System And Method For Sports Group Administration

• US 20080086512A1
• Filed: 10/10/2007
• Published: 04/10/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 10/10/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Code A SITE LLC
• Original Assignee: Code A SITE LLC
• Inventors: Fahys, Louise T.
• Granted Patent: US 9,811,787 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/104.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/06 Resources, workflows, human or project management; Enterprise or organisation planning; Enterprise or organisation modelling

Abstract

A system for sports group management, including a sports group management server, a plurality of databases accessible by the server including at least one of a player database, a substitute database, and a schedule database, an Internet accessible user interface, software for receiving group data via the user interface, the group data including information concerning at least some of a plurality of players in a sports group, schedule software executing on the server for generating a schedule of group events for each of the plurality of players based on the group data, the schedule accessible via the user interface, and substitute software executing on the server for receiving a substitute request for at least one of the group events and determining at least one substitute player for the group event.

Claims

1. A system for sports group management, comprising:

a sports group management server;

a plurality of databases accessible by said server including at least one of a player database, a substitute database, and a schedule database;

an Internet accessible user interface;

software for receiving group data via said user interface, the group data including information concerning at least some of a plurality of players in a sports group;

schedule software executing on said server for generating a schedule of group events for each of the plurality of players based on the group data, the schedule accessible via the user interface; and

substitute software executing on said server for receiving a substitute request for at least one of the group events and determining at least one substitute player for the group event.

2. The system according to claim 1, wherein said substitute software further transmits an invitation to the at least one substitute player.

3. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the group data includes a gender and a rating for the sports group;

and

wherein the at least one substitute player determined by said substitute software has the same gender and rating as the sports group.

4. The system according to claim 1, further comprising:

reminder software executing on said server for transmitting a reminder of at least one of the group events to one or more of the plurality of players.

5. The system according to claim 4, wherein the reminder includes at least one of an email, a text message, and a telephone message.

6. The system according to claim 1,

wherein said plurality of databases further includes a location database;

and

wherein the system further comprises location software for determining a location for at least one of the group events from the location database based on a proximity to at least one of a group administrator and the plurality of players of the sports group.

7. The system according to claim 1, further comprising

software executing on said server for receiving a proposed group event from one of the plurality of players and transmitting an invitation to the proposed event to at least a portion of the plurality of players.

8. The system according to claim 1,

wherein the group data further includes a start date of the group events and an end date of the group events;

and

wherein said schedule software generates the schedule based at least in part on the start date and the end date.

9. The system according to claim 1, wherein the group events include at least one of a match and a lesson.

10. A method for managing a sports group, comprising the steps of:

receiving group data via an Internet-based user interface pertaining to at least one sports group;

generating a schedule of a plurality of matches between a plurality of players of the sports group;

providing the schedule of the matches via the user interface;

receiving a substitute player request for at least one of the plurality of matches; and

determining at least one substitute; and

transmitting an invitation to the at least one substitute.

11. The method according to claim 10, wherein the invitation is transmitted by at least one of an email and a text message.

12. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of:

receiving an acceptance of the invitation, wherein the acceptance is received by at least one of an email and a text message.

13. The method according to claim 10,

wherein the at least one substitute includes two or more potential substitutes;

and

wherein said step of transmitting an invitation includes transmitting a first invitation to potential substitutes who are players in the sports group, and transmitting a second invitation to potential substitutes who are not players in the sports group after a predetermined amount of time.

14. The method according to claim 10, further comprising the step of:

transmitting a reminder of at least one of the matches to one or more of the plurality of players.

15. The method according to claim 14, wherein the reminder is transmitted by at least one of an email, a text message, and a telephone message.

16. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one substitute is determined by a substitution rule indicated in the substitute player request.

17. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one substitute is determined from a substitute database including at least a portion of the plurality of players and one or more players from at least one other sports group.

18. The method according to claim 10, wherein the at least one substitute is selected from substitutes located within a predetermined distance of a location of the match.

19. The method according to claim 10, wherein said step of determining at least one substitute includes querying a schedule database to determine one or more players available at the time of the match for which a substitute is requested.

20. The method according to claim 10, wherein said step of determining at least one substitute includes querying a substitute database to determine one or more potential substitutes having a same gender and rating as the sports group.