Patent ID: 8054174

Claim:
A process for informing a referee officiating a timed event of one or more event time information occurrences comprising: providing a controller including an event clock with event time information, a time display, and a signal transmitter that interfaces with the event clock via a control circuit; providing a wireless sensory receiver that is wearable by the referee and operable to receive time information signals from the controller via the transmitter, the sensory receiver including: a radio receiver for receiving signals from the transmitter; a battery power source; a vibrator device for providing a tactual sensory alert in the form of a countdown series of vibration bursts; a speaker device for providing an audible sensory alert in the form of a countdown series of audible queues; and a plurality of control switches operable for selecting characteristics of the tactual and audible sensory alerts; creating a customized sensory alert comprising a desired tactual sensory alert and/or a desired audible sensory alert using the control switches, wherein the desired tactual sensory alert includes a user selected vibratory strength and type of vibration burst, and wherein the desired audible sensory alert includes a user selected audible volume and type of audible queue; and prior to or upon the event clock reaching a zero time reading, transmitting one or more signals to the sensory receiver, whereby the sensory receiver receives, interprets, and processes the one or more signals from the controller and activates the vibrator device and/or the speaker device to alert and selectably indicate to the referee that the time period is about to end or has ended.