Method, apparatus, and computer program product for performance analytics determining participant statistical data and game status data

• US 9,517,417 B2
• Filed: 12/01/2014
• Issued: 12/13/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Zebra Technologies Corporation
• Original Assignee: ZIH Corp. (Zebra Technologies Corporation)
• Inventors: Austerlade, David, Hofer, Gene, O'Hagan, James J.
• Primary Examiner(s): Coburn, Corbett B
• Application Number:
  US14/556,758
• Publication Number:
  US 20150148129A1
• Time in Patent Office: 743 Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/537 using indicators, e.g. showing the condition of a game character on screen
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/828 Managing virtual sport teams
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10227 loading programming parameters or programs into the interrogator, e.g. for configuring the interrogator
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10306 ultra wide band
• CPC Class Codes: G06K 7/10366 the interrogation device being adapted for miscellaneous applications
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/0639 Performance analysis of employees; Performance analysis of enterprise or organisation operations
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 90/00 Systems or methods specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial or supervisory purposes, not involving significant data processing
• CPC Class Codes: G06V 40/23 Recognition of whole body movements, e.g. for sport training
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3234 about the performance of a gaming system, e.g. revenue, diagnosis of the gaming system
• CPC Class Codes: G07F 17/3237 about the players, e.g. profiling, responsible gaming, strategy/behavior of players, location of players
• CPC Class Codes: G08C 17/02 using a radio link
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0038 Sports
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 43/04 Processing captured monitoring data, e.g. for logfile generation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/08 specially adapted for terminal emulation, e.g. Telnet
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/029 Location-based management or tracking services
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/38 for collecting sensor information

Abstract

Systems, methods, apparatuses, and computer program products are disclosed for providing analytics including participant statistical data or game status data. In one embodiment, a method is provided for transmitting participant data relating to one or more participants that are available in a fantasy game, the fantasy game is at least partially related to a players performance in a sporting event; receiving a selected participant data indication from at least one user, the selected participant data indication provides selection of at least one participant from the participant data; generating a participant data update for one or more participants based on the selected participant data indication; the participant data is defined by a time period comprising an event and is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and transmitting the participant data update, the participant data update is viewable via a user interface.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

transmitting participant data relating to one or more participants that are available in a fantasy game, wherein the fantasy game is at least partially related to a player'"'"'s performance in a sporting event;

receiving a selected participant data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected participant data indication provides selection of at least one participant from the participant data;

generating a participant data update for one or more participants based on the selected participant data indication;

wherein the participant data is defined by a time period comprising an event and is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmitting the participant data update, wherein the participant data update is viewable using a user interface;

wherein the participant data update is further based on event determinations, wherein the event determinations are based on the participant location data satisfying a predetermined event probability threshold.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

receiving a sensor-application device correlator; and

wherein the transmitting the participant data update is based on the sensor-application device correlator.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

generating game status data based on the selected participant data;

wherein the participant data is based on the participant location data, wherein the participant location data is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmitting game status data.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

transmitting game data related to one or more probability or statistical odd at least partially based on a predictive model based on previous sporting events;

receiving a selected game data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected game data indication provides selection of at least one probability or statistical odd from the game data;

wherein generating game status data is further based on the selected game data; and

transmitting game status data.

5. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

transmitting a request to alter selected participant data, wherein the request to alter selected participant data is based on participant statistical data.

6. An apparatus comprising at least one processor and at least one memory including computer program code, the at least one memory and computer program code configured to, with the processor, cause the apparatus to at least:

transmit participant data relating to one or more participants that are available in a fantasy game, wherein the fantasy game is at least partially related to a player'"'"'s performance in a sporting event;

receive a selected participant data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected participant data indication provides selection of at least one participant from the participant data;

generate a participant data update for one or more participants based on the selected participant data indication;

wherein the participant data is defined by a time period comprising an event and is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmit the participant data update, wherein the participant data update is viewable using a user interface;

wherein the participant data update is further based on event determinations, wherein the event determinations are based on the participant location data satisfying a predetermined event probability threshold.

7. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

receive a sensor-application device correlator; and

wherein the transmitting the participant data update is based on the sensor-application device correlator.

8. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

generate game status data based on the selected participant data;

wherein the participant data is based on the participant location data, wherein the participant location data is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmit game status data.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

transmit game data related to one or more probability or statistical odd at least partially based on a predictive model based on previous sporting events;

receive a selected game data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected game data indication provides selection of at least one probability or statistical odd from the game data;

wherein generating game status data is further based on the selected game data; and

transmit game status data.

10. The apparatus of claim 6, wherein the at least one memory and the computer program code are further configured to:

transmit a request to alter selected participant data, wherein the request to alter selected participant data is based on participant statistical data.

11. A computer program product comprising at least one non-transitory computer-readable storage medium having computer-executable program code portions stored therein, the computer-executable program code portions comprising program code instructions configured to:

transmit participant data relating to one or more participants that are available in a fantasy game, wherein the fantasy game is at least partially related to a player'"'"'s performance in a sporting event;

receive a selected participant data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected participant data indication provides selection of at least one participant from the participant data;

generate a participant data update for one or more participants based on the selected participant data indication;

wherein the participant data is defined by a time period comprising an event and is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmit the participant data update, wherein the participant data update is viewable using a user interface;

wherein the participant data update is further based on event determinations, wherein the event determinations are based on the participant location data satisfying a predetermined event probability threshold.

12. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer-executable program code portions further comprise program code instructions configured to:

receive a sensor-application device correlator; and

wherein the transmitting the participant data update is based on the sensor-application device correlator.

13. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer-executable program code portions further comprise program code instructions configured to:

generate game status data based on the selected participant data;

wherein the participant data is based on the participant location data, wherein the participant location data is calculated based on blink data transmitted from a location tag mounted to the participant; and

transmit game status data.

14. The computer program product of claim 13, wherein the computer-executable program code portions further comprise program code instructions configured to:

transmit game data related to one or more probability or statistical odd at least partially based on a predictive model based on previous sporting events;

receive a selected game data indication from at least one user, wherein the selected game data indication provides selection of at least one probability or statistical odd from the game data;

wherein generating game status data is further based on the selected game data; and

transmit game status data.

15. The computer program product of claim 11, wherein the computer-executable program code portions further comprise program code instructions configured to:

transmit a request to alter selected participant data, wherein the request to alter selected participant data is based on participant statistical data.