Prosports Technologies, LLC

Blazer and Flip Flops, Inc.

Seth Melvin Cronin

Nick Reasner

Gene Fein

The present invention communicates with a point of sale terminal using near field data communications and a purchase is either allowed or denied by a billing statement network according to a set of parameters.

Securing contactless payment

An event venue with a performance area (e.g., a sport field or auditorium stage) and an eventgoer area (e.g., stadium seating or bleachers) may include a set of eventgoer cameras trained on various sections of the eventgoer area and a set of performance cameras trained on the performance area. The event venue may also include sensors. When an event occurrence (e.g., a goal or touchdown) is detected using the cameras and/or sensors, at least one photo or video of the event occurrence may be captured by the performance cameras, and at least one photo or video of the eventgoer reaction may be captured using the eventgoer cameras. Facial recognition may then be used to identify particular eventgoers in each photo or video. Identified eventgoers can then receive photos or videos in which they are identified along with performance photos or videos that were captured at roughly the same time.

Facial recognition for event venue cameras

NFC-based payments tagging

Event venues include multiple seats for eventgoers, and each seat may be coupled to a seat beacon. The seat beacon may identify the ticket of an eventgoer sitting in them, either by scanning it, interfacing with a user mobile device, or accepting manual input at an interface provided at the seat. A centralized event venue controller may check the ticket identifier against seat identifiers in a ticket purchase information database. If the eventgoer is in the wrong seat, the seat may identify itself locally by lighting a light or remotely by notifying an administrator device. If the eventgoer is in the correct seat, the seat beacon may be used by the eventgoer to order food, drinks, Wi-Fi access, or seat customizations such as a seat heater or a name tag or a cooling cup holder. Such seat customizations can also be provided at the time of ticket purchase.

Interactive seat beacon with customization

An event, such as a sports game, may include numerous individual event occurrences, some in a performance area (e.g., a sports field or a concert stage) and some out of the performance area (e.g., in a gym or locker room). Beacons with audiovisual capture capabilities may be set up at key points within the performance area and at important areas outside the performance area in order to capture audiovisual data from various event occurrences that might be difficult to capture otherwise. The audiovisual data may be organized into an event beacon database, which may then be supplied to various other entities, such as media providers or advertisers, to provide to their constituencies, or to sports players or event performers to provide to social media followers, or to event fans to directly access via an API or web interface.

Event-based content collection for network-based distribution

A fan network system provides portals that can be accessed by fan mobile devices to buy, sell, or trade digital trading cards. The fan network system can keep track of these purchases and trades using a database that keeps track of cards and a database that keeps track of user accounts. The fan network system also provides portals that can be accessed by fan mobile devices to buy or cancel subscriptions, such as magazine subscriptions or television channel subscriptions. The fan network system also provides portals that can be accessed by fan mobile devices to redeem codes for digital trading cards, the codes given during sporting events, or in exchange for subscriptions, or through fan club memberships, or through fantasy league memberships.

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Clarksville, TN, United States of America

Seth Melvin Cronin