Personal items network, and associated methods
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsCurtis A. Vock, Burl W. Amsbury, Paul Jonjak, Adrian F. Larkin, Perry Youngs
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Abstract
A personal items network, comprising a plurality of items, each item having a wireless communications port for coupling in network with every other item, each item having a processor for determining if any other item in the network is no longer linked to the item, each item having an indicator for informing a user that an item has left the network, wherein a user may locate lost items. A method for locating lost personal items, comprising: linking at least two personal items together on a network; and depositing one or both of time and location information in an unlost item when one of the items is lost out of network.
Claims21
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A system comprising:
- a receiver operative to receive real performance data indicative of real performance metrics indicative of physical activity;
- and
- a processor operative to:
- associate an identification code to the received real performance data, wherein the identification code is associated with a particular participant;
- and
- adjust a virtual competition associated with the particular participant based on the received real performance data associated with the identification code associated with the particular participant.
A system comprising:
- a receiver that receives performance metric data of a user collected during a real-life performance of a physical activity;
- and
- a processor that converts the received performance metric data into at least one control parameter of a virtual game in which the user is a participant.
A system comprising:
- a receiver that accesses physical performance data of a user sensed during a real-life performance of a physical activity by the user;
- and
- a processor that modifies the ability of a game character in a virtual game based on the accessed physical performance data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.