# US 10,478,705 B2 · Method for sports communication and collaboartive play

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- Number: US 10,478,705 B2
- Document ID: US10478705B2
- Status: Granted
- Kind: B2
- Application number: 16/230,865
- Filed: 2018-12-21
- Published: 2019-04-25
- Granted: 2019-11-19
- Earliest claimed: 2017-04-21
- Assignees: Dogs, Jr. LLC
- Applicants: Jan Pasternak; Roger Lee Workman; George Ellis Elam, Jr.; Suzanne R. Levine; Deborah S. Wernet
- Inventors: Jan Pasternak; Roger Lee Workman; George Ellis Elam, Jr.; Suzanne R. Levine; Deborah S. Wernet
- Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US10478705B2

## CPC

- A63B 71/0616: {Means for conducting or scheduling competition, league, tournaments or rankings}
- A63B 69/00: Training appliances or apparatus for special sports (training of parachutists B64D23/00)
- G06Q 20/14: specially adapted for billing systems
- G06Q 20/36: using electronic wallets or electronic money safes
- G06Q 20/405: {Establishing or using transaction specific rules}
- H04L 67/10: in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network (software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46)
- H04L 67/306: User profiles
- A63B 2071/0691: {Maps, e.g. yardage maps or electronic maps}
- A63B 2220/12: Absolute positions, e.g. by using GPS
- A63B 2243/00: Specific ball sports not provided for in A63B2102/00 - A63B2102/38
- A63B: APPARATUS FOR PHYSICAL TRAINING, GYMNASTICS, SWIMMING, CLIMBING, OR FENCING; BALL GAMES; TRAINING EQUIPMENT (apparatus for passive exercising, massage A61H)
- G06Q: INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATION TECHNOLOGY [ICT] SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES; SYSTEMS OR METHODS SPECIALLY ADAPTED FOR ADMINISTRATIVE, COMMERCIAL, FINANCIAL, MANAGERIAL OR SUPERVISORY PURPOSES, NOT OTHERWISE PROVIDED FOR
- H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M)

## Abstract

A method for sports communication and collaboration using 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.

## Claims

### Claim 1

A method for sports communication and collaboration transactions that allows individual users to interact with a plurality of sports events and sports competitions simultaneously, the method comprising:
a. creating a plurality of individual user information profiles in an administrative memory connected to an administrative processor, each individual user profile 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 a plurality of client devices engaging a network, each client device providing bidirectional communication with the network;
b. using an authentication component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to verify the authenticity of each individual user with a client device 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;
c. using 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; and
(vi) funds;
d. using 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 a client device, wherein the mapping component comprises instructions configured to instruct the processor to perform: a dynamic check in feature for automatically identifying client devices for a plurality of users simultaneously when users arrive at a tournament;
e. using 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;
f. using 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;
g. using a team creation component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to match 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; and
h. using 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; and
(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; and
i. using a security model component with instructions instructing the processor to perform automatic encryption of sports results.

### Claim 2 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, comprising in the administrative memory a relationship management component to instruct the administrative processor to manage and store user relationships between individual users; to automatically determine access rights between at least two individual users and present a customized display comprising individual user information profiles for a prioritized group of individual users.

### Claim 3 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1 wherein user roles can be a member of the group consisting of: an official, a spectator, a team, a local club, a national association, a sponsor, and combinations thereof.

### Claim 4 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, comprising the step of instructing the processor to encrypt customized displays, individual user information profiles, and user relationships using he security model component.

### Claim 5 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, wherein the client device is a mobile phone, laptop, tablet, wearable computer or wristwatch.

### Claim 6 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, comprises using an automatic messaging component in the administrative memory to instruct the processor to provide automatic messages to at least one of: individual user information profiles and client devices; the automatic messaging component configured to create, store in the automatic messaging component, and transmit created messages that a change has taken place to a tournament, information has been added to an individual user information profile, or an individual user has arrived at a tournament.

### Claim 7 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of using a transmission and display component in the administrative memory to instruct the processor to transmit and display information on tournaments for a plurality of individual users simultaneously.

### Claim 8 (depends on 7)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 7, comprising using at least one web camera for recording and transmitting tournaments and connecting to the transmission and display component enabling individual users to view tournaments in real time on a plurality of client devices simultaneously.

### Claim 9 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of: using an estimator component in the administrative memory to instruct the administrative processor to first, calculate a length of time for a plurality of tournaments using a quantity of courts with a quantity of individual users, each individual user having a user ranking level and second, produce a list of individual users by user ranking level that can participate during the calculated length of time.

### Claim 10 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of using a scheduling component in the administrative memory having a scheduling model for instructing the processor to designate teams and officials for a tournament by the tournament identification.

### Claim 11 (depends on 10)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 10, further comprising the step of: using the scheduling component to instruct the administrative processor to designate teams and officials for a tournament by the tournament identification on at least one of the plurality of maps generated by the mapping component, each tournament scheduled having a date and a time.

### Claim 12 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of using the financial component to instruct the processor to collect funds from one or more users to attend one or more social events affiliated with one of the tournaments.

### Claim 13 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, wherein the tournament database model includes an administrative fee as part of the funds.

### Claim 14 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, wherein the funds includes an operational fee as part of the funds.

### Claim 15 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of using the team creation component to instruct the administrative processor to generate teams using gender identified in the individual user information profile.

### Claim 16 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, wherein each individual user information profile includes: a team, play results, a user ranking level, play scores, an age level, a tournament player sequence; and a gender of the individual user.

### Claim 17 (depends on 1)

The method for sports communication and collaboration transactions of claim 1, further comprising the step of using a dynamic check in feature to provide automatic messages to the individual user information profiles and the administrative memory automatically tracking arrivals of the plurality of individual users at one of the tournaments.