Method and system of monitoring and enhancing development progress of players

• US 20110281639A1
• Filed: 04/07/2011
• Published: 11/17/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 04/07/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Tucoola Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Tucoola Ltd.
• Inventors: Porat, Eli, Bar, Idan
• Application Number:
  US13/066,129
• Publication Number:
  US 20110281639A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 463/23
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/213 comprising photodetecting means, e.g. cameras, photodiodes or infrared cells A63F13/219, A63F13/655 take precedence
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/46 Computing the game score
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/533 for prompting the player, e.g. by displaying a game menu
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/92 Video game devices specially adapted to be hand-held while playing
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/535 for monitoring, e.g. of user parameters, terminal parameters, application parameters, network parameters
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/558 by assessing the players' skills or ranking

Abstract

In an embodiment, education games may be played on user systems or online. Game developer can make available games that test various skills. Games may be integrated with monitor software to evaluate skills and deficiencies. Reports of games may be made available for analysis.

Claims

1. A method of providing analysis of a performance in a game by a player comprising:

providing one or more games stored on a hardware system, the hardware system including one or more machines having a processor system with one or more processors, and one or more machine readable media with in a storage unit;

monitoring performance of a player in the game;

storing information resulting from the monitoring the performance in the game and a player profile in the storage unit, the player profile including at least an age group and a gender;

analyzing the information to determine a skill level of the player;

generating a report based on the analyzing of the game score and storing the report in the storage unit; and

providing an interface to a guardian of the player, that provides the report to the guardian.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising providing a software to a game developer that plugs into a development environment, and after being plugged in adds routines for monitoring a player'"'"'s performance to the development environment, therein allowing the developer to add the routines to the game.

3. The method of claim 2, the one or more machine instructions to track the one or more actions of the player include at least starting a task, ending a task, export score at the end of a task, export score at the end of a level, export score at the end of a game, identify an object and position an object.

4. The method of claim 3, the sending a copy of the game to a machine of the player;

the monitoring of the performance of the player including receiving results of the player playing the game.

5. The method of claim 3, running the game on the hardware system.

6. The method of claim 1, the one or more games have one or more tasks, the performance of the tasks are indicative of one or more skills including attention, multidimensional perception, planning and organization.

7. The method of claim 1, the one or more games have one or more tasks, the performance of the tasks are indicative of one or more skills including at least linguistic acquisition, arithmetic skill, audio memory, visual memory, planning and organization, multidimensional perception, musical skill, hand-eye coordination, shape identification, color identification, attention, and skill improvement in games played repeatedly.

8. The method of claim 1, the one or more games have one or more tasks, each of the tasks have at least a start task event calling a function for monitoring performance and a stop task event ending the function that monitors performance, which returns a reason why the task ended.

9. The method of claim 1, the one or more games have one or more include at least one game having one or more tasks that include at least an event that calls a function that determines one or more events including a location of pointing and a placement of an object.

10. The method of claim 1, the one or more games have one or more tasks, the tasks have one or more events that call a function for determining whether a long stop occurred.

11. The method of claim 1, the report having a pie chart of the performance in the game indicative of one or more skills.

12. The method of claim 1, the report listing new concepts and words learned and an average of a skill of the player in the age group.

13. The method of claim 1, the report showing a bar graph comparing a current performance to a previous performance for a plurality of score skills.

14. The method of claim 1, the report listing at least a plurality of concepts tested in the game, and indicating which of the plurality of concepts the player knew and which of the plurality of concept the player did not know.

15. The method of claim 1, the report listing a summary of the skills tested, comparing player performance with the average of the performance indicative of skills of the player in the age group.

16. The method of claim 1, the analyzing the game score includes selecting the player age group, discarding outlying scores of the performance in the game to calculate system score.

17. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

providing a software to a game developer that plugs into a development environment, and after being plugged in adds routines for monitoring a player'"'"'s performance to the development environment, therein allowing the developer to add the routines to the game;

the one or more machine instructions to track the one or more actions of the player include at least starting a task, ending a task, export score at the end of a task, export score at the end of a level, export score at the end of a game, identify an object and position an object;

the hardware system further comprising a web server;

the one or more games have one or more tasks, the performance of the tasks are indicative of one or more skills including attention, multidimensional perception, planning and organization;

the one or more games have one or more tasks, the performance of the tasks are indicative of one or more skills including at least linguistic acquisition, arithmetic skill, audio memory, visual memory, planning and organization, multidimensional perception, musical skill, hand-eye coordination, shape identification, color identification, attention, and skill improvement in games played repeatedly;

the one or more games have one or more tasks, each of the tasks have at least a start task event calling a function for monitoring performance and a stop task event ending the function that monitors performance, which returns a reason why the task ended;

the one or more games have one or more include at least one game having one or more tasks that include at least an event that calls a function that determines one or more events including a location of pointing and a placement of an object;

the one or more games have one or more tasks, the tasks have one or more events that call a function for determining whether a long stop occurred;

the report having a pie chart of the performance in the game indicative of one or more skills;

the report listing new concepts and words learned and an average of a skill of the player in the age group;

the report showing a bar graph comparing a current performance to a previous performance for a plurality of score skills;

the report listing at least a plurality of concepts tested in the game, and indicating which of the plurality of concepts the player knew and which of the plurality of concept the player did not know;

the report listing a summary of the skills tested, comparing player performance with the average of the performance indicative of skills of the player in the age group;

the analyzing the game score includes selecting the player age group, discarding outlying scores of the performance in the game to calculate system score.

18. A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for implementing a method for providing analysis of performance of a player, the method comprising:

providing one or more games stored on a hardware system, the hardware system including one or more machines having a processor system with one or more processors, and one or more machine readable media with in a storage unit;

monitoring performance of a player in the game;

storing information resulting from the monitoring the performance in the game and a player profile in the storage unit, the player profile including at least an age group and a gender;

analyzing the information to determine a skill level of the player;

generating a report based on the analyzing of the game score and storing the report in the storage unit; and

providing an interface to a guardian of the player, that provides the report to the guardian.

19. A system with one or more machines, the machine comprising:

a processor system including one or more processors;

a storage system having one or more machine readable media, storing thereon one or more instructions for implementing an application that includes one or more instructions that cause the processor system to perform a method including at least;

providing one or more games stored on a hardware system, the hardware system including one or more machines having a processor system with one or more processors, and one or more machine readable media with in a storage unit;

monitoring performance of a player in the game;

storing information resulting from the monitoring the performance in the game and a player profile in the storage unit, the player profile including at least an age group and a gender;

analyzing the information to determine a skill level of the player;

generating a report based on the analyzing of the game score and storing the report in the storage unit; and

providing an interface to a guardian of the player, that provides the report to the guardian.