Athletic Performance Data System and Method

• US 20080015819A1
• Filed: 06/13/2007
• Published: 01/17/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 06/13/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Nike, Inc.
• Inventors: Sayre, Matt, Black, Ken
• Granted Patent: US 8,554,512 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 702/187
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/15 with identification means that can be read by electronic means
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/20 with means for remote communication, e.g. internet or the like
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 2225/50 Wireless data transmission, e.g. by radio transmitters or telemetry
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/06 Indicating or scoring devices for games or players , or for other sports activities
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 7/00 Methods or arrangements for processing data by operating upon the order or content of the data handled logic circuits H03K19/00
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 10/20 for electronic clinical trials or questionnaires
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising

Abstract

An athletic performance data system has an athletic field data collection system for obtaining athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for plural athletes at an athletic performance event. An athletic data host server receives the athletic performance test data and athlete identifying information from the athletic field data collection system, and the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information are posted to an athletic performance web site in a separate, personalized page for each of the plural athletes.

Claims

1. An athletic performance data system, comprising:

an athletic field data collection system for obtaining athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for plural athletes at an athletic performance event;

an athletic data host server for receiving athletic performance test data and athlete identifying information from the athletic field data collection system; and

an athletic performance web site for posting the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information in a separate, personalized page for each of the plural athletes.

2. The system of claim 1 in which the athletic field data collection system includes one or more handheld computers for recording athletic performance test results and a data collection server in local wireless communication with the one or more handheld computers for collecting and correlating the athletic performance test results.

3. The system of claim 1 in which the athletic field data collection system includes a data collection server that receives the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for the plural athletes and the data collection server communicates with the athletic data host server over a communication channel that includes remote wireless communication.

4. The system of claim 1 in which the personalized page for each of the plural athletes is generated automatically according to a common template.

5. The system of claim 4 in which the personalized web page for each athlete is modifiable by the athlete.

6. The system of claim 1 in which the athletic performance web site further provides access to the personalized web pages according to selected information fields included in the personalized web pages.

15. The method of claim 1 in which the athletic performance web site further provides access to the personalized web pages according to selected information fields included in the personalized web pages.

7. An athletic performance data method, comprising:

obtaining athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for plural athletes at an athletic performance event and consolidating the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information on a data collection server located at the athletic performance event;

transferring the athletic performance test data and athlete identifying information from the data collection server to an athletic data host server and generating a separate, personalized page for each of the plural athletes with the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information; and

posting the separate, personalized page for each of the plural athletes on an athletic performance web site.

8. The method of claim 7 in which obtaining the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for the plural athletes includes recording the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information on one or more handheld computers and transferring the athletic performance test results from the one or more handheld computers to the data collection server.

9. The method of claim 8 in which the athletic performance test results from the one or more handheld computers to the data collection server over a local wireless network.

10. The method of claim 7 in which transferring the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information from the data collection server to the athletic data host server includes transmitting the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information over a remote wireless communication channel.

11. The method of claim 10 in which the remote wireless communication channel includes a cellular telephone network.

12. The method of claim 7 in which the personalized page for each of the plural athletes is generated automatically according to a common template.

13. The method of claim 12 in which the personalized web page for each athlete is modifiable by the athlete.

14. The method of claim 12 in which the personalized web page includes access to training information adapted to the athlete according to the athletic performance data of the athlete.

16. An athletic performance data system, comprising:

an athletic field data collection system for obtaining athletic performance data and athlete identifying information for plural athletes at an athletic performance event, the athletic field data collection system including one or more handheld computers for recording athletic performance test results and a data collection server in local wireless communication with the one or more handheld computers for collecting and correlating the athletic performance test results; and

an athletic performance web site for posting the athletic performance data and athlete identifying information.

17. The system of claim 16 in which the athletic field data collection system includes one or more kiosks accessible by the plural athletes for receiving from them identifying information and providing to them results of the athletic performance data.

18. The system of claim 17 in which the one or more kiosks include a main data collection kiosk that contains the data collection server and the data collection server is in wireless communication with the other one or more kiosks.

19. The system of claim 16 in which each of the plural athletes is assigned a tag with a machine-readable code and in which each of the handheld computers includes a machine-reader for reading the codes on the tags.

20. The system of claim 19 in which the athletic field data collection system includes one or more kiosks accessible by the plural athletes for receiving from them identifying information and providing to them results of the athletic performance data, each kiosk including a machine-reader for reading the codes on the tags, wherein each athlete is provided access to his or her identifying information and athletic performance data at the kiosk based upon the machine-reading of the code on his or her tag.