Communication, calculation, and record keeping method and apparatus for golf course
IPC분류정보
국가/구분
United States(US) Patent
등록
국제특허분류(IPC7판)
A63F-009/22
G06F-015/44
출원번호
US-0628599
(1996-04-05)
발명자
/ 주소
Moriarty Stephen A.
Rathmanner James C.
Van Brunt Nicholas P.
대리인 / 주소
Edgeworth
인용정보
피인용 횟수 :
59인용 특허 :
32
초록▼
An apparatus to provide golf players calculation, communication and record keeping of golf game scores. In addition communication of information pertaining to weather, flow of play, course topology and layout, advertising, service needs, emergency medical and security, rules of play and personal mes
An apparatus to provide golf players calculation, communication and record keeping of golf game scores. In addition communication of information pertaining to weather, flow of play, course topology and layout, advertising, service needs, emergency medical and security, rules of play and personal messages are provided to the players throughout the golf course by the apparatus. The apparatus includes a group of mechanisms distributed throughout the golf course area of play for the purpose of transferring this information between the players and the apparatus interactively and in real time. In the preferred embodiment the mechanisms distributed around the course are statically located, use photoelectric means for their electrical power needs and transfer data by radio communication means to and from a computing mechanism. The apparatus includes a computing mechanism that performs calculation steps needed to determine the golf game scores and also manages the transfer and storage of the various communications. In addition it extracts and saves information pertaining to the use of the course and its services for course management to use in accounting, planning and course improvement tasks. The computing mechanism can include programs to detect bottlenecks in the flow of play and alert course managers of the bottlenecks. In one embodiment, "timestamp" data which includes time, date, and/or location data is appended to at least some messages passed between the golfer interface and the manager interface. Additional programs that determine corrective modifications to the flow of play can be included in the computing mechanism.
대표청구항▼
[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A scoring and management system for one or more golf courses, each golf course including one or more golf holes, the system comprising:a central computing device, including a processor and storage medium;a plurality of remote terminals geographically dispersed and fixedly
[ What is claimed is:] [1.] A scoring and management system for one or more golf courses, each golf course including one or more golf holes, the system comprising:a central computing device, including a processor and storage medium;a plurality of remote terminals geographically dispersed and fixedly positioned about a golf course, each remote terminal includinga) a manual input device for selectively entering one or more golf scores of a completed hole and information, wherein each manual input device is integral with an associated remote terminal,b) means for receiving information from the central computing device, andc) means for displaying information received from the central computing device; andmeans for transferring golf scores and information between the remote terminals and the central computing device in real time, wherein information is from the group consisting of advertisement, weather, service, emergency, personal message, course layout and topology, rule of play, gaming, and security information.
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