Nike patents app that picks your fitness view based on usage
This filing describes a method where a mobile app chooses which screen to show you when you open it. It ranks different views based on how often you use them, so the most common one appears first.
In the filing’s own words
Athletic performance monitoring and tracking may provide multiple ways in which to track athletic movement and activity. Athletic activity data may be provided to the user via one or more application interfaces. A client device may select one of the one or more application interfaces for displaying athletic activity data. Workout information may be shared to social messaging and networking outlets. 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.
What exactly they claim (claim 1)
1. A method for selecting an application interface for display, the method comprising: storing, by a computing device, athletic activity data representing a plurality of athletic activities performed by a user; assigning, by the computing device, a priority to each of a plurality of interfaces, wherein each priority is determined based on a quantity of athletic activities performed by the user; receiving, by the computing device, a user input to access an application; in response to the user input, determining, by the computing device, an interface of the plurality of interfaces to display based on the assigned priorities; and causing, by the computing device, the display of the interface having a highest priority of the plurality of interfaces.
Facts
- Company
- Nike (NIKE, Inc.)
- Official title
- Monitoring Fitness Using a Mobile Device
- Publication number
- US20260321386A1
- Application number
- 19722048
- Filed
- Jun 26, 2026
- Published
- Oct 15, 2026
- Inventors
- 5
- Claims
- 20
Classified under
G16H 20/30 Physics & computingA43C 19/00 Human necessitiesA63B 24/0021 Human necessitiesA63B 24/0062 Human necessitiesG06V 40/23 Physics & computingG09B 5/02 Physics & computingMore from Nike in AI & software
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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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