CN104516844A - Methods, Systems and Devices for Generating Real-Time Activity Data Updates to Display Devices - Google Patents

Abstract

Methods, systems and devices are provided for displaying monitored activity data in substantial real-time on a screen of a computing device. One example method includes capturing motion data associated with activity of a user via an activity tracking device. The motion data is quantified into a plurality of metrics associated with the activity of the user. The method storing the motion data in storage of the activity tracking device. The method connects the activity tracking device with a computing device over a wireless data connection, and sending motion data to the computing device for display of a metric, of the plurality of metrics, on a graphical user interface of an activity application of the computing device. The sending of motion data to the computing device is configured to continue while additional motion data is captured and sent to the computing device. The metric displayed on the graphical user interface is shown to change in an increasing numerical or graphical form in substantial real-time.

Description

For display device produces the method for real-time activity Data Update, system and equipment

Technical field

The disclosure relates to the activity data for catching in a period of time and the data between tracking equipment and client device is transmitted synchronized system and method.

Background technology

In recent years, demand that is healthy and body-building is increased substantially.This growth be owing to understanding the benefit of good body-building custom for overall state of wellness better.Regrettably, although current modern cultural brings many new technology, as internet, connection device and computing machine, the activity of people has become fewer and feweri.In addition, many office works require that the long-term sitting of people is before computer screen, This further reduces the activity of individual.In addition, many current amusements select to relate to check content of multimedia, computing machine social networks and other type relate to the mutual of computing machine.Although this computer activity can have into validity and recreational, this activity often reduces the overall body movement of individual.

In order to provide measurement to the user paying close attention to healthy and body-building or their activity or the method for whether shortage activity are described, usually body-building tracker can be used.Body-building tracker, for the activity of measuring, as walking, motion, running, sleep, without activity, is above taken exercise by bike, in elliptical machine (elliptical trainer).Usually, the data of being collected by this class body-building tracker can be sent to computing equipment and can check on the computing device.But these type of data provide with the basic accumulation form of the activity data having complexity or obscure interface usually.In addition, the renewal between tracker and client device needs the synchronization scenario of wiring connector and/or complexity usually.

Embodiment described herein produces just in this context.

Summary of the invention

The embodiment that the disclosure describes is provided for following the tracks of user activity data and makes system, device, computer-readable medium and the method that activity can show on the computing device haply in real time.Shown activity data can be to be measured, described in measure to be shown as and be engaged in followed the tracks of activity along with user and numerically increase on the computing device.In some embodiments, data not necessarily numerically increase, but can change simply or upgrade.In an example, when user's walking, step number is measured and can be shown as along with user's walking and change and/or increase.In one embodiment, the transfer rate for sending real-time update scales up by the connection interval of data being transmitted or reduces and sets, and this depends on the type/amount of the data that will transmit according to update condition.

In one embodiment, a kind of method is provided.Described method comprises catches via movable tracking equipment the exercise data be associated with User Activity.Exercise data is quantized into be associated with User Activity multiple to measure.Exercise data is stored in the memory storage of movable tracking equipment by described method.Described method connects via wireless data and is connected with computing equipment by movable tracking equipment, and exercise data is sent to computing equipment and measures with display one on the graphic user interface of the applications active of computing equipment, multiplely to measure.Exercise data is sent to computing equipment to be configured to continue when additional movements data are captured and are sent to computing equipment.Measuring of showing on a graphical user interface is shown as and changes with incremental value or graphic form in real time haply.Described method is performed by processor.

In another embodiment, provide a kind of equipment, this equipment is configured to catch User Activity and causes activity data to show in real time haply.Described equipment comprises shell and is placed in shell to catch the sensor of the exercise data be associated with User Activity via equipment.Exercise data is passed in time and is captured, and exercise data is quantized to define be associated with User Activity multiple measures.Described equipment comprises the storer for storing caught exercise data.Described equipment also comprises and connects via wireless data the processor be connected with computing equipment by described equipment for managing.Exercise data is sent to computing equipment by processor management, measures, multiplely to measure to show one on the graphic user interface of the applications active of computing equipment.Exercise data is sent to computing equipment to be configured to continue when additional movements data are captured and are sent to computing equipment.Measuring of being configured to show on a graphical user interface is shown as and changes with incremental value or graphic form in real time haply.

In another embodiment, a kind of wrist attached peripheral device is disclosed.Described equipment comprises battery, for generation of the altitude gauge of altitude information, for catching the accelerometer of the exercise data be associated with User Activity, and for showing the screen of data.Data comprise measuring of exercise data that quantification catches and altitude information.There is the screen that dead front (dead front) operates be configured to keep closed condition until enable.Described equipment comprise further be provided for can with the telecommunication circuit of computing equipment radio communication, with for storing caught exercise data and the storer of altitude information.What comprise further is the processor of connection for managing wrist attached peripheral device and computing equipment.Processor manages further and sends data to computing equipment, measures to show on the graphic user interface of the applications active of computing equipment.Send data to computing equipment to be configured to continue for when sending at displayable excessive data.Show on a graphical user interface measure to be shown as changes in state in response to the data being sent to described equipment from wrist attached peripheral device are real-time haply.

Also be provided for the computer-readable medium storing the programmed instruction that can be performed by processor, described programmed instruction is used for the data transmission between management activity tracking equipment and computing equipment client.

Other side becomes obvious by from the detailed description carried out below in conjunction with accompanying drawing, drawings illustrates the principle of the embodiment that the disclosure describes.

Accompanying drawing explanation

The various embodiments that the disclosure describes are by understanding best with reference to the description carried out below in conjunction with accompanying drawing.

Figure 1A shows the block scheme according to the movable tracking equipment of one embodiment of the invention.

Figure 1B illustrates the example of the movable tracking equipment according to one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 1 C illustrates another example of the movable tracking equipment according to one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 2 illustrates the example of the movable tracking equipment according to one embodiment of the invention, and described movable tracking equipment comprises the example components of activity for tracking equipment and motion, and the associated interface of display screen.

Fig. 3 illustrates communicating with remote equipment and the example of the movable tracking equipment docked with server according to one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 4 A to Fig. 4 C illustrates the embodiment of movable tracking equipment, traffic operation between client device and back-end server.

Fig. 5 be show according to first of one embodiment of the invention connect interval setting and second be connected interval set between the figure of switching at runtime.

Fig. 6 illustrates the figure that various periods when transmitting can occur between movable tracking equipment and client device shown according to one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 7 illustrates the process flow diagram be associated with one embodiment of the invention, wherein connects interval and depends on the update condition that detects between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment (client device) and scale up or reduce.

Fig. 8 illustrates the process flow diagram of one embodiment of the invention.

Fig. 9 illustrates the example of computing equipment according to one embodiment of the invention and described devices communicating.

Figure 10 A illustrates the example of user, and movable tracking equipment is worn in his wrist by described user, and conducts interviews to computing equipment.

Figure 10 B illustrates the example wearing the computing equipment in calculating glasses form according to the user of one embodiment of the invention.

Figure 11 illustrates user's speeling stairway according to one embodiment of the invention and realizes the example that floor counting increases.

Figure 12 illustrates that user is engaged in another example of body movement.

Figure 13 illustrates the example can being caught by movable tracking means or be collected all kinds activity of user according to various embodiments of the present invention.

Embodiment

The embodiment that the disclosure describes is provided for following the tracks of user activity data and makes system, device, computer-readable medium and the method that activity can show on the computing device haply in real time.Shown activity data can be to be measured, described in measure to be shown as and be engaged in followed the tracks of activity along with user and change on the computing device and/or numerically increase.Such as, when user's walking, step number is measured and can be shown as along with user's walking and change and increase.In one embodiment, be sent to movable tracking equipment and can be depending on update condition from the connection interval that movable tracking equipment sends out data carry out bi-directional scaling by being used for data.

Computing equipment can be the computing machine that executed activity follows the tracks of application program (APP).Computing equipment can adopt any form, if it can process information, loading and executive utility, and can with movable tracking equipment radio communication.For citing object, computing equipment can be computing machine, flat computer, smart mobile phone, flat board, laptop computer, desk-top computer, wrist-watch computing machine, eyeglass computer or addressable memory and has any equipment of processing power.

Connect the bi-directional scaling at interval to make it possible to dynamically set data transfer rate between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment based on the update condition determined.Update condition can comprise the application program (such as, movable tracking application program) detected on computing equipment and open, thus causes the first transfer rate to be set.First transfer rate has the connection interval scaled up, and it allows the package (such as, changing package transmitted frequency) sending upper frequency between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment.

The connection interval scaled up of the first transfer rate makes it possible to quickly larger data block and/or data record are downloaded to computing equipment from movable tracking equipment, so as can be presented at application program do not open or computing equipment be not in the wireless connections of movable tracking equipment within the scope of time collect follow the tracks of or institute's monitoring information.In some embodiments, data are transmitted to carry out firmware renewal to equipment when the connection interval scaled up also makes it possible in needs, plan or requires to upgrade.In one configuration, if update condition specified campaign tracking equipment produces the data that can be sent to computing equipment when application program is opened, so connecting interval can be scaled with the second data transfer rate set between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment.In one embodiment, during the first transfer rate, the transmission from the data of movable tracking equipment is directly set to website, such as, and the memory storage that the website relating to the account of activity tracking information with management is associated.In some embodiments, computing equipment serves as the transfer canal between movable tracking equipment and website.

Second transfer rate for transmitting renewal so that can define about monitor or catch measuring of activity data.In scaled connection interval, data transfer rate is slower than the connection interval scaled up, but the amount of the data that will transmit is usually less or be just in time detect/the data of monitoring by movable tracking equipment.Therefore, second transfer rate at scaled connection interval is enough to the renewal of the activity data caught by movable tracking equipment, monitor or collected to be sent to computing equipment.Transmitting to upgrade makes it possible to when activity has just occurred and can keep the connection between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment, is shown in real time haply by this activity data by computing equipment process on the screen of computing equipment.In one embodiment, second transfer rate is enough to make external device (ED) (such as, computing equipment, smart mobile phone, flat board, laptop computer, desk-top computer, wrist-watch computing machine, eyeglass computer etc.) can serve as realtime curve device.

In addition, the data transmitted are not necessarily exercise data or activity data, but data can comprise the data of any type, as height or relative height data, barometric information, heart rate data, temperature data, alert data, target data, historical state data, processed data, raw data etc.

In addition, connecting although computing equipment may have access to internet usually, is not that movable tracking equipment all needs internet to be connected with the transmission each time between computing equipment.When computing equipment is connected to internet, computing equipment can with by data syn-chronization to server.In one embodiment, server can be the virtualized server etc. in one or more distributed server, data center, distributive data center.In one embodiment, server executed activity management application program, thus measuring of user account can being accessed be associated with movable tracking equipment.

It should be noted that and describe and illustrate many inventions in this article.The invention is not restricted to its any single aspect or embodiment, be also not limited to any combination and/or the change of these aspects and/or embodiment.In addition, each aspect of the present invention and/or its embodiment can be used alone, or combinationally use with one or more other side of the present invention and/or its embodiment.For simplicity, those change and combination in many changes and combination will not discuss individually in this article.

In addition, describing and illustrating in process of the present invention, illustrating various circuit, architecture, structure, parts, function and/or element and its combination and/or change.Should be appreciated that, contain except clearly describe and illustrate those except circuit, architecture, structure, parts, function and/or element and its combination and/or change, and all within the scope of the present invention.

Figure 1A shows the block scheme according to the movable tracking equipment 100 of one embodiment of the invention.Movable tracking equipment 100 is included in shell, and described shell can be worn by user or grasp.Shell can be muffetee, equipment clip, can wearable device form, or can be grasped in the hand of user by user or remain in pocket or be attached to user's body.Movable tracking equipment 100 comprises part of appliance 102, and it can be logic, memory storage and glue logic, one or more processor, microelectronic component and docking circuit form.In an example, parts 102 comprise processor 106, storer 108, wireless transceiver 110, user interface 114, biometric sensors 116 and environmental sensor 118.

Environmental sensor 118 can be motion detection sensor form.In some embodiments, motion sensor can be following one or more: accelerometer, or gyroscope, or rotary encoder, or calorie survey sensor, or thermal measurement sensor, or humidity measuring transducer, or displacement transducer, or ultrasonic sensor, or passometer, or altitude gauge, or linear-movement pickup, or angular movement sensor, or multiaxial motion sensor or its combination.Biometric sensors 116 may be defined as the physiological characteristic of the user measuring use activity tracking equipment 100.User interface 114 provides the mode communicated with movable tracking equipment 100 in response to user interactions 104.User interactions 104 can be the physical contact form such as (be such as not limited to, rap, slide, rub, repeatedly rap, gesture).

In some embodiments, user interface 114 is configured to accept the user interactions 104 in noncontact input form.Noncontact input can via proximity transducer, button, touch sensitive screen input, graphic user interface input, phonetic entry, Speech input etc.Movable tracking equipment 100 can use wireless transceiver 110 to communicate with client and/or server 112.Wireless transceiver 110 permission activity tracking equipment 100 uses the wireless connections of being enabled by radio communication logic to communicate.Radio communication logic can in the circuit form with radio communication ability.Radio communication ability can be Wi-Fi ^tMconnection, BLUETOOTH ^tMconnection, low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMthe wireless sharing (tethering) of connection or other form any or near-field communication form.In other embodiments, movable tracking equipment 100 can use wired connection (displaying) and other computing device communication.As mentioned, environmental sensor 118 can the motion of detected activity tracking equipment 100.

Motion can be User Activity, as walking, running, speeling stairway etc.Motion can be also the physical contact form that any surface of movable tracking equipment 110 receives, as long as environmental sensor 118 can detect this type games caused by physical contact.Explain in more detail as following, physical contact can in pointing the form of once rapping or repeatedly rapping on the shell of movable tracking equipment 100.

Figure 1B illustrates the example of the movable tracking equipment 100 had in the shell 130 can wearing wrist attached peripheral device form.The sensor of movable tracking equipment 100 can detect the motion of applying and reception on the surface 120 of shell 130 as mentioned above, as physical contact.In shown example, physical contact 124 is in 120 once rapping or repeatedly rap form on the surface.In one embodiment, part of appliance 102 is contained in shell 130.Part of appliance 102 is integrated into the position changeable in shell 130.For example, part of appliance 102 can be integrated in the various positions around shell 130, and is not limited to the core of wrist attached peripheral device.In some embodiments, part of appliance 102 can be integrated in intelligent watch equipment or with it and combine.

In other embodiments, part of appliance 102 is positioned the center of wrist attached peripheral device haply, below the position residing for display screen 122 or near.In the example illustrated, shell 130 also comprises button 126.Button 126 can be pressed to start display screen 122, navigate to the various of display on screen 122 measures, or turns off screen 122.

Fig. 1 C illustrates another example of the movable tracking equipment 100 according to one embodiment of the invention.The form-factor (form factor) of movable tracking equipment 100 is shown as can pointing device, and it comprises screen 122, button 126 and is integrated in the part of appliance 102 in shell [[130']] 130.Shell [[130']] 130 can comprise clip, and it allows the clothes or the article that are attached to user, or in the pocket only equipment being placed on user or clamper.Therefore, the physical contact 124 shown about Figure 1B also can be implemented on the surface 120 of the movable tracking equipment 100 of Fig. 1 C.Therefore, should be appreciated that the form-factor of movable tracking equipment 100 can adopt various configuration and should not be limited to exemplary configuration provided herein.

Fig. 2 illustrates the example of the movable tracking equipment 100 of Figure 1A, and it shows for the activity of tracking equipment and some additional exemplary parts of motion, and the interface be associated with display screen 122.In this example, the finger of user be used in movable tracking equipment 100 any surperficial 120 on rap and provide physical contact 124.Physical contact will cause movable tracking equipment 100 to respond when the sensor 156 by movable tracking equipment 100 senses, and therefore on display screen 122, will provide some to measure.In one embodiment, the example of display screen 122 can include but not limited to liquid crystal display (LCD) screen, light emitting diode (LED) screen, Organic Light Emitting Diode (OLED) screen, plasma display panel (PDP) etc.

As Fig. 2 shows, movable tracking equipment 100 comprises logical one 58.Logical one 58 can comprise movable trace logic 140, physical contact logical one 42, display interface logical one 44, alarming and managing logical one 46, radio communication logical one 48, processor 106 and sensor 156.In addition, memory storage (such as storer) 108 and battery 154 can be integrated in movable tracking equipment 100.Movable trace logic 140 can comprise and be configured to process the exercise data produced by sensor 156, to quantize motion and to produce the logic that the identifiable design that is associated with motion measures.

Some motions produce and quantize various types of measuring, as the stair, travel distance, extremely active the number of minutes, consumption calorie etc. of step number, climbing.Physical contact logical one 42 can comprise calculating or determine when concrete physical contact can the qualified logic as input.In order to qualified as input, the physical contact detected by sensor 156 should have the concrete pattern that identifiable design is input.For example, input can be predefined as dually raps input, and physical contact logical one 42 can in response to analyzing the sensor data that be produced by sensor 156 to analyze motion, to determine whether really dual rapping to occur.

In other embodiments, physical contact logic can be programmed to determine when concrete physical contact occurs, time between physical contact, and whether one or more physical contact is qualified in the predefine motion configuration feature (profile) that instruction needs input.If there is the physical contact not in some predetermined configuration features or pattern, so physical contact logic does not indicate described physical contact as input or does not evaluate the qualified conduct input of described physical contact.

Display interface logical one 44 is configured to processor and physical contact logic interfacing to determine when Specific amounts degrees of data shows on the display screen 122 of movable tracking equipment 100.Display interface logical one 44 can run to open screen, display measurement information, display character or alphanumeric information, display graphics user interface graphical or its combination.Alarming and managing logical one 46 can work to provide user interface and setting so that management and receive the input that the setting from user reports to the police.Alarming and managing logic can be docked with timing module (such as, clock, calendar, time zone etc.), and can the enabling of trigger alarm.Warning can be reported to the police in listening or non-ly listen alarm form.

Non-listen warning can via vibration this kind of warning is provided.Vibration produces by the motor be integrated in movable tracking equipment 100.Vibration may be defined as and comprises various vibration mode, intensity and customization set model.The vibration produced by one or more motor of movable tracking equipment 100 can be managed by the process of alarming and managing logical one 46 associative processor 106.Radio communication logical one 48 is arranged to and movable tracking equipment is communicated via wireless signal with another computing equipment.Wireless signal can be radio signal form.As mentioned above, radio signal can be Wi-Fi ^tMsignal, BLUETOOTH ^tMsignal, low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMsignal or its array configuration.Radio communication logic can be docked with the processor 106 of equipment 100, memory storage 108 and battery 154, is sent to computing equipment for by the activity data of Cheng the exercise data be stored in memory storage 108 or processed exercise data form.

In one embodiment, processor 106 works in conjunction with various logic parts 140,142,144,146 and 148.In one embodiment, processor 106 can provide the functional of any one or all logical blocks.In other embodiments, multiple chip can be used for being separated the process performed by any one in logical block and processor 106.Sensor 156 can communicate with processor 106 and/or logical block via bus.Memory storage 108 also with bus communication to provide the storage to the exercise data being processed by movable tracking equipment 100 or followed the tracks of.Movable tracking equipment 100 provides electric power to provide battery 154 to think.

Fig. 3 illustrates the example of the movable tracking equipment 100 communicated with remote equipment 200.Remote equipment 200 be can with the computing equipment of movable tracking equipment 100 and internet 160 radio communication.Remote equipment 200 can the installation of support application program (such as, APP, mobile APP etc.) and execution.This kind of application program can comprise movable tracking application program 202.Movable application program 202 of following the tracks of can be downloaded from server.Server can be private server or provides the server of application program to equipment, as application program shop.Following the tracks of application program 202 once movable is installed in remote equipment 200, and remote equipment 200 can communicate with movable tracking equipment 100 (device A) or be set as communicating with.Remote equipment 200 can be smart mobile phone, handheld computer, flat computer, laptop computer, desk-top computer, or can any other computing equipment of docking wireless with device A.In one embodiment, remote equipment also can have and the circuit of internet communication and logic.But, should be appreciated that, in order to make remote equipment 200 can communicate with movable tracking equipment 100, not needing internet to connect.

In one embodiment, remote equipment 200 is via BLUETOOTH ^tMconnect and communicate with movable tracking equipment 100.In one embodiment, BLUETOOTH ^tMconnection is low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMconnect (such as, BLUETOOTH ^tMlE, BLE or BLUETOOTH ^tMsmart).Low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMbe configured to provide relative to standard BLUETOOTH ^tMthe low-power consumption of circuit.In one embodiment, low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMuse 2.4 GHz radio frequencies, it allows dual-mode equipment to share single wireless electricity antenna.In one embodiment, low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMconnection can be worked in the distance of maximum 50 meters, and via wireless data rate in the scope of 1-3 megabit (Mb)/between second.In one embodiment, for can being defined by concrete wireless link close to distance of communicating, and any specific criteria is not limited to.Should be appreciated that, close to distance limit by according to the change of existing standard and in view of standard and/or circuit and ability and change in future.

Remote equipment 200 also can use internet to connect and communicate with internet 160.The internet of remote equipment 200 connects can comprise honeycomb connection, as Wi-Fi ^tMwireless connections and its combination (as the switch be connected between dissimilar connecting link).Remote equipment as above can be smart mobile phone or flat computer, or addressable internet and have the computing equipment of other type any of the ability communicated with movable tracking equipment 100.

In one embodiment, the server 220 docked with internet 160 is also provided.Server 220 can comprise multiple application program, and described application program serves the associated user of movable tracking equipment 100 and movable tracking equipment 100 via user account.For example, server 220 can comprise activity management application program 224.Activity management application program 224 can comprise the logic of the access provided for various equipment 100, and described various equipment is associated with the user account managed by server 220.Server 220 can comprise memory storage 226, and described memory storage comprises the different user configuration file be associated with different user account.The user account 228a of user A and the user account 228n of user N is shown as and comprises different information.

Information can include but not limited to equipment-user account pairing 300, system configuration, user's configuration, establish fixed sum data etc.Memory storage 226 will comprise many user profiles, and this depends on the number of the registered user of the user account with its respective activity tracking equipment.It shall yet further be noted that sole user account can have various or multiple equipment associated with it, and multiple equipment can be customized by user, manages and access independently.In one embodiment, server 220 provides access right to check the user data 302 be associated with movable tracking equipment for user.User data can comprise historical act data.

The data can checked by user comprise followed the tracks of exercise data, through process, it identifies that be associated with exercise data multiple measure.Measure and show in the various graphic user interfaces of the website enabled by server 220.Website can comprise the various pages had for presenting and show the various graphic user interface measured, to be checked by the user be associated with user account.In one embodiment, website also can comprise the interface allowing to be carried out data input and configuration by user.

Configuration can comprise definition, and which measures display on movable tracking equipment 100.In addition, configuration can comprise that to identify which is measured will be that first of showing on movable tracking equipment measures.Measure for first that is shown by movable tracking equipment and can input in response to the user of movable tracking equipment 100.As mentioned above, user's input can via physical contact.Physical contact evaluates qualification to determine whether physical contact should process as input by the processor of movable tracking equipment 100 and/or logic.Input can trigger or cause the display screen of movable tracking equipment 100 to open, and selects first measure specific as showing to measure to show by user.In another embodiment, measure can be predefined as acquiescence by system in response to inputting first of showing.

Also can follow the tracks of application program 202 via the activity of computing equipment 200 by user via the configuration that server 220 and activity management application program 224 provide to provide.For example, movable application program 202 of following the tracks of can comprise multiple screen, and described screen also shows measuring of being associated with the exercise data of catching of movable tracking equipment 100.Movable application program 202 of following the tracks of also can allow to carry out user's input and configuration at various gui screen place, produces display to set and to define which input.

Fig. 4 A to Fig. 4 C illustrates the embodiment according to the movable tracking equipment of one embodiment of the invention, the traffic operation between client device and back-end server.

With reference to figure 4A to Fig. 4 C process flow diagram described by communication only should be considered as at movable tracking equipment, the exemplary illustration of operation that occurs between client device (computing equipment) and back-end server (server).In example shown in this, thick arrow instruction connects interval and has scaled up to carry out service data transmission with the first data transfer rate, and thin arrow instruction connection interval is scaled so that with the second data transfer rate data transmission.

In one embodiment, the first transfer rate is designed to allow to be transmitted in a period of time, such as, from since carrying out being connected with the last time of computing equipment, has been stored in the relatively large data on movable tracking equipment.The movable tracking data be stored on movable tracking equipment can comprise the exercise data be such as associated with the various activities performed by user, the data sensed by movable tracking equipment, or the data measured by movable tracking equipment.

Various activity can include but not limited to walking, runs, jogs, goes on stair and walk to go downstairs and generally movement.The out of Memory that can be stored by movable tracking equipment can comprise such as measured information, as heart rate information, temperature information etc.In one embodiment, this information is stored a period of time until be connected with client device by the memory storage of movable tracking equipment, and described client device is such as configured to the computing equipment synchronous with movable tracking equipment.In one embodiment, computing equipment (client device) can be smart mobile phone, flat computer, laptop computer, desk-top computer or universal computing device.

In one embodiment, the first transfer rate is defined by the connection interval scaling up the communication channel set up between movable tracking equipment and client device.For example, if communication channel is low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMconnect, so connect interval can bi-directional scaling to realize comparing the second transfer rate package transmission frequently.

first transfer rate (connecting interval to scale up)

The connection interval of the first transfer rate can scale up the handling capacity setting package, with make each package be less than in about 200 milliseconds (ms) transmit.In an exemplary embodiment, the first transfer rate is set as that often about 10 ms to about 30 ms transmit a package.In another exemplary embodiment, the first transfer rate can be often about 20 ms package.In one embodiment, each package about 20 byte.

In one embodiment, the first data transfer rate can be defined as in the scope between about 500 Bps (byte per second) and about 2 kBps (kilobytes/second) in frequency.In an example, data transfer rate is about 1 kBps (kilobytes/second).

second transfer rate (connecting interval scaled)

The connection interval of the second transfer rate can be scaled with the handling capacity setting package, transmits with the interval being greater than about 200 milliseconds (ms) to make each package.In an exemplary embodiment, the second transfer rate is set as that every 500 ms transmit a package.In some embodiments, depend on event frequency or whether there is event, transfer rate can be set as only just upgrading after several seconds (such as, about 1-10 second).In one embodiment, each package about 20 byte.

In one embodiment, the second data transfer rate definable is less than the frequency values of 500 bps (byte per second).In another embodiment, the second data transfer rate can be set as the value being less than 100 bps (byte per second).In another example, the second data transfer rate can be about 1 Bps (1 byte per second).In some embodiments, depend on event frequency or whether there is event, transfer rate can be scaled even further.

Should be appreciated that, these exemplary rate, parameter and/or large I are passed in time and change, and this depends on standard, customization and/or optimization.Therefore, these parameters only should be considered as example.Should be further appreciated that the practicable embodiment comprising two or more data transfer rate of the method and apparatus defined in this article.In fact, the number of data transfer rate can comprise any number, and this scales up or the number at scaled connection interval based on predefined.Certainly, skip number depends on implementation scheme and changes.

Connect interval by scaling up or reducing, change be not goodput, and be actually the possible bandwidth can supported by channel.In the first data transfer rate, the setting of bi-directional scaling uses nearly all channel width.In the second data transfer rate, most of available channel width is not used.The Consideration of two kinds of transfer rates is time delays, and therefore system does not wish to wait the long time before the single incident information of a bit (bit) (such as, substantially) can arrive another equipment from an equipment.

Get back to Fig. 4 A, movable open starts from operation 402, and wherein movable tracking equipment detects and stores the activity data be associated with the motion of being collected by equipment or data.In the example of Fig. 4 A, assuming that the website (such as, website) of movable tracking equipment never synchronization server.Therefore, the pairing of movable tracking equipment and website needs to occur at least one times 403.

In operation 408, client device can detect that the application program on client device is opened.The application program of opening is such as movable tracking application program 202.In act 410, client device starts to match with movable tracking equipment 403.Pairing can such as occur when user asks initialization to be matched.

In this embodiment, pairing is the pairing between movable tracking equipment and the website enabled via computing equipment client.For example, the scanning at computing equipment place, connection and data transmission make it possible to match with website.If movable tracking equipment has activity data, it also with Site synch, as shown in 424 and 425.Communication between computing equipment and movable tracking equipment is connected the first transfer rate transmitting data in interval carries out according to using to scale up.First transfer rate can comprise order data 430, the transmission data 432 of such as asking from the data of movable tracking equipment, and the confirmation 434 of received data.At this moment, user may wish the application program 414 of closing client computing device place.

In figure 4b, show the example of the connection according to one embodiment of the invention, wherein movable tracking equipment had previously matched to the website on server.In operation 402, activity data is detected and is stored on movable tracking equipment.At a certain time point, open the application program at 408 computing equipment places.As mentioned above, application program can be movable tracking application program 202.Update condition is detected by client device, and described client device is identified by opening application program.Update condition is used for scaling up connection interval, to set the first data transfer rate.

Thick arrow 430,432 and 434 represents the first data transfer rate, and it is than the second transfer rate transfer rate faster.Complete and synchronous 404 of website and synchronous 425 once use the scanning of client, connection and data to transmit 412, just the operation of process real time client display update 406.

Update condition is changed now, thus causes the connection interval between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment scaled.As mentioned above, this causes the second transfer rate to control to exchange to the data of computing equipment for realtime curve.In one embodiment, arrow 436 indicates the request for real-time update 420 from computing equipment.Arrow 438 indicates the available data of any transmission to use the data transmission of the second data transfer rate.Arrow 439 indicates client device to close application program 414 with the order making equipment can stop sending renewal.

Fig. 4 C illustrates that wherein movable tracking equipment is connected to computing equipment and the embodiment be not connected with server.When not having server to connect, computing equipment (client) does not set up the pairing with server, replaces and only sets up with the connection of movable tracking equipment to perform real time client display update.As mentioned above, movable tracking equipment will be set to use the second transfer rate and computing device communication, and described second transfer rate is the scaled result for performing more new transmitted connection interval.

In this embodiment, occur to upgrade the transmission to computing equipment, described computing equipment can show the renewal from tracker haply in real time.In one embodiment, renewal be check the change screen of computing equipment or display (such as, the display of smart mobile phone, intelligent watch, glasses device etc.) user haply not noticeable speed transmit.In an example, real-time update is the propagation delay generation of the display being less than about 2 seconds haply.In other embodiments, propagation delay is less than about 1 second.In other embodiments, propagation delay is less than about 0.6 second.For the perception of people, upgrade and seemingly occur in real time, the activity data wherein upgraded is continuously updated delivers to client device, and display changes continuously or off and on, and this depends on whether capture activity.In some embodiments, show the numeral of will show change on screen in real time, as step counting, stair counting, show travel distance etc.

Communication between client device and server uses internet connecting link, as Wi-Fi ^tMconnection or honeycomb connection perform.As the disclosure is mentioned, movable tracking equipment can be in user's wrist can wearable device, or can be grasped or be attached to the equipment of user's clothes by user.When user is engaged in motion or is movable, the information of catching directly can be sent to client device, as having the movable smart mobile phone following the tracks of application program 202.

If follow the tracks of application program 202 movable to open, and user checks the one or more screen or data that are provided by activity tracking application program, so described motion or activity data are transferred into smart mobile phone for display.Therefore, if user is current check the screen of metric data showing and be associated with the activity performed by user, so described activity can when user is engaged in activity real-time update haply.For example, if user checks the screen of display step number when walking, so step number can be shown as increase in user's walking when checking the display on smart mobile phone.

Process flow diagram as Fig. 4 A to Fig. 4 C is shown, management activity tracking equipment, communication between computing equipment and back-end server.But, should be appreciated that, movable tracking equipment and the communication between client device can be connected without any internet or connection with back-end server time occur, mentioned by about Fig. 4 C.When client device sets up internet connection at a certain time point, client device can be synchronous with back-end server immediately, as synchronous during BACKGROUNDSynchronization, or synchronous when application program is on a client device opened again.

Fig. 5 illustrates that connecting interval setting 502 and second according to first of one embodiment of the invention is connected Figure 50 0 that interval sets the switching at runtime between 504.In this example, Z-axis is transfer rate, and transverse axis is the time.At a certain time point, at 510 places, open the application program at client device place.In an example, the application program of unlatching is movable tracking application program 202, as depicted in Fig. 3.When activity follow the tracks of application program 202 open time, the communication between movable tracking equipment and client device scales up being connected in interval.Connect interval definition package during a period of time or with the first transfer rate 506 of certain frequency transmission.

As mentioned above, the first connection interval setting 502 often can transmit a package by about 10 ms to about 30 ms.Package transmits via low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMconnect and occur, thus the energy of saving activity tracking equipment.In one embodiment, first connects interval setting 502 maintenance during data transmit.The data transmission occurred after opening application program 202 first transmits the data being stored in some times in movable tracking equipment.These data can comprise and to be kept several hours, several days by movable tracking equipment or the data of even some months.

Therefore, during first connects interval setting 502, by this collection and store data be downloaded to client device, to enable client device process data, and activity follow the tracks of application program 202 one or more graphic user interfaces on show information.In one embodiment, the first connection interval setting 502 also can be used for firmware to be sent to movable tracking equipment from client device.

Firmware is sent to movable tracking equipment to comprise generally and transmit larger data block, and increases or the connection interval that scales up allows this transmission to occur with comparatively faster speed.By using the connection interval scaled up, via BLUETOOTH ^tMlow-yield connection, the connection interval scaled up to provide between client device and movable tracking equipment serialized transmission channel substantially.At BLUETOOTH ^tMin low-yield, do not allow serial line data sending, but connect interval by scaling up, likely simulation is actual connected in series.Under firmware more news, should notice that firmware image runs on movable tracking equipment, therefore upgrade and need to coordinate with preservation state, image out of service, installation diagram picture and the transmission that recovers to perform the order that firmware image upgrades.Because the connection between movable tracking equipment and client device is serialized (setting owing to the connection interval scaled up) substantially, so firmware image file and more newer command can by server admins.

When determining to need to upgrade, server directly can send from server the instruction scaling up and connect interval, the renewal of transmission firmware and coordinate to install.In one embodiment, by coordinating to upgrade from the firmware of server, do not need the application program making to run on a client device to carry out management update, thus avoid coordinating to realize firmware with application program shop and website yet and upgrade.Can be guided with any planning chart or when needs upgrade by server the determination upgraded, the coordination upgrading and upgrade.In this configuration, client device only serves as and allows directly pass on from the control of server and data/firmware and exchange to the communication pipe of movable tracking equipment.

In one embodiment, equipment 100 can have two operating systems (OS) and can upgrade independently to make each operating system, and does not make equipment can not via BLUETOOTH ^tMthe risk communicated.In one configuration, firmware update scheme comprise determine tracker will start which OS.Website on server stores the information about each firmware version, and can calculate residual quantity (deltas) and take office the Data Migration instruction of what its version from any version.For example, computing equipment client can inquire about the current state from equipment 100 repeatedly, and state is sent to website, responsively receives and will be sent to the specific instructions of equipment, then after fill order again query facility to obtain its current state.By this way, client does not need to know the details about any concrete version, because website ALARA Principle firmware upgrades.

Continue with reference to figure 5, at time point 512, detect that data download has terminated or firmware renewal terminates, and at this time point, interval will be connected scaled to the second connection interval setting 504.Second connects interval setting 504 for transfer rate is reduced to the second transfer rate.As mentioned above, because the data volume transmitted at this time durations only represents the renewal of the data be stored in client device, so use the second transfer rate.For example, the data of renewal can comprise the step number of current monitoring, and it is sent to client device with less package form renewal.

Then, client device can be followed the tracks of on one or more gui screens of providing of application program 202 haply display update in real time by activity.As mentioned above, an example of the second transfer rate can be every 500 ms and transmits a package.This transfer rate be enough to upgrade to be caught by movable tracking equipment and to be configured on client device (screen of smart mobile phone) haply in real time the one or more of display measure.Second connects interval setting 504 is kept in the time period when the renewal or data encasement of being caught activity data change by movable tracking equipment transmit.When activity tracking application program 202 is closed, real-time update will stop or stopping haply.

Fig. 6 illustrates the Figure 55 0 that various periods when transmitting occur between movable tracking equipment and client device shown according to one embodiment of the invention.In instances, data transmission (such as, upgrading) occurs during context update 602, down loading updating 604, real-time update 606, and does not upgrade in computing equipment 608 extraneous period.In this example, the first transfer rate 506 and the second transfer rate 508 are showed in Z-axis.Transverse axis displaying time.

When activity follow the tracks of application program 202 do not open, but computing equipment in the scope communicated with movable tracking equipment time, enable context update 602.Context update is programmed to be formulated in the schedule time, and this depends on the frequent degree or infrequently degree and determining that receive from the renewal of movable tracking equipment.In the drawings, context update is in time t1-t2, t3-t4 and t5-t6 generation.In one embodiment, BACKGROUNDSynchronization by tracker with by inform tracker have will be synchronous data trigger, and the actual full time usually between these data syn-chronization is 15-90 minute, or usually occurs within the scope of 20-30 minute.But, when movable tracking equipment is in the communication range of computing equipment (client device), enable background mode to upgrade/synchronous.In one embodiment, scope is by low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMthe ability of standard defines, and also considers the environment between tracker and client and/or structure.

In other embodiments, if now or in the future use other wireless standard, so other communication distance can be enabled.As further displaying, in one embodiment, context update 602 occurs with the first transfer rate 502 implementing the first connection interval setting.In an alternate embodiment, context update 602 can use the second interval connection setting 504 to perform.In addition, when closing application program, connection can keep or can not keep.In other words, even when closing application program, can exist and scale up to " the first transfer rate " so that constant " second transfer rate " of synchrodata connects with some interval.But also may there is not connection between background data sync interval.But in either case, data syn-chronization can the first transfer rate occur, the time short as far as possible under BTLE hardware being remained on high power transmission state to make us.

Down loading updating 604 occurs under connecting interval setting first, wherein when when the time, t7 detected that application program is opened, sends the larger data block of the memory storage from movable tracking equipment.Between time t7 and t8, down loading updating 604 occurs, or the firmware of movable tracking equipment upgrades.

(connect interval first to set 502 times and transmit) under transfer rate is set in the first transfer rate by the connection interval scaled up between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment.After detecting that application program has been closed at time t8, second connects interval setting 504 is set by scaled connection interval.Scaledly immediately or after certain a period of time, or can to occur based on predefine state or condition.Like this real-time update 606 is placed in the second transfer rate 508 times.As illustrated by vertical bar, at this time durations, transmission is not too continuous print, and depends on that whether data are produced by movable tracking equipment and whether there is demand data being sent to client device.For any this transmission of data, transmitting and occur with the second transfer rate, setting 504 regulations as connected interval by second.At time t9, determine that application program is closed.If computing equipment leaves the scope of movable tracking equipment, do not upgrade during the time 608.

Fig. 7 illustrates the process flow diagram be associated with one embodiment of the invention, wherein connects interval and depends on the update condition that detects between movable tracking equipment and computing equipment (client device) and expand in proportion or reduce.Method starts from operation 702, and wherein activity data use activity tracking equipment is collected.Activity data is by the result of the exercise data wearing, grasp or carry the user's generation connecting tracking equipment.Activity data also can be associated with the data by monitoring of equipment, described data as blood pressure, heart rate, barometer reading and be associated with environmental baseline or user's condition other measure.In operation 704, collected activity data is stored in the memory storage of movable tracking equipment.Memory storage can be the storer of any type, as nonvolatile memory.

In an example, update condition is determined at operation 706 and 708 place.Such as, in operation 706, determine whether application program (such as, movable tracking application program 202) opens and can be connected (such as, in join domain) with movable tracking equipment.If application program is not opened, in operation 708, determine whether computing equipment can with the equipment connection within the scope of transmission.If computing equipment is within the scope of transmission, method moves to operation 712.In operation 712, the first transfer rate that use is under the interval connection speed of pre-defined bi-directional scaling performs the background data transmission being sent to computing equipment.

In another embodiment, background transmission can perform under the second transfer rate.If determine equipment not with within the scope of the transmission of computing equipment in operation 708, so method returns operation 702, and wherein movable tracking equipment continues to collect data.If determine that in operation 706 application program is opened and within the scope of transmission, so method moves to operation 710, the download being wherein stored in the data in the memory storage of movable tracking equipment is sent to computing equipment with the first transfer rate.As mentioned above, the first transfer rate is faster than the second transfer rate, and is designed to via low-yield BLUETOOTH ^tMwireless connections transmit larger data amount.

First transfer rate such as can realize every 10 ms to 30 ms and transmit package, and the second transfer rate can realize after being greater than 200 ms, or after being greater than 300 ms, or after 400 ms, or transmit package after 500 ms.In operation 714, determine that application program is connected with movable tracking equipment and opens.If application program is held open, so performs real-time update 716 and be sent to computing equipment to make one or more the measuring be associated with collected activity data from movable tracking equipment.One or more screens of the activity tracking application program 202 that this information can present on computing equipment 200 (such as smart mobile phone, flat board etc.) show haply in real time.If determine that application program is no longer opened in operation 714, so method will turn back to 702, and wherein movable tracking equipment continues tracking data and it stored in operation 704.

Fig. 8 illustrates the process flow diagram of one embodiment of the invention.In this example, operate 802 to comprise and carry out collection activity data by movable tracking equipment.As mentioned above, the data type of being collected by movable tracking equipment can be associated with exercise data, the data from user of monitoring, the data etc. from environmental conditions of monitoring.In operation 804, collected activity data is stored in the memory storage of movable tracking equipment.

In operation 806, determine movable tracking equipment and the current update condition be connected between computing equipment.Whether update condition identifiable design application program just opens, and whether application program has terminated to transmit the data that store in the first transfer rate or performed after firmware upgrades and be held open, or the need of context update.Depend on update condition, determine whether connection interval to be scaled up or reduces with optimization data transfer operation.In operation 808, determine data being downloaded to client device from movable tracking equipment, or during firmware renewal is downloaded to movable tracking equipment from client device, connects interval and should scale up to the first transfer rate.

In operation 810, determining to connect interval should the scaled change measured be associated with collected activity data with renewal to the second transfer rate.Such as, at scaled connection interval rate, under the second transfer rate, measure the renewal be associated can be sent to client device to show on one or more gui screen with one or more.Gui screen can comprise the metric data of the change that to be in operation along with user's generation activity.

Such as, if one or more gui screens of user's viewing client-side equipment when walking (application program 202 is followed the tracks of in such as operation activity), so step number is shown as and steps each step along with user and constantly increase.In another example, if user's speeling stairway, so step counting will constantly increase.In another example, if user produces extremely active motion, a so extremely active minute counting can be shown as and dynamically increase.Similarly, consumption calorie counting can be shown as and dynamically increase when user's executed activity.

In one embodiment, synchronization (such as, synchronous) is the process of carrying out between movable tracking equipment and website.For example, client device can be considered and only sends data to website and then will responsively transfer to the noiseless pipeline of movable tracking equipment.If do not have internet to connect for client device, what so do not perform with website is synchronous.Then, the time after a while that synchronously can connect in built vertical internet occurs.In one embodiment, the method for " store and the forward " type only introducing asynchronous delay can be implemented.Client carry out when the data of fechtable from tracker data acquisition, it is stored, then data relay be passed to website and obtain the response from website after a while when there is internet and connecting.In one embodiment, after a while when tracker can utilize again, stored response can be sent to tracker by client.

Fig. 9 illustrates the example communicated with equipment 100 according to the computing equipment 200 of one embodiment of the invention.In this example, computing equipment 200 is shown as executed activity and follows the tracks of application program 202.Following the tracks of application program 202 although movable and can comprise many screens, icon, the page, navigation characteristic, figure etc., for the ease of discussing, showing that some are measured.

Measure comprise such as step number, the step climbed up or go down or floor, the distance of advancing, consume calorie, elevation carrection, velocity information, heart rate information and can measure, calculate, monitor, obtain or catch other measure.As mentioned above, in one embodiment, computing equipment 200 can communicate with internet 160.Server 220 can be made can to visit via internet, thus the access for activity management application program 224 can be provided.

In one embodiment, the real-time update between computing equipment 200 with movable tracking equipment 100 can occur when not having internet to be connected.As mentioned above, the communication of real-time update is provided can to utilize the second data transfer rate to occur.Second data transfer rate sets based on the connection interval between scaled computing equipment 200 and movable tracking equipment 100.Second data transfer rate is enough to information to be provided to computing equipment from movable tracking equipment 100, and computing equipment 200 shows the information of change on screen.

The information of change can be expressed as along with the exercise data/activity data change from movable tracking equipment 100 and the data numerically increased of change.In some embodiments, data are not needed numerically to increase, as long as produce, show or show some changes or upgrade.Therefore, the numerical value change on display seems to occur in real time haply for user.As mentioned above, can slight delay be comprised in real time haply, as being less than 2 seconds, being less than 1 second, or be less than part second.In one embodiment, postpone to be configured to be less than under normal circumstances by the data delay of people's perception.Therefore, screen exports and changes along with the motion change produced by movable tracking equipment 100.

Figure 10 A illustrates the example of user, and movable tracking equipment 100 is worn in his wrist by described user, and may have access to computing equipment 200.User's walking, jog or run time, user can check the activity of being caught by movable tracking equipment 100 on the display screen of computing equipment 200.As shown, user can select the activity wherein showing step number to follow the tracks of the screen of application program 202.

At time t1, step number is shown as 9623, and at time t2, step number is shown as 9624, and at time t3, step number is shown as 9625, and at time t4, step number is shown as 9626.In this example, when user continues to be engaged in the motion that can be categorized as step number, continuation numerically increases by the display of step number.The motion being categorized as step number can comprise simple ambulatory activities, activity of jogging, write the simple movement of activity, spurt activity or movable tracking equipment.

Figure 10 B illustrates the example wearing the computing equipment 200 in calculating glasses form according to the user of one embodiment of the invention.In this example, the screen measured that glasses are configured to comprise selected by display is calculated.In this example, selected measuring is step number.The time move ahead and the motion of user continue change time, step number is shown as and is changed to 7266 from 7265, then to [[2920]] 7920.If user stops walking or movement, step number shows time-out and keeps current step number and do not increase.When user recover motion time, then step number recover and numerically increase and/or change state or from current or before step number upgrade.

By step number is conveyed to user's glasses, be provided to user information can when user walks about or is engaged in activity Real-Time Monitoring haply.Information being provided to user's glasses (it comprises the display being connected to the computing equipment with radio communication logic) also makes user not need computing equipment to be grasped in his or her hand.Use his or her hand completely some action need user, but user still wish to check when body movement changes or understand current body movable and be associated with body movement measure time, this may become even more important.Some activity can comprise marathon of such as running, be engaged in obstacle course run, by bike, in office work, in park walking, walking of being in, or need user more freely to use his or her hand, but still for user provides any activity of the real-time update about activity.

By this example, should be appreciated that, movable tracking equipment 100 and many devices communicatings can be made.Equipment can comprise smart mobile phone as above, wrist-watch computing machine, glasses, can wear display, flat computer, the touch computing machine of base, desk-top computer etc.

Figure 11 illustrates user's speeling stairway according to one embodiment of the invention and realizes the example that floor counting increases.In this example, user is engaged in multiple floor climbing exercise, and it is shown as climbs 52 floors at time t1.When user climbs another floor, floor is measured and show 53 floors on the screen of computing equipment 200.Change is dynamic and continues when moving between each floor user is real-time haply.Although there is the measurement of floor counting, also calculate step number (and can measure based on all other calculated that move) simultaneously.Follow the tracks of application program 202 if movable to be held open, user can navigate to another screen and check step number, travel distance, consumption calorie, highly, speed, heart rate, other that maybe can change (or having changed since checking from the last time) is measured.

In certain embodiments, screen can provide about multiple measurement information measured.In this configuration, more than one real-time change measured can be there are simultaneously.Such as, step number can increase change at calorie and increase simultaneously, and described distance also changes simultaneously.Therefore, manyly check that configuration can be provided to user, this depends on follows the tracks of by activity the navascreen that application program 202 provides.

Figure 12 illustrates that user is engaged in another example of body movement.At time t1, user is shown as walking, checks that the heart rate on computing equipment 200 is measured simultaneously.When user continues walking and consumes muscle power, at time t2, the heart rate of user shows the real-time increase reaching 84 bpm from 67 bpm (beats/min).Although only show 67 bpm and 84 bpm in diagram, should be appreciated that, when heart rate changes to 84 from 67, the display in real time haply of computing equipment 200 can be shown to be increased until the progression of 84 beats/min.

In one embodiment, heart rate can be used various technology to monitor by movable tracking equipment 100.A kind of technology can comprise the optical sensor that when being used in movable generation, measurement user blood vessel is beated.Then optical sensor towards blood vessel utilizing emitted light, can measure the reflection from blood vessel.Then reflected light can be processed the beats per minute determining to be associated with current monitoring.In one embodiment, the measurement of beating can occur at the wrist place wearing movable tracking equipment 100.In another embodiment, his or her finger can be placed on movable tracking equipment 100 (such as by user, in sense position), then permission activity tracking equipment measures beating from user's hand or finger, then produces the heart rate in beats/min.

In some embodiments, a kind of equipment is provided.Equipment defines can wear wrist attachment structure form.In one embodiment, equipment has the shell being built by plastic material at least in part or formed.In one embodiment, the shell of equipment comprises altitude gauge.Definition can comprise instantaneous visual display or dead front display, touch-screen display, monochrome display, digital indicator, color monitor or its combination further.

In an example, screen configuration is kept closed condition until enable by the screen with dead front operation.In one embodiment, dead front display is only just visible when it lights by needs.Such as, it can hide the message of LED or printing on display window, metric data, time on the same day, alarm lamp, warning lamp or may unheeded data when normal hyaline LED is visible all the time.In one embodiment, dead front display can mix with the background of equipment.Therefore, dead front effect " empties " outward appearance of panel and avoids final user to obscure during operation.In addition, because equipment is not using or user does not need close/not light during display information, and lighting when being started by user, saving so realize power.

In another embodiment, equipment can comprise one or more accelerometer.In a particular instance, equipment can comprise 3 axis accelerometers.In another embodiment, 3 axis accelerometers are replaced by using the independent accelerometer of orthogonal location (such as, 3 accelerometers) or are copied.

Figure 13 illustrates the example can caught by movable tracking equipment 100 according to all kinds activity of the wherein user 1300A-1300I of one embodiment of the invention.As demonstrated, various types of activity can produce the dissimilar data can caught by movable tracking equipment 100.The data that can be expressed as exercise data (or processed exercise data) can transmit 1320 to network 176 so that by server process and preservation, as mentioned above.In one embodiment, movable tracking equipment 100 can use wireless connections and devices communicating, and equipment can be passed on and synchronous caught data to the application program run on the server.In one embodiment, the data from movable tracking equipment 100 can be caught or receive to the application program that the local devices of such as smart mobile phone or dull and stereotyped or intelligent watch is run, and represent followed the tracks of exercise data with multiple measuring.

In one embodiment, equipment collects physiology from one or more types of embedded type sensor and/or external unit and/or environmental data, and this measurement information reception and registration or relaying are passed to miscellaneous equipment, comprise the equipment that can serve as the addressable data source in internet, allow thus such as to use web browser or network application program to check collected data.For example, when user wears movable tracking equipment, equipment can use one or more sensor to calculate and store the step number of user.Then, equipment will represent that the data of user's step number transfer to the account in network service, computing machine, mobile phone or health station, and wherein data can be stored, process and be observed by user.In fact, except the step number of user, or replace the step number of user, other physiological measures multiple can be measured or calculate to equipment.

Some physiological measures include but not limited to that energy ezpenditure (such as, consume calorie), climbing and/or the floor gone down, heart rate, heart rate variability, heart rate recovers, position and/or direction (such as passing through GPS), highly, speed of walking about and/or travel distance, the swimming number of turns, bicycle distance and/or speed, blood pressure, blood sugar, skin conductance, skin and/or body temperature, electromyogram, electroencephalogram, body weight, body fat, energy intake, from the nutrition intake of food, medicine is taken in, sleep period (i.e. clock time), sleep stage, sleep quality and/or duration, pH level, hydration level and respiratory rate.Measure relevant to user surrounding environment be measured or be calculated to equipment also can, as air pressure, weather condition (such as, temperature, humidity, pollen count, air quality, rain/ice-lolly part, wind speed), light exposes (such as, surround lighting, UV light expose, time of consuming in the dark and/or duration), Noise Exposure, radioactive exposure and magnetic field.

Further, backhand number during forehand number, user movement when walking or the step number stepped during running, the rotation number of bicycle pedal rotated by user, sedentary activity data, steering vehicle, user wave number, the user movement of golf clubs of the step that the step that other is measured and can include but not limited to that user consumes calorie, the body weight of user increases, the losing weight of user, user climb such as climbing etc., user go down, user or its combination.In some embodiments, sedentary activity data are referred to herein as inert activity data or passive activity data.In some embodiments, when the non-sitting of user and when not sleeping, user is movable.In some embodiments, user can stand on the monitoring equipment of the physiological parameter determining user.For example, subscriber station is being measured on the body weight of user, body fat percentage, living beings index or its scale combined.

In addition, the equipment of disposal data stream or system can calculate measuring by this data acquisition.For example, equipment or system can calculate pressure and/or the relaxation level of user via the combination of heart rate variability, skin conductance, noise pollution and sleep quality.In another example, equipment or system can take in via medicine, sleep and/or the combination of activity data to determine effect of medical intervention (such as, medication).In another example, equipment or system can be taken in via pollen data, medicine, the combination of sleep and/or activity data determines effect of allergy medicine.These examples only provide and are not intended to as restricted or detailed for convenience of explanation.

This information can be associated with the user account that can be managed by the activity management application program on server.Activity management application program can provide the access for the user account preserved thereon and data.The activity management application program run on the server can be web application form.Web application can provide the access for the multiple Web site screen illustrated in various formats about the information measured and the page.This information can be checked by user, and with the computing equipment synchronization as smart mobile phone of user.

In one embodiment, the data of being caught by movable tracking equipment 100 are received by computing equipment, and application synchronization is measured in the activity on geodata and services device.In this example, the data can checked upper use activity tracking application program (application program) of computing equipment (such as smart mobile phone) with the data synchronizing be present on server, and can be associated with user account.By this way, activity on input calculating equipment follow the tracks of information in application program can with the application synchronization shown in the different screen of the activity management application program provided on website by server.

Therefore, user can use any equipment of addressable internet to visit the data be associated with user account.Then, the data received by network 176 can with the various device synchronization of user, and analysis on the server can provide data analysis with provide to additional activities and or improve healthy suggestion.Therefore, catching, analyze, synchronization data, and when producing suggestion, described process is continued.In some embodiments, the data caught can be carried out itemize based on the type of the activity performed and divide, and this category information via graphic user interface, or can be provided to the user on website via the application program that user's smart mobile phone performs (via graphic user interface).

In one embodiment, one or more sensors of equipment 100 can determine or capture-data to determine the amount of exercise of monitoring equipment within a period of time.Sensor can comprise such as accelerometer, magnetometer, gyroscope or its combination.Broadly, these sensors are inertial sensors, and it is moved in response to equipment 100 and catches some exercise datas.When user performs the speeling stairway, walking, running etc. of a period of time movable, the amount of (motion such as, sensed) can be moved.Monitoring equipment can be worn in wrist, by user and carry, to be worn on clothes and (to use clip, or be placed in pocket), be attached to leg or pin, be attached to user's chest, waist or be integrated in clothes product, as being integrated in shirt, cap, trousers, shirt, glasses etc.The institute that these examples can be associated with monitored user or things for the sensor of equipment likely method does not have restricted.

In other embodiments, biology sensor can determine many physiological characteristics of user.As another example, biology sensor can determine the heart rate of user, hydration level, body fat, skeleton density, finger print data, rate of perspiration and/or bio-impedance.The example of biology sensor includes but not limited to biometric sensors, physiological parameter sensors, passometer or its combination.

In some embodiments, the data be associated with User Activity can be monitored by the application program on server and subscriber equipment, and also can share based on subscriber authorisation with the activity be associated of going together of the friend of user, acquaintance or social networks.This makes that friend can compete about its body-building, realize target, accept medal because of realize target, obtains and realizes the prompting of this kind of target, the award realizing some target or discount etc.

As mentioned, movable tracking equipment 100 can communicate with computing equipment (such as, smart mobile phone, flat computer, desk-top computer or have the computer equipment that radio communication accesses and/or may have access to internet).And then computing equipment can via the network service of such as internet or Intranet to provide data syn-chronization.Network can be wide area network, LAN (Local Area Network) or its combination.Network can be connected to one or more server, one or more virtual machine or its combination.The controller of server, virtual machine, monitoring equipment, or the controller of computing equipment is referred to herein as computational resource sometimes.The example of controller comprises processor and memory device.

In one embodiment, processor can be general processor.In another embodiment, processor can be the customization device being configured to run special algorithm or operation.This kind of processor can comprise digital signal processor (DSP), it be designed to perform concrete chip, signal, wire or with its interaction, and perform some algorithm, process, constitutional diagram, feedback, detection, execution etc.In some embodiments, processor can comprise or with special IC (ASIC), programmable logic device (PLD), central processing unit (CPU) or its to combine etc. and dock.

In some embodiments, one or more chip, module, equipment or logic may be defined as and perform instruction or logic, and it jointly can be considered or is described as processor.Therefore, should be appreciated that, processor differs and is decided to be an one chip or module, but can be defined by electronics or link, logic, firmware, code and its set of combining.

The example of memory device comprises random access memory (RAM) and ROM (read-only memory) (ROM).Memory device can be flash memory, redundant arrays of inexpensive disks (RAID), hard disk or its combination.

The embodiment described in the disclosure can be put into practice by various computer system configurations, described computer system configurations comprise portable equipment, microprocessor system, based on microprocessor or programmable consumption electronic product, small-size computer, mainframe computer and analog.Some embodiments described in the disclosure can also be put into practice in a distributed computing environment, are wherein executed the task by the remote processing devices linked by wired or wireless network.

Consider above embodiment, it should be understood that the operation that the many embodiments described in the disclosure can adopt various computing machine to carry out, these operations relate to storage data in computer systems, which.These operations are the operations needing to carry out physical quantity physical operations.Any operation described in the disclosure is all useful machine operation, and described operation forms the part of the various embodiments described in the disclosure.Some embodiments that the disclosure describes also relate to the equipment or device that perform these operations.Device can build especially for certain object, or device can be the computing machine being come selective enabling or configuration by the computer program stored in a computer.Specifically, various machine can use together with the computer program write according to religious doctrine herein, or more conveniently, may construct more special device and perform action required.

The various embodiments described in the disclosure can also be presented as the computer-readable code in non-transitory computer-readable medium.Computer-readable medium is any data storage device that can store data, and described data can subsequently by computer system reads.The example of computer-readable medium comprises hard disk drive, network additive storage device (NAS), ROM, RAM, ROM CD (CD-ROM), can record CD (CD-R), can rewrite CD (RW), tape and other optics and non-optical data memory device.Computer-readable medium can comprise and being distributed in networked computer system to make computer-readable code store in a distributed fashion and the computer-readable tangible medium performed.

Although method operation describes with particular order, but should be appreciated that, other housekeeping operations can perform between each operation, or operation can except show except order perform, or operation can be adjusted to make it occur in the slightly different time, maybe can be distributed in allow process operation with process in system that the different interval that is associated occurs.

Although slightly describe in detail foregoing embodiments in order to the object of clear understanding, obviously, some change and amendment can be made within the scope of the appended claims.Therefore, embodiment of the present invention is regarded as illustrative and nonrestrictive, and the various embodiments that the disclosure describes are not limited to the details that provides in this article, but can correct in the scope of claims and equivalent.

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1. a method, it comprises,

Catch the exercise data be associated with User Activity via movable tracking equipment, described exercise data is quantized into be associated with described User Activity multiple and measures;

Described exercise data is stored in the memory storage of described movable tracking equipment;

Connect via wireless data and described movable tracking equipment is connected with computing equipment; And

Exercise data is sent to described computing equipment to measure to show one on the graphic user interface of the applications active of described computing equipment, multiplely to measure;

Wherein said exercise data is sent to described computing equipment be configured to additional movements data captured and be sent to described computing equipment time continue, measure described in described graphic user interface shows to be shown as and to change with incremental value or graphic form in real time haply, described method is performed by processor.

2. the method for claim 1, wherein said multiple measure in described in measure be the step number quantized from described exercise data.

3. the method for claim 1, wherein said measuring is step number, when the motion quantized as step number by described movable tracking equipment to catch time, described step number to be shown as on the described graphic user interface of described computing equipment numerically or graphics mode increases progressively, and when the described hypomotility quantized or when lacking as step number qualification, described step number is shown as time-out.

4. the method for claim 1, it comprises further,

Detect that described movable tracking equipment is in the adjacency of described computing equipment, described adjacency is in Bluetooth wireless communication distance; And

Enable described wireless data to connect.

5. method as claimed in claim 4, it comprises further,

When described movable tracking equipment exceed described close to distance time, the described transmission of pause motion data;

The exercise data of being caught by described movable tracking equipment is continued to be stored in described memory storage;

Re-establish described movable tracking equipment to be connected with described between described computing equipment; And

Exercise data is sent to computing equipment from described memory storage, measures described in the exercise data of described transmission is used for making and increase progressively, the metric data be stored in described movable tracking equipment when described connection suspends is included.

6. the method for claim 1, wherein described exercise data is sent to described computing equipment from the described memory storage of described movable tracking equipment, and when synchronous operation, to be connected via internet by described computing equipment and described exercise data is sent to campaign management services device, what campaign management services device was associated for the described exercise data upgraded with produce via described User Activity described multiplely measures.

7. the method for claim 1, it comprises further,

Receive as by as described in computing equipment obtain the setting from campaign management services device configuration, described setting configuration pin couple described user that the user account associated with described movable tracking equipment is associated receive, described campaign management services device is configured to present graphic user interface on website, to show described multiplely to measure with various configuration illustrated, described exercise data is transferred into described campaign management services device and measures the described graphic user interface synchronization with described website to make on described computing equipment described multiple.

8. the method for claim 1, wherein said multiple measure in described in measure and comprise step number and measure, or step counting is measured, or travel distance is measured, or the activity time measure, or consume calorie measure, or sleep measure, or two or more combination.

9. method as claimed in claim 8, wherein said measure be displayed on described movable tracking equipment in addition screen on.

10. the method for claim 1, wherein when sending described exercise data to show in real time haply on the screen of described computing equipment, data transfer rate sets based on the scaled connection interval between described equipment and described computing equipment.

11. 1 kinds are arranged to the equipment of catching User Activity, and it comprises,

Shell;

Sensor, it is settled in the housing to catch the exercise data be associated with described User Activity via equipment, and described exercise data is passed in time and is captured, and described exercise data is quantized to define be associated with described User Activity multiple and measures;

Storer, it is for storing caught exercise data; And

Processor, it connects the connection with computing equipment for managing described equipment via wireless data, described processor manages further and exercise data is sent to described computing equipment and measures to show one on the graphic user interface of the applications active of described computing equipment, multiplely to measure, described exercise data is sent to described computing equipment be configured to additional movements data captured and be sent to described computing equipment time continue, measure described in described graphic user interface shows to be shown as and to change with incremental value or graphic form in real time haply.

12. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein in response to the process by described processor, described multiple measure in described in measure the step number being defined as and quantizing from described exercise data.

13. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein in response to the process by described processor, described measuring is defined as step number, when the motion quantized as step number by described equipment to catch time, described step number to be shown as on the described graphic user interface of described computing equipment numerically or graphics mode increases progressively, and when the described hypomotility quantized or when lacking as step number qualification, described step number is shown as time-out.

14. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein said processor is further,

Management is to the detection of described equipment in the adjacency of described computing equipment, and described adjacency is in Bluetooth wireless communication distance; And

Manage enabling of described wireless data connection.

15. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein said processor is further,

When described equipment exceed described close to distance time, the time-out of the described transmission of management movement data;

Management continues the exercise data of being caught by described equipment to be stored in described memory storage;

To re-establish between described equipment with described computing equipment described is connected in management; And

Exercise data is sent to computing equipment from described memory storage by management, measures and increase progressively described in the exercise data sent is used for making, so as by described connect suspend time the metric data stored in the apparatus included.

16. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein said shell is the part can wearing wrist attachment structure, or can by described user carry or wear can the part of attachment structure.

17. equipment as claimed in claim 16, wherein said wrist attachment structure of wearing is defined by plastic material at least in part.

18. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein said shell comprises further for connecting the radio communication logic transmitting data via described wireless data.

19. equipment as claimed in claim 18, wherein said radio communication logic comprise following in one: WiFi processing logic, or bluetooth (BT) processing logic, or radio processing logic.

20. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein said computing equipment is configured to utilize campaign management services device to visit via described internet, and described campaign management services device receives the described exercise data of described equipment.

21. equipment as claimed in claim 11, it comprises further for showing described multiple screen measured.

22. equipment as claimed in claim 11, wherein when sending described exercise data to show in real time haply on the screen of described computing equipment, described processor carrys out setting data transfer rate based on the scaled connection interval between described equipment and described computing equipment.

23. 1 kinds of wrist attached peripheral device, it comprises,

Battery;

Altitude gauge, it is for generation of altitude information;

Accelerometer, it is for catching the exercise data be associated with User Activity;

Screen, it is for showing data, and described data comprise measuring of exercise data that quantification catches and altitude information, and described screen has dead front operation, and described dead front operation is configured to keep closed condition until enable;

Telecommunication circuit, it is for enabling the radio communication with computing equipment;

Storer, it is for storing caught exercise data and altitude information; And

Processor, it is for managing the connection of described wrist attached peripheral device and described computing equipment, described processor manages further and sends data to described computing equipment, measure to show on the graphic user interface of the applications active of described computing equipment, describedly send data to described computing equipment and be configured to continue for when sending at displayable excessive data, measure described in described graphic user interface shows and be shown as in response to the data being sent to described equipment from described wrist attached peripheral device and change in state in real time haply.

24. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, wherein said telecommunication circuit comprise following in one: WiFi processing logic, or bluetooth (BT) processing logic, or radio processing logic.

25. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, the described screen wherein with dead front operation is instantaneous visible.

26. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, wherein light described screen to make it possible to measure or data described in display, and do not light when closing.

27. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, wherein said accelerometer is 3 axis accelerometers.

28. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, it comprises the clock of display time on the same day further, and described clock is used for the vibration alarming setting or manage the concrete time on the same day.

29. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, wherein when sending described exercise data to show in real time haply on the screen of described computing equipment, described processor carrys out setting data transfer rate based on the scaled connection interval between described wrist attached peripheral device and described computing equipment.

30. wrist attached peripheral device as claimed in claim 23, wherein in response to the process by described processor, described measuring is quantified as step number, described step number to be shown as on the described graphic user interface of described computing equipment numerically or graphics mode increases progressively, and when the described hypomotility quantized is to be quantified as step number, or wantage is when turning to the described motion of step number, described step number is shown as time-out.