Event application

• US 9,319,838 B1
• Filed: 06/30/2015
• Issued: 04/19/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 07/11/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Original Assignee: Prosports Technologies, LLC
• Inventors: Cronin, John E., Bodkin, Joseph George, Huffines, Christopher Michael
• Primary Examiner(s): Patel, Ajit
• Application Number:
  US14/788,751
• Time in Patent Office: 294 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/248 Presentation of query results
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9554 by using bar codes
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

The present invention includes systems and methods for providing event information. A one-time use app is downloaded to a user device when a user elects to purchase the app. The app receives event-related information from an event database. The event database receives information from a plurality of sources. The sources are each associated with an application programming interface. The app provides event-related information to the user through purchased options. The app can filter information based on a user profile before providing the information to the user.

Claims

1. A method for providing event information, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a user device for a one-time application associated with an event;

transmitting the one-time application over a network to the user device, wherein the one-time application is associated with an event and unlocks based on global positioning system (GPS) sensor data verification that the user device is within a predetermined distance from a venue of the event, and wherein options associated with the one-time application are locked until verification is complete; and

transmitting information to the user device for display through the one-time application when a user selects one of at least one information display options from the one-time application, wherein the transmitted information includes real time data from a plurality of databases, each database associated with a different service at the venue, wherein the one time application is automatically deleted after the event.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the information associated with the selected information display option is filtered before display using a user profile.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the information is filtered based on team preference information in the user profile.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein an event database receives information from the plurality of databases, each of the plurality of databases delivering information through an associated application programming interface to the event database.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the event database receives information from at least one database owned by a third party.

6. A system for providing event information, the system comprising:

a communication interface that communicates over a wireless communication network to;

receive a request from a user device for a one-time application associated with an event, and

transmit the one-time application over a network to the user device, wherein the one-time application is associated with an event and unlocks based on global positioning system (GPS) sensor data verification that the user device is within a predetermined distance from a venue of the event, and wherein options associated with the one-time application are locked until verification is complete; and

an event database that stores information for transmission from the event database to the user device for display through the one-time application, the information transmitted when a user selects one of at least one information display options from the one-time application, wherein the transmitted information includes real time data from a plurality of databases, each database associated with a different service at the venue, wherein the one time application is automatically deleted after the event.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the information associated with the selected information display option is filtered before display using a user profile.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein the information is filtered based on team preference information in the user profile.

9. The system of claim 6, further comprising the plurality of databases, wherein each of the plurality of databases delivers information through an associated application programming interface to the event database.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the event database receives information from at least one source database owned by a third party.

11. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having embodied thereon a program executable by a processor for providing event information, the method comprising:

receiving a request from a user for a one-time application associated with an event;

transmitting the one-time application over a network, wherein the one-time application is associated with an event, and unlocks based on global positioning system (GPS) sensor data verification that the user device is within a predetermined distance from a venue of the event, and wherein options associated with the one-time application are locked until verification is complete; and

transmitting information for display through the one-time application when a user selects one of at least one information display options from the one-time application, wherein the transmitted information includes real time data from a plurality of databases, each database associated with a different service at the venue, wherein the one time application is automatically deleted after the event.

12. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11, wherein the information associated with the selected information display option is filtered before display using a user profile.

13. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 12, wherein the information is filtered based on team preference information in the user profile.

14. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 11,

wherein an event database receives information from the plurality of databases, each of the plurality of databases delivering information through an associated application programming interface to the event database.

15. The non-transitory computer readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein the event database receives information from at least one database owned by a third party.