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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 07, 2025
Filed:
Dec. 21, 2022
Sportsmedia Technology Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Gerard J. Hall, Durham, NC (US);
SportsMEDIA Technology Corporation, Durham, NC (US);
Abstract
The present invention provides an improved method for synchronizing a mobile application to a video broadcast. A server platform is in communication with a plurality of user devices. The server platform retrieves and transmits data regarding a live broadcast event to the plurality of user devices and provides an interactive activity related to the live broadcast event. In one embodiment, in order to account for delays between the broadcasts of different players, the server platform utilizes at least one graphical element and/or at least one audiovisual element of the live broadcast event to generate separate delay pools for each of the plurality of user devices. The plurality of user devices include a mobile application showing sprites representing a plurality of players or objects in the live broadcast event, which are synchronized to a display device based on the delay pools for each of the plurality of user devices.