Content publishing system and method

• US 20080028002A1
• Filed: 07/27/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Somatic Digital LLC
• Original Assignee: Somatic Digital LLC
• Inventors: Krauth, David, Barkeloo, Jason
• Application Number:
  US11/881,813
• Publication Number:
  US 20080028002A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/201
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4828 for searching program descriptors retrieval of video data G06F16/739
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/6125 involving transmission via Internet transmission by internet of broadcast information H04H60/82
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/85403 by describing the content as an MPEG-21 Digital Item
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/8545 for generating interactive applications

Abstract

It is a first aspect of the present invention to provide a content publishing system that includes back end digital content capable of being modified, an interactive user device displaying fixed front end content, the interactive user device further adapted to transmit one or more request signals associated with the fixed front end content, a server device adapted to store back end digital content and transmit one or more response signals associated with the back end digital content in response to receiving the or more request signals, and a user computer device adapted to receive the one or more response signals associated with the back end digital content, the user computer device further adapted to output the back end digital content on an output device. The one or more response signals correspond to back end digital content.

Claims

1. A content publishing system, comprising:

back end digital content capable of being modified;

an interactive user device displaying fixed front end content, the interactive user device further adapted to transmit one or more request signals associated with the fixed front end content;

a server device adapted to store back end digital content and transmit one or more response signals associated with the back end digital content in response to receiving the or more request signals; and

a user computer device adapted to receive the one or more response signals associated with the back end digital content, the user computer device further adapted to output the back end digital content on an output device;

wherein the one or more response signals correspond to back end digital content.

2. The content publishing system of claim 1, wherein the back end digital content is modified by at least one of a publisher and a third party.

3. The content publishing system of claim 2, wherein the back end digital content is modified by at least one of the publisher and the third party based, at least in part, on at least one of one or more requirement of a user and one or more attribute of the user.

4. The content publishing system of claim 3, wherein the one or more attribute of the user includes at least one of interests, skill levels, learning disabilities and physical disabilities.

5. The content publishing system of claim 2, wherein the back end digital content is modified by at least one of the publisher and the third party based, at least in part, on advice of the third party.

6. The content publishing system of claim 5, wherein the third party is one of a teacher, a professor, an educational tutor, a guidance counselor, an employer, a physician, a pediatrician, a psychologist and a psychiatrist.

7. A method of publishing content, comprising the steps of:

providing a server device for storing digital content, a client device for outputting the digital content, and an interactive user device for generating one or more signal associated with retrieval of the digital content from the server device based, at least in part, on input of a user;

determining by a third party one or more attributes of the user;

modifying the digital content by at least one of a publisher and the third party based, at least in part, on the one or more attributes of the user; and

transmitting the modified digital content from the server device to the client device.

8. The method of publishing content of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

prior to the modifying step, transmitting the one or more attributes of the user to the publisher of the digital content.

9. The method of publishing content of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

prior to the modifying step, creating the digital content by at least one of a publisher and the third party.

10. The method of publishing content of claim 7, further comprising the step of:

prior transmitting the modified digital content from the server device to the client device, transmitting from the interactive user device to the server device the one or more signals associated with retrieval of the digital content.

11. The method of publishing content of claim 7, wherein the third party is one of a teacher, a professor, an educational tutor, a guidance counselor, an employer, a physician, a pediatrician, a psychologist and a psychiatrist.

12. A method of publishing content, comprising the steps of:

providing a server device for storing digital content, a client device for outputting the digital content, and an interactive user device for generating one or more signal associated with retrieval of the digital content from the server device based, at least in part, on input of a first person;

observing a first person by a second person;

determining by the second person one or more needs of the first person based, at least in part, on the observing step;

transmitting from the interactive user device to the server device the one or more signals associated with retrieval of the digital content; and

transmitting from the server device to the client device digital content corresponding to the one or more needs of the first person.

13. The method of publishing content of claim 12, further comprising the step of:

prior to transmitting from the server device to the client device digital content, communicating the one or more needs of the first person by the second person to a publisher.

14. The method of publishing content of claim 12, further comprising the step of:

prior to transmitting from the server device to the client device digital content, modifying the digital content by at least one of a publisher and the second person based, at least in part, on the one or more needs of the first person.

15. The method of publishing content of claim 12, wherein the observing step includes at least one of:

watching the first person interact with at least one of the interactive user device and a third person; and

asking the first person questions associated with the first person.

16. The method of publishing content of claim 12, wherein the second person is one of a teacher, a professor, an educational tutor, a guidance counselor, an employer, a physician, a pediatrician, a psychologist and a psychiatrist.