Rovi Technologies Corporation

Junkin Holdings LLC

Interactive Sports Holdings, Inc.

William Junkin

Patrick J Hughes

David Barber

Dave Barber

R Lynn Livingston

Steven C Meyer

The fantasy sports contest application of the present invention alerts the user of necessary roster changes before an upcoming fantasy sports competition. The fantasy sports contest application may evaluate the user's team roster before an upcoming fantasy sports competition to ensure that all roster spots on the team roster are filled with athletes available for real-life competitions. The fantasy sports contest application may also identify roster changes and roster transactions that may be beneficial to a user's fantasy sports contest team roster. The fantasy sports contest application may recommend roster changes and roster transactions to the user by evaluating the performance of athletes using performance criteria. The performance criteria can be based on the past performance of athletes, either overall, or for certain situations. The performance criteria may be predefined by the system, user-editable, or any suitable combination thereof.

Systems and methods for roster management in fantasy sports contest applications

The fantasy sports contest application of the present invention alerts the user of necessary roster changes before an upcoming fantasy sports competition. The fantasy sports contest application may evaluate the user's team roster before an upcoming fantasy sports competition to ensure that all roster spots on the team roster are filled with athletes available for real-life competitions. The fantasy sports contest application may also identify roster changes and roster transactions that may be beneficial to a user's fantasy sports contest team roster.

Wireless data access is provided for customers using a preexisting merchant data connection. An access point is used to communicate wirelessly with customer-owned or merchant-provided computing devices. The preexisting data communication link includes merchant-generated traffic, such as credit card authorization transactions or corporate electronic mail. A router is configured to combine customer-generated wireless traffic with the merchant-generated traffic and to transport the combined data over the preexisting data communication link. Further features, such as protocol conversion, are also provided.

Wireless access using preexisting data connection

Method and system for network-enabled means to book a venue. Via a network, a bidding sub-system is deployed for providing information related to a venue to a subscriber and receiving a bid from the subscriber to book the venue for a future event. Information related to a received bid is posted via electronic means and provided to a venue representative who represents the venue and desires to receive a bid via the network for booking the venue. Through a venue representative control sub-system, the venue representative is able to select a bid to book the venue for a future event hosted by a subscriber who placed the selected bid via the bidding mechanism.

Method and system for network-enabled venue booking

Fantasy sports contests based on segments of a single sports event. A segment or subevent may be a portion of a single sports event. The users choose a roster of selections to form an fantasy sports contest team roster. Fantasy points are awarded to the user for the real-life performance of the selections on the fantasy sports contest team roster according to rules of the fantasy sports contest. In one embodiment, the user is presented with bonus questions asking for predictions on the outcome of real-life action during a subevent of the a televised competition. Fantasy points may be awarded to users making correct predictions. The bonus questions may supplement fantasy scoring from the users' team rosters, or may be presented as a stand alone interactive sports contest.

Systems and methods for providing fantasy sports contests based on subevents

Systems and methods for providing multi-level fantasy sports contests in a fantasy sports contest application are provided. The fantasy sports contest application may provide multi-level fantasy sports contest in an award league. The fantasy sports contest application may create award leagues of different levels and focus on various geographical units. In some embodiments of the present invention, the fantasy sports contest application may allow a user to enter the same team to compete in one or more leagues. In these embodiments, the same set of rules may apply to all leagues for a particular sport. In some embodiments of the present invention, the fantasy sports contest application may allow the user to advance from lower level leagues to higher level leagues having the same or cooperating sponsors. In some embodiment of the present invention, the fantasy sports contest application may allow a user to enter a team that was previously drafted for one league to compete in another league.

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Corona Del Mar, CA, United States of America

William Junkin