ONLINE PLATFORM FOR MAINTAINING MULTIDISCIPLINARY SPORT PERFORMANCE STATISTICS AND COMPUTING PERFORMANCE FORECASTS

• US 20150363406A1
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Published: 12/17/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 06/16/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Beat Your Mark Group Limited
• Original Assignee: Beat Your Mark Group Limited
• Inventors: Rodriguez, Federico
• Granted Patent: US 9,767,350 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63B 71/0616 Means for conducting or scheduling competition, league, tournaments or rankings
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/24578 using ranking
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/335 Filtering based on additional data, e.g. user or group profiles filtering in web context G06F16/9535, G06F16/9536
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 20/30 relating to physical therapies or activities, e.g. physiotherapy, acupressure or exercising
• CPC Class Codes: G16H 40/67 for remote operation

Abstract

The present disclosure describes a platform that allows individual users to maintain personal performance statistics, which, collectively, are used to determine and update difficulty ratings for various multi-stage sport courses. Ratings are determined for each leg of a given course. The platform enables a user to predict his or her performance on an unfamiliar course based on course ratings and the user'"'"'s historical performance on other courses.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving, over a network from a user of a remote computing device, a course performance submission comprising a) completion time information for one or more stages of a multiple stage sport activity, b) a user identifier, c) a course identifier, and d) one or more contextual identifiers, wherein the one or more contextual identifiers comprise one or more of (i) to (iv), as follows;

(i) a stage identifier identifying the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity associated with the course performance submission,

(ii) a competition identifier identifying a competition associated with the course performance submission,

(iii) an ability level identifier identifying a user ability level associated with the course performance submission, and

(iv) a distance rating identifier identifying a distance rating associated with the course performance submission;

accessing, by a processor of a computing device, one or more additional course performance submissions from a plurality of users, wherein the additional course performance submissions share the course identifier and at least one of the contextual identifiers;

determining, by the processor, based upon a subset of the course performance submissions received from the plurality of users, an overall performance rating specific to each of the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity;

providing, based upon at least one of the contextual identifiers and the overall performance rating, an individualized performance goal for at least one stage of the multiple stage sport activity.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple stage sport activity is a triathlon.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple stage sport activity is a member selected from the group consisting of biathlon, decathlon, heptathlon, modern pentathlon, octathlon, pentathlon, quadrathlon, and tetrathlon.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity comprise running, swimming, and bicycling.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the multiple stage sport activity has two or more stages (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or more stages).

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the course identifier is determined based upon one or more members of the group consisting of:

GPS location data, wireless broadcasting data, and digital location data through mobile data.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the individualized performance goal is determined by adjusting the overall performance rating based upon the user ability level.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the overall performance rating is based on the subset of course performance submissions sharing a competition identifier.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising determining, based upon one or more course performance submissions sharing a user identifier and a distance rating, a user ability level (e.g., an ability ranking or classification) associated with the user.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for each stage of the multiple stage sport activity.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for each of running, swimming, and bicycling.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for a plurality of the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity (e.g., a stage ability level for each of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or more stages).

13. A system comprising:

a processor; and

a memory having instructions stored thereon, wherein the instructions, when executed, cause the processor to;

receive, over a network from a user of a remote computing device, a course performance submission comprising a) completion time information for one or more stages of a multiple stage sport activity, b) a user identifier, c) a course identifier, and d) one or more contextual identifiers, wherein the one or more contextual identifiers comprise at least one of (i) to (iv), as follows

i) a stage identifier identifying the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity associated with the course performance submission,

ii) a competition identifier identifying a competition associated with the course performance submission,

iii) an ability level identifier identifying a user ability level associated with the course performance submission, and

iv) a distance rating identifier identifying a distance rating associated with the course performance submission;

access one or more additional course performance submissions from a plurality of users, wherein the additional course performance submissions share the course identifier and at least one of the contextual identifiers;

determine, based upon a subset of the course performance submissions received from the plurality of users, an overall performance rating specific to each of the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity;

provide, based upon at least one of the contextual identifiers and the overall performance rating, an individualized performance goal for at least one stage of the multiple stage sport activity.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the multiple stage sport activity is a triathlon.

15. The system of claim 13, wherein the multiple stage sport activity is a member selected from the group consisting of biathlon, decathlon, heptathlon, modern pentathlon, octathlon, pentathlon, quadrathlon, and tetrathlon.

16. The system of claim 13, wherein the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity comprise running, swimming, and bicycling.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the multiple stage sport activity has two or more stages (e.g., 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or more stages).

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the course identifier is determined, by the processor, based upon one or more members of the group consisting of:

GPS location data, wireless broadcasting data, and digital location data through mobile data.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the individualized performance goal is determined, by the processor, by adjusting the overall performance rating based upon the user ability level.

20. The system of claim 13, wherein the overall performance rating is based on the subset of course performance submissions sharing a competition identifier.

21. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions cause the processor to determine, based upon one or more course performance submissions sharing a user identifier and a distance rating, a user ability level (e.g., an ability ranking or classification) associated with the user.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for each stage of the multiple stage sport activity.

23. The system of claim 13, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for each of running, swimming, and bicycling.

24. The system of claim 13, wherein the user ability level comprises a stage ability level for a plurality of the one or more stages of the multiple stage sport activity (e.g., a stage ability level for each of 2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, or more stages).