Patent ID: 9629574
Date: 2017-04-25
CPC Classifications: A61B

Claim:
1. A method, comprising: (a) identifying each of a plurality of user-wearable devices that are being worn by a user, wherein each of the user-wearable devices is battery powered, includes a plurality of sensors, is adapted to perform wireless communication, and is being worn on a separate portion of the user's body; (b) for each of the plurality of user-wearable devices, identifying a portion of the user's body on which the user-wearable device is being worn; (c) identifying an activity in which the user is engaged; (d) identifying, in dependence on the activity in which the user is engaged and the portions of the user's body on which the user wearable devices are being worn, multiple types of sensor data that are to be sensed, using the sensors of the user-wearable devices, to enable tracking of one or more metrics relevant to the activity in which the user is engaged; (e) determining, in dependence on the activity in which the user is engaged and the portions of the user's body on which the user wearable devices are being worn, how to distribute sensing responsibilities for the multiple types of sensor data among the sensors of the plurality of user-wearable devices being worn by the user, (f) selectively activating and deactivating individual sensors of each of the user-wearable devices in dependence on results of step (e).