Your iPhone and Apple Watch may in the future maintain you accountable to your health objectives. Apple has been granted a patent (quantity US 11900831 B1) for “Health and Social Accountability.”
Concerning the patent
The patent relates typically to administration of person bodily exercise, and, extra particularly, to computer-based processes and units for motivating and managing person bodily exercise. Apple notes that, to enhance the well being of people, varied instruments for managing person well being and bodily exercise have been developed. For instance, exercise displays can observe particular person bodily exercise utilizing varied metrics similar to steps taken, elevation climbed, distance traveled, energy burned, and the like.
Whereas these displays can observe the quantity of bodily exercise carried out by a person, they fail to correctly encourage customers to have interaction in bodily exercise, in accordance with Apple. In lots of cases, such displays function solely on a person foundation, and subsequently fail to benefit from group-based motivators of bodily exercise.
What’s extra, such exercise displays might use advanced and time-consuming person interfaces, which can require extreme key presses or person inputs. This implies present strategies might require extra time than essential, losing person time and system power.
Apple’s proposed answer includes programs and processes for motivating and managing person bodily exercise which are carried out utilizing digital units with quicker, extra environment friendly strategies and interfaces for motivating and managing person bodily exercise.
These programs and processes would offer for an “environment friendly notification administration regarding person and group bodily exercise, thereby lowering the variety of pointless or extraneous human-machine interactions and enhancing system performance and effectivity.”
Abstract of the patent
Right here’s Apple’s summary of the patent: “Strategies described herein embrace receiving number of info figuring out a number of members for collaborating in a health session, a begin time for the health session, and a period of the health session. The strategies additionally contains receiving particular person health metrics for the a number of members related to the health session, the person health metrics collected throughout a time frame equivalent to the beginning time and the period of the health session.
“The strategies additionally contains presenting mixture health information for the health session equivalent to the acquired particular person health metrics for the a number of members related to the health session in the course of the time frame, and presenting no less than a subset of the acquired particular person health metrics for the a number of members related to the health session in the course of the time frame.”
