LOCATION-AWARE DISTRIBUTED SPORTING EVENTS
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Abstract
Various embodiments facilitate location-aware distributed competitions. In one embodiment, a system facilitates a distributed sporting event that includes multiple players traveling over courses that are remote from one another. The system includes a manager that receives state information, such as location information, from client devices used by each of the players. The manager then transmits location information for each of the players to the client devices, which are each configured to present a graphical representation, such as a map annotated with the locations of each of the players. The manager asserts a course to each of the players, by providing specific instructions to travel along a particular path. The client devices provide the players with the appearance of competing over the same course, even though they are all actually competing over courses remote from one another.
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40 Claims
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21. A method for facilitating a distributed sporting event, the method comprising:
aggregating a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing against one another by racing to cross finish lines of courses that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, by; receiving from each of the plurality of client devices information about a current location of the corresponding player; causing each of the plurality of client devices to present indications of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, the indicated positions based on the current locations of the at least some of the plurality of players; and asserting a course to each of the plurality of players by causing each of the client devices to display specific instructions to the corresponding player to travel over a specified path. - View Dependent Claims (22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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31. A computer-readable storage medium having non-transitory contents that, when executed, cause a player client device to facilitate a distributed sporting event, by performing a method comprising:
aggregating, by the player client device, a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing against one another by racing to cross finish lines of courses that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, wherein the player client device is one of the corresponding client devices, by; transmitting from the player client device information about a current location of the corresponding player; presenting indications of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, the indicated positions based on the current locations of the at least some of the plurality of players; and asserting a course to the corresponding player by displaying specific instructions to the corresponding player to travel over a specified path. - View Dependent Claims (32, 33, 34, 35, 36)
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37. A player client device configured to facilitate a distributed sporting event, the player client device comprising:
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a memory; a module stored on the memory and configured, when executed, to aggregate a plurality of individual sporting activities into a distributed sporting event comprising a plurality of players that are each performing one of the individual sporting activities, that are each competing concurrently against one another by racing to cross finish lines of courses that are remotely located from one another, and that each have a corresponding client device, wherein the player client device is one of the corresponding client devices, by; transmit from the player client device information about a current location of the corresponding player; asserting a course to the corresponding player by presenting instructions to the corresponding player to travel in a specified direction; and presenting indications of positions of at least some of the other players with respect to the corresponding player, the indications of the positions presented upon a depiction of the asserted course. - View Dependent Claims (38, 39, 40)
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