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1. A portable activity-monitoring device comprising:
monitoring circuitry to generate user-activity data corresponding to activity of an individual bearing the portable activity-monitoring device; communication circuitry, coupled to the monitoring circuitry, to repetitively broadcast a notification signal to be received by a wireless communication device, the notification signal conveying information that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and that indicates whether or not the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of a wireless communication link to enable transmission of the user-activity data to the wireless communication device, wherein the information that indicates whether or not the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of the wireless communication link comprises, at a first time, sync information in a first state and, at a second time, sync information in a second state, the sync information in the first state indicating that the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of the wireless communication link and the sync information in the second state indicating that the portable activity-monitoring device does not seek establishment of the wireless communication link; wherein the sync information in the first state includes, a first unique identifier value that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates that the portable activity-monitoring device seeks establishment of the communication link, and the sync information in the second state includes, a second unique identifier that identifies the portable activity-monitoring device and indicates that the portable activity-monitoring device does not seek establishment of the communication link.
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