Patent ID: 9055778
Filing Date: 2015-06-16
Classification: A43B

Abstract:
1. An article of footwear comprising: a) a signal system having a plurality of indicators wherein at least one of the indicators produces a signaling event of one or more signals wherein the one or more signals instructs a user of the system to engage through a response system; b) said response system having a plurality of activators, and whereby one or more activators corresponds to one or more signals that instructs the user; c) said plurality of activators being controlled by the user wherein such control is executed through actions that are not associated with the user's compression of a sole of the article of footwear; d) whereby during said signaling event, said signal system communicates to the response system which one or more activators corresponds to the one or more signals produced by the at least one of the indicators; e) so that when said one or more activators are engaged by the user and the users engagement is in conformity with the one or more signals' instructions, the response system communicates to the signal system that the users engagement was in conformity with the one or more signals' instructions; f) whereby the user's conforming engagement of the one or more activators initiates an additional signaling event whereby the additional signaling event further instructs the user to engage said one or more corresponding activators; g) said signal system having a specified number of signaling events and said signal system operative to count the number of signaling events so that after the signal system reaches the specified number of signaling events, the signal system provides a confirmatory signal that indicates whether the user engagements were in conformity with each signaling event's instructions.