Patent ID: 9743443
Date: 2017-08-22
CPC Classifications: A61B,H04L,H04W

Claim:
1. A method for pairing a portable monitoring device with a computing device, comprising: receiving by the computing device a selection of the portable monitoring device for pairing with the computing device; sending by the computing device via a computer network to a server an instruction to receive first pairing information; receiving by the computing device via the computer network from the server the first pairing information in response to sending the instruction; sending the first pairing information from the computing device to the portable monitoring device; receiving by the computing device second pairing information from the portable monitoring device, the second pairing information being obtained by the portable monitoring device from the server via the computer network; pairing the computing device with the portable monitoring device after said sending of the first pairing information from the computing device to the portable monitoring device and said receiving by the computing device of the second pairing information from the portable monitoring device, said pairing performed to begin a transfer of activity data from the portable monitoring device to the computing device, wherein pairing the computing device with the portable monitoring device comprises creating a link between the computing device and the portable monitoring device; and receiving by the computing device the activity data from the portable monitoring device via the link, wherein the activity data is representative of a physiological metric collected by one or more sensors embedded in the portable monitoring device.