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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 20, 2017
Filed:
Apr. 27, 2015
Fitbit, Inc., San Francisco, CA (US);
Peter Andrew Molettiere, San Francisco, CA (US);
James Park, Berkeley, CA (US);
Aislinn Abigail Bilodeaux-Dewey, San Francisco, CA (US);
Christine Boomer Brumback, San Francisco, CA (US);
Eric Nathan Friedman, San Francisco, CA (US);
Robert Curtis Cole, Los Altos, CA (US);
Heiko Gernot Albert Panther, Oakland, CA (US);
Andrew Cole Axley, Oakland, CA (US);
FITBIT, INC., San Francisco, CA (US);
Abstract
Embodiments of the present invention include a system and method for wirelessly identifying and validating an electronic device in order to initiate a communication process with another device or a service. In an embodiment, the system includes a portable biometric monitoring device that is identified by a client device or a server for the purpose of initiating a pairing process. In an embodiment, pairing implies pairing the portable device to an online user account with minimal user interaction. After pairing, the portable device and appropriate client devices and servers communicate with little or no user interaction, for example to upload sensor data collected by the portable device.