Method, apparatus and computer program product for interactive instruction using electronic display device

• US 20030085916A1
• Filed: 05/15/2002
• Published: 05/08/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 11/02/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Denise Slocombe, Katherine Thiry, Kathy Oneha
• Original Assignee: Denise Slocombe, Katherine Thiry, Kathy Oneha
• Inventors: Oneha, Kathy, Slocombe, Denise, Thiry, Katherine
• Application Number:
  US10/145,985
• Publication Number:
  US 20030085916A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/738
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation

Abstract

A web-based learning tool having a means for organizing a plurality of interrelated contents, a means for coupling a different one of the interrelated contents to each different one of a plurality of asynchronously operable modular frames as a function of a user input, and a means for concurrently displaying one of the plurality of interrelated contents on each of the modular frames.

Claims

1. A browser comprising:

a plurality of modular frames each comprising a separate browser that is structured to operate asynchronously from others of the plurality of modular frames; and

one of a plurality of related content concurrently displayable on each of the plurality of modular frames as a function of a user input; and

a navigation menu coupled to accept the user input and being coupled to each of the plurality of modular frames and each of a plurality of the contents for display of a different one of the contents on each of the modular frames.

2. The browser of claim 1 wherein the plurality of related content includes one or more of textual, graphical, and interactive content.

3. The browser of claim 1 wherein the contents concurrently displayable on each of the plurality of modular frames are organized as a function of one of a user selection and a logical theme.

4. The browser of claim 1 wherein the contents concurrently displayable on each of the plurality of modular frames are organized as a function of pointers within a software tool used to create the frames.

5. The browser of claim 1 wherein the one of the concurrently displayable plurality of related content further includes content stored in a look-up table.

6. A web-based learning tool comprising:

means for organizing a plurality of interrelated contents;

means for coupling a different one of the interrelated contents to each different one of a plurality of asynchronously operable modular frames as a function of a user input; and

means for concurrently displaying one of the plurality of interrelated contents on each of the modular frames.

7. The learning tool of claim 6 wherein the displaying means further comprises means for displaying text content, multimedia content, advertisement content, and extra content.

8. The learning tool of claim 7 wherein the means for displaying multimedia content further comprises means for displaying a presentation of graphical animation from a plurality of points of view.

9. The learning tool of claim 6 wherein the organizing means further comprises means for organizing as a function of one of a user menu and a logical theme.

10. The learning tool of claim 6, further comprising means for structuring a hierarchy of content loading having text content loaded prior to media content.

11. The learning tool of claim 6, further comprising means for fusing two or more frames into a single frame for displaying a single content.

12. A web-based learning tool comprising:

a plurality of different content interrelated according to a common theme;

a plurality of frames organized in a web-based browser format, each of the frames comprising a separate browser and being structured to operate programming code independent of each other frame; and

a navigation tool bar coupled to the content and to the frames for asynchronously selecting which of the plurality of different interrelated content is displayed in each of the plurality of frames.

13. The learning tool of claim 12 wherein each of the plurality of different interrelated content further comprises one of a textual, graphical, and interactive content.

14. The learning tool of claim 12 wherein the plurality of different interrelated content is further organized as a function of user input.

15. The learning tool of claim 12 wherein the plurality of different interrelated content is further organized as a function of a logical theme.

16. A method for asynchronously displaying interrelated information, the method comprising:

organizing a plurality of interrelated information in a computer readable format;

coupling a different portion of the interrelated computer readable information to different ones of a plurality of asynchronously operable modular frames as a function of a user input; and

concurrently displaying one of the plurality of information on each of the modular frames.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein displaying information further comprises displaying a presentation of graphical animation from a plurality of different points of view.

18. The method of claim 16, further comprising structuring loading of the information according to a hierarchy having text content loaded prior to media content.

19. The method of claim 16, further comprising fusing two or more frames into a single frame for displaying a plurality of interrelated advertising information.

20. The method of claim 19 wherein displaying a plurality of interrelated advertising information in a single frame further comprises:

i) displaying advertising information in an advertising frame;

ii) in response to user input, expanding the advertising frame into a different one of the plurality of frames; and

iii) in response to additional user input, returning to a previous display condition.

21. A computer program product for asynchronously displaying interrelated information in textual and graphical formats, wherein the computer program product comprises:

a computer-readable storage medium; and

computer-readable program code means embodied in the medium, the computer-readable program code means comprising;

first computer-readable program code means for organizing a plurality of interrelated information in a computer readable format;

second computer-readable program code means for coupling a different portion of the interrelated computer-readable information organized by the first computer-readable program code means to different ones of a plurality of asynchronously operable modular frames as a function of a user input; and

third computer-readable program code means for concurrently displaying on each of the modular frames one of the plurality of interrelated computer-readable information.

22. The computer program product of claim 21, further comprising fourth computer-readable program code means for structuring loading of the plurality of interrelated information according to a hierarchy having text content loaded prior to media content.

23. The computer program product of claim 21 wherein the third computer-readable program code means for concurrently displaying one of the plurality of information further comprises means for displaying the information in a graphical format having graphical animation presented from a plurality of different points of view.