Sports matchmaker systems

Abstract

The Sports Matchmaker System provides an improved method for arranging sporting events and non-sporting events between unacquainted people. It provides a system for matching persons publicly offering to participate in particular sporting or social events with persons desiring to participate in similar sporting or social events. The system also provides various means for communicating between the offering party and the accepting party to complete the event. The system also provides methods for arranging event venues for sporting and social events.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATION [0001] The present application is related to and claims priority from prior provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 707,889, filed Aug. 12, 2005, entitled “SPORTS MATCHMAKER SYSTEMS” and prior provisional application Ser. No. 60 / 775,920, filed Feb. 22, 2006, entitled “SPORTS MATCHMAKER SYSTEMS”, the contents of both of which are incorporated herein by this reference and are not admitted to be prior art with respect to the present invention by the mention in this cross-reference section.BACKGROUND [0002] This invention relates to providing a system for improved method for arranging meetings between unacquainted people. More particularly, this invention relates to providing a system for matching persons and / or teams offering to participate in particular sporting or social events with persons and / or teams desiring to participate in similar sporting or social events. [0003] The explosive diffusion of the Internet into countries such as the United State...

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Benefits of technology

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Problems solved by technology

In other words, these matchmaking systems ignore the social networking needs of the remainder of the population desiring to meet or jointly participate in something other than a “date”.

While it is possible to find someone interested in golf or tennis using these sites, it is not possible to search and find a person with whom to play a specific game of golf or tennis on these matchmaking web sites.

As a result a very large group of people and activities are not able to socially network effectively through the Internet.

For example, couples, children, and teams have no means for identifying others wishing to participate in activities that are event oriented, i.e. location, time and date dependent.

Conversely, this traveler must rely on the same methods to make an offer to play golf Additionally, the traveler has no opportunity to get to know the other participants in advance.

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