Patents Assigned to Fitbit, Inc.
  • Menstrual cycle tracking
    Patent number: 10765409
    Abstract: Health information for a woman can be used to predict timing of events related to the woman's menstrual cycle. If available, historical cycle information for a woman can be used to predict upcoming cycle events, such as the start and stop of menstruation. To improve the accuracy of those predictions, one or more health metrics are monitored for the woman that can be correlated with the menstrual cycle. These can include, for example, the resting heart rate (RHR), blood oxygen concentration (SpO2) level, and hemoglobin concentration, among other such options. The metrics are monitored over time to determine patterns that can be correlated with menstrual cycle. This information can then be used to update the predictive model, as well as to update individual event predictions. Information about the predictions, and updates to the predictions, can be surfaced accordingly.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Belen Lafon, Chris H. Sarantos, Conor Joseph Heneghan, Logan Niehaus, Jaclyn Leverett Wasson, Peter Colin Dess, Amir Bahador Farjadian, Zachary Todd Beattie, Atiyeh Ghoreyshi, Allison Shih Wu
  • Controlling and optimizing actions on notifications for a mobile device
    Patent number: 10721711
    Abstract: Provided herein is apparatuses and methods for notifications from applications displayed on a wearable electronic device. An action prioritization routine optimizes the display of the possible selectable action items associated with notifications as well as controls a number of other functions regarding notifications.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 8, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Aleksandr Kirov, Henry Levak, Melissa Sherman
  • Fitness activity related messaging
    Patent number: 10721191
    Abstract: In one embodiment, a method for generating a message to a friend of a user is provided, comprising: processing activity data of a first user measured by an activity monitoring device to update a value of an activity metric for the first user; identifying a change in an inequality relationship between the value of the activity metric for the first user and a value of the activity metric for a second user; in response to identifying the change in the inequality relationship, prompting the first user to generate a message to the second user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 15, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Nichiketa Choudhary, Timothy Roberts, David Knight
  • Generating custom audio content for an exercise session
    Patent number: 10713295
    Abstract: System, apparatuses, and methods can provide customized exercise sessions and customized videos corresponding to the exercise session. Audio clips can be dynamically selected to make custom audio content for an exercise session. The audio clips and metadata can be obtained, where the audio clips correspond to categories. The exercise session can include one or more components. A destination timeline for a component can include one or more first segments that require audio, and one or more second segments that can optionally have audio. Audio clips can be selected for the various segments, where a segment can be designated for a particular category of audio clips. Identification information for the selected audio clips can be saved and used to generate the custom audio content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 21, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 14, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Mike Maser, Dave Grijalva
  • Adaptive data transfer using bluetooth
    Patent number: 10700774
    Abstract: Biometric monitoring devices, including various technologies that may be implemented in such devices, are discussed herein. Additionally, techniques, systems, and apparatuses are discussed herein for utilizing two different Bluetooth communications interfaces, one that provides Bluetooth classic (base rate/enhanced data rate) communications functionality and one that provides Bluetooth low-energy communications functionality, in a common device. The techniques, systems, and apparatuses may elect to use a particular Bluetooth interface based on various criteria.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 25, 2019
    Date of Patent: June 30, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Heiko Gernot Albert Panther, James Park
  • Systems and methods for distributing application templates to wearable client devices
    Patent number: 10684836
    Abstract: Described systems and methods allow executing complex software applications on a wearable electronic device such as a smartwatch, while reducing energy consumption. Instead of installing the complete code necessary to carry out all aspects of the respective application, some embodiments install a subset of program instructions on the wearable device, and dynamically fetch selected fragments of code from a remote server computer system onto the wearable device, as needed to carry out specific operations. Such code fetches may be triggered, for instance, by the user's pressing a button of the wearable device, or by a gesture of the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 19, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Daniel O. Rizea, Andrei Pitis
  • Band latch mechanism
    Patent number: 10646007
    Abstract: A band latch mechanism that is configured to connect a wristband to a fitness tracker is provided. The band latch mechanism may be configured to be inserted into a cavity of a housing of the fitness tracker and configured so that any metallic body of the band latch mechanism does not contact metallic surfaces of the cavity in order to prevent an electrical ground from being positioned within a keep-out zone of an antenna of the fitness tracker.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 20, 2017
    Date of Patent: May 12, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Dennis Jacob McCray, Brian Dennis Paschke, Chadwick John Harber, Ming-Sheng Ku
  • Methods for slot antenna design for wearable electronic devices and conductive housings
    Patent number: 10637129
    Abstract: A wearable computing device can include a monopole-excited slot antenna formed by a gap between a housing (such as a highly conductive housing) and a bracket (such as a highly conductive bracket) within the highly conductive housing and by a back cavity between the highly conductive bracket and the PCB. The antenna configuration can include a monopole antenna electrically coupled to a printed circuit board and a slot antenna that is excited through coupled electromagnetic fields. The highly conductive bracket is positioned near a display window of the device, mostly below and partially enclosing a battery. The highly conductive bracket is positioned above the printed circuit board. This configuration allows for a relatively small dead band in the display window, a larger battery, compact and mechanically simple configuration, and superior water resistance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 22, 2019
    Date of Patent: April 28, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Yonghua Wei, Kevin Li, Patrick James Markan, Allen Yu-Li Wang, Teemu Taneli Raafael Kaiponen, Christos Kinezos Ioannou
  • User identification by biometric monitoring device
    Patent number: 10624561
    Abstract: Techniques for user identification by a biometric monitoring device are disclosed. In one aspect, a method of operating a biometric monitoring device may involve measuring a weight of a user in response to detecting that the user is standing on a platform, determining, based on sensor data generated by a sensor, a user parameter indicative of the user's identification, identifying one of a plurality of user profiles as corresponding to the user based on a comparison of the user parameter to parameter values and a comparison of the measured weight of the user to weight values, and updating the identified user profile based on at least one of the measured weight and the user parameter.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 12, 2017
    Date of Patent: April 21, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Eric Foxlin, Molly Glauberman, Erick Fuentes
  • Band for a smart watch
    Patent number: D886097
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephanie Lydia Rene Choplin, Cory William Worth, Brian Dennis Paschke, Jonah Avram Becker, Anthony Gerald Kern
  • Smart watch with curved body
    Patent number: D886098
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephanie Lydia Renee Choplin, Cory William Worth, Brian Dennis Paschke, Jonah Avram Becker, Anthony Gerald Kern
  • Smart watch with curved body
    Patent number: D886099
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephanie Lydia Renee Choplin, Cory William Worth, Brian Dennis Paschke, Jonah Avram Becker, Anthony Gerald Kern
  • Smart watch with curved body
    Patent number: D886100
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 2, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Stephanie Lydia Renee Choplin, Cory William Worth, Brian Dennis Paschke, Jonah Avram Becker, Anthony Gerald Kern
  • Body of smart watch with health monitor sensor
    Patent number: D887405
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 25, 2018
    Date of Patent: June 16, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan, Stephen Ronald Smilovitz, Yu Chuan Kang
  • Band
    Patent number: D889304
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 7, 2017
    Date of Patent: July 7, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Brian Dennis Paschke, Jonah Avram Becker, Stephanie Lydia Renee Choplin
  • Wrist holder for a body of a smart watch
    Patent number: D891286
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 18, 2018
    Date of Patent: July 28, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Cory William Worth, Brian Dennis Paschke, Stephanie Lydia Renee Choplin
  • Smart watch with health monitor sensor
    Patent number: D895613
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 29, 2018
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: FITBIT, INC.
    Inventors: Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Benjamin Patrick Robert Jean Riot, Anthony Gerald Kern, Derek Jenchia Loh, Bernhard Wildner, Junyong Park, Jeffrey Andrew Fisher, Patrick James Markan
  • Body of a smart watch
    Patent number: D895614
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche, Jonah Avram Becker, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Cory William Worth, Chadwick John Harber, Junyong Park
  • Body of a smart watch
    Patent number: D895615
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 21, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 8, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Gregoire Ludovic Vincent Vandenbussche, Jonah Avram Becker, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Cory William Worth, Chadwick John Harber, Junyong Park
  • Watch bands with a reflective strip
    Patent number: D896119
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 15, 2020
    Assignee: Fitbit, Inc.
    Inventors: Junyong Park, Irina Igorevna Kozlovskaya, Jennifer Burton Birch, Angela Sevilla, Cory William Worth