TRAVEL AND EDUCATION APPLICATION AND APPARATUS

• US 20140363795A1
• Filed: 06/04/2014
• Published: 12/11/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 06/06/2013
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Mind Gamez LLC
• Original Assignee: Mind Gamez LLC
• Inventors: ZAMOFF, Mitchell
• Application Number:
  US14/295,523
• Publication Number:
  US 20140363795A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 434/130
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0046 History
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 19/0061 Geography
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/125 the stations being mobile
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/06 of the multiple-choice answer-type, i.e. where a given question is provided with a series of answers and a choice has to be made from the answers

Abstract

The invention relates to a method and apparatus to provide information about a historical site, or other location of interest, through an interactive search/tour computer application particularly suited for site seeing experiences.

Claims

1. A travel and educational process application for providing educational information relating to a site of interest, the process comprising:

providing a general purpose computer executing one or more computer instructions to carry out the steps of the method;

selecting a mission comprised of a series of steps for locating an artifact;

carrying out the series of steps;

answering questions related to the steps and artifact; and

completing the mission by finding the artifact.

2. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of selecting a difficulty level.

3. The invention of claim 2 wherein there are three difficulty levels based on the age appropriateness.

4. The invention of claim 3 wherein the levels are based on differing number of steps.

5. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of choosing an application persona.

6. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of taking an oath.

7. The invention of claim of claim 1 wherein the steps include providing directions to the artifact.

8. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of indicating that a step has been completed.

9. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying an congratulatory screen upon accomplishing a step.

10. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of displaying an congratulatory screen upon accomplishing the mission.

11. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of assigning points based on the success of answering the question.

12. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of taking a photograph of a subject relating to the mission.

13. The invention of claim 12 wherein the subject if the artifact.

14. The invention of claim 1 further comprising the step of conveying information about the artifact.