System and method for social play

• US 10,049,165 B1
• Filed: 09/15/2017
• Issued: 08/14/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 09/15/2017
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Kavita Ramchandani Snyder
• Original Assignee: Kavita Ramchandani Snyder
• Inventors: Snyder, Kavita Ramchandani
• Primary Examiner(s): Elisca, Pierre E
• Application Number:
  US15/706,522
• Time in Patent Office: 333 Days
• Field of Search: 700 91
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/02 Reservations, e.g. for tickets, services or events

Abstract

The present invention relates to a novel system and method for social play. The novel system and method includes a non-transitory machine readable storage medium containing instructions to cause a machine to send a request to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at a first venue and during a first time period. The first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender of the request and in part configured by default settings.

Claims

1. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed

causes a scheduler to send requests to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at a first venue during a first time period;

wherein the requests sent to the plurality of subscribers are initiated by a mobile subscriber user and wherein each of the plurality of subscribers are within three degrees of separation of known contacts of the mobile subscriber that initiated the request;

wherein the first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender of the request and in part configured by default settings.

2. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the default settings comprise a maximum distance a subscriber recipient can be located from the first venue to receive a notification.

3. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the default settings comprise a maximum distance a subscriber recipient can be located from the initiator of the request to receive a notification.

4. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the at least one criteria further comprises settings associated with a user profile associated with the sender of the request.

5. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1, wherein the physical sport is at least one of tennis, basketball, soccer, or volleyball.

6. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 further containing instructions, that when executed, causes the scheduler to receive a notification from each subscriber recipient that is available to play the physical sport at the first venue during the first time period.

7. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 further containing instructions, that when executed, causes the machine to send an acknowledgment notification to each subscriber recipient that has been selected to play the physical sport at the first venue during the first time period.

8. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 1 further containing instructions, that when executed, causes the machine to automatically send the request to the plurality of subscribers after the sender sets a reservation for the venue.

9. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions, that when executed

causes a scheduler to:

in response to receiving a first notification from at least one networked hardware device stationed within a first venue that activity has not been detected for a first time duration during a first time period, causes a machine to send requests to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at the first venue during the first time period;

wherein the requests sent to the plurality of subscribers are initiated by a mobile subscriber user and wherein each of the plurality of subscribers are within three degrees of separation of known contacts of the mobile subscriber that initiated the request;

wherein the first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender of the request and in part configured by default settings.

10. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9 further containing instructions, that when executed, causes a machine to send a second notification to the scheduler when a subscriber recipient is granted a reservation of the first venue during the first time period.

11. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 10 further containing instructions, that when executed, cause a machine to send a request to the plurality of subscribers who fit the first profile to play the physical sport at the first venue in response to receiving a third notification from the at least one networked hardware device that activity is not detected, at a second time duration that is later in time than the first time duration.

12. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 11 further containing instructions, when executed, cause a machine to charge a payment account associated with a subscriber which failed to reach the venue during the reserved time.

13. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the first time duration and the second time duration are different.

14. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the first notification is received from a motion detector.

15. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 9, wherein the first notification is received from a sound detector.

16. A non-transitory machine-readable storage medium containing instructions that, when executed

causes a scheduler to be available for electronic reservations;

and

when a time slot is unreserved on the scheduler, causes a machine to send requests to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at a first venue during a first time period;

wherein the requests sent to the plurality of subscribers are initiated by a mobile subscriber user and wherein each of the plurality of subscribers are within three degrees of separation of known contacts of the mobile subscriber that initiated the request;

wherein the first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender of the requests and in part configured by default settings;

wherein the default settings comprise a maximum distance a subscriber recipient can be located from the first venue to receive a first notification.

17. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 further containing instructions that, when executed, cause a scheduler to be updated when a subscriber reserves the unreserved time slot.

18. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16, wherein the requests are sent automatically when the time slot is unreserved for a default time period.

19. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 further containing instructions that, when executed, causes the scheduler to change a reservation upon receiving data related to a weather event near the first venue.

20. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 19, wherein the change to the reservation is from the first venue to a second venue.

21. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 further containing instructions that, when executed, cause a machine to send a request to a plurality of subscribers who fit a first profile to play a physical sport at the first venue during the first time period in response to receiving a second notification from at least one hardware device stationed within a first venue that motion is not detected for a first time duration during the first time period, wherein the first profile comprises at least one criteria and is partially set by a sender and in part configured by default settings associated with a sending device.

22. The non-transitory machine-readable storage medium of claim 16 further containing instructions that, when executed, causes the scheduler to retrieve weather data.