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US 9,989,337 B2Granted
Dart scoring system
AssigneeDartConnect LLC
InventorDavid Macher
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Abstract
A dart game system comprising a steel-tipped dart, a sisal dart board, at least one first mobile computing scoring device comprising a scoring interface, and a remote mobile computing device adapted to receive the scoring interface from the at least one scoring device for display of real-time dart game scores at a remote location.
Claims15
A dart game scoring system comprising,
- at least one first mobile computing scoring device comprising a scoring interface configured to accept scoring inputs from a first user on a touchscreen of the first mobile computer scoring device;
- a remote server adapted to receive the scoring inputs from the first mobile computer scoring device;
- and
- a remote computing device adapted to receive the scoring inputs from the at least one first mobile computing scoring device via the remote server for display of real-time dart game scores at a remote location,
- wherein the dart game scoring system is configured to operate in at least two modes, the two modes comprising each of:
- a match mode, wherein the remote computing device is configured to accept scoring inputs from a second user on a touchscreen of the remote computing device;
- and
- a viewing mode, wherein the remote computing device is configured to view a match being scored on the at least one first mobile computing scoring device, and
- wherein the scoring interface is further configured to:
- display at least one current player score and
- at least one another player score;
- ensure that a dart score is entered correctly into the scoring interface by:
- differentiating a color of the at least one current player score from the at least one another player score, and
- displaying each new scoring entry to the scoring interface in a scoring interface score window while contemporaneously
- displaying an audit trail comprising a plurality of previous entries and a sum of the plurality of previous entries entered into the score window.
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A method of conducting a dart game comprising:
- initiating a dart game in at least one location;
- recording a dart player's scores across a plurality of rounds via a user interface on a mobile computing device;
- scoring the dart game by displaying:
- at least one current player score and
- at least one another player score;
- ensuring that a dart score is entered correctly into the user interface by:
- differentiating a color of the at least one current player score from the at least one another player score, and
- displaying each new scoring entry to the user interface in a scoring interface score window while contemporaneously
- displaying an audit trail comprising a plurality of previous entries and a sum of the plurality of previous entries entered into the score window;
- sending the scores to a remote server adapted to receive the scoring inputs from the first mobile computer scoring device and
- selecting how to share the user interface and the dart player's scores with at least one remote computing device from one of at least two modes, the two modes comprising each of:
- a match mode, wherein the remote computing device is configured to accept scoring inputs from a second dart player on a touchscreen of the remote computing device;
- and
- a viewing mode, wherein the remote computing device is configured to view a match being scored on the at least one first mobile computing scoring device;
- and
- sharing the user interface and the dart player's scores in a near real-time manner.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.