Patent №
US 8,366,551
Granted
2013-02-05
Filed 2009
Owner
WORLD SPORTS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
+5 more
Lab
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AI components
1
kr
Assignment
Recorded
Dataset
AIPD
2023_r1 edition
Application
12435695
A single user fantasy game, including a database of VFGMs, each having strategies and player rankings supplied by or for certain human remote GMs, together with a database of real-world athlete/participants. A draft is launched, with the user and at least selected VFGMs as participants. In that draft, the user and the VFGMs make selections of athlete/participants according to predetermined draft rules. Those selections made by the user and by the VFGMs are then saved as respective teams in a team database. Once the teams are selected, the performance of the teams is determined, using a database of real-world performances/statistics, for the athlete/participants in the database of athlete/participants, from a particular time period and according to a set of fantasy game scoring rules. A winner is determined from among the user and the VFGMs, based on the performance of the teams for the particular time period.
AI classification
Ownership
WORLD SPORTS TECHNOLOGY, INC.
assignment · 229540970
FSOV, L.L.C.
assignment · 303180001
SKYLLZONE, LLC
namechg · 310760094
IAC/INTERACTIVE CORP
assignment · 406620943
IAC HOLDINGS, INC.
assignment · 531270076
IAC/INTERACTIVECORP
namechg · 531630844
Assignors
THOMAS, JEFFREY
On an employer assignment, the assignors are typically the inventors.