SYSTEM INCLUDING PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER AND PHYSIOLOGIC DATA GATHERING DEVICE

• US 20070270663A1
• Filed: 12/01/2006
• Published: 11/22/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 05/22/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Apple Inc.
• Original Assignee: Apple Computer Incorporated (Apple Inc.)
• Inventors: NG, Stanley C., FADELL, Anthony M., MARRIOTT, Greg
• Application Number:
  US11/566,072
• Publication Number:
  US 20070270663A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 600/300
• CPC Class Codes: A61B 5/0002 Remote monitoring of patients using telemetry, e.g. transmission of vital signals via a communication network A61B5/07 takes precedence; transmission systems for measured values G08C; transmission H04B; transmission of digital information H04L; wireless communication networks H04W

Abstract

An integrated system for handling physiologic data includes a portable device (such as a portable media player) configured to wirelessly receive the physiologic data of a person. A host computer is configured to be detachedly coupled to the portable device, to receive the physiologic data from the portable device and to provide, to the portable device, a result of processing the physiologic data (such as suggested behavior of the user).

Claims

1. An integrated system for handling physiologic data, comprising:

a portable device configured to wirelessly receive the physiologic data of a person; and

a host computer configured to be detachedly coupled to the portable device, to receive the physiologic data from the portable device and to provide, to the portable device, a result of processing the physiologic data.

2. The integrated system of claim 1, wherein:

the result of processing the physiologic data includes suggested behavior of the user.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the suggested behavior of the user is a suggested exercise regimen.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the portable device is a portable media player; and

the suggested behavior includes at least one suggested media playback mix.

5. The system of claim 2, wherein:

the host computer is further configured to provide the physiologic data to a service for processing, wherein the service returns, to the host computer for providing to the portable device, the result of processing the physiologic data.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein:

the portable device is a smart wireless telephone including integrated media player functionality.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

a physiologic data gathering device configured to communicate the physiologic data to the portable device via a wireless connection.

8. The system of claim 7, further comprising:

a communication accessory electrically coupled to the portable device and via which the wireless connection is formed from the physiologic data gathering device.

9. An integrated system for handling physiologic data, comprising:

a physiologic data gathering device configured to generate physiologic data of a person based on sensing the physiology of the person;

a portable media player device configured to wirelessly receive the physiologic data of a person from the physiologic data gathering device,

wherein the portable media player device is configured to provide cues to a user in a manner integrated with playback of media.

10. The integrated system of claim 9, further comprising:

a host computer configured to be detachedly coupled to the portable device, to receive the physiologic data from the portable device and to provide, to the portable device, a result of processing the physiologic data.

11. The integrated system of claim 10, wherein:

the result of processing the physiologic data includes an indication of the cues to the user.

12. The integrated system of claim 9, further comprising:

a centralized data storage service configured to receive the physiologic data from the user and from other users.

13. The integrated system of claim 12, further comprising:

a host computer configured to be detachedly coupled to the portable device, to receive the physiologic data from the portable device and to provide the physiologic data to the centralized data storage service.

14. The integrated system of claim 10, wherein:

the host computer is further configured to interoperate with a media commerce service for purchase of the media for playback by the portable media player.

15. The integrated system of claim 14, wherein:

the media purchased for playback by the portable media player is purchased, in interoperation with the media commerce service, in association with templates of the cues, to facilitate the cues being provided to the user in the manner integrated with the playback of the media.