Online platform for maintaining multidisciplinary sport performance statistics and computing performance forecasts

• US 9,767,350 B2
• Filed: 10/22/2014
• Issued: 09/19/2017
• 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
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Milap
• Application Number:
  US14/521,076
• Publication Number:
  US 20150363406A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,063 Days
• 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 for operating a platform to collectively rank performance of athletes in a multiple-stage sport activity, the multiple-stage sport activity comprising two or more stages, the method comprising the steps of:

receiving, over a network by a processor of a computing device, a plurality of performance submissions, each comprising an event result associated with a user of a plurality of users, wherein at least a subset of the event result is electronically captured by a mobile device associated with the user, as the user participates in the multiple-stage sport activity, and is transmitted from a mobile device to the computing device,

wherein at least a portion of the plurality of performance submissions share a contextual identifier commonly associated with one or more of a group consisting of;

(i) a particular stage of a multiple stage sport activity, (ii) a particular competition, (iii) a user ability level, (iv) a distance rating, and (v) a previously determined rating associated with the particular competition, wherein the rating is calculated, by the processor, from data extracted from a plurality of past performance submissions associated with at least one of (1) the particular competition (2) a plurality of competitions other than the particular competition;

analyzing, by the processor, data extracted from each of the commonly associated performance submissions to identify one or more performance ratings associated with each user of the plurality of users;

ranking, by the processor, the commonly associated performance submissions based at least in part on the performance ratings;

receiving, over the network by the processor, from a first user of a remote computing device, a request for a ranking associated with a performance submission associated with the first user;

providing, over the network by the processor, the ranking associated with the performance submission associated with the first user to the remote computing device of the first user; and

updating the previously determined rating associated with the particular competition, wherein the updated rating is calculated, by the processor, from data extracted from the plurality of performance submissions.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of analyzing comprises:

evaluating, by the processor, each submission of the commonly associated performance submissions within the context of a collective historical performance data set corresponding to the portion of the users associated with the commonly associated performance submissions, wherein the collective historical performance data set comprises the plurality of past performance submissions associated with at least one of (1) the particular competition and (2) the plurality of competitions other than the particular competition.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the step of analyzing comprises:

determining, by the processor, based at least in part on the collective historical performance data set, a handicap associated with the first user.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein the step of ranking is performed at least in part as a function of the handicap associated with the first user.

5. The method of claim 3, wherein the updated rating is calculated, by the processor, from data associated with a course performance rating.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the step of updating the previously determined rating associated with the particular competition occurs in real-time.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the event result comprises a score or completion time.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein the user ability level associated with a performance submission identifies an ability level relative to other users.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the distance rating associated with a performance submission identifies a distance relative to other courses and/or legs of courses.

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

11. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of ranking is performed at least in part as a function of one or more of (i) to (iii):

(i) an age category, (ii) a gender, and/or (iii) an elite and/or non-elite status.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of ranking is performed at least in part as a function of one or more of (i) to (iii):

(i) performance of top athletes on a course associated with the performance submission, (ii) weather conditions at the time of the performance, and/or (iii) course conditions at the time of the performance.

13. A system comprising:

a processor of a computing device; and

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

receive, over a network, a plurality of performance submissions, each comprising an event result associated with a user of a plurality of users, wherein at least a subset of the event result is electronically captured by a mobile device associated with the user, as the user participates in the multiple-stage sport activity, and is transmitted from a mobile device to the computing device,

wherein at least a portion of the plurality of performance submissions share a contextual identifier commonly associated with one or more of a group consisting of;

(i) a particular stage of a multiple stage sport activity, (ii) a particular competition, (iii) a user ability level, (iv) a distance rating, and (v) a previously determined rating associated with the particular competition, wherein the rating is calculated, by the processor, from data extracted from a plurality of past performance submissions associated with at least one of (1) the particular competition and (2) a plurality of competitions other than the particular competition;

analyze data extracted from each of the commonly associated performance submissions to identify one or more performance ratings associated with each user of the plurality of users;

determine a ranking for each of the commonly associated performance submissions based at least in part on the performance ratings;

receive, from a first user of a remote computing device, a request for a ranking associated with a performance submission associated with the first user;

provide, over the network, the ranking associated with the performance submission associated with the first user to the remote computing device of the first user; and

update the previously determined rating associated with the particular competition, wherein the updated rating is calculated, by the processor, from data extracted from the plurality of performance submissions.

14. The system of claim 13, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:

evaluate each performance submission of the commonly associated performance submissions within the context of a collective historical performance data set corresponding to the portion of the users associated with the commonly associated performance submissions, wherein the collective historical performance data set comprises the plurality of past performance submissions associated with at least one of (1) the particular competition and (2) the plurality of competitions other than the particular competition.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the instructions, when executed, further cause the processor to:

determine, based at least in part on the collective historical performance data set, a handicap associated with the first user.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein the ranking associated with the performance submission associated with the first user is determined at least in part as a function of the handicap associated with the first user.

17. The system of claim 13, wherein the event result comprises a score or completion time.

18. The system of claim 13, wherein the user ability level associated with a performance submission identifies an ability level relative to other users.

19. The system of claim 13, wherein the distance rating associated with a performance submission identifies a distance relative to other courses and/or legs of courses.

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

21. The system of claim 13, wherein each ranking is determined at least in part as a function of one or more of the following:

(i) an age category, (ii) a gender, and/or (iii) an elite and/or non-elite status.

22. The system of claim 13, wherein each ranking is determined at least in part as a function of one or more of the following:

(i) performance of top athletes on a course associated with the performance submission (ii) weather conditions at the time of the performance, and/or (iii) course conditions at the time of the performance.