US 12,069,596 B2
Method and device for measuring amount of user physical activity
Ji-Hye Ban, Suwon-si (KR); Sun-Mi Park, Seoul (KR); Jeong-Min Park, Suwon-si (KR); Dae-Yong Lee, Suwon-si (KR); Youn-Hee Lee, Seoul (KR); and Jae-Woong Chun, Suwon-si (KR)
Assigned to Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed by Samsung Electronics Co., Ltd., Suwon-si (KR)
Filed on May 20, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/325,802.
Application 17/325,802 is a division of application No. 15/836,329, filed on Dec. 8, 2017, granted, now 11,044,684.
Application 15/836,329 is a continuation of application No. 14/678,379, filed on Apr. 3, 2015, granted, now 9,867,152, issued on Jan. 9, 2018.
Claims priority of application No. 10-2014-0040606 (KR), filed on Apr. 4, 2014.
Prior Publication US 2021/0274454 A1, Sep. 2, 2021
Int. Cl. H04W 56/00 (2009.01); A61B 5/00 (2006.01); A61B 5/11 (2006.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.01)
CPC H04W 56/001 (2013.01) [A61B 5/002 (2013.01); A61B 5/1118 (2013.01); H04W 4/80 (2018.02); A61B 5/0004 (2013.01); A61B 5/112 (2013.01); A61B 5/6803 (2013.01); A61B 5/6807 (2013.01); A61B 5/681 (2013.01); A61B 5/7246 (2013.01); A61B 2560/0475 (2013.01)] 9 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A method performed by an electronic device, the method comprising:
based on a short range communication connection not being established, sequentially displaying, on a display of the electronic device, a first updated total step number during a first time period, wherein the first updated total step number is updated by using a first sensing data sensed by a sensor of the electronic device;
establishing, by using a communication circuit of the electronic device, the short range communication connection with an external device;
based on the short range communication connection being established, identifying the external device as a first device with a first highest priority;
sequentially displaying, on the display, a second updated total step number during a second time period, wherein the second updated total step number is updated by using a second sensing data sensed by the external device identified as the first device having the first highest priority;
in response to a user interaction with the electronic device corresponding to a change in a priority of the external device, identifying a priority of the electronic device and a priority of each of a plurality of external devices including the external device from a highest priority to a lowest priority;
identifying a second device having a second highest priority from among the electronic device and the plurality of external devices; and
sequentially displaying, on the display, a third updated total step number during a third time period that is after the second time period, wherein the third updated total step number is updated by using a third sensing data sensed by the identified second device,
wherein the second updated total step number is transmitted from the electronic device to at least one of the plurality of external devices via short range communication,
wherein the second sensing data is transmitted to the electronic device from the external device identified as the first device via short range communication,
wherein the third updated total step number is transmitted from the electronic device to at least one of the plurality of external devices via short range communication independent of whether the identified second device having the second highest priority is the electronic device or one of the plurality of external devices, and
wherein,
the third sensing data is transmitted to the electronic device from the identified second device via short range communication, based on the identified second device being one of the plurality of external devices, or
the third sensing data is obtained by the sensor in the electronic device, based on the identified second device being the electronic device.