SYSTEM FOR PROVIDING AND PRESENTING FANTASY SPORTS DATA

• US 20080081700A1
• Filed: 08/30/2007
• Published: 04/03/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Roundbox, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Roundbox, Inc. (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Marks, Jeffrey, BINIAK, BRYAN, Cunningham, Chris, Meltzer, Brock, Ivanov, Atanas
• Application Number:
  US11/848,182
• Publication Number:
  US 20080081700A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/42
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/252 Processing of multiple end-users' preferences to derive collaborative data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/2668 Creating a channel for a dedicated end-user group, e.g. insertion of targeted commercials based on end-user profiles information retrieval from the Internet by querying with filtering and personalisation G06F16/9535; arrangements for replacing or switching information during the broadcast H04H20/10; push services over packet-switching network H04L12/1859; adaptation of message content in packet-switching networks H04L51/063
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4667 Processing of monitored end-user data, e.g. trend analysis based on the log file of viewer selections
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4722 for requesting additional data associated with the content
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4788 communicating with other users, e.g. chatting arrangements for providing for computer conferences, e.g. chat rooms, to substation in data switching networks H04L12/1813; distributed application using peer-to-peer [P2P] networks H04L67/104
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8405 represented by keywords
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

Abstract

The system provides a method to present a Fantasy League and Fantasy Games in a fully customizable format. The system provides a match up experience where the owner can focus on his own team as if it were a single game with all of the owner'"'"'s players participating (even though the owner'"'"'s players come from different teams and play at different times and even different days of the week). The system also provides for match up presentation for Head-to-Head leagues so it appears as if a real game between two Fantasy Teams is being played. The system includes a scoreboard, play by play, player profiles, boxscores, images and video, news, chat, contextual information, alerts, and other information related to the owner'"'"'s team.

Claims

1. A method for presenting fantasy game information comprising:

selecting a fantasy team in a fantasy league managed on a host site;

scraping data from the host site and transferring it to a fantasy scoring engine;

generating fantasy data at said fantasy scoring engine;

transferring the fantasy data to a presentation widget to be displayed to a fantasy owner.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the scraping of data from the host site is accomplished using a scraping module.

3. The method of claim 2 wherein the scraping module collects roster data, league rules, and scoring rules from the host site.

4. The method of claim 3 wherein roster data is stored in a database at a system site separate from the host site.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein the fantasy scoring engine provides fantasy data to a fantasy data agent.

6. The method of claim 5 further including a plurality of presentation widgets for display to the fantasy owner.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein the fantasy data agent sends alert messages to the fantasy owner based on the occurrence of an event selected by the user.

8. The method of claim 7 wherein a scoreboard widget displays a scoreboard for a first team in a head-to-head fantasy competition with a second team.

9. The method of claim 8 wherein the scoreboard widget is available for viewing during the competition period of the head-to-head fantasy competition.

10. The method of claim 9 wherein the scoreboard widget displays a scoreboard for other teams in head-to-head competition from the fantasy league.