Host Device for Automatic Exercise Community Management
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Solution Overview
Problem
Current health-related applications face challenges in securing reliable exercise data and generating communities based on user exercise habits, as they often rely on limited data and require manual management by operators.
Innovation Solution
A method and electronic device system that receives exercise data, generates groups based on preset conditions, and automatically manages communities by synchronizing exercise records, using a host device to determine group membership and configure groups based on exercise data criteria.
Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles
Engineering Contradiction Analysis
1Reliability
If a health application calculates only ranks of users who use the corresponding application, then the application provides basic ranking service, but it causes difficulty in securing reliability of data and meeting needs of the user when the user uses only a particular application
Solution Approach 1:
The patent merges exercise data from multiple health applications and multiple electronic devices into a unified community database. Instead of limiting data to a single application or device, the system aggregates exercise records across different applications (e.g., running app, cycling app) and devices (e.g., smartphone, wearable), thereby securing more reliable and comprehensive data for community generation and user comparison.
Solution Approach 2:
The system creates a universal community platform that can accommodate users from different applications and devices. The community generation mechanism is designed to be application-agnostic, allowing users participating in various health applications to be grouped together based on their exercise data, thus meeting diverse user needs across multiple platforms.
2Ease of manufacture
If a user shares only exercise data of acquaintances through a friend service, then the user can share data with known contacts, but it causes difficulty due to a limitation in securing data since the user of the electronic device can use only limited data
Solution Approach 1:
The system combines exercise data from acquaintances (friend service) with data from strangers who meet community entry conditions. By merging these two data sources, the system maintains the simplicity of friend-based sharing while significantly expanding the total quantity of available exercise data through automated community generation based on exercise characteristics.
3Reliability
If an operator manually generates a community by identifying electronic devices with similar exercise data, then the community can be created based on exercise similarity, but it provides cumbersomeness to the operator who generates the community since the operator should manage the community at predetermined time intervals
Solution Approach 1:
The system enables automatic community generation and management without requiring continuous operator intervention. The server automatically identifies electronic devices with similar exercise data, generates communities based on predetermined entry conditions, and manages community configurations at specified time intervals. This self-service mechanism maintains community accuracy while eliminating operator cumbersomeness.
Solution Approach 2:
The system establishes predetermined community entry conditions and automatic management rules in advance. Instead of requiring operators to manually assess and manage communities in real-time, the system has pre-configured criteria for community generation and automatic refresh intervals, allowing communities to be maintained accurately without ongoing operator effort.
4Ease of operation
If the system automatically generates communities based on exercise data, then user convenience increases, but the device complexity increases due to automated group management functions
Solution Approach 1:
The patent introduces a server as an intermediary that handles the complex automated community generation and management tasks. Instead of embedding complex group management functionality directly in the user's electronic device, the server performs data analysis, community generation, and configuration management, thereby providing user convenience while isolating system complexity in a centralized location.
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AI summary
A host device includes: a data management module for receiving exercise data from an electronic device; a group management module for generating a group requiring preset conditions and determining whether to include the electronic device in the group based on whether the exercise data of the electronic device received from the data management module meets the conditions; and a league management module for, when the number of generated groups is two or more, controlling a configuration of the two or more groups based on a result of the determination on whether one or more electronic devices included in each of the two or more groups meet conditions required by the group whenever a preset period elapses.