KR20180113791A - Method and apparatus forproviding physical activity infromation of user by communicating with plurality of user terminal - Google Patents

Abstract

According to the present invention, provided is a method in which a server provides the physical activity amount information of a user by communicating with a plurality of user terminals. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the method includes: a step (a) of obtaining physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals in a preset time section; a step (b) of generating integrated physical activity data corresponding to the time section; a step (c) of grouping the time section with at least one previous time section based on the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data of previous time sections within preset time and the integrated physical activity data; a step (e) of determining the physical activity amount of a user from at least one integrated physical activity data of the grouped time section; and a step (f) of providing the physical activity amount and physical activity type of the user of the grouped time section for a plurality of user terminals. The present invention enables a user to exactly recognize his/her physical activity amount.

Description

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION 1. Field of the Invention The present invention relates to a method and a server for providing a user &

And more particularly, to a method and server for providing a user's physical activity amount by a server communicating with a plurality of terminals of a user.

As society's perception of health has become widespread, there is a growing need to recognize the amount of activity in everyday life other than a place for exercise, such as a gym or swimming pool. These needs are becoming more and more evergreen as the information communication technology and the wearable device technology are developed remarkably.

According to this tendency, application development for measuring physical activity of a user in a smartphone or a wearable device is actively under way. However, the amount of physical activity provided by these applications is merely a result of providing measured results in a single device. That is, the conventional application provides only the amount of physical activity measured and accumulated in one device, and does not accurately provide the amount of integrated physical activity when the user exercises while carrying the portable terminal and the wearable device alternately. In addition, conventional applications are unable to distinguish meaningful amounts of physical activity from users. For example, if the user wants to distinguish between physical activity amount information measured during exercise and physical activity amount information measured in daily life, conventionally, the user should initialize the application and collect new physical activity data from the application do. This may cause inconvenience to the user.

Korean Patent Publication No. 10-2016-0139922 (entitled " Smart Healthcare System and Method for Providing Social Network Service for Sustainable Healthcare "

Disclosure of Invention Technical Problem [8] Accordingly, the present invention has been made keeping in mind the above problems occurring in the prior art, and an object of the present invention is to provide a method and apparatus for integrating the amount of physical activity acquired from a plurality of user terminals used by a user, There is a purpose in providing the amount of physical activity. It should be understood, however, that the technical scope of the present invention is not limited to the above-described technical problems, and other technical problems may exist.

As a technical means for achieving the above technical object, a first aspect of the present invention provides a method for measuring physical activity, comprising the steps of: (a) obtaining physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals in a predetermined time interval; (b) generating integrated physical activity data corresponding to a time interval; (c) grouping the time periods with at least one previous time period based on the integrated physical activity data and the physical activity types of the integrated physical activity data of the previous time intervals within a predetermined time; (e) determining a user's amount of physical activity from at least one integrated physical activity data of the grouped time intervals; And (f) providing a plurality of user terminals with a physical activity amount and a physical activity type of the user in the grouped time intervals.

 According to a second aspect of the present invention, there is provided a computer program product comprising: a memory for storing a physical activity amount providing program; And a processor for executing the program. At this time, as the program is executed, the processor acquires physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals in a predetermined time interval among a plurality of user terminals of the user registered in the server, Grouping the time period with at least one previous time period based on the integrated physical activity data and the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data of the previous time intervals within a predetermined time, Determines the amount of physical activity of the user from at least one integrated physical activity data of the user, and provides the plurality of user terminals with the amount of physical activity and the type of physical activity of the user in the grouped time interval.

A third aspect of the present invention provides a computer-readable recording medium on which a program for implementing the method of the first aspect is recorded.

According to the present invention, even when the user has a plurality of user terminals, the server provides the integrated physical activity information at each terminal, The user can recognize the amount of physical activity, and by detecting the continuous or non-continuous physical activity of the user, the amount of physical activity according to the continuous physical activity can be separately provided to thereby provide the user with a physical activity amount and a physical activity path So that it is possible to easily recognize the information about the user.

1 is a schematic diagram of a system for providing a physical activity amount according to an embodiment of the present invention.
2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a physical activity amount by a user by communicating with a plurality of terminals of a user according to an embodiment of the present invention.
3 and 4 are views showing an example in which a physical activity amount providing server groups a plurality of time intervals according to an embodiment of the present invention.
Fig. According to an embodiment of the present invention, the user terminal provided with the physical activity amount and the physical activity type of the user in the time interval grouped from the physical activity amount providing server outputs the information on the screen.
6 is an example in which a user terminal provided with a physical activity path provided by a physical activity amount providing server outputs a physical activity path to a screen.
7 is an example of generating integrated physical activity data when the physical activity quantity providing server acquires physical activity data in an asynchronous time interval from two or more user terminals according to an embodiment of the present invention.
8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a physical activity amount providing server according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings, which will be readily apparent to those skilled in the art. The present invention may, however, be embodied in many different forms and should not be construed as limited to the embodiments set forth herein. In order to clearly illustrate the present invention, parts not related to the description are omitted, and similar parts are denoted by like reference characters throughout the specification.

Throughout the specification, when a part is referred to as being "connected" to another part, it includes not only "directly connected" but also "electrically connected" with another part in between . Also, when an element is referred to as "including" an element, it is to be understood that the element may include other elements as well as other elements, And does not preclude the presence or addition of one or more other features, integers, steps, operations, components, parts, or combinations thereof.

In this specification, the term " part " includes a unit realized by hardware, a unit realized by software, and a unit realized by using both. Further, one unit may be implemented using two or more hardware, or two or more units may be implemented by one hardware. On the other hand, 'to' is not limited to software or hardware, 'to' may be configured to be an addressable storage medium, and may be configured to play one or more processors. Thus, by way of example, 'parts' may refer to components such as software components, object-oriented software components, class components and task components, and processes, functions, , Subroutines, segments of program code, drivers, firmware, microcode, circuitry, data, databases, data structures, tables, arrays, and variables. The functions provided in the components and components may be further combined with a smaller number of components and components or further components and components. In addition, the components and components may be implemented to play back one or more CPUs in a device or a secure multimedia card.

In this specification, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by the terminal or the device may be performed in the server connected to the terminal or the device instead. Similarly, some of the operations or functions described as being performed by the server may also be performed on a terminal or device connected to the server.

The term "network" may also be used in a wired network such as a local area network (LAN), a wide area network (WAN) or a value added network (VAN) And may be implemented in all kinds of wireless networks, such as communication networks.

Hereinafter, embodiments of the present invention will be described in detail with reference to the accompanying drawings.

FIG. 1 is a schematic diagram of a system 10 for providing physical activity according to an embodiment of the present invention. Referring to FIG. 1, a physical activity amount providing system 10 includes a physical activity providing server 100 and a plurality of user terminals 200. The plurality of user terminals 200 may include a portable terminal 200a and at least one wearable device 200b previously registered in the physical activity providing server 100. [ The portable terminal 200a may be, for example, a handheld based wireless communication device such as a smart phone, a PDA, a tablet PC, or the like. The wearable device 200b may include, for example, an HMD (Head Mounted Device) device, a smart band, a smart watch, a smart belt, shoes, A smart alarm system, a smart lighting system, and the like.

Meanwhile, the wearable device 200b may be associated with the portable terminal 200a. Here, the fact that the two devices are linked means that the wearable device 200b is already registered in the portable terminal 200a, and the portable terminal 200a can control the wearable device 200b.

The user terminal 200 can access the physical activity providing server 100 or perform user registration by executing a specific application. The physical activity providing server 100 may register the user information of the user terminal 200 as the user terminal 200 is accessed. For example, the physical activity providing server 100 may register the ID of the user, the identification information of the user terminal 200, and the like. At this time, the physical activity providing server 100 may transmit the physical activity providing server 100 to another user terminal (for example, a wearable device 200b linked to the user terminal 200 approaching the physical activity providing server 100, The terminal 200a) can be read and registered together. Alternatively, the user interface may provide a user interface for inputting identification information of another user terminal being used by the user.

Thereafter, the physical activity providing server 100 may acquire the physical activity data of the user from the plurality of user terminals 200 registered in one ID. As shown in FIG. 1, when the user wears a plurality of wearable devices 200b, the physical activity providing server 100 acquires physical activity data from the plurality of user terminals 200. FIG. Conventional physical activity measurement methods are merely providing users with measured physical activity data at each user terminal. This may help the user to recognize his or her physical activity immediately, but it is difficult to identify the total physical activity. Accordingly, the physical activity data providing server 100 according to the embodiment of the present invention provides a method of collectively providing measured physical activity data at a plurality of user terminals. In addition, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention groups the continuous physical activity quantities based on the type, position, and time information of the physical activity of the user, Thereby providing a user experience in which the user can more easily recognize the amount of his or her physical activity. Hereinafter, a method for providing a physical activity amount by communicating with a plurality of terminals will be described in detail with reference to FIG. 2 to FIG.

2 is a flowchart illustrating a method of providing a physical activity amount by communicating with a plurality of users' terminals 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention.

Referring to FIG. 2, the physical activity providing server 100 acquires physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals 200 in a predetermined time interval (s100). Here, the preset time interval may be a time interval synchronized with the physical activity providing server 100 and a plurality of user terminals 200 or an unsynchronized time interval. The case where the time interval is asynchronous will be described later with reference to FIG. 7. In the following description, an embodiment in which the time interval is synchronized will be described. For example, the predetermined time interval may be 60 seconds, and may be synchronized between the physical activity providing server 100 and the plurality of user terminals 200 based on the reference time.

The physical activity data obtained from each user terminal 200 may include a sensor value measured by an acceleration sensor provided in each user terminal 200. Meanwhile, each user terminal 200 may not transmit the physical activity data to the physical activity providing server 100 when the measured sensor value is lower than the threshold value. In addition, each user terminal 200 may not transmit the physical activity data to the physical activity providing server 100 when the sensor value is measured only for a time less than the critical time. Accordingly, the physical activity providing server 100 can receive only data that can provide a meaningful amount of physical activity by receiving a set of sensor values having a size greater than or equal to a threshold and lasting more than a threshold time. In addition, the physical activity providing server 100 may reduce the data transmission / reception amount between the server and the terminal. Meanwhile, the physical activity providing server 100 estimates that the user terminal 200 that has not transmitted the physical activity data is in an inactive state.

The physical activity amount providing server 100 generates integrated physical activity data corresponding to the time interval of the obtained physical activity data (s110). To this end, the physical activity providing server 100 first compares the physical activity data obtained from two or more user terminals 200. For example, the physical activity providing server 100 may generate integrated physical activity data based on a result of comparing at least one of a priority of each user terminal and a size of the physical activity data. At this time, in the priority order of each user terminal, the priority order of the wearable device may be set to be higher than the priority order of the mobile terminal. However, the present invention is not limited thereto, and the priority of each user terminal may be set by user input.

The physical activity providing server 100 may transmit the physical activity data obtained from the higher priority user terminal 200 to the integrated body 200 if the two or more user terminals 200 providing the physical activity data have different priorities Can be determined by activity data.

The physical activity providing server 100 may compare the sizes of the physical activity data when the two or more user terminals 200 providing the physical activity data have the same priority or the priority is not set in the user terminal 200 . The size of the physical activity data (i.e., the sensor value of the acceleration sensor) is proportional to the amount of physical activity of the user, and when the user terminal 200 is being used by the user, a larger value can be measured than other user terminals. Therefore, the physical activity providing server 100 estimates that the physical activity data having the largest size among the physical activity data indicates the highest physical activity amount. That is, the physical activity providing server 100 compares the size of the obtained physical activity data, and then determines the physical activity data having the largest size as integrated physical activity data.

On the other hand, the physical activity providing server 100 may collect position information from the plurality of user terminals 200. Here, the location information may be information periodically transmitted to the physical activity providing server 100 as measured by a GPS device or a network device provided in each user terminal 200. For example, each user terminal 200 may receive GPS coordinate information measured by a GPS device, or may calculate location information based on the location of a cell accessed by the network device. The physical activity quantity providing server 100 temporarily stores location information collected from two or more user terminals 200 for each time interval for each user terminal 200. When integrated physical activity data is generated, And deletes other location information excluding the location information collected from the terminal. In other words, the physical activity providing server 100 may delete location information collected from other user terminals except for the location information collected from the user terminal providing the physical activity data determined as the integrated physical activity data for the corresponding time period. Accordingly, the physical activity providing server 100 can generate integrated position information corresponding to the integrated physical activity data of the user.

Meanwhile, each user terminal 200 may vary the method of measuring position information and the measurement / transmission period depending on the remaining battery power. For example, the user terminal 200 may measure GPS coordinate information when the battery remaining amount is higher than the critical battery residual amount, and may measure position information based on the position of the cell when the remaining battery capacity is less than the critical battery residual amount. Also, the user terminal 200 can adjust the measurement / transmission period of the position information in inverse proportion to the battery remaining amount.

Next, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 calculates the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data in the previous time interval within a predetermined time with the generated integrated physical activity data, (S120). ≪ / RTI > For example, if a user walks in the morning, walks at lunchtime, and exercises regularly in the evening, the user will be able to adjust the amount of physical exercise during the work hours, the amount of physical exercise during walks, It is necessary to distinguish the amount of physical exercise according to performance separately. To this end, the physical activity providing server 100 may group at least one time period, thereby providing a physical activity amount corresponding to a continuous physical activity of the user.

First, the physical activity amount providing server 100 determines the type of physical activity corresponding to the integrated physical activity data. The type of physical activity can be classified into 'fast walking' type (or 'power walking' type), 'walking' type and 'inactive type' based on the size of integrated physical activity data and the change in position within the corresponding time interval. The physical activity amount providing server 100 determines whether the amount of change of the position information within one time interval is within a predetermined maximum movable distance. This may be to distinguish the case where the physical activity data is measured as the user rides the transportation means. Therefore, the maximum movable distance may be a distance value measured based on the sensor value of the acceleration sensor when the user moves as fast as possible in one time period, and may be an empirically measured value based on a standard person. If the variation amount of the positional information collected in one time interval deviates from the maximum movable distance, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 classifies the physical activity data as 'inactive' type and stores the physical activity data as '0' . The physical activity quantity providing server 100 compares the physical activity data with preset thresholds if the positional change within one time interval is within a predetermined maximum movable distance. For example, when the physical activity data is less than or equal to the first threshold value and is greater than or equal to the second threshold value, the physical activity data providing server 100 classifies the physical activity data into 'fast walking' (or 'power walking' (Second threshold value> third threshold value) if the second threshold value is equal to or less than the second threshold value and is equal to or greater than the third threshold value. In addition, when the physical activity data is not received from the plurality of user terminals 200 for the corresponding time period, the physical activity providing server 100 classifies the integrated physical activity data as 'inactive' by estimating the integrated physical activity data as '0' . On the other hand, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 can classify the type of 'sleeping' when the number of inactive time segments is more than a certain number (for example, 10, 20, etc.). However, the type of physical activity is not limited to those described above, and may be variously divided or named according to an embodiment.

Thereafter, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 searches the previous time section of the same physical activity type as the physical activity type if the physical activity type of the current time section is a walking type or a fast walking type other than the inactive type. That is, the physical activity providing server 100 can determine the continuity of the physical activity by comparing the physical activity types of the integrated physical activity data within a predetermined time. Thereafter, when there is an inactivity time interval of the inactivity type between the current time interval and the searched time interval, the physical activity amount providing server 100 groups the searched previous time interval, inactivity time interval, and current time interval. For example, the physical activity amount providing server 100 may be configured such that, for the first to third time periods within a predetermined time, the physical activity types of the first and third time periods are 'walking' If the physical activity type is an 'inactive' type, the first to third time intervals may be integrated into one group. At this time, since the physical activity data corresponding to the 'inactive' type is '0', it does not change the amount of physical activity provided to the user.

3 and 4 are views showing an example in which the physical activity quantity providing server 100 groups a plurality of time intervals.

In FIG. 3, it is assumed that a user who wears and / or holds one or more user terminals 200 'goes home' and goes to the 'company' after having breakfast at the 'XX convenience store'. At this time, the physical activity providing server 100 acquires physical activity data from one or more user terminals 200 worn and / or held by the user, and generates integrated physical activity data corresponding to each time interval. At this time, the second integrated physical activity data 302 may be grouped into the first group because it is the same physical activity type (e.g., fast walking type or walking type) as the first integrated physical activity data 301. [ Thereafter, as the user enters the " XX convenience store ", the physical activity data may not be obtained in the third time period and the fourth time period. In this case, the physical activity amount providing server 100 estimates the third and fourth integrated physical activity data 303 and 304 as '0', and classifies them into the non-activity type. In addition, the third and fourth integrated physical activity data 303, 304 are grouped into a second group.

Thereafter, the physical activity providing server 100 generates the fifth integrated physical activity data 305 based on the physical activity data acquired as the user starts to walk again from the 'XX convenience store'. The physical activity amount providing server 100 compares the first to fourth integrated physical activity data 301 to 304 within a predetermined time with the fifth integrated physical activity data 305. [ Since the fifth physical activity data 305 and the third and fourth physical activity data 303 and 304 represent different types of physical activity, the fifth time period is not grouped into the second group. However, the fifth physical activity data 305 may be grouped into the first group because they represent the same types of physical activity as the first and second physical activity data 301, 302 included in the first group. Meanwhile, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 may integrate the second group into the first group as the first, second and fifth time periods are grouped. That is, the physical activity providing server 100 can estimate the physical activity included in the second group as a part of the physical activity of the first group, and then estimate the physical activity as one continuous physical activity.

Then, the sixth and seventh time periods, which are generated until the user arrives at the company, can be grouped into the first group together with the first to fifth time periods by the above-described method. Accordingly, the physical activities of the user shown in FIG. 3 are grouped into one physical activity group.

4, a user who wears and / or holds one or more user terminals 200 moves from home to home using a transportation means (e.g., a bus, etc.) . In this case, the physical activity data providing server 100 may acquire the physical activity data according to the motion of the vehicle during the second time interval, and may generate the second integrated physical activity data 402 and 403 accordingly . On the other hand, since the amount of change of the positional information corresponding to the generated second integrated physical activity data 402 and 403 is out of a preset maximum movable distance, it can be classified into 'inactive' type. In addition, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 divides the third integrated physical activity data into 'inactive' types in the same manner as the second integrated physical activity data, and then divides the second and third time intervals into a first group Grouping.

Then, the physical activity providing server 100 compares the fourth integrated physical activity data 404 with the first through third integrated physical activity data 401, 402, 403 within a preset time. The first integrated physical activity data 401 and the fourth integrated physical activity data 404 represent the same type of 'walk', and thus can be grouped into a second group. Also, since the second and third time intervals between the first and fourth time intervals are of the 'inactive' type, the second and third time intervals can be grouped together with the first and fourth time intervals into a second group have. As such, the physical activity of the user shown in FIG. 4 is grouped into one physical activity group.

Referring again to FIG. 2, the physical activity providing server 100 determines the amount of physical activity of the user from at least one integrated physical activity data of the grouped time periods (S130). For example, the physical activity providing server 100 may determine the amount of physical activity in the corresponding time period based on the sum of one or more integrated physical activity data within the grouped time period. The amount of physical activity may be, for example, the number of steps.

Then, the physical activity amount providing server 100 provides the plurality of user terminals with the physical activity amount and the physical activity type of the user in the grouped time interval (S140). 5 is an example of a user terminal 200 provided with the user's physical activity amount and physical activity type in the grouped time interval from the physical activity amount providing server 100 and outputting the information to the screen. As shown in 501 to 504 of FIG. 5, the user terminal 200 lists information on the user's physical activity amount and physical activity type in the grouped time interval provided from the physical activity amount providing server 100 in chronological order Can be output. Specifically, the user terminal 200 generates time information 511 corresponding to the grouped time interval, information on the amount of physical activity corresponding to the grouped time interval (e.g., number of steps 512), and physical activity type information 513 You can print on the screen. The user terminal 200 may provide the cumulative amount of physical activity information 521 based on the information on the amount of the user's physical activity provided from the physical activity providing server 100 and may calculate the amount of consumed calories 522 And information 523 on the amount of movement distance.

Also, the physical activity providing server 100 may transmit the physical activity path of the user to the plurality of user terminals 200 based on the position information (i.e., integrated position information) of the user terminal 200 collected in the grouped time period . 6 is an example in which the user terminal 200 provided with the physical activity path provided by the physical activity amount providing server 100 outputs the physical activity path to the screen.

7 is a diagram illustrating an example of generating integrated physical activity data when the physical activity data providing server 100 acquires physical activity data in an asynchronized time interval from two or more user terminals 200 according to an embodiment of the present invention to be.

As shown in FIG. 7, the physical activity providing server 100 may acquire physical activity data sensed in an asynchronous time interval. For example, the portable terminal 200a may transmit the first physical activity data 701 at intervals of 60 seconds, and the wearable device 200b may transmit the second physical activity data 702 at intervals of 40 seconds. In this case, the physical activity amount providing server 100 can distinguish the first and second physical activity data 701 and 702 obtained from the respective devices with a predetermined time interval. At this time, the physical activity quantity providing server 100 can dynamically set the time period. For example, the physical activity providing server 100 sets the first time interval 711 until the other physical activity data is received after the physical activity data is received. Then, the physical activity data providing server 100 sets the physical activity data The first time interval 711 is terminated. Thereafter, the physical activity providing server 100 generates integrated physical activity data corresponding to the second time period 712 in which the first and second physical activity data are acquired from the portable terminal 200a and the wearable device 200b . This has been described above with reference to S110 in Fig. 2, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted. Thereafter, the physical activity providing server 100 may terminate the second time period 712 and set the third time period 713 as the first physical activity data is not received from the portable terminal 200a.

In addition, the physical activity amount providing server 100 may group a plurality of time periods within a predetermined time. This has been described above with reference to S120 in Fig. 2, and thus a detailed description thereof will be omitted. For example, the physical activity providing server 100 may generate a first group 721 of walking types and a second group 722 of quick walking types.

In the above description, it is described that the physical activity providing server 100 classifies the physical activity type of the user based on the physical activity data collected from each user terminal 200. However, according to the embodiment, And provide the measured physical activity data and the type of physical activity according to the physical activity data to the physical activity providing server 100. [ In this case, the physical activity providing server 100 may determine the type of physical activity corresponding to the integrated physical activity data and the integrated physical activity data based on the information on the physical activity data and the type of physical activity from each user terminal 200 . In this case, a method of determining the type of physical activity based on the size of the physical activity data described above may be performed in each user terminal 200.

FIG. 8 is a block diagram illustrating a configuration of a physical activity amount providing server 100 according to an embodiment of the present invention. The configurations of the physical activity quantity providing server 100 shown in Fig. 8 are related to the embodiments described in Figs. 1 to 7 described above. Therefore, even if omitted below, the contents described above in FIGS. 1 to 7 can be applied to the configuration of the physical activity providing server 100 of FIG.

Referring to FIG. 8, the physical activity providing server 100 includes a processor 810, a memory 820, and a communication circuit 880.

The processor 810 controls the overall operation of the physical activity providing server 100. For example, the processor 810 may include at least one component for controlling the operation of the memory 820 and the communication unit 880. For example, the processor 810 may include a random access memory (RAM) (not shown), a ROM (not shown), a CPU (not shown), a GPU (Graphic Processing Unit) (Not shown). At this time, the RAM, the ROM, the CPU and the GPU can be connected to each other via the bus.

The processor 810 also executes programs stored in the memory 820 to determine the amount of physical activity and the type of physical activity of the user based on the physical activity data received from the plurality of user terminals 200, (200).

Specifically, the processor 810 obtains physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals 200 in a predetermined time interval among a plurality of user terminals registered in the physical activity providing server 100, Lt; RTI ID = 0.0 > physical activity data. ≪ / RTI > In addition, the processor 810 groups the time period with at least one previous time period based on the integrated physical activity data and the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data of the previous time intervals within a predetermined time, The amount of physical activity of the user is determined from at least one integrated physical activity data. Here, the amount of physical activity may be the number of steps of the user. Thereafter, the processor 810 provides a plurality of user terminals with a physical activity amount and a physical activity type of the user in the grouped time period.

The memory 820 stores a control program for the processor 810 to control the physical activity providing server 100. [ In addition, the memory 820 stores a physical activity amount providing program. At this time, the memory 820 refers to a non-volatile storage device that keeps stored information even when no power is supplied, and a volatile storage device that requires power to maintain stored information.

The communication unit 880 may include one or more components that allow the physical activity providing server 100 to communicate with a plurality of user terminals 200 or other servers. For example, the communication unit 880 may include at least one of a mobile communication chip (not shown), a wired communication chip (not shown), a Wi-Fi chip (not shown), and a wireless communication chip (not shown).

On the other hand, an embodiment of the present invention may also be realized in the form of a recording medium including instructions executable by a computer such as a program module executed by a computer. Computer readable media can be any available media that can be accessed by a computer and includes both volatile and nonvolatile media, removable and non-removable media. The computer-readable medium may also include computer storage media. Computer storage media includes both volatile and nonvolatile, removable and non-removable media implemented in any method or technology for storage of information such as computer readable instructions, data structures, program modules or other data.

While the methods and systems of the present invention have been described in connection with specific embodiments, some or all of those elements or operations may be implemented using a computer system having a general purpose hardware architecture.

It will be understood by those skilled in the art that the foregoing description of the present invention is for illustrative purposes only and that those of ordinary skill in the art can readily understand that various changes and modifications may be made without departing from the spirit or essential characteristics of the present invention. will be. It is therefore to be understood that the above-described embodiments are illustrative in all aspects and not restrictive. For example, each component described as a single entity may be distributed and implemented, and components described as being distributed may also be implemented in a combined form.

The scope of the present invention is defined by the appended claims rather than the detailed description and all changes or modifications derived from the meaning and scope of the claims and their equivalents are to be construed as being included within the scope of the present invention do.

10: Physical Activity Providing System
100: physical activity providing server
200: user terminal
200a: portable terminal
200b: Wearable device

Claims (12)

A method of providing a user's physical activity information by communicating with a plurality of user terminals of a user,
(a) obtaining physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals in a predetermined time interval;
(b) generating integrated physical activity data corresponding to the time period;
(c) grouping the time interval with at least one previous time interval based on the integrated physical activity data and the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data of previous time intervals within a predetermined time;
(e) determining a user's amount of physical activity from at least one integrated physical activity data of the grouped time intervals; And
(f) providing the user's physical activity amount and physical activity type in the grouped time interval to the plurality of user terminals; / RTI >
How to provide physical activity. The method according to claim 1,
The type of physical activity includes,
The amount of change in position of each time interval, and the size of the integrated physical activity data of each time interval. 3. The method of claim 2,
Wherein the physical activity type comprises at least one of an inactive type, a walking type, and a fast walking type. 3. The method of claim 2,
The step (c)
(c-1) determining a type of physical activity of the current time interval;
(c-2) if the physical activity type is a walking type or a fast walking type, searching for a previous time interval of the same type of physical activity within the predetermined time; And
(c-3) grouping the searched previous time interval, inactivity time interval, and current time interval when there is an inactivity inactive time interval between the time interval and the searched previous time interval; The method of providing the amount of physical activity that is included. The method according to claim 1,
The step (b)
And generating the integrated physical activity data based on a result of comparing the size of the physical activity data obtained from the two or more user terminals and the priority of the user terminal. 6. The method of claim 5,
The step (b)
(b-1) comparing the priorities of the two or more user terminals; And
(c-2) determining the physical activity data of the largest size among the physical activity data measured at the user terminal having the same priority as the integrated physical activity data,
Wherein the priority of the wearable device is higher than the priority of the portable terminal. The method according to claim 1,
The method comprises:
(g) periodically receiving location information from the plurality of user terminals,
Wherein at least one of a method of collecting data from each user terminal and a period of data transmission to the server is adjusted based on a remaining battery level of each user terminal. 11. The method of claim 10,
The method
(h) providing a physical activity path of a user to the plurality of user terminals based on position information of user terminals collected in the grouped time intervals; ≪ / RTI > The method according to claim 1,
Wherein the physical activity data comprises:
And a sensor value sensed by an acceleration sensor provided in the user terminal. The method according to claim 1,
The physical activity data
A method of providing physical activity quantities that is collected when the sensor value of a user's physical activity is greater than or equal to a threshold value and lasts for more than a threshold time. A server for providing a user ' s amount of physical activity,
A memory for storing a physical activity providing program; And
And a processor for executing the program,
The processor, as the program is executed,
Acquiring physical activity data measured by two or more user terminals in a predetermined time interval among a plurality of user terminals registered in the server,
Generates integrated physical activity data corresponding to the time period,
Grouping the time interval with at least one previous time interval based on the integrated physical activity data and the physical activity type of the integrated physical activity data of the previous time intervals within a predetermined time,
Determining a user's amount of physical activity from at least one integrated physical activity data of the grouped time intervals,
And provides the user's physical activity volume and physical activity type in the grouped time interval to the plurality of user terminals. A computer-readable recording medium on which a program for implementing the method of any one of claims 1 to 10 is recorded.

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