Sailboat Race Management 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.
Claims10
A sailboat race management 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 starting mark position data of the race;
- a plurality of sailboat computing devices each mounted on a respective sailboat and authenticated to said event organizer computing device via sailboat identification and via event race registration;
- said plurality of sailboat computing devices receiving a signal indicative of a position of the respective sailboat;
- said event organizer computing device being configured for setting a time indicative of a race start for the race;
- said event organizer computing device transmitting the race start time and the starting mark position data to the plurality of sailboat computing devices;
- at least one of the sailboat computing devices calculating a position of the starting line of the race and a time until the sailboat race starts;
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- the at least one sailboat computing device displaying a time remaining until the race start time and a distance until the sailboat reaches the starting line.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.