Sports communication and collaboration platform
OwnerJan Pasternak, Roger Lee Workman +3inventors
InventorsJan Pasternak, Roger Lee Workman, George Ellis Elam, Jr., Suzanne R. Levine, Deborah S. Wernet
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Abstract
A computer assisted sports communication and collaboration transactional platform with client devices engaging a network, and an administrative memory with processor, the memory having individual user information profiles; an authentication component; a tournament database model; a registration and ranking component; a financial component; an automatic team creation component; and an operational management component that automatically; creates a tournament play sequence, tracks and calculate results, and a ranking for each individual user information profile.
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A sports communication and collaboration transactional platform that allows individual users to interact with a plurality of sports events and sports competitions simultaneously, the platform comprising:
- a. a plurality of client devices for engaging a network, each client device for an individual user, each client device providing bidirectional communication to the network;
- b. an administrative memory connected to an administrative processor connected to the network;
- c. a plurality of individual user information profiles in the administrative memory 16 comprising:
- at least one user role, and wherein each user role is selected from the group of:
- a tournament organizer and a player, the plurality of individual user information profiles are created using at least one of the plurality of client devices;
- d. an authentication component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to verify the authenticity of each individual user and provide access to an individual user information profile, wherein the authentication component is a two factor verification system, which can include a first log in to the administrative processor from a client device using an email, which then transmits a second message to a second client device with a code to verify that the email of a first client device matches the individual user information profile stored in the administrative memory;
- e. a tournament database model with at least one tournament identification in the administrative memory;
- the tournament database model comprising:
- (i) a name of sport being played;
- (ii) tournaments for each sport being played;
- (iii) geographic locations of each tournament;
- (iv) user ranking;
- (v) age levels for each of the sports being played;
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- (vi) funds;
- f. a mapping component with instructions instructing the processor to present in a map, a plurality of locations of current tournaments and a plurality of locations of future tournaments, the mapping component additionally configured to instruct the processor to plan routes using a global positioning system location of the client device, wherein the mapping component comprises instruction configured to instruct the processor to perform;
- a dynamic check in feature for automatically identifying client devices for the plurality of users simultaneously when users arrive at a tournament;
- g. a registration and ranking component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to match each individual user with one of the sports being played and one of the tournaments for the sport being played in the tournament database model and automatically inserting a ranking level for each individual user into the individual user information profile;
- h. a financial component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to collect funds from individual users matched to one of the tournaments of the tournament database model by connecting with a financial server connected to the network, and transmitting at least a portion of the collected funds to a tournament organizer of the tournament matched with the individual user, wherein an administrative fee as part of the funds;
- i. a team creation component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to matching a first individual user information profile to a second individual user information profile using a user ranking level and the age level and automatically forming a team for one of the sports being played, saving the teams in the individual user information profile and the team creation component and automatically transmitting the teams to at least one of:
- the tournament organizer and the player;
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- j. an operational management component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to automatically:
- (i) create a tournament play sequence and store in the operational management component using the plurality of teams and connect the tournament play sequence to at least one individual user information profile;
- (ii) track results of each tournament play sequence and store the results in the operational management component and connect the results to at least one individual user information profile;
- (iii) insert each score of each tournament game played and store the score in the operational management component and connect the score to at least one individual user information profile;
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- (iv) calculate a ranking of each individual user, store the ranking in the operational management component and connect the ranking to at least one individual user information profile;
- the connected components forming a sports communication and collaboration transaction platform that allows individual users to interact with a plurality of sports events and sports competitions simultaneously;
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- k. a security model component with instructions instructing the processor to perform automatic encryption of sports results.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.