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Variations of basketball sport games and league membershipsRelated Patent Categories: Games Using Tangible Projectile, Playing Field Or Court Game; Game Element Or Accessory Therefor Other Than Projector Or Projectile, Per SeVariations of basketball sport games and league memberships description/claimsThe Patent Description & Claims data below is from USPTO Patent Application 20060068945, Variations of basketball sport games and league memberships. Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims
CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This is a continuation-in-part application of U.S. application Ser. No. 10/179,614 filed on Jun. 24, 2002, of the same inventors. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates generally to new and varied systems and methods for sport games and league memberships therefor, and, more particularly, to a variation of basketball sport games, courts and facilities for play of the game, and league memberships for participants, and systems and methods therefor. [0003] Basketball has become one of the major world sports on both the professional and amateur level. In spite of its continued growth, the game of basketball has remained essentially unchanged over the years, excepting some minor changes in rules and court lines and markings. Professional, collegiate and many amateur courts are 94 feet in length by 50 feet in width (e.g., length is longer than width) with similar placement of backboards, baskets, free throw lines and lanes at lengthwise ends of the courts, and center circles at mid-point of the length and width of the court. Many American high schools play on courts 84 feet in length and fifty feet in width (e.g., again, length is longer than width) with markings similar to the NCAA court but adapted for the smaller court length and width. Court standards for international amateur play are frequently 49 feet 2 inches width by 91 feet 10 inches in length (e.g., length greater than width). Although there are slight variations in court dimensions and markings, the standard of competition is for two teams of five players each and generally standardized rules of time periods, and dual backboards, baskets and markings at respective sides of the court along the court length. [0004] For example, the NCAA and the NBA courts are almost identical, in that they are greater in length than width and have goals and free throw lanes and lines at respective ends of the length, but with certain minimal differences of minor court markings relating to rule variations and with the most significant being the different three point lines, 19 feet 9 inch radius for NCAA and 23 feet 9 inch radius for NBA. The court and method for playing the game was designed for the standard of ten players on the court, five per team, engaged in competition, and the court and method are as they are in order to accommodate this number of players at a time. Professional and amateur, including collegiate and Olympic, have the same fundamental characteristics and method of play, including courts of greater in length than width and have goals and free throw lanes and lines at respective ends of the length. [0005] Half-court basketball has been relatively popular, wherein half a court length is employed for the game and one of the basketball goals on the end of play is employed. In such play, each halve (along the length) of the court can be separately used for games, therefore, two games of 5 player teams can play on each court halve at the same time each using a single goal on the applicable half. The court employed in half-court basketball has been the same standard or regulation court above (wherein the length exceeds the width and goals are located at respective ends of the length), and an entire length for the play area is achieved by each team trading-off and using the same half and goal when the ball handling switches between teams. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION [0006] Embodiments of the invention variously provide variation of conventional American basketball that demands virtually all of the athletic skills of conventional basketball, but which is faster paced, played in less space than that of the conventional basketball court, and played with fewer players than conventional games (e.g., only three players per side). In the embodiments, each team attempts to place a basketball successfully through a ringed-basket, slightly larger than the basketball, at an opposing end of court, as the other team seeks to prevent it. Moreover, embodiments provide for multiple courts at a cordoned location for simultaneous play in a single facility or housing with access to courts limited to authorized participants, and include systems and methods for authorizing participants and teams and groups of participants. BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS [0007] The present invention is illustrated by way of example and not limitation in the accompanying figures, in which like references indicate similar elements, and in which: [0008] FIG. 1 illustrates a court of relative scale with respect to human sport participants, according to embodiments of the present; [0009] FIG. 2 illustrates a covered-housing system containing multiple courts of FIG. 1, according to embodiments of the present invention; [0010] FIG. 3 illustrates the court of FIG. 1, including dual elements for sport play and competition, according to embodiments of the present invention; [0011] FIG. 4 illustrates a method of playing a sport using the court of FIG. 1, together with the dual elements of FIG. 3, according to embodiments of the present invention; [0012] FIG. 5 illustrates a method of scoring a sport using the court of FIG. 1, together with the dual elements of FIG. 3, according to embodiments of the present invention; [0013] FIG. 6 illustrates a method of ascertaining proper authorization for play of the method of FIG. 5, using the court of FIG. 1, together with the dual elements of FIG. 3, according to embodiments of the present invention; [0014] FIG. 7 illustrates a court of relative scale with respect to human sport participants, according to embodiments of the present invention; and [0015] FIG. 8 illustrates a layout of two of the court of FIG. 1, within the confines and bounds of a traditional basketball court, according to embodiments of the present invention. DETAILED DESCRIPTION [0016] Referring to FIG. 1, a court 100 is rectangular in shape, as marked by parallel length markings 102a,b and parallel width markings 104a,b. The court 100 is a substantially level ground or surface. The court 100 can include any of a variety of hard, resilient surface materials, including, for example, concrete, compacted soil, clay, asphalt pavement, Laykold, or other material. Throughout the surface of the court 100, the surface is consistently smooth and symmetrical, at least within the markings 102a,b and markings 104a,b. [0017] Centrally adjacent the markings 104a,b and extending between the markings 104a,b and the markings 102a,b are oppositely disposed key portions 106a,b. The key portions 106a,b have rectangular shape and fit within each opposing half of the court 100. [0018] At an end of each key portion 106a,b extending inward to the court 100 and centrally disposed to the court 100, the ends of each key portion 106a,b include respective semicircular portions 108a,b as outlined by markings each semi-encircling the key portions 106a,b. The court 100 is, for example, fifty feet in length and forty-seven feet in width. [0019] The court 100, in any event, has generally rectangular shape (e.g., approaching square shape) and length of less than about 84 feet and width of less than or equal to about 49 feet, wherein the length and width are of smaller dimension than any standard conventional basketball court. The center circle and mid-court expanse typical of conventional basketball courts is not included in the court 100. The court 100, being shorter than conventional basketball courts, includes the semicircular portions 108a,b having a radius on the order of 6 foot, whereby marking of the semicircular portions 108a,b intersect the inwardly extending corners of each key portion 106a,b and terminate at the respective width markings 104a,b. Continue reading about Variations of basketball sport games and league memberships... Full patent description for Variations of basketball sport games and league memberships Brief Patent Description - Full Patent Description - Patent Application Claims Click on the above for other options relating to this Variations of basketball sport games and league memberships patent application. ###  How KEYWORD MONITOR works... a FREE service from FreshPatents1. Sign up (takes 30 seconds). 2. Fill in the keywords to be monitored. 3. Each week you receive an email with patent applications related to your keywords. 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