Method and Apparatus for Leveling Metrics between Contestants in a Fitness Betting Challenge

A method for metric leveling of personal fitness activity with one or more personal fitness devices communicating over a communications network to one or more mobile communications devices during a personal fitness wager event, the method:

• tracking with the one or more personal fitness devices the personal fitness activity of multiple users;
• communicating from the one or more personal fitness devices to the one or more mobile communication devices a signal indicating results of the tracking the personal fitness activity;
• transmitting with a timer circuit coupled with the one or more mobile communication devices a signal indicating one or more end times of periodic time periods in which the fitness activity is to occur;
• in response to the indication of the one or more end times by the timer circuit, communicating with the one or more communications devices via the communications network to one or more servers, at the end times of the periodic time periods aggregated a signal indicating results of the fitness activity over a periodic time period;
• aggregating into a memory with one or more servers the results of the fitness activities occurring over a second predetermined time period;
• computing with the one or more servers a baseline fitness activity per periodic time period for each of the multiple users;
• receiving from at least one of the multiple users a signal indicating a fitness challenge on one of the mobile communication devices, the fitness challenge indicating fitness goal for completion of at least one fitness activity over a third predetermined time period;
• communicating to the one or more servers and the mobile communication devices via the communication network a signal indicating a challenge by one of the mobile communications devices indicating a fitness challenge by a challenging member of one of the multiple users;
• communicating a signal indicating a challenge acceptance to the one or more servers via the communication network by one of the mobile communication devices acceptance of the fitness challenge by a challenged user of one of the multiple users:
• communicating by the server via the communication network to the mobile communications device of the challenged user a signal indicating a leveled fitness metric to a challenged user, the leveled fitness metric determined based on the baseline fitness activity per periodic time period for the challenging user and the baseline fitness activity per periodic time period for the challenged user;
• storing in the server an indication of the duration of the challenge and setting with the server a timer to indicate the end of the challenge based on the stored duration;
• in response to setting the timer, communicating by the server via the communication network to the mobile communications device of the challenging user and the challenged user a signal indicating of initiation of the challenge and the challenge duration;
• tracking with one or more personal fitness devices the fitness activity of the challenging user and the challenged user;
• communicating after the fitness activity from the one or more personal fitness devices to one or more mobile communication devices of the challenging user and the challenged user a signal indicating results of the tracking the fitness activity;
• communicating, with the one or more communications devices of the challenging user and the challenged user via a communications network to one or more servers, a signal indicating fitness activity occurring during the challenge duration of the challenging user and the challenged user;
• in response to the timer circuit indicating the end of the challenge, aggregating with one or more servers the results of the fitness activities of the challenge of the challenging user and the challenged user occurring during the challenge duration and computing a challenged fitness metric of the challenging user and of the challenged user based on fitness activity of the challenging user and the challenged user during the challenge duration and based on the baseline fitness activity per periodic time period for the challenging user and of the challenged user;
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• providing a signal indicating a winner to the mobile communication device of the challenging user and of the challenged user based on the computed challenged fitness metric.