Patent ID: 9646137
Date: 2017-05-09
CPC Classifications: A63B,G16H

Claim:
1. A method for a portable electronic device to interact with an exercise machine, the method comprising: accepting first sensor data with the portable electronic device from at least a first sensor integrated within the exercise machine during use of the exercise machine by a user; accepting second sensor data with the portable electronic device from at least a second sensor attached to the user during the use of the exercise machine by the user, wherein the second sensor is a duplicative data source for the first sensor for a particular type of data during the use of the exercise machine by the user; identifying, using the portable electronic device, a particular one of the accepted first sensor data and the accepted second sensor data as the more accurate sensor data for the particular type of data; and generating, using the portable electronic device, a control signal for influencing operation of the exercise machine based on the identified particular one of the accepted first sensor data and the accepted second sensor data but not based on the other one of the accepted first sensor data and the accepted second sensor data.