US 11,941,952 B2
Sports contest interface system and method
Philip Galfond, Las Vegas, NV (US); and Dan Quinn, Paso Robles, CA (US)
Assigned to DRAFTBOARD, LLC, Paso Robles, CA (US)
Filed by Draftboard, LLC, Paso Robles, CA (US)
Filed on Dec. 7, 2021, as Appl. No. 17/643,005.
Application 17/643,005 is a continuation of application No. 16/115,368, filed on Aug. 28, 2018, granted, now 11,244,537.
Claims priority of provisional application 62/551,160, filed on Aug. 28, 2017.
Prior Publication US 2022/0101697 A1, Mar. 31, 2022
This patent is subject to a terminal disclaimer.
Int. Cl. G07F 17/32 (2006.01)
CPC G07F 17/3288 (2013.01) [G07F 17/3211 (2013.01); G07F 17/323 (2013.01)] 20 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for providing a plurality of different customized display presentations for a sports contest, the system comprising:
a plurality of user devices, with each user device associated with a separate user account and with each user account associated with a sports contest associated with a plurality of sporting events, the sports contest comprised of at least one of the user accounts and at least one opponent user account, with each of the user accounts having a selection of a different plurality of user sports players for the sports contest and each of the opponent user accounts having a selection of a different plurality of opponent sports players for the sports contest, the sports players being human players in the sports contest that are remote from and do not control any of the plurality of user devices and are not associated with the separate user accounts of the respective plurality of user devices, the sports contest being a non-video game sports contest of at least one of the NFL, MLB, NBA or NHL that is not controlled by or otherwise influenced by the plurality of user devices nor the separate user accounts;
a statistics server located remotely from the plurality of user devices; and
a gaming server located remotely from the statistics server and the plurality of user devices, wherein the system generates different customized display presentations for each of the user devices by:
receiving a first set of sports data from the statistics server at the gaming server, the first set of sports data associated with a first sporting event occurring in real time that is not controlled by or otherwise influenced by the plurality of user devices nor the separate user accounts, the first sporting event being one of the plurality of sporting events associated with the sports content;
parsing the first set of sports data;
generating a different customized presentation for each respective user account by, for each respective user account associated with the sports contest:
determining that at least a portion of the first set of sports data is associated with at least one user sports player for the sports contest,
determining that at least a portion of the first set of sports data is associated with at least one opponent sports player for the sports contest, and
generating a different customized presentation for the respective user accounts including an animation depicting a representation of the at least one user sports player for the sports contest and a representation of the at least one opponent sports player for the sports contest, wherein each of the different customized presentations are different based at least in part on the identity and different real-time game actions of the different plurality of user sports players for the sports contest of each of the user accounts and based at least in part on the identity and different real-time game actions of the different plurality of opponent sports players for the sports contest of each of the opponent user accounts;
identifying a respective user device associated with each generated different customized presentation for the respective user accounts;
sending each of the different customized presentations to the respective identified user devices; and
displaying the respective different customized presentations at the respective user devices.