SPORTS-BASED REWARDS SYSTEM, METHOD AND APPARATUS

摘要

Disclosed are a system, method and apparatus for implementing a sports-based reward program. In one embodiment, a server provides future sporting event information, pre-game questions, and in-game questions to users over a wide-area network. The users provide predictions to the pre-game and in-game questions for one or more selected sporting events. The server tracks the predictions to determine whether they actually occur during the selected sporting event(s), and provides a credit to each user who makes accurate predictions. Users may then purchase goods and services using the credits.

主权项

1. A server for implementing a sports-based reward program, comprising:
a communication interface for receiving future sporting event information and real-time sporting event information, the future sporting event information related to one or more sporting events that will occur in the future, and the real-time sporting event information relating to events that occur during one or more sporting events as the sporting events are being played; a network interface for communicating with a plurality of network-enabled devices; a database for storing an account related to one or more users of the network-enabled devices; a memory for storing processor-executable instructions; and a processor for executing the processor-executable instructions that cause the server to:
receive the future sporting event information via the network interface;provide the future sporting event information to users of the plurality of network-enabled devices via the network interface;receive a selected sporting event from one of the network-enabled devices, the selected sporting event chosen by the user from one of the one or more sporting events that will occur in the future;in response to receiving the selected sporting event, provide a pre-game question to the network-enabled device via the network interface prior to commencement of the selected sporting event, the pre-game question related to an outcome of the selected sporting event;receive a pre-game prediction to the pre-game question from the mobile device via the network interface, the pre-game prediction indicative of a prediction, by the user, of the outcome related to the pre-game question;store the pre-game prediction in association with the user in the database;receive the real-time sporting event information via the network interface as the one or more sporting events occur, including the selected sporting event;determine whether the outcome of the selected sporting event matches the pre-game prediction from the user; andprovide a credit to an account associated with the user when the outcome of the selected sporting event marches the pre-game prediction, the credit for redemption by the user at a venue.