System and method for race participant tracking and reporting of associated data

摘要

A system and method are provided for tracking race participants via a Global Positioning System, providing feedback in substantially real time to the race participant, and optionally to other remote individuals via web publication at the user's preference. The feedback includes graphical and tabular presentation of such information as geographic position, race route, current race performance metrics, projection of future milestone and final race performance, projected position at a given time, projected time to a given position, relative performance to historical participants, to personal historical performance and to other members of the current race that are being tracked in aggregate or by demographic or otherwise subdivided.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
enabling an observer of an event having at least one participant to select the event via a graphical user interface on a display unit for a user computing device; generating a graphical map interface on the display unit, the map interface displaying a predetermined route for the event; obtaining a real time position of the participant along the route using a position sensing device and performance data associated with the participant and the event, and displaying the position in association with the route displayed on the graphical map interface; enabling the observer to generate an inquiry as to the elapsed time or time of arrival for the participant with respect to an arbitrary real time position of the observer at an intermediate point along the race route; comparing the real time performance data for the participant to the route data and predicting the elapsed time or time of arrival at the real time position of the observer for the participant with respect to said inquiry; and displaying the predicted elapsed time or time of arrival at the real time position of the observer for the participant on the display unit.