  US 20160381488A1
• Time in Patent Office: 335 Days
• Field of Search: 4555756
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/385 Transceivers carried on the body, e.g. in helmets
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/50 Service provisioning or reconfiguring
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 84/12 WLAN [Wireless Local Area Networks]

Abstract

A method and apparatus associated with one or more wearable devices for a user includes utilizing the one or more wearable devices, for a set of functionality, in a first configuration by the user, wherein the user is in a specific role; communicating data, in a Personal Area Network (PAN), between the one or more wearable devices and between a mobile device associated with the user; and providing information to a recommendation engine, wherein the information is related to the specific role, the set of functionality, and the first configuration.

Claims

1. A method associated with a mobile device and a first set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices associated with a first user to provide a first set of functionality to the first user, the method comprising:

transmitting, by the mobile device to a wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, (i) identities of wearable devices in the first set of different types of wearable devices associated with the first user, (ii) application information identifying installed applications of the first set of different types of wearable devices, and (iii) configuration information identifying customizable device and/or application configurations of the first set of different types of wearable devices;

receiving, by the mobile device from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, recommended application information and configuration information and utilizing, by the mobile device, the first set of different types of wearable devices in an initial application and configuration state set forth by the recommended application information and configuration information to provide the first set of functionality to the first user;

detecting, by the mobile device, one of a removal of a particular wearable device from the first set of different types of wearable devices and an addition of a new wearable device to the first set of different types of wearable device, to form a second set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices; and

automatically adjusting a set of functionality provided by the second set of different types of wearable devices to the first user in a second configuration, determined as a function of the recommended application information and configuration information or second recommended application information and configuration information received from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, to either avoid duplicative functionality between the new wearable device and the remaining wearable devices in the second set of wearable devices or to recover functionality lost by the removing the particular wearable device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises detecting the removal of the particular wearable device from the first set of different types of wearable devices to form the second set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices and wherein automatically adjusting the set of functionality provided by the second set of different types of wearable devices to the first user in the second configuration comprises:

automatically adjusting a set of functionality provided by the second set of different types of wearable devices to the first user in a second configuration, determined as a function of the recommended application information and configuration information or second recommended application information and configuration information received from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, to recover functionality lost by the removing the particular wearable device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the automatic adjusting utilizes one or more security rules that are used to override recommendations of wearable device installed applications and customizable device and/or application configurations received from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

prior to receiving the recommended application information and configuration information from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, transmitting a request for the application information and configuration information to the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the recommended application information and configuration information is based on crowd-sourced data from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a particular wearable device of the first set of different types of wearable devices is a wrist worn device, and the method further comprising:

detecting a conventional watch using a magnetic sensor of the wrist worn device; and

adjusting a configuration of the wrist worn device based on the detecting to avoid duplicating functionality at the wrist worn device that is already provided by the conventional watch.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the detecting comprises detecting the addition of the new wearable device to the first set of different types of wearable device to form the second set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices and wherein automatically adjusting the set of functionality provided by the second set of different types of wearable devices to the first user in the second configuration comprises:

automatically adjusting a set of functionality provided by the second set of wearable devices to the first user in a second configuration, determined as a function of the recommended application information and configuration information or second recommended application information and configuration information received from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, to avoid duplicative functionality between the added particular wearable device and the remaining wearable devices in the second set of different types of wearable devices.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the first set of the plurality of different types of wearable devices comprises two or more of i) a vitals and/or activity tracking band, ii) a smart watch, iii) a smart phone, iv) a heads-up display, v) computerized eyeglasses, vi) a smart mask, and vii) smart gloves.

7. A mobile device communicatively coupled to a first set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices associated with a first user to provide a first set of functionality to the first user, the mobile device comprising:

a Wide Area Network (WAN) and/or a Wireless Local Area Network (WLAN) wireless interface communicatively coupled to a network;

a Personal Area Network (PAN) wireless interface communicatively coupled to the first set of different types of wearable devices;

a processor communicatively coupled to the PAN wireless interface and the WAN and/or WLAN wireless interface; and

memory storing instructions that, when executed, cause the processor to;

form the PAN with the first set of different types of wearable devices via the PAN wireless interface;

transmit, via the WAN and/or WLAN wireless interface, data to a wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, including (i) identities of wearable devices in the first set of different types of wearable devices associated with the first user, (ii) application information identifying installed applications of the first set of different types of wearable devices, and (iii) configuration information identifying customizable device and/or application configurations of the first set of different types of wearable devices;

receive, via the WAN and/or WLAN wireless interface by the mobile device from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, recommended application information and configuration information and utilize, via the PAN, the first set of different types of wearable devices in an initial application and configuration state set forth by the recommended application information and configuration information to provide the first set of functionality to the first user;

detect one of a removal of a particular wearable device from the first set of different types of wearable devices and an addition of a new wearable device to the first set of different types of wearable device, to form a second set of a plurality of different types of wearable devices; and

automatically adjust a set of functionality provided by the second set of different types of wearable devices to the first user in a second configuration, determined as a function of the recommended application information and configuration information or second recommended application information and configuration information received from the wearable device set application and configuration recommendation engine, to either avoid duplicative functionality between the new wearable device and the remaining wearable devices in the second set of wearable devices or to recover functionality lost by the removing the particular wearable device.