Centralized Server for User-Specific Exercise Data Association
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Solution Overview
Problem
Existing exercise devices and biometric information systems fail to dynamically identify and associate user-specific data, making it impossible to utilize stored information after a workout session, as they cannot differentiate between multiple users.
Innovation Solution
Implementing client software that uses wireless authentication technologies like RFID or Bluetooth to authenticate users dynamically and transmit user-identity pairs to a centralized database for storage and management, allowing for user-specific data association and retrieval.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Loss of information
If exercise devices store biometric and mechanical information locally without user identification, then the device can record workout data, but the information cannot be associated with individual users for later utilization
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a centralized server as an intermediary between exercise devices and users. The server stores user profiles, authentication credentials, and workout data, mediating the connection between multiple devices and multiple users. This resolves the contradiction by enabling user-specific data association without requiring complex authentication systems in each individual device.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized server provides universal authentication and data management services to multiple exercise devices and multiple users. Instead of each device having its own authentication system, the server handles user identification, authentication, and data association for all devices, reducing overall system complexity while enabling user-specific data tracking.
2Adaptability or versatility
If exercise devices use simple storage without authentication, then the device structure remains simple, but multiple users cannot be dynamically identified and their data differentiated
Solution Approach 1:
The centralized server acts as an intermediary that handles user identification and authentication. Exercise devices simply communicate workout data to the server, which then associates the data with the appropriate user based on authentication information. This provides adaptability for multiple users without adding complexity to the individual exercise devices.
Solution Approach 2:
Users authenticate themselves to the system, and the server automatically associates their workout data with their profiles. The system serves itself by automatically matching users to their data without requiring manual intervention or complex device-side authentication logic.
3Reliability
If each exercise device has independent user authentication and data storage, then user data can be tracked, but the system complexity and cost increase significantly
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges the authentication and data storage functions from multiple individual devices into a single centralized server. This ensures data accuracy by maintaining a single source of truth for user profiles and workout data, while reducing overall system complexity by eliminating redundant authentication mechanisms across multiple devices.
Solution Approach 2:
The centralized server provides universal authentication and data management services to all exercise devices. This ensures reliable user data association across the entire system without requiring each device to have its own authentication mechanism, thereby maintaining data accuracy while reducing complexity.
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AI summary
The invention relates to a method for storing an exercise performance of a user of an exercise device (UE1, UE2, UE3) that is shared by several users (U1, U2, U3). The invention is characterised by installing into the exercise device (UE1, UE2, UE3) software for identifying the user (U1, U2, U3) and for collecting information on the exercise performance; assigning (2-2) a first identifier to the user (U1, U2, U3); assigning (2-2) a second identifier to the exercise device (UE1, UE2, UE3); identifying the user (U1, U2, U3) in response to the first identifier; associating the first identifier with the second identifier; collecting (2-4, 2-6, 2-8) information related to the exercise performance of the user (U1, U2, U3) by associating the combination of the first and second identifiers with the information related to the exercise performance; and storing (2- 10) information related to the exercise performance.