Wearable Device with Unique ID for Social Network Telemetry

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Solution Overview

Problem

There is a need for wearable telemetry devices that can fit all users and are suitable for use in social networking, capable of gathering and analyzing user data to provide personalized information about habits and daily experiences.

Innovation Solution

A wearable device with a unique user ID, equipped with sensors and ID circuitry, communicates with a telemetry system that analyzes user data and provides personalized information by transmitting and receiving data through a social network, allowing for flexible and widespread use across multiple service environments.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Device complexity

If a wearable device is designed to fit all users (one size fits all), then device complexity and manufacturing costs are reduced, but adaptability to different user sizes and preferences deteriorates

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedevice complexityVSAvoidadaptability
Core Design Contradiction:
Device complexityVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The wearable device is designed as a universal wristband that can be worn by all users regardless of size, incorporating multiple sensors and communication capabilities to serve diverse functions including health monitoring, social networking, and data transmission, thereby achieving one-size-fits-all deployment

Inventive Principle:
Principle #6Universality (Multi-functionality)

2Loss of information

If the wearable device collects comprehensive user data for personalized information, then information quality and personalization improve, but data privacy and security risks worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveinformation qualityVSAvoiddata security risks
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSObject-affected harmful factors

Solution Approach 1:

The patent introduces a telemetry system and social network server as intermediaries between the wearable device and external systems. These intermediaries handle data transmission, processing, and storage, enabling comprehensive data collection for personalized information while providing security layers and controlled access mechanisms to mitigate privacy and security risks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

3Quantity of substance

If the device communicates with social networks and stores user data remotely, then device storage requirements are reduced, but network dependency and connectivity requirements worsen

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvestorage capacityVSAvoidnetwork dependency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSAdaptability or versatility

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts storage and processing functions from the wearable device itself, placing them in external systems including social network servers and cloud-based telemetry systems. This reduces the storage burden on the wearable device while enabling comprehensive data collection and analysis through networked infrastructure

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Data Source

PatentUS9438044B2Method using wearable device with unique user ID and telemetry system in communication with one or more social networks
Publication Date: 2016.09.06 FITBIT INC
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AI summary

A method is provided for using telemetry data, and a wearable device that communicates with a social network. One or more sensors, coupled to the wearable device that has a unique user ID, are used to acquire at least one of a user's activities, behaviors and habit information. The wearable device has ID circuitry and a communication system that reads and transmits the unique ID from an ID storage. The wearable device communicates with a social network. A telemetry system communicates with the one or more sensors. The telemetry system includes a database of user ID's. Telemetry data is analyzed based on at least one of, user's activities, behaviors and habit information. Personalized information is created about the user.