System architecture for a wearable device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10848613-B2
Application number	US-201715714987-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Sep 25, 2017
Priority date	Feb 24, 2015
Publication date	Nov 24, 2020
Grant date	Nov 24, 2020

Abstract

Apparatuses and methods that generate and send interactive elements to a plurality of wearable electronic devices are discussed. One or more mobile applications and one or more remote backend servers may cooperate to send information in the interactive elements to the instances of the time synchronous application resident in their wearable electronic device in order to bring different types of content such as timely and relevant data, events, and notifications to a user of that wearable electronic device without the user's intervention to actively retrieve the different types of content. The interactive elements may be generated and sent from any of i) a public application programming interface hosted on a server, ii) one or more mobile applications resident on one or more mobile computing devices, and iii) one or more remote backend servers. In addition, these sources may merely send content and commands for the interactive elements to the public application programming interface.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A smart watch, comprising:
a memory, a processor, a communication circuit, and a display screen in the smart watch, which are all configured to cooperate with each other, where a time synchronous application is configured to be resident in the memory of the smart watch and to be executed by the processor wherein:
the communication circuit and the time synchronous application are configured to cooperate to receive content for two or more interactive elements, and the time synchronous application is configured to illustrate the content of the two or more interactive elements on the display screen of the smart watch, the content configured for transmission to an overseeing module and including at least content from a first mobile application from a first application developer and a second mobile application from a second application developer, and wherein a first interactive element is accessible, via an application programming interface, by one of the first application developer or the second application developer, using one or more layout templates having respective definable formats for the first interactive element,
the time synchronous application is configured to synchronize the two or more interactive elements in a chronological order in a context of time of displayed interactive elements on the display screen, where the time synchronous application is configured to display different types of content with the interactive elements selected from both
i) timely and relevant data including any one or more selected from a group consisting of sports scores, stock ticker information, weather updates, horoscope information, fitness information, news updates, and any combination thereof, and
ii) calendar events including any one or more selected from a group consisting of calendar entries, reminders, and any combination thereof;
wherein the interactive elements are synchronized in the context of time with the time synchronous application in order to bring these different types of content of the timely and relevant data and the events, to a watch face of the smart watch without a user's intervention to actively retrieve the different types of content and allow navigating through these interactive elements; and
the content for the two or more interactive elements comes from different sources, including content from two or more mobile applications resident in a mobile computing device, but are arranged and placed in a common graphical user interface on the display screen of the smart watch to provide an overview for a user the of smart watch, where the common graphical user interface of the time synchronous application displaying the interactive elements is distinct and separate from a user interface of a watch application and a user interface of the mobile applications that supplied the content in the interactive elements.

2. The smart watch of claim 1 , where the overseeing module obtains the content from a data source, transforms the content into a format of a first interactive element, and transmits the first interactive element to the time synchronous application resident in the memory of the smart watch.

3. The smart watch of claim 1 , where the first mobile application and the second mobile application are coded to send commands to the overseeing module in order to be transformed into a format of an interactive element;
where the time synchronous application resident in the smart watch is configured receive the interactive elements from the two or more applications in order to bring the different types of content of the timely and relevant data and the events to the user of that smart watch without the user's intervention on the common graphical user interface.

4. The smart watch of claim 1 , where the time synchronous application resident in the smart watch is configured to call one or more methods from one or more servers to assist in generating a first interactive element.

5. The smart watch of claim 1 , where a first module is configured to render data from a first interactive element; and as time passes, update the data rendered in the first interactive element on the display.

6. The smart watch of claim 1 , where an interactive element has information that includes three or more selected from a group consisting of a layout, a title, an image, and a time for the interactive element.

7. The smart watch of claim 1 , where a first layout of an interactive element allows an app developer to choose between different size icons to use when viewing the interactive element on the display.

8. The smart watch of claim 1 , where the time synchronous application is configured to cooperate with a scrolling mechanism for the smart watch in order to scroll forward in time as well as backward in time through the synchronized order of the interactive elements.

9. The smart watch of claim 8 , where when the scrolling mechanism is used, the scrolling mechanism is configured to allow a navigation to move forward and backward in time to see additional interactive elements on the display screen and the corresponding content in those interactive elements.

10. The smart watch of claim 1 , where a first interactive element contains data from a first mobile application and a second interactive element contains data from a second mobile application organized together in a timeline in the common graphic user interface to grant an insight and an overview of this information in a context of time.

11. A method for a smart watch, comprising:
illustrating content of two or more interactive elements on a display screen of the smart watch with a time synchronous application, the content configured for transmission to an overseeing module and including at least content from a first mobile application from a first application developer and a second mobile application from a second application developer, and wherein a first interactive element is accessible, via an application programming interface, by one of the first application developer or the second application developer, using one or more layout templates having respective definable formats for the first interactive element,
where the time synchronous application is configured to synchronize the two or more interactive elements in a chronological order in a context of time of displayed interactive elements on the display screen, where the time synchronous application is configured to display different types of content with the interactive elements selected from both
i) timely and relevant data including any one or more selected from a group consisting of sports scores, stock ticker information, weather updates, horoscope information, fitness information, news updates, and any combination thereof, and
ii) calendar events including any one or more selected from a group consisting of calendar entries, reminders, and any combination thereof; and
where the content for the two or more interactive elements comes from different sources, including content from two or more mobile applications resident in a mobile computing device, but are arranged and placed in a common graphical user interface on the display screen of the smart watch to provide an overview for a user the of smart watch, where the common graphical user interface of the time synchronous application displaying the interactive elements is distinct and separate from a user interface of a watch application and a user interface of the mobile applications that supplied the content in the interactive elements.

12. The method for the smart watch of claim 11 , where the first mobile application and the second mobile application are coded to send commands to the overseeing module in order

Assignees

• Fitbit Inc

Inventors

• Baldassari François Olivier
• Damir Liron Mordechai
• Hoffman Tyler James
• Knight Megan Elisabeth
• Levak Henry
• Vonshak Itai

Classifications

• H04M1/72412 Primary

  using two-way short-range wireless interfaces · CPC title

• H04M1/72484 Primary

  wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events · CPC title

• H04M1/7243

  with interactive means for internal management of messages · CPC title

• G06F1/163

  Wearable computers, e.g. on a belt · CPC title

• G06F3/04847

  Interaction techniques to control parameter settings, e.g. interaction with sliders or dials · CPC title