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1. A system for communicating participant specific announcement information received from a sport timing system (STS) used to track a plurality of participants in a sporting event, the sports timing system receiving a detection of a participant from among a plurality of participants including a detection time from a coupled participant detection system and determining a time of passing of the participant by a detection point and associating the determined time of passing with a participant identifier uniquely identifying the participant in the sporting event and participant timing data, the sports timing system storing the determined time of passing associated with the participant identifier as the participant timing data, the system comprising
an announcement interface system having a processor, a memory, a first data interface communicating over a communication network with the sport timing system storing a plurality of participant announcements each associated with a different one of the participants as identified by a different participant identifier, a second interface communicating with an announcement system, the first data interface
receiving a multicast datagram announcement message including an identification of the sport timing system and participant data including the participant identifier and the participant timing data, wherein the first data interface includes
a transmitted datagram request directory message requesting a listing of available images associated with the participant identifier of the received participant data from the sport timing system,a sent image directory message in response to the datagram request directory message for receiving the requested listing of available images associated with the participant identifier,a datagram request image message requesting an image associated with the participant identifier of the received participant data from the sport timing system responsive to the received requested listing of available images of the sent image directory message, andan image sent message in response to the datagram request image message for receiving the requested image, the announcement interface system
identifying a participant specific announcement from the plurality of stored participant announcements that is associated with the received participant identifier;formatting the received portion of the participant data and the received image associated with the participant identifier into an announcement system message that is customized to the participant associated with the participant identifier and including the participant specific announcement and the received image; andtransmitting over the second interface to the announcement system the formatted announcement system message including the participant data, the participant identifier, the participant specific announcement, the received image and participant timing data. |
