US 12,478,836 B2
Systems and methods for tracking and reporting climbing progress
Sundev R. Lohr, Salt Lake City, UT (US); and Dustin G. Buckthal, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Assigned to PEBBLE LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed by Pebble LLC, Salt Lake City, UT (US)
Filed on Apr. 7, 2023, as Appl. No. 18/132,112.
Claims priority of provisional application 63/328,930, filed on Apr. 8, 2022.
Prior Publication US 2023/0321490 A1, Oct. 12, 2023
Int. Cl. A63B 24/00 (2006.01)
CPC A63B 24/0062 (2013.01) [A63B 24/0075 (2013.01); A63B 2220/803 (2013.01); A63B 2220/806 (2013.01); A63B 2225/54 (2013.01)] 16 Claims
OG exemplary drawing
 
1. A system for tracking a progress of each particular user of a plurality of users through a climb at a climbing facility, the system comprising:
each particular transmitter of a plurality of transmitters, worn by said each particular user, that wirelessly transmits a user identification (user ID) that is unique to said each particular user;
a scanning device, attached to a surface near a start of the climb within the climbing facility, that receives the wirelessly transmitted user ID of said each particular user and communicates an individual climb data of said each particular user comprising the user ID and a climb identifier of said each particular user to at least one server device comprising instructions to cause the least one server device and related data processing and storage apparatus to operate, sum and to store the individual climb data of said each particular user as the stored climb data of all the plurality of users; and
wherein the at least one server device further comprises instructions to enable communication of the stored climb data to a user device and to a climbing facility operator device wherein the climbing facility operator device processes the stored climb data of the plurality of users to form an aggregate the individual climb data of said each particular user to provide a climbing facility operator information, wherein the climbing facility operator information is to use for incentivizing or rewarding other activities of the plurality of users at the climbing facility.