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Method and apparatus for remote interactive exercise and health equipment
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Inventors: Hickman, Paul L.;
Assignee:
Primary Examiner: Richman; Glenn E.
Assistant Examiner:
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Perkins Coie LLP
An exercise system includes a local system having an exercise apparatus and an associated local computer, where the local computer controls and monitors the operation and use, respectively, of the exercise apparatus. The system further includes a remote system having a remote computer, and a transmission medium preferably including the Internet that couples the local system to the remote system for data communication between the local system and the remote system. The remote system may receive local system data from the local system concerning the use of the exercise apparatus, and the local system may receive remote system data from the remote system concerning the operation of the exercise apparatus. The local computer preferably controls the operation of the exercise apparatus based upon a modifiable script stored in a read/write memory of the local computer, which can be updated by the remote system. A method for controlling an exercise apparatus includes running a modifiable script on a local computer to control the use and to monitor the operation of an exercise apparatus, and communicating with a remote system, preferably via the Internet, to provide the remote system with data concerning the use of the exercise apparatus. The script is stored in read/write memory of the local computer and remote system data received from the remote system may include at least a portion of a new script to be stored in the read/write memory of the local computer. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides an exercise and health system which is convenient, affordable, and effective.
The system includes computerized exercise and/or health equipment (the "local system") that can provide feedback and encouragement to the user, i.
e.
can serve as a "virtual personal trainer.
" In addition, the system includes a remote computer system communicating over a bi-directional data channel with the exercise and health equipment.
Still further, the system can include a server computer system that is in communication with the remote computer systems to provide bi-directional data communication with the remote computer systems.
Since the exercise and health equipment can communicate with the user, it is possible for the health equipment to provide incentive and motivation to the user much in the same fashion as a human personal trainer.
In addition, the health and exercise equipment can store data and other parameters concerning the exercise or other activities which can be used to monitor the progress and to vary the exercise program or script.
In this way, the local system can serve as a "virtual personal trainer.
" The remote system computer is preferably associated with a number of exercise and health locations.
The remote system computer can be considered to be the communication tool of a human personal trainer, as opposed to the "virtual personal trainer" emulated by software in the local system computer.
For example, the remote system computer can be associated with one hundred local systems (used by one or more individuals in, for example, their homes), and can be used to upload information from the exercise and health equipment of a local system to be analyzed by the personal trainer at the remote computer.
The personal trainer can then call the individual user to provide additional instruction, encouragement, and cautions, and the remote system computer can download new exercise scripts or programs to the local system computer to implement these changes
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