Patent ID: 9370320
Filing Date: 2016-06-21
CPC Classification: A61B,A63B,G01C,G01P,G06F,G16H

Claim Text:
1. A method, comprising, scanning, by an activity tracking device, for a semi-unique identifier broadcasted by a device; connecting the device with the activity tracking device after the semi-unique identifier is found to be of the device by the activity tracking device, the activity tracking device configured to query the device to obtain a device identification (ID) of the device; linking the device to the activity tracking device when the device ID of the device matches a copy of the device ID stored in the activity tracking device; and automatically processing the connecting to then process the linking without requiring user input, the activity tracking device being configured to store additional device IDs associated with devices that have been pre-defined to link to the activity tracking device, the devices being pre-defined to link to the activity tracking device based on pre-made pairings of the devices to the activity tracking device, as defined in a user account, and the user account maintaining a current association of the activity tracking device to one or more devices, the method being executed by a processor.