Prior art

To identify the most relevant prior art for US patent 11664123, I will access the USPTO database for the patent and review its cited references. The USPTO provides a Patent Public Search tool for this purpose.

Based on a direct review of the patent document US11664123B2, the following prior art references are cited:

US Patent Documents:

• US2011/0267232 A1
  • Full Citation: US2011/0267232 A1 (McKirdy, Sean)
  • Publication Date: 2011-11-03 (This is a publication date, not a filing date. The priority date for US11664123 is 2011-08-05).
  • Brief Description: This patent application, also by Sean McKirdy, describes a system and method for creating and implementing an exercise regime based on user data, including biometric data and exercise equipment data. It discusses generating unique codes (which could be barcodes) based on this data to track and manage workouts.
  • Potential Anticipation (35 U.S.C. § 102): US2011/0267232 A1 is a prior publication by the same inventor as US11664123. Given the common inventorship and the description of generating codes (including barcodes) responsive to user and exercise data, this document is highly relevant. It could potentially anticipate claims in US11664123, especially those related to generating barcode data from exercise and biometric information, and using a mobile device to interact with it (e.g., Claim 1 and Claim 10 which describe generating barcode data from user data and displaying a barcode for a mobile device to receive and process, and Claim 19 which describes a mobile device processing barcode data). However, since it is a publication by the same inventor, the "grace period" provisions of 35 U.S.C. § 102(b)(1)(A) would likely apply if the disclosure was made less than one year before the effective filing date of US11664123. The priority date of US11664123 is 2011-08-05, and the publication date of US2011/0267232 A1 is 2011-11-03, which falls within this one-year grace period.
• US8118709 B2
  • Full Citation: US8118709 B2 (McKirdy, Sean)
  • Publication Date: 2012-02-21 (This is the issue date. The filing date for this patent was 2011-03-09.)
  • Brief Description: This patent, also by Sean McKirdy, describes a method and system for controlling and communicating with exercise equipment, including the ability to transfer data to and from mobile devices and backend systems. It focuses on using a "communication module" to obtain data from exercise machines. The contents of this patent are explicitly incorporated by reference into US11664123.
  • Potential Anticipation (35 U.S.C. § 102): US8118709 B2, as a prior patent by the same inventor, covers aspects of data communication with exercise equipment. Since US11664123 refers to sending data to a mobile device, USB drive, computer, etc., "using a method such as that described in U.S. Pat. No. 8,118,709," it indicates that US8118709 B2 lays foundational elements. The claims of US11664123 could be anticipated if they merely re-state or are obvious variations of the methods for data transfer and communication described in US8118709 B2, particularly concerning the interaction between exercise machines and other devices. For instance, elements of Claim 1 and Claim 10 that involve receiving user data from a device and processing it could be anticipated.

It is important to note that both of the highly relevant prior art documents cited are by the same inventor, Sean McKirdy. This suggests that US11664123 is likely a continuation or a related patent application building upon previous work, which is common. In such cases, the analysis under 35 U.S.C. § 102 (anticipation) often involves considering whether the new claims introduce novel and non-obvious subject matter over the inventor's own prior work, especially if the earlier disclosures are not covered by the grace period or if the claims of the later patent are not entitled to the filing date of the earlier applications.