Network-enabled signaling device system for sporting events
AssigneeConnectedRef, Inc.
InventorDerek Carroll
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Abstract
A system and method for providing network-enabled signaling devices for sporting events are disclosed. An example embodiment is configured for: detecting an event at a sporting activity by use of a signal generator with a data processor and a sensor subsystem, the event detection being triggered by a sensor of the sensor subsystem detecting a signal exceeding a pre-defined threshold; generating a signal message including information indicative of the event detection; establishing, by use of the data processor of the signal generator, a connection with a data network; sending the signal message to a message broker via the data network; and causing the message broker to forward the signal message to subscribed subscriber platforms.
Claims20
A computer-implemented method comprising:
- receiving a signal message including information indicative of at least one sporting official event detection corresponding to at least one event produced by a sporting official using a signal generator, the signal message including information indicative of at least one of a plurality of different types of sporting official events and an identifier of the sporting official who originated the sporting official event;
- categorizing the signal message into one or more subscriber topics associated with the at least one sporting official event detection, wherein each of the one or more subscriber topics corresponds to a different sporting official event of the plurality of different types of sporting official events;
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- causing a message broker to forward the signal message to subscribed subscriber platforms via a data network, wherein only subscriber platforms that have subscribed to the one or more subscriber topics into which the signal message has been categorized receive the forwarded signal message.
A system comprising:
- a message broker in data communication on a data network;
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- a plurality of subscriber platforms in data communication on the data network, the system configured to:
- cause the message broker to receive a signal message including information indicative of at least one sporting official event detection corresponding to at least one event produced by a sporting official using a signal generator, the signal message including information indicative of at least one of a plurality of different types of sporting official events and an identifier of the sporting official who originated the sporting official event, the signal message having been categorized into one or more subscriber topics associated with the at least one sporting official event detection, wherein each of the one or more subscriber topics corresponds to a different sporting official event of the plurality of different types of sporting official events;
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- cause the message broker to forward the signal message to subscribed subscriber platforms of the plurality of subscriber platforms via the data network, wherein only subscriber platforms that have subscribed to the one or more subscriber topics into which the signal message has been categorized receive the forwarded signal message.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.