Interactive exercise device and system

An interactive exercise system for measuring and displaying exercise performance parameters, the interactive exercise system comprising:

• an external computing device having a local processor, a local memory, a local display monitor, an interface connection port, and a local network connection port;
• a server having a server processor, a server memory, and a server network connection port, the server being connected to the external computing device by a network connection connected to the server network connection port and to the local network connection port of the external computing device, the server sending display pages to the external computing device for display on the local display monitor and the server receiving data from the external computing device;
• and
• an interactive exercise device comprising:
• a step measuring device that outputs a step signal corresponding to each step walked by a user;
• a processor for determining a plurality of exercise performance parameters based on the step signals output from the step measuring device;
• a memory for storing the determined exercise performance parameters;
• a menu-driven interface display for displaying a plurality of menus, the menus for displaying at least the determined exercise performance parameters;
• a user input device for operation by the user to select a display of one of the menus on the interface display and to provide input data corresponding to a selected display;
• and
• an interface connection connecting the interactive exercise device to the interface connection port of the external computing device through a data connection;
• wherein user-specified data is downloaded from the external computing device to the interactive exercise device through the data connection, the user-specified data including at least one user-specified message that is displayed on the interface display of the interactive exercise device when a user-selected one of the determined exercise performance parameters reaches a user-specified threshold;
• and
• wherein exercise performance parameters are uploaded from the interactive exercise device to the external computing device through the data connection, and are then uploaded from the external computing device to the server through the network connection between the server and the external computing device.

An interactive exercise system for measuring and displaying exercise performance parameters, the interactive exercise system comprising:

• a server having a server processor, a server memory, and a server network connection port;
• and
• an interactive exercise device comprising:
• a step measuring device that outputs a step signal corresponding to each step walked by a user;
• a processor for determining a plurality of exercise performance parameters based on the step signals output from the step measuring device;
• a memory for storing the determined exercise performance parameters;
• a menu-driven interface display for displaying a plurality of menus, the menus for displaying at least the determined exercise performance parameters;
• a user input device for operation by the user to select a display of one of the menus on the interface display and to provide input data corresponding to a selected display;
• and
• a wireless interface connection that connects the interactive exercise device directly to the server, wherein the server sends user-specified data to the interactive exercise device and the server receives determined exercise performance parameters from the interactive exercise device;
• wherein the user-specified data includes at least one user-specified message that is displayed on the interface display of the interactive exercise device when a user-selected one of the determined exercise performance parameters reaches a user-specified threshold.