Object-Based System and Language for Dynamic Data or Network Interaction Including Learning Management

• US 20090305218A1
• Filed: 05/08/2009
• Published: 12/10/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 05/08/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Cricket Media Services Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Cricket Media, Inc. (Cricket Media Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Fish, Edmund J., Gilburne, Miles R., Dozier, Linda T., Zolt, Nina
• Granted Patent: US 8,798,519 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/362
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/00 Teaching not covered by other main groups of this subclass teaching or practice apparatus for gun-aiming or gun-laying F41G3/26
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0053 Computers, e.g. programming
• 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

Abstract

A system including an object-oriented programming language for building state-based applications with flow control, event loops, measures of similarity, and Boolean logic to dynamically control the interaction between members in a social network around content and, in particular, project-based activities, where the system collects and groups individuals who are members of a social network, projects or assignments and their content, and activities or processes within projects based on the attributes of the objects and runtime events to create a social context for learning or for other interaction.

Claims

1. A method for executing course projects in a learning sequence comprising the steps of retrieving, by a learning platform, a project and at least one instruction set associated with at least one object of the project, wherein the at least one instruction set specifies a manner of use in which the at least one object can be executed;

storing the at least one object and the at least one instruction set in separate files in the learning platform;

determining, by the learning platform, what actions to perform with respect to the project based on the at least one instruction set, wherein the action may be triggered by an event recognized by the runtime or not recognized by the runtime but instead recognized by means outside of such runtime; and

taking such action on the project by the learning platform.