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Granted Patent B2
US 10,537,807 · App. 15/859,155 · Granted Jan 21, 2020

Immersive interactive sports management system and method thereof

Inventors: Sohrob Farudi (Hermosa Beach, CA); Raymond Austin (Hermosa Beach, CA); Grant Cohen (Hermosa Beach, CA); Patrick Dees (Hermosa Beach, CA)
Assignee: Project Fanchise Technology, LLC
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Patent No.
US 10,537,807
App. No.
15/859,155
Granted
Jan 21, 2020
Kind
B2
Abstract

Described herein are computerized methods and systems for enabling remote participation in sporting event decision-making. A current game situation in a sporting event is received by a server from a remote device. The server retrieves plays applicable to the current game situation from a playbook. The server generates a playcall UI comprising the retrieved plays and transmits the playcall UI to fan computing devices. The server receives a vote for one of the plays from the fan computing devices. The server determines a selected play based on the received votes. The server transmits the selected play to player computing devices associated with players involved in the sporting event, wherein the players execute the selected play. The current game situation is updated at the remote device based upon an outcome of the selected play.

Claims (32)

1. A system for enabling remote participation in sporting event decision-making, the system comprising a server computing device having a processor and memory, the processor configured to execute instructions stored in the memory to:

receive one or more data elements relating to a current game situation in a sporting event from a remote computing device;

retrieve a plurality of plays applicable to the current game situation from a playbook stored in a database, wherein each play in the playbook is assigned to one or more buckets that define a specific game situation and each of the plays within each bucket is assigned a priority weight for the play, wherein the server computing device identifies the plurality of plays for retrieval by comparing the current game situation to the specific game situation associated with one or more of the buckets and ranking one or more plays in the buckets using the priority weights assigned to the plays;

generate a playcall user interface comprising the plurality of retrieved plays and transmit the playcall user interface to a plurality of fan computing devices associated with fans of the sporting event;

receive a vote for one of the plurality of retrieved plays from each of the plurality of user computer devices;

determine a selected play of the plurality of retrieved plays based on the received votes;

transmit the selected play to one or more player computing devices associated with players involved in the sporting event, wherein the player computing devices convey the selected play directly to the players and the players execute the selected play during the sporting event; and

update, at the remote computing device, the current game situation in the sporting event based upon an outcome of the execution of the selected play.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the sporting event is an American football game.

3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the one or more data elements relating to the current game situation comprise down, distance, time remaining, score, or any combination thereof.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the specific game situation assigned to each of the one or more buckets comprises one or more of: down, distance, time remaining, or score.

5. The system of claim 3 , wherein the server computing device matches at least one of the one or more data elements relating to the current game situation to the specific game situation assigned to one or more of the buckets to identify the plurality of plays for retrieval.

6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the playcall user interface comprises a display of each of the plurality of retrieved plays in a grid format, and each of the displayed plays is associated with an input that, when selected by a user of the fan computing device, transmits a vote for the displayed play to the server computing device.

7. The system of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of fan computing devices comprises a fan profile associated with a user of the fan computing device.

8. The system of claim 7 , wherein the fan profile comprises a ranking of the associated user.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the ranking of the associated user is based on one or more of: the user's interactions with the server computing device during the sporting event, the user's interactions with the server computing device during one or more previous sporting events, or the user's interactions with the server computing device between sporting events.

10. The system of claim 9 , wherein the user's interactions comprise participating in playcall votes during a sporting event, consuming content generated by the server computing device, or creating content for use by the server computing device.

11. The system of claim 8 , wherein determining a selected play of the plurality of retrieved plays based on the received votes comprises:

determining a weight for each of the received votes using the ranking of the associated user that submitted the vote;

adjusting a value associated with each of the received votes based upon the determined weight for each of the received votes; and

identifying a selected play of the plurality of retrieved plays based upon the adjusted values of each of the received votes.

12. The system of claim 8 , wherein the ranking of the associated user is based on a cryptocurrency token balance associated with the user.

13. The system of claim 12 , wherein the cryptocurrency token is based upon blockchain technology.

14. The system of claim 13 , wherein determining a selected play of the plurality of retrieved plays based on the received votes comprises recording a result based on the received votes on the blockchain.

15. A computerized method of enabling remote participation in sporting event decision-making, the method comprising:

receiving, by a server computing device, one or more data elements relating to a current game situation in a sporting event from a remote computing device;

retrieving, by the server computing device, a plurality of plays applicable to the current game situation from a playbook stored in a database, wherein each play in the playbook is assigned to one or more buckets that define a specific game situation and each of the plays within each bucket is assigned a priority weight for the play, wherein the server computing device identifies the plurality of plays for retrieval by comparing the current game situation to the specific game situation associated with one or more of the buckets and ranking one or more plays in the buckets using the priority weights assigned to the plays;

generating, by the server computing device, a playcall user interface comprising the plurality of retrieved plays and transmitting the playcall user interface to a plurality of fan computing devices associated with fans of the sporting event;

receiving, by the server computing device, a vote for one of the plurality of retrieved plays from each of the plurality of user computer devices;

determining, by the server computing device, a selected play of the plurality of retrieved plays based on the received votes;

transmitting, by the server computing device, the selected play to one or more player computing devices associated with players involved in the sporting event, wherein the player computing devices convey the selected play directly to the players and the players carry out the selected play during the sporting event; and

updating, at the remote computing device, the current game situation in the sporting event based upon an outcome of the execution of the selected play.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Dec 13, 2019
From: FARUDI, SOHROB; AUSTIN, RAYMOND; COHEN, GRANT; DEES, PATRICK
To: PROJECT FANCHISE TECHNOLOGY, LLC
Reel/Frame 051272/0913 →
Continuity (2)
Provisional Application 62440731 · Dec 30, 2016
Related Publication 20180345149A1 · Dec 6, 2018
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