Pausing delivered content during connected fitness activity
AssigneePeloton Interactive, Inc.
InventorsDaniel Jeremy Feinberg, Jay Patel, Tom Mudgett Mejia, Juan Erazo, Deep Jayesh Parekh, Elise Vickery, Anand Chaturvedi
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Abstract
Systems and methods for enabling users to pause interactive content, such as streamed exercise classes, and return to the classes without compromising their class performance statistics or metrics are described. For example, when a user decides to pause (e.g., they have to quickly handle something), they may have their rank removed from a leaderboard, with the leaderboard passing the ranking to the next user of the activity, while the user is still placed on the leaderboard according to an approximated position or ranking.
Claims20
A system, comprising:
- a processor;
- and
- one or more memories coupled to the processor, wherein the processor is configured to:
- receive an indication that a user has paused an instructor-led class of an exercise activity,
- wherein the user is performing the exercise activity via an exercise machine having a display that presents:
- video content of the instructor-led class;
- and
- a leaderboard of at least a portion of users in the instructor-led class;
- cause a leaderboard service to remove a ranking assigned to the user that paused the instructor-led class;
- and
- receive an indication that the user has resumed the instructor-led class of the exercise activity;
- and
- present information, via the leaderboard service, representing the user on the leaderboard presented by the display of the exercise machine,
- wherein the information representing the user includes information that approximates a position of the user within the instructor-led class with respect to other users of the instructor-led class.
A method, comprising:
- presenting an exercise class to a user performing an exercise activity on an exercise machine;
- receiving a request from the user to pause playback of the exercise class;
- pausing playback of the exercise class in response to the received request;
- receiving a request from the user to resume the playback of the exercise class;
- determining a ready state for the user upon receiving the request to resume the playback of the exercise class;
- and
- when the determined ready state indicates the user is not ready to resume the exercise class at the position of the exercise class at which the exercise class was paused, inserting an intermediate segment of the exercise class into the playback of the exercise class;
- and
- resuming playback of the exercise class at the inserted intermediate segment of the exercise class.
A non-transitory computer-readable medium whose contents, when executed by an exercise machine, cause the exercise machine to perform a method, the method comprising:
- receiving a request from a user to pause playback of an exercise class,
- wherein the user is following the exercise class by performing an exercise activity on an exercise machine;
- pausing playback of the exercise class in response to the received request;
- receiving a request from the user to resume the playback of the exercise class;
- determining the heart rate for the user is outside of a heart rate range established by a heart rate for the user when the playback of the exercise class was paused;
- and
- presenting a recommendation to the user to perform a warm-up exercise activity before resuming the playback of the exercise class.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.