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US 9,866,671 B1Granted
Tracking activity data between wearable devices paired with a companion device
AssigneeApple Inc.
InventorsAaron P. Thompson, Brian R. Drell, Todd A. Shortlidge
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Abstract
A set of wearable devices, each paired with a companion device, are configured to cumulatively maintain data about physical activities even though a user may switch between wearing them over a period of time. For example, a streak of workouts over many days can be maintained while the user switches between two watches over that period of time.
Claims20
A non-transitory machine readable medium storing executable program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause the data processing system to perform a method comprising:
- collecting data about physical activity using one or more sensors on a wearable device while the wearable device is in a first worn state;
- storing a value on the wearable device based on the collected data, wherein the value indicates an aspect of a physical activity event;
- transmitting the value to a companion device to allow the companion device to store the value on the companion device;
- ceasing collection of data about physical activity while the wearable device is in an unworn state;
- subsequent to the unworn state and while the wearable device is in a second worn state:
- resuming collection of data about physical activity using the one or more sensors;
- receiving a value from the companion device, the value from the companion device indicating the aspect of the physical activity event;
- comparing the value on the wearable device to the value received from the companion device;
- determining a merged value based on the comparing;
- and
- storing the merged value as the value on the wearable device.
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A method comprising:
- collecting data about physical activity using one or more sensors on a wearable device while the wearable device is in a first worn state;
- storing a value on the wearable device based on the collected data, wherein the value indicates an aspect of a physical activity event;
- transmitting the value to a companion device to allow the companion device to store the value on the companion device;
- ceasing collection of data about physical activity while the wearable device is in an unworn state;
- subsequent to the unworn state and while the wearable device is in a second worn state:
- resuming collection of data about physical activity using the one or more sensors;
- receiving a value from the companion device, the value from the companion device indicating the aspect of the physical activity event;
- comparing the value on the wearable device to the value received from the companion device;
- determining a merged value based on the comparing;
- and
- storing the merged value as the value on the wearable device.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.