US 7,924,152 B1Granted

Interactive video gaming footwear including means for transmitting location information to a remote party

OwnerSayo Isaac Danielinventor

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Abstract

An article of footwear contains an integrated video gaming apparatus, a cellular phone, and a GPS receiver, whereby the footwear is able to encode and transmit its own location to a central monitoring station, along with a cell phone number (or other unique identifier) of a remote person. Using the encoded location information of the wearer of the footwear, and the encoded cell phone number of the remote person, the central monitoring station is able to look up the nearest street address corresponding to the location of the wearer and send an SMS text message with that address to the remote person. If the remote person is wearing the inventive footwear, the central monitoring station can send the remote person the street address of the wearer, or route information, with or without map data, for display on their video gaming device, such that they can “intercept” to meet up with one another.

Claims8

Dependent claims

An article of footwear intended to be worn by a wearer, including therein:

(a) a location determining apparatus for determining location information of the wearer;
(b) a communication means having at least transmitter capability;
(c) an encoding and control means for encoding the location information of the wearer of said article of footwear and for causing a location encoded signal to be transmitted by the communication means to a central monitoring station, said encoded signal also including a remote user identifier designated by the wearer of said footwear, said central monitoring station including a database for converting said location information into a street address;
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(d) means for transmitting said location information of said wearer from said encoding and control means to said central monitoring station by using said remote user identifier, said means for transmitting said location information of said wearer being included within said article of footwear and, further, including means within said central monitoring station for communicating said location of said wearer to a remote user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 11/669,946Filed 1 Feb 2007 · continuation in part
Priority: 1 Nov 2004
Granted: 12 Apr 2011
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification7 codes

A43B 3/00
Footwear characterised by the shape or the use
A43B 3/46
With sensors, e.g. for detecting contact or position: global positioning system [GPS] sensors
A43B 3/48
With electrical or electronic arrangements: with transmitting devices, e.g. GSM or Wi-Fi®
G08B 21/0269
Child monitoring systems using a transmitter-receiver system carried by the parent and the child: system arrangements wherein the object is to…

Family

Application10/979,894Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 1 Nov 2004
Application11/619,189Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 2 Jan 2007
Application11/626,356Parent of this continuation-in-part · filed 23 Jan 2007
US 7,265,666 B2Parent of this continuation-in-part
US 2006/0103538 A1Published application
US 7,924,152 B1This patent

From the US filing history. Foreign family members aren’t listed.