The U.S. Patent and Trademark Office today published several patent applications describing an iPhone-based system to collect and analyze data from wearable and other types of accessory sensors, reports AppleInsider. Under the system, the iPhone could then track the owner’s activity and respond with appropriate notifications and changes in the device settings.
One patent application, “Method and apparatus for automatically setting alarms and notifications,” describes a method of associating motion data with a set of alarms. In this described invention, the iPhone could detect whether a user is sleeping or awake and adjust the settings for features such as “Do Not Disturb,” for example. These motion data points may be collected from a device that is worn by the user.
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