Saturday, April 30, 2011

Powerful app in Fitness shows Apple patent for iPhone (Mashable)

Apple filed a patent for an application of Center of Fitness with social media components that might be able to bring a variety of fitness-tracking features as an icon. The United States Patent and Trademark Office published Thursday Apple patent. The app would include an extensive back-end for fitness centers interact with their customers and front end that will reside on the iPhone, help users to keep track of their training sessions and find potential partners for training via social networks.


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There is a component-like together on software, which allows fitness centres are beginning their interaction with potential customers by offering a "free pass" and sent "news, updates, daily promotions and daily activities.""," according to the patent application described on PatentlyApple.com.


In addition to benefit from the fitness centres, users would be able to find potential partners for training, building on the data they input and profile of their social networking accounts information. The app could also draw a user against the other, based on the competition while motivating users to stick with their fitness plans.


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Based on the experience of Apple Nike + app would connect with smart exercise apparatus, held of accurate records of training achievements, and then matching those against the objectives of the user. The patent application, Apple specified to the collection of data fitness via the two devices connected physical exercise and wireless by Bluetooth or Wi - Fi of coupling.


While many of these functions is already available through applications and websites, if Apple decides to create this app, it will likely be to encapsulate all of these different functions in a seamlessly integrated user experience.


Let us know in the comments if you think it's an original idea which was to be released or if you think Apple is copying several applications that already exist.

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