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US 12,564,764 · App. 16/159,436 · Granted Mar 3, 2026

System and method of basketball testing

Inventors: Todd Young (Austin, TX); Syed Saad Hussain (Lahore, PK); Zach Urbanus (Austin, TX)
Assignee: Ballogy, Inc.
A63B24/0075G06Q50/01A63B2024/0081A63F13/798A63F13/812
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Patent No.
US 12,564,764
App. No.
16/159,436
Granted
Mar 3, 2026
Kind
B2
Abstract

A first mobile device displays a visual representation of at least a portion of a basketball court and receives user input indicating a sequence of actions to be performed on the basketball court by a player. The first mobile device encodes the sequence of actions into a data structure and sends the data structure to a server to cause the server to initiate a notification to at least at a second mobile device. The second mobile device receives the data structure and displays the visual representation of the basketball court concurrently with at least one user interface element corresponding to at least one action in the sequence of actions. Placement of the at least one user interface element relative to a basketball hoop is determined, at the second mobile device after receipt of the data structure, based at least in part of a profile of the player.

Claims (26)

1 . A method comprising:

receiving, at a computer via a sports social media application, test data to characterize a test to be performed by a basketball player selected by a processor of the computer, wherein the test assesses an ability of the basketball player to perform a specified athletic skill;

the test including at least one or more of a combine measurement, a running drill, a shooting drill, a throwing drill, or a passing drill;

initiating the test corresponding to the test data;

capturing video of the basketball player performing the test;

generating, via one or more machine learning and/or artificial intelligence components of the sports social media application, test performance data upon application of the captured video to the test data according to data collected via the sports social media application from a plurality of users, wherein the test performance data characterizes one or more aspects of the ability of the basketball player to perform the specified athletic skill; and

sending, by the computer, the test performance data via the sports social media application to an electronic device associated with one or more of the plurality of users.

2 . The method of claim 1 , further comprising generating audible instructions based on the test data, wherein the test data is received from a first device, and wherein the test performance data is sent to a second device.

3 . The method of claim 1 further comprising outputting at least one instruction associated with the test, the at least one instruction determined based on a profile of the basketball player.

4 . A computer-readable storage device storing instructions that, when executed, cause a computer to perform operations pertaining to a sports social media application comprising:

receiving test data to characterize a test to be performed by a basketball player;

the test including at least one or more of a combine measurement, a running drill, a shooting drill, a throwing drill, or a passing drill;

initiating the test based on corresponding to the test data;

capturing video of the basketball player performing the test, wherein the test assesses an ability of the basketball player to perform a specified athletic skill;

generating, via one or more machine learning and/or artificial intelligence components of the sports social media application, test performance data upon application of the captured video to the test data according to data collected via the sports social media application from a plurality of users, wherein the test performance data characterizes one or more aspects of the ability of the basketball player to perform the specified athletic skill; and

sending the test performance data to an electronic device associated with one or more of the plurality of users.

5 . The computer-readable storage device of claim 4 , further comprising outputting at least one instruction associated with the test, the at least one instruction determined based on a profile of the basketball player.

6 . An apparatus comprising a computer processor and a computer memory, the computer memory include instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to perform operations pertaining to a sports social media application comprising:

receiving test data to characterize a test to be performed by a basketball player, wherein the test assesses an ability of the basketball player to perform a specified athletic skill;

the test including at least one or more of a combine measurement, a running drill, a shooting drill, a throwing drill, or a passing drill;

initiating the test corresponding to the test data;

capturing video of the basketball player performing the test;

generating, via one or more machine learning and/or artificial intelligence components of the sports social media application, test performance data upon application of the captured video to the test data according to data collected via the sports social media application from a plurality of users, wherein the test performance data characterizes one or more aspects of an ability of the basketball player to perform the specified athletic skill; and

sending the test performance data to an electronic device associated with one or more of the plurality of users.

7 . The apparatus of claim 6 further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising outputting at least one instruction associated with the test, the at least one instruction determined based on a profile of the basketball player.

8 . The apparatus of claim 6 further comprising instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to perform operations comprising generating audible instructions based on the test data.

Assignments (1)
ASSIGNMENT OF ASSIGNOR'S INTEREST Recorded Jan 27, 2021
From: YOUNG, TODD; HUSSAIN, SYED SAAD; URBANUS, ZACH
To: BALLOGY, INC.
Reel/Frame 055048/0465 →
Continuity (3)
Provisional Application 62571724 · Oct 12, 2017
Provisional Application 62729232 · Sep 10, 2018
Related Publication 20190111317A1 · Apr 18, 2019
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