Monitoring fitness using a mobile device

• US 9,808,670 B2
• Filed: 11/23/2016
• Issued: 11/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 08/09/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Hoffman, Michael T., Crankson, Kwamina, Nims, Jason, Orenstein, Michael Levi, White, Kristen Laina
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US15/360,512
• Publication Number:
  US 20170072264A1
• Time in Patent Office: 349 Days
• Field of Search: 700 91, 700 92, 434236
• 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 5/7221 Determining signal validity, reliability or quality A61B5/7207 and A61B5/7217 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0025 Tracking the path or location of one or more users, e.g. players of a game
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2024/0068 Comparison to target or threshold, previous performance or not real time comparison to other individuals
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2071/0691 Maps, e.g. yardage maps or electronic maps
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/12 Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/30 Speed
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2220/40 Acceleration
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/06 heartbeat rate only
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2230/50 temperature
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0021 Tracking a path or terminating locations
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 24/0062 Monitoring athletic performances, e.g. for determining the work of a user on an exercise apparatus, the completed jogging or cycling distance
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0622 Visual, audio or audio-visual systems for entertaining, instructing or motivating the user
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 21/20 Instruments for performing navigational calculations G01C21/24, G01C21/26 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G01C 22/006 Pedometers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 : for remote operation
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 80/00 : ICT specially adapted for facilitating communication between medical practitioners or patients, e.g. for collaborative diagnosis, therapy or health monitoring
• CPC Class Codes: G16Z 99/00 : Subject matter not provided for in other main groups of this subclass
• CPC Class Codes: Y02A 90/10 : Information and communication technologies [ICT] supporting adaptation to climate change, e.g. for weather forecasting or climate simulation

Abstract

Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site.

Claims

1. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

receive, from an athletic activity monitoring system remote from the apparatus, athletic activity data recorded during an athletic activity performed by a user;

select an athletic activity descriptor object based on the received athletic activity data, wherein the athletic activity descriptor object describes a type of action performed by the user during the athletic activity;

determine an activity condition based on the received athletic activity data;

determine whether the activity condition meets a first sharing threshold; and

responsive to determining that the activity condition meets the first sharing threshold, generate an athletic activity entry including generating a message with the athletic activity descriptor object on a network page of a social networking site, wherein the athletic activity entry and the network page is viewable by at least one other user.

2. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity condition includes an athletic activity metric range.

3. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity condition includes a frequency of athletic activity entries shared on the network page of the social networking site.

4. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity condition includes whether the athletic activity was performed alone or with one or more other users.

5. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity condition includes at least one of whether a goal was achieved or whether a personal best was exceeded.

6. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the activity condition is determined based on the type of action performed by the user during the athletic activity.

7. The apparatus of claim 1, further comprising an activity tracking application configured to execute within the social networking site.

8. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein selection of the athletic activity descriptor object includes:

determining a value of an athletic activity metric recorded in the athletic activity data;

determining whether the value is above a threshold value; and

in response to determining that the value is equal to or above the threshold value, selecting a first athletic activity descriptor object; and

in response to determining that the value is below the threshold value, selecting a second athletic activity descriptor object.

9. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein the athletic activity descriptor object is selected from a plurality of athletic activity descriptor objects, wherein each of the athletic activity descriptor objects is specific to a single type of athletic activity.

10. The apparatus of claim 1, wherein generating the athletic activity entry includes:

determine a second activity condition based on the received athletic activity data; and

determine whether the second activity condition meets a second sharing threshold; and

wherein the message is generated on the social networking site responsive to determining that the activity condition meets the first sharing threshold and determining that the second activity condition meets the second sharing threshold.

11. An apparatus comprising:

a processor; and

a non-transitory computer-readable medium storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to;

record an athletic activity performed by a first user;

provide a sharing option configured to control whether the recorded athletic activity will be shared, wherein sharing includes transmitting workout information associated with the recorded athletic activity to at least one social networking site, wherein the sharing option is configured to control sharing of workout information associated with a first set of one or more conditions under which sharing is permitted; and

in response to receiving a first user selection to share workout information associated with the recorded athletic activity to the at least one social networking site, provide a tag option to tag a summary of one or more metrics from the recorded athletic activity with identifiers of one or more other users.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the tag option provides a list of one or more other users associated with sharing workout information with one or more conditions similar to the recorded athletic activity of the first user.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the tag option includes a message prompt configured to receive a message to be presented to the one or more other users on the at least one social networking site.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

transmit the workout information to a social networking site;

after transmitting the workout information to the social networking site, receive a request to deactivate sharing of the workout information; and

transmit a modification request to remove the workout information from the social networking site.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the first set of one or more conditions under which sharing is permitted includes at least:

a time of day, a frequency of sharing and a range of activity metric values.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

transmit the workout information to a social networking site, wherein the workout information includes map information identifying a route used by the first user to perform the athletic activity.

17. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the map information includes geographic coordinates for a start location and an end location.

18. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the map information includes an image of a map identifying a route used by the first user in performing the athletic activity.

19. The apparatus of claim 16, wherein the map information includes a link to a network site displaying a map identifying a location at which the athletic activity was performed by the first user.

20. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the apparatus is further caused to:

automatically generate a social network message based on one or more of a type of athletic activity performed by the first user, the one or more metrics and a location at which the athletic activity was performed by the user.