ALEXANDRIA, Va., Feb. 19 -- United States Patent no. 12,231,701, issued on Feb. 18.
"Systems and methods for remote crowd participation during a live event" was invented by Jacob Strubhar (Cedar Park, Texas), Stephen Shoaff (Cedar Park, Texas) and Talbot Hansum (Cedar Park, Texas).
According to the abstract* released by the U.S. Patent & Trademark Office: "Participation by observers to a live event may be augmented or simulated based on actual participation levels of remote users. The present invention provides methods and systems for observer participation during live events by receiving at least one element of user information from a first set of users; analyzing the at least one element of user information received from the first set o...