IPC분류정보
국가/구분 |
United States(US) Patent
등록
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국제특허분류(IPC7판) |
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출원번호 |
US-0328531
(2011-12-16)
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등록번호 |
US-8597093
(2013-12-03)
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발명자
/ 주소 |
- Engelberg, Richard J
- Hailey, Michael B
- Olander, Stefan F
- Orenstein, Michael L
- White, Kristen L
- Pendleton, Reshma T
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출원인 / 주소 |
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대리인 / 주소 |
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인용정보 |
피인용 횟수 :
107 인용 특허 :
0 |
초록
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Individuals may be encouraged to perform athletic activity based on punishments or adverse effects that may be applied if the individual loses an athletic activity competition. For example, a user's device may be adversely affected by visual or functional effects configured to obscure or obstruct on
Individuals may be encouraged to perform athletic activity based on punishments or adverse effects that may be applied if the individual loses an athletic activity competition. For example, a user's device may be adversely affected by visual or functional effects configured to obscure or obstruct one or more functions of the user's device. The punishment or adverse effect might not be removed or deactivated until a user has completed a new competition without losing. In some arrangements, the user may be required to win in order to have the adverse effect removed.
대표청구항
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1. A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device having at least one processor, specifications for defining a multi-user athletic activity game executed through an electronic game application, wherein the specifications include identification of at least two potential participants;transmitti
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A method comprising: receiving, by a computing device having at least one processor, specifications for defining a multi-user athletic activity game executed through an electronic game application, wherein the specifications include identification of at least two potential participants;transmitting, by the computing device, a game invitation to at least one of the at least two potential participants;determining, by the computing device, whether a sufficient number of potential participants have accepted the game invitation;in response to determining that a sufficient number of potential participants have accepted, initiating, by the computing device, monitoring of athletic performance statistics of accepted participants;determining, by the computing device, a loser of the athletic activity game based on the athletic performance statistics; andapplying, by the computing device, a punishment to the loser of the athletic activity game, wherein the punishment includes a requirement by the electronic game application for the loser to initiate and complete a new athletic activity game without losing. 2. The method of claim 1, wherein the punishment includes one or more effects in an athletic activity game application executing on an athletic performance monitoring device of the loser. 3. The method of claim 2, wherein the one or more effects include a visual effect obscuring one or more functionalities of the athletic activity game application. 4. The method of claim 1, wherein applying the punishment includes applying a loser status to a profile of the loser and removing the loser status only upon: expiration of a predefined time period; orcompletion of a new athletic activity game without losing. 5. The method of claim 1, wherein the invitation includes one or more device setting parameters configured to automatically set one or more settings of an accepted participant's athletic performance monitoring device. 6. The method of claim 1, further comprising cancelling the athletic activity game in response to determining that a sufficient number of potential participants have not accepted within a predefined amount of time. 7. The method of claim 1, wherein the specifications for defining the multi-user athletic activity game includes a game type, wherein the game type includes at least one of: a last person to perform an athletic activity, a shortest distance for an athletic activity and shortest time spent performing an athletic activity. 8. The method of claim 1, wherein the athletic activity game type includes a random start time and wherein a last person to perform the athletic activity after the random start time is determined to be the loser. 9. The method of claim 1, wherein a participant that is not determined to be the loser is further provided with an option to have one or more visual or functional effects activated on a device of the loser. 10. The method of claim 9, wherein the one or more visual or functional effects includes posting a user-generated message to a display of the device of the loser. 11. The method of claim 10, wherein the one or more visual or functional effects includes displaying an image configured to obscure one or more functions of the device of the loser. 12. An apparatus comprising: at least one processor; andmemory operatively coupled to the at least one processor and storing computer readable instructions that, when executed, cause the apparatus to: receive a selection from a user to join a multi-user athletic activity game executed through an electronic game application;initiate recording of one or more athletic activity performance metrics;transmit the one or more athletic activity performance metrics to a game monitoring system;determining that the user has lost the game;in response to determining that the user has lost the game, the electronic game application applying a loser status to the user;determining whether the user has, through the electronic game application, initiated and completed a new multi-user athletic activity game without losing; andin response to determining that the user has initiated and completed the new multi-user athletic activity game without losing, removing the loser status from the user,otherwise, maintaining the loser status applied to the user through the electronic game application in a subsequent game. 13. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein applying the loser status includes adding a label to a profile of the user. 14. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein applying the loser status includes activating one or more visual or functional effects on a device of a user. 15. The apparatus of claim 14, wherein the one or more visual or functional effects includes an effect configured to obstruct at least one functionality of the device of the user. 16. The apparatus of claim 15, wherein the effect includes an image configured to obstruct the at least one functionality of the device. 17. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein transmitting the one or more athletic activity performance metrics to a game monitoring system includes: receiving a user selection of one or more multi-user athletic activity games to which the one or more athletic activity performance metrics are to be applied; andtransmitting the user selection to the game monitoring system. 18. The apparatus of claim 17, wherein the user selection includes a plurality of multi-user athletic activity games and wherein transmitting the one or more athletic activity performance metrics further includes: receiving user specifications for dividing the one or more athletic activity performance metrics among the plurality of multi-user athletic activity games. 19. The apparatus of claim 12, wherein receiving a selection from a user to join the multi-user athletic activity game includes: upon receiving the selection from the user to join the multi-user athletic activity game, automatically applying one or more device settings based on one or more corresponding setting parameters defined in an invitation to join the multi-user athletic activity game.
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