Apple patents workout schedule sharing between users
Apple has been granted a patent for a system that lets one user share a pre-planned workout schedule with another. The receiving user sees a list of upcoming exercises, including today's task and future sessions, and can tap a specific workout to start it immediately.
In the filing’s own words
The present disclosure generally relates to sharing and/or accessing workout content.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A computer system configured to communicate with one or more display generation components and one or more input devices, wherein the computer system is associated with a first user, comprising: one or more processors; and memory storing one or more programs configured to be executed by the one or more processors, the one or more programs including instructions for: receiving, from a first entity, a first workout schedule that includes a plurality of scheduled workouts, wherein the first entity is different from the first user of the computer system; subsequent to receiving the first workout schedule, displaying, via the one or more display generation components, a first user interface corresponding to the first entity that includes: an indication of the first entity from which the first workout schedule was received; a first object corresponding to a first workout that is scheduled for a current date according to the first workout schedule, wherein the first workout corresponds to a first workout type; and one or more objects corresponding to one or more future scheduled workouts in the first workout schedule, including a second object corresponding to a second workout that is scheduled for a first future date according to the first workout schedule, wherein the second workout corresponds to a second workout type, different from the first workout type; and while displaying the first user interface that includes the first object and the second object, receiving, via the one or more input devices, a first set of user inputs; and in response to receiving the first set of user inputs: in accordance with a determination that the first set of user inputs correspond to selection of the first object, initiating a process for initiating a workout session corresponding to the first workout.
Facts
- Company
- Apple (Apple Inc.)
- Official title
- Methods and user interfaces for sharing and accessing workout content
- Patent number
- US12769434B2
- Application number
- 18618847
- Filed
- Mar 27, 2024
- Granted
- Oct 20, 2026
- Inventors
- 3
- Claims
- 39
Classified under
G06F 3/0482 Physics & computingA63B 24/0075 Human necessitiesA63B 71/0622 Human necessitiesG06F 3/0484 Physics & computingA63B 2071/0655 Human necessitiesMore from Apple in Health & body
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Summaries are simplified from the filing’s own abstract and first claim. A patent filing is not a product announcement.
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