Providing game and facility information to in-stadium spectators
Techniques for providing play-by-play game information and stadium facility load information to in-stadium spectator devices and for using the provided information at the spectator devices.
1. A method comprising:
at a mobile device with a touch screen display:
displaying a single drive indicator user interface element and a separate scrollable list of a plurality of play tile user interface elements on the touch screen display wherein the scrollable list comprises a scrollable selector that is responsive to forward or backward scroll touch gestures to scroll the scrollable list;
wherein the drive indicator visually represents a plurality of consecutive plays of one drive by a team participating in an American football contest;
wherein the drive indicator is displayed as a single graphic overlay on a graphical representation of an entire American football field;
wherein the drive indicator visually indicates an amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays in the one drive;
wherein the drive indicator has the appearance of an arrow;
wherein the drive indicator indicates a team participating in the football contest in possession of the football for the plurality of consecutive plays;
receiving a particular forward or backward scroll touch gesture with the scrollable selector and, in response thereto, scrolling the scrollable list to display different play tile user interface elements in the scrollable list without also modifying the graphical representation of the football field;
detecting a touch gesture on the touch screen display to select a particular play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements;
wherein each play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements represents one play of the plurality of consecutive plays;
in response to detecting the touch gesture, visually highlighting a portion of the drive indicator, wherein the highlighting visually indicates an amount of the football field covered only by the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and a remainder of the drive indicator is not highlighted, wherein at least the portion of the drive indicator remains visible on the display;
wherein, when the portion of the drive indicator is visually highlighted, the drive indicator concurrently visually indicates both the amount of the football field covered by only the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and the amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture is a swipe or flick touch gesture to scroll the scrollable list.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the touch gesture is a tap or press touch gesture to select the particular play tile user interface element.
4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the particular play tile user interface element comprises information about the corresponding play.
5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:
receiving play-by-play game data pertaining to the American football contest from one or more in-stadium servers.
6. One or more non-transitory computer-readable media storing instructions which, when executed by a mobile device with a touch screen display, causes the mobile device to perform a method comprising:
displaying a single drive indicator user interface element and a separate scrollable list of a plurality of play tile user interface elements on the touch screen display wherein the scrollable list comprises a scrollable selector that is responsive to forward or backward scroll touch gestures to scroll the scrollable list;
wherein the drive indicator visually represents a plurality of consecutive plays of one drive by a team participating in an American football contest;
wherein the drive indicator is displayed as a graphic overlay on a graphical representation of an entire American football field;
wherein the drive indicator visually indicates an amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays in the one drive;
wherein the drive indicator has the appearance of an arrow;
wherein the drive indicator indicates a team participating in the football contest in possession of the football for the plurality of consecutive plays;
receiving a particular forward or backward scroll touch gesture with the scrollable selector and, in response thereto, scrolling the scrollable list to display different play tile user interface elements in the scrollable list without also modifying the graphical representation of the football field;
detecting a touch gesture on the touch screen display to select a particular play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements;
wherein each play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements represents one play of the plurality of consecutive plays;
in response to detecting the touch gesture, visually highlighting a portion of the drive indicator, wherein the highlighting visually indicates an amount of the football field covered by only the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and a remainder of the drive indicator is not highlighted, wherein at least the portion of the drive indicator remains visible on the display;
wherein, when the portion of the drive indicator is visually highlighted, the drive indicator concurrently visually indicates both the amount of the football field covered by only the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and the amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays.
7. The media of claim 6 , wherein the touch gesture is a swipe or flick touch gesture to scroll the scrollable list.
8. The media of claim 6 , wherein the touch gesture is a tap or press touch gesture to select the particular play tile user interface element.
9. The media of claim 6 , wherein the particular play tile user interface element comprises information about the corresponding play.
10. The media of claim 6 , the method further comprising:
receiving play-by-play game data pertaining to the American football contest from one or more in-stadium servers.
11. A mobile device with a touch screen display, the mobile device configured with software which, when executed by the mobile device, causes the mobile device to perform a method comprising:
displaying a single drive indicator user interface element and a separate scrollable list of a plurality of play tile user interface elements on the touch screen display wherein the scrollable list comprises a scrollable selector that is responsive to forward or backward scroll touch gestures to scroll the scrollable list;
wherein the drive indicator visually represents a plurality of consecutive plays of one drive by a team participating in an American football contest;
wherein the drive indicator is displayed as a single graphic overlay on a graphical representation of an entire American football field;
wherein the drive indicator visually indicates an amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays in the one drive;
wherein the drive indicator has the appearance of an arrow;
wherein the drive indicator indicates a team participating in the football contest in possession of the football for the plurality of consecutive plays;
receiving a particular forward or backward scroll touch gesture with the scrollable selector and, in response thereto, scrolling the scrollable list to display different play tile user interface elements in the scrollable list without also modifying the graphical representation of the football field;
detecting a touch gesture on the touch screen display to select a particular play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements;
wherein each play tile user interface element of the plurality of play tile user interface elements represents one play of the plurality of consecutive plays;
in response to detecting the touch gesture, visually highlighting a portion of the drive indicator, wherein the highlighting visually indicates an amount of the football field covered only by the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and a remainder of the drive indicator is not highlighted, wherein at least the portion of the drive indicator remains visible on the display;
wherein, when the portion of the drive indicator is visually highlighted, the drive indicator concurrently visually indicates both the amount of the football field covered by only the play corresponding to the particular play tile user interface element and the amount of the football field covered by the plurality of consecutive plays.
12. The device of claim 11 , wherein the touch gesture is a swipe or flick touch gesture to scroll the scrollable list.
13. The device of claim 12 , wherein the touch gesture is a tap or press touch gesture to select the particular play tile user interface element.
14. The device of claim 13 , wherein the particular play tile user interface element comprises information about the corresponding play.
15. The device of claim 11 , the method further comprising:
receiving play-by-play game data pertaining to the American football contest from one or more in-stadium servers.