Fantasy sport platform with augmented reality player acquisition
First Claim
1. A system for assembling a fantasy sports team using augmented reality, comprising:
- one or more mobile devices in electronic communication with a network, each mobile device comprising an imaging device;
a user database storing information about one or more users of the system and one or more fantasy sports teams associated with the one or more users;
a sports player database storing information about a plurality of real-world players of one or more sports; and
a fantasy game server that communicates with the one or more mobile devices via the network, the fantasy game server being operable to host an augmented fantasy sports game and comprising a user interface module that generates a user interface accessible by the one or more mobile devices;
wherein the one or more mobile devices displays one or more virtual representations of real-world players; and
wherein the user interface allows users of the one or more mobile devices to capture the one or more virtual representations of real-world players, adding the real-world player to one or more of the fantasy sports teams associated with the user and storing the updated information about the user'"'"'s one or more fantasy sports teams in the user database; and
whereinthe sports player database further stores an interest flag for each of the plurality of real-world players;
the user interface allows the user to select or deselect the interest flag;
the one or more mobile devices further comprise geolocation identification software that identifies the user geolocation;
the fantasy game server further comprises a player geolocation randomization module and an alert notification module;
the player geolocation randomization module generates an algorithm for providing the plurality of real-world players with geolocation information; and
the alert notification module generates an alert notification when a real-world player that the user has flagged enters a threshold radius of the user'"'"'s geolocation and sends the alert notification to the user'"'"'s mobile device over the network.
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Abstract
The present technology provides a system and method for assembling a fantasy sports team using augmented reality. The technology employs a fantasy game server in communication with one or more users'"'"' electronic mobile devices, such as smartphones. The technology displays digital images of sports players and/or promotion or other tokens on the users'"'"' mobile devices, on which the users can capture the sports players they wish to add to their fantasy sports teams through a user interface of the fantasy game server. The fantasy game server generates geolocation information for a plurality of real-world players and compares it to geolocation data from the mobile device to determine when a real world player is within a threshold radius of the user and sends an alert to the user.
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22 Claims
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1. A system for assembling a fantasy sports team using augmented reality, comprising:
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one or more mobile devices in electronic communication with a network, each mobile device comprising an imaging device; a user database storing information about one or more users of the system and one or more fantasy sports teams associated with the one or more users; a sports player database storing information about a plurality of real-world players of one or more sports; and a fantasy game server that communicates with the one or more mobile devices via the network, the fantasy game server being operable to host an augmented fantasy sports game and comprising a user interface module that generates a user interface accessible by the one or more mobile devices; wherein the one or more mobile devices displays one or more virtual representations of real-world players; and wherein the user interface allows users of the one or more mobile devices to capture the one or more virtual representations of real-world players, adding the real-world player to one or more of the fantasy sports teams associated with the user and storing the updated information about the user'"'"'s one or more fantasy sports teams in the user database; and
whereinthe sports player database further stores an interest flag for each of the plurality of real-world players; the user interface allows the user to select or deselect the interest flag; the one or more mobile devices further comprise geolocation identification software that identifies the user geolocation; the fantasy game server further comprises a player geolocation randomization module and an alert notification module; the player geolocation randomization module generates an algorithm for providing the plurality of real-world players with geolocation information; and the alert notification module generates an alert notification when a real-world player that the user has flagged enters a threshold radius of the user'"'"'s geolocation and sends the alert notification to the user'"'"'s mobile device over the network. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A method for assembling a fantasy sports team using augmented reality, comprising the steps of:
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selecting one or more real-world players of one or more sports from a sports player database; generating an algorithm that randomizes geolocations of the plurality of real-world players in the sports player database; detecting a user'"'"'s geolocation using geolocation identification software executing on a mobile device; generating an alert notification when a selected real-world player enters a threshold radius of the user'"'"'s geolocation; sending the alert notification over a network to the user'"'"'s mobile device; displaying one or more visual representations of the real-world players on the user'"'"'s mobile device; capturing the real-world players depicted on the user'"'"'s mobile device through the user interface; updating fantasy sports team information associated with the user and stored on a user database. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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