Nike patents app that suggests workouts based on friends and schedule
This patent describes a system that uses a mobile device to suggest specific times and places for exercise. It analyzes a user's calendar, location, and workout data shared by friends to recommend activities that fit within a set travel distance.
In the filing’s own words
Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Workouts may also be tagged with various parameters including mood, weather, terrain, athletic equipment, friends used and the like. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. Workout information shared may include map information including images of maps, interactive maps, links to maps, route information and the like and/or combinations thereof. Additionally or alternatively, an application may be configured to execute within a context of a social networking system to facilitate athletic activity data transfer and generation of workout entries in the social networking site. Recommended activities to be performed or a recommended time to perform an activity may be determined based on a user's schedule, weather or conditions forecasts, or a location of the user or the potential activity.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. An apparatus comprising: a processor; and memory storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to: receive workout information from a user friend associated with a select group of friends sharing workout information with the select group, wherein the select group includes a user and the user friend, and wherein the workout information includes location information; determine a location of the user; determine a schedule of the user; determine a recommended activity window for the user based upon the received workout information and the determined schedule of the user; determine, based on a first maximum allowable travel time, a first travel distance associated with a first activity; identify a first location for the first activity, wherein the first location is within the first travel distance from the determined location of the user, and wherein the first location is selected based on the location of the user; identify a second location for the first activity, wherein the second location is within the first travel distance from the determined location of the user; automatically generate for display, on a user interface of the apparatus, a notification notifying the user to perform the first activity at one of the first location or the second location; and upon receiving a user selection to begin the first activity, record workout data of the first activity; and upon receiving a user selection to end the first activity, automatically share the workout data of the first activity with the select group of friends and update the user interface to display a metric associated with the first activity.
Facts
- Company
- Nike (NIKE, Inc.)
- Official title
- Monitoring fitness using a mobile device
- Patent number
- US12738374B2
- Application number
- 17179142
- Filed
- Feb 18, 2021
- Granted
- Sep 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 15
Classified under
G16H 40/67 Physics & computingG01W 1/10 Physics & computingG06Q 10/1093 Physics & computingG06Q 10/40 Physics & computingG16H 20/30 Physics & computingY02A 90/10 Emerging technologiesMore from Nike in Health & body
Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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