Patent ID: 9687713
Date: 2017-06-27
CPC Classifications: A63B,G09B

Claim:
1. A wireless basketball shot tracking system for tracking real time shooting data of basketball shooting sessions, the wireless basketball shot tracking system comprising: a hands-free-portable electronic device comprising: a shot detector comprising a power source and an RF transmitter in wireless communication with the RF receiver of the hands-free-portable electronic device, the shot detector mountable to a basketball goal and configured to sense and detect whether a basketball shot has been made or missed on a basketball hoop of the basketball goal; wherein the memory of the hands-free-portable electronic device comprises an executable set of instructions to cause the hands-free-portable electronic device to perform the operations of: a) obtaining a specific shooting location from which to carry out a basketball shot, by either reading information from the memory pertaining to the specific shooting location or by randomly generating the specific shooting location; b) providing an indication via the user interface corresponding to the specific shooting location; c) receiving a signal from the shot detector, containing information indicating whether the basketball shot has been made or missed; d) storing the information indicating whether the basketball shot has been made or missed, in association with the specific shooting location; e) repeating steps (a) through (d) a plurality of times, to provide a sequence of shooting location indications via the user interface that the user can follow as a training guide.