Smartphone Racing Sailboat Instrument and Crowdsourced Race Tracking System
AssigneeWhitServe LLC
InventorWesley W. Whitmyer, JR.
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Abstract
A sailboat race tracking system includes a race computer and a sailboat computing device authenticated to the race computer. The sailboat computing device transmits position data as a function of time to the race computer. An event organizer computing device sets a race start time and transmits the race start time to the race computer. The race computer receives the position data as a function of time from multiple sailboat computing devices and syncs it according to the race start time. The race computer transmits the time-synced position data of the sailboat computing devices to the sailboat computing devices and spectator computing devices for display.
Claims23
A sailboat race tracking system comprising:
- an event organizer computing device accessible via a telecommunication network at least a portion of which is wireless, the event organizer computing device providing a position of a first starting mark;
- a plurality of sailboat computing devices authenticated to said event organizer computing device via sailboat identification and via event;
- said event organizer computing device being configured for setting a time indicative of a race start for the event;
- said event organizer computing device receiving position data as a function of time from said plurality of sailboat computing devices;
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- said event organizer computing device transmitting the race start time, a starting system, and first starting mark position data to the plurality of sailboat computing devices.
A sailboat race starting system, comprising:
- two event organizer computing devices accessible via a telecommunication network at least a portion of which is wireless, the event organizer computing devices providing a position of a first starting mark and a position of a second mark;
- a plurality of sailboat computing devices authenticated to said event organizer computing device via sailboat identification and via event;
- one of said event organizer computing devices being configured for setting a time indicative of a race start for the event;
- said one event organizer computing device receiving position data as a function of time from said plurality of sailboat computing devices;
- said one event organizer computing device transmitting the race start time, a starting system, first starting mark position data, and second mark position data to the plurality of sailboat computing devices;
- wherein each sailboat computing device provides a heading for the first starting mark and thereafter a heading for the second mark.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.