Computer assisted instructional delivery system and method
First Claim
1. A computer assisted electronic educational information communication system, comprising:
- at least two stations;
at least two monitor means, one associated with each of said stations, for displaying electronic educational information in visual form;
at least two input means, one associated with each of said stations, for simultaneously and concurrently entering said information in handwritten freehand form from each of said stations and to display on at least its associated monitor means; and
communication means for virtually simultaneously and concurrently transmitting said information being entered simultaneously and concurrently at either of said input means from either station to other station, and for enabling the virtually simultaneous and concurrent display of said transmitted information on both of said monitor means associated with both of said stations such that said information being entered at a first input means simultaneously and concurrently appears on all of said monitor means while under the independent control of said first input means.
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Abstract
A computer assisted instructional information delivery system having at least two stations. One station for an instructor and one or more stations for students. An interactive monitor is positioned in each station. Each interactive monitor displays instructional information in visual form as inputted by a stylus or light pen on the interactive monitor. A network communication system operated by a central processing unit and corresponding software, communicates the instructional information from the stylus as inputted on one of the interactive monitors and selectively displays the instructional information simultaneously and concurrently onto any or all of the interactive monitors of the stations.
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39 Claims
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1. A computer assisted electronic educational information communication system, comprising:
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at least two stations; at least two monitor means, one associated with each of said stations, for displaying electronic educational information in visual form; at least two input means, one associated with each of said stations, for simultaneously and concurrently entering said information in handwritten freehand form from each of said stations and to display on at least its associated monitor means; and communication means for virtually simultaneously and concurrently transmitting said information being entered simultaneously and concurrently at either of said input means from either station to other station, and for enabling the virtually simultaneous and concurrent display of said transmitted information on both of said monitor means associated with both of said stations such that said information being entered at a first input means simultaneously and concurrently appears on all of said monitor means while under the independent control of said first input means. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer assisted educational information communication system, comprising:
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at least two stations, each of said stations having; at least one monitor having a display surface on which an image appears; input means for inputting educational information in graphical form into said monitor by a user drawing or writing directly on said display surface; peripheral interface means for simultaneously and concurrently accepting said information from said input means and for simultaneously and concurrently providing image information to said monitor; and central processing unit means for controlling said peripheral interface means; and communication network means for simultaneously and concurrently communicating said information in real time between the peripheral interface means of each of said stations in order to virtually simultaneously and concurrently display the information being input independently and simultaneously and concurrently by said input means at either of said stations such that said image information is simultaneously and concurrently displayed on the monitors of all of said stations and such that each user has independent control of that portion of the image information drawn or written by that user. - View Dependent Claims (14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23)
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24. An instructional information system for use in an education classroom, said system comprising:
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at least two remotely-located user stations in which one of said stations is an instructor station and the other of said stations are student stations, said instructor station including means for controlling said instructional information system; interactive monitor means, located in each of said stations, for simultaneously and concurrently displaying instructional information to the user of that station and for simultaneously and concurrently accepting handwritten instructional information inputted from the user of that station; and network communication means, connected to each of said stations, for simultaneously and concurrently communicating said inputted and displayed instructional information between said interactive monitor means of all of said stations, said network communication means controlled by said instructor station controlling means to selectively and simultaneously and concurrently display instructional information input and displayed at said instructor'"'"'s station on said interactive monitor means of any of said student stations virtually simultaneously and concurrently and without interfering with the control of inputted instructional information being accepted from the user of that student station. - View Dependent Claims (25, 26, 27, 28, 29)
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30. A method for providing educational information from a first station to a second remotely-located station of a computer assisted communication system, each of said first and second stations having an input device for directly inputting hand-drawn graphical educational information from a user of that station, and having a display monitor for displaying an image of said graphical educational information to the user of that station, the communication system including a computer network for virtually simultaneously and concurrently transferring said graphical educational information between said first and second stations as it is being input, the method comprising the steps of:
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inputting primary hand-drawn graphical educational information into said system by a user at said first station; simultaneously and concurrently displaying an image of said primary information to the user of said first station as it is being input by the user of said first station; simultaneously and concurrently transferring said primary information from said first station to said second station over said computer network; simultaneously and concurrently displaying an image of said primary information to the user of said second station at virtually the same time as it is being input by the user of said first station; simultaneously and concurrently inputting secondary hand-drawn graphical information into said system by a user at said second station as said primary information is being input into said system by the user of said first station; simultaneously and concurrently transferring said secondary information from said second station to said first station over said computer network; and simultaneously and concurrently displaying an image of said secondary information to the user of said first station along with said displayed image of said primary information as said secondary information is being input by the user of said second station and with independent control of that portion of the primary or secondary information being input. - View Dependent Claims (31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39)
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