Patent ID: 8533269

Claim:
A method for publishing user physical activity in a social network, the method comprising: providing by an application server a computer implemented social network of a plurality of users; measuring by an activity monitor a motion of one of said users using an accelerometer operated by said one of said of users; comparing by the activity monitor said measured motion of said one of said users with stored physical activity signals previously assigned an identifier by said one of said users; assigning by the activity monitor a physical activity identifier to said measured motion of said one of said users when said measured motion is similar to said stored physical activity signals; storing by the activity monitor said physical activity identifier assigned to said measured motion; storing by the activity monitor a user-selected physical activity identifier for said measured motion of said one of said users when said measured motion is unidentified; and publishing by the application server said physical activity identifier to a plurality of friends of said one of said plurality of users, wherein (A) said friends are users of said social network, (B) a portable wireless device marks a timestamp corresponding to said measured motion of at least one monitored user, and (C) said timestamp can be used by said identification module.