Heart Rate Data Server for Real-Time Exercise Metrics
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Solution Overview
Problem
Modern physical exercise devices face challenges in efficiently processing and transmitting heart rate measurement data from users to network storage, particularly in associating measurement devices with correct user accounts and computing advanced performance data in real-time during exercises.
Innovation Solution
A system comprising a server computer with a processor and memory, configured to store user accounts, associate device addresses with user accounts, receive and store heart rate measurement data, and compute advanced performance data, which is then transmitted back to the user interface for output during exercise, utilizing wireless and network connections.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If heart rate measurement data is transmitted in real-time to network storage during exercise, then data availability and monitoring capability are improved, but network bandwidth consumption and system complexity increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces an equipment interface unit as an intermediary component that receives measurement data from the measurement device and forwards it to network storage. This mediator handles the complexity of real-time data transmission, protocol management, and network communication, thereby improving data availability while containing system complexity within a dedicated component rather than distributing it across the entire system.
2Measurement precision
If device address is associated with user account during registration, then data routing accuracy is improved, but registration procedure complexity increases
Solution Approach 1:
The patent implements device address association with user accounts during the registration procedure, which is a preliminary action performed before actual exercise sessions. This ensures that when measurement data is transmitted during exercise, the routing accuracy is already established through the pre-configured association between device addresses and user accounts, eliminating the need for complex real-time identification during exercise.
3Productivity
If advanced performance data is computed repeatedly during exercise, then real-time feedback capability is improved, but processing time and energy consumption increase
Solution Approach 1:
The patent computes advanced performance data repeatedly during exercise at periodic intervals rather than continuously. This periodic computation approach provides real-time feedback capability by updating performance metrics at regular intervals, while significantly reducing energy consumption compared to continuous computation. The system balances the need for real-time feedback with energy efficiency by using periodic rather than continuous processing.
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AI summary
A system for processing heart rate measurement data includes a server computer configured to: associate, during a registration procedure for a measurement device of a user, a device identifier of the measurement device with a user account of the user stored in the server computer; receive a device identifier and real-time heart rate measurement data over a network connection; identify the user's measurement device from the received device identifier; store the received heart rate measurement data to the user account of the user on the basis of the association between the received device identifier and the corresponding user account; compute, repeatedly during the physical exercise from the received heart rate measurement data, advanced performance data comprising at least one value which accumulates during the physical exercise; and transmit the computed advanced performance data to the equipment interface unit over the network connection during the physical exercise.