Method, device and program of providing education services for free talk services

• US 20040015549A1
• Filed: 01/08/2003
• Published: 01/22/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 01/10/2002
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Nova Corporation (US Bancorp)
• Original Assignee: Nova Corporation (US Bancorp)
• Inventors: Uemura, Masahide, Yasumi, Yuu, Shimamoto, Katsunori, Saruhashi, Nozomu
• Application Number:
  US10/338,582
• Publication Number:
  US 20040015549A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/204
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/06 Foreign languages with audible presentation of material to be studied G09B5/04
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

To supplement the conversation amount which may become deficient in a conventional regular conversation and improve a practical applicability, a free talking service is provided which comprises: a step of generating a free talk classroom-table in the user connection table (20) provided in the multimedia communication server (10), a step of registering instructor terminal who can make a response in the above generated table, a step of receiving an entrance request from student terminals, a step of registering a student terminal for the table in case that there is a vacancy in the free talk classroom, a step of receiving an end request from student terminals, a step of deleting the student terminal submitting an ending request from the table, and to which a free entrance can be made. In addition, it further comprises a step of notifying the vacancy of the table, a step of establishing a waiting room in which a person waits for a free talk classroom, and a step of delivering a board in which established free talk classrooms are displayed.

Claims

1. Method of providing education services which offers a conversational mode education service by possessing a user connection table which appoints the connected user of a terminal connected to a communication line, establishing a virtual classroom at student terminals used by students and instructor terminals used by instructors, and executing a two-way communication by multimedia information including TV image and sound, characterized in that it comprises:

a step of generating a free talk classroom table in which students can freely converse with instructors in said user connection table,

a step of receiving an entrance request into said free talk classroom from student terminals,

a step of registering the student terminal who has submitted the entrance request for the free talk classroom table when there is a vacancy in the free talk classroom,

a step of receiving an exit request from the above registered student terminals, and

a step of deleting the student terminal who has made the exit request out of from the free talk classroom table.

2. Method of providing education services according to claim 1, wherein said step of generating a free talk classroom table includes a step of registering an instructor terminal used by an instructor who can respond to said free talk classroom for said table.

3. Method of providing education services according to claim 1 or 2, wherein said step of generating a free talk classroom table comprises a step of generating tables by objects of said free talk classroom, and

said step of receiving an entrance request comprises a step of receiving the entrance requests by objects of the free talk classroom.

4. Method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 3, wherein said step of receiving an entrance request comprises a step of grouping students based on personal information of the students.

5. Method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 4, wherein it further comprises:

a step of registering the student terminal who has submitted an entrance request for a vacancy notice entry in case that there is no vacancy in the free talk classroom, and

a step of notifying any one student terminal registered for the vacancy notice entry in case that a vacancy happens in the free talk classroom.

6. Method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 5, wherein it further comprises:

a step of generating, in said user connection table, a waiting-room table to wait the entrance into said free talk classroom,

a step of registering the student terminal who has made the entrance request for said waiting-room table, in case that there is no vacancy in the free talk classroom,

a step of deleting any one of the student terminals registered for the waiting-room table in case that a vacancy happens in the free talk classroom, and

a step of registering said deleted student terminal for said free talk classroom table.

7. Method of providing education services according to claim 6, wherein it further comprise:

a step of delivering contents into student terminals registered for said waiting-room table.

8. Method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 7, wherein it further comprises a step of delivering a bulletin board which lists the free talk classrooms in a free talk classroom table.

9. Method of providing education services according to claim 8, wherein entrance buttons are prepared in said bulletin board, and it comprises a step of registering said student terminal for said free talk classroom table when said button is selected by a student terminal.

10. Method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 9, wherein it further comprises a step of collecting the time that a student terminal is registered for the user connection table for the free talk classroom to bill the service fees to a person who utilized said free talking service.

11. Device of providing education services which can run the method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 10 in a computer.

12. Program for running the method of providing education services according to any one of claims 1 to 10 in a computer.