Patent ID: 8712510

Claim:
A system for monitoring exercise using a mobile phone, connected in at least partial wireless communication with one or more internet servers through a network, comprising: a sensor adapted to be coupled to a physiological monitoring device for receiving a first type of data that is physiological data related to a user of a mobile phone measured during exercise; a mobile phone, wherein the mobile phone is a web-enabled phone configured to be carried on a person during exercise and further configured to display information and images through a connection to the internet, the mobile phone including a sensor, keypad or keyboard system, or voice processing technology for user input, an integral digital camera, a GPS device, an accelerometer, and a timer, and a display for images including photographs and video clips captured by the camera, the mobile phone configured to receive the first type of data that is physiological data related to a user of the mobile phone measured during exercise from the sensor for receiving a first type of data measuring physiological data, and the mobile phone further configured to determine a second type of data that is a quantitative amount of exercise work performed using the GPS device, the accelerometer, or the timer; and a non-transitory computer-readable medium within the mobile phone, the non-transitory computer-readable medium having instructions stored thereon for causing the mobile phone to perform a method for monitoring exercise, the method comprising steps of: accepting the first type of data during exercise from the physiological monitoring device; accepting the second type of data measuring an amount of exercise performed from the GPS device, the internal accelerometer, or the internal timer; accepting a visual image captured by the camera during exercise, including a photographic or video image pertaining to the location of the exercise; and displaying the physiological data, the data measuring the quantitative amount of exercise work performed, and the visual image, on the mobile phone.