Management system for interactive on-line system

• US 6,002,915 A
• Filed: 04/14/1997
• Issued: 12/14/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 11/22/1996
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Cyber School Japan Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Cyber School Japan Company Limited
• Inventors: Shimizu, Takuji
• Primary Examiner(s): Martin-Wallace, Valencia
• Assistant Examiner(s): FLEMING, DAVID
• Application Number:
  US08/837,090
• Time in Patent Office: 974 Days
• Field of Search: 434/350, 434/322, 434/362
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/065 Combinations of audio and video presentations, e.g. videotapes, videodiscs, television systems
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/04 characterised by modifying the teaching programme in response to a wrong answer, e.g. repeating the question, supplying a further explanation

Abstract

In an interactive on-line system, a registration management system mounted on a server 10 includes a teaching affairs management system which registers information on teaching subjects, teaching schedules and teachers, and a reservation management system includes a lecture booking system which provides a trainee of the information registered in the teaching affairs management system in an on-line state when the trainee books a lecture and manages the information on the teaching subject, teaching schedule and teacher selected by the trainee. According to the registration management system, the booking state of lectures or the like inputted from the terminal of each user and such service resources as the teaching subject, teaching schedule or the like which can be supplied to users are easily managed.

Claims

1. A management apparatus used in interactive on-line teaching for assigning conformable service resources to service requesters from a plurality of interactive service resources, the apparatus comprising:

a registration management apparatus which registers each service resource and including a teaching affairs management apparatus which registers information on teaching subjects, teaching schedules, and teachers; and

a reservation management apparatus which assigns service resources conformable to the booking condition of the service requesters, to the requesters by referring registered resources in said registration management apparatus, said reservation management apparatus including a lecture booking apparatus which provides a trainee with the information registered in said teaching affairs management apparatus in an on-line state when the trainee makes a booking for a lecture and which manages information on a teaching subject, a teaching schedule, and a teacher selected by the trainee.

2. The apparatus according to claim 1, including:

a trainee apparatus mounted on an on-line terminal to be operated by a trainee, which provides the trainee with the information registered in said teaching affairs management apparatus, the information received from said lecture booking apparatus in the form of pictures, transmits the information on the teaching subject, the teaching schedule, and the teacher selected by the trainee to the lecture booking apparatus, and is automatically connected to a teacher terminal operated by a teacher in an on-line state when a booked date and hour occur.

3. The apparatus for an interactive on-line apparatus according to claim 1, including:

a teacher registering apparatus mounted on said teacher terminal, which receives the information on the teaching subject and the teaching schedule of the teacher from said teaching affairs apparatus, prepares a profile of the teacher in accordance with instructions from the teacher, inputs the teaching subject and the teaching schedule desired by the teacher, and transmits the profile of the teacher and the teaching subject and teaching schedule desired by the teacher to said teaching affairs management apparatus.

4. The apparatus for an interactive on-line apparatus according to claim 2, including:

a teacher registering apparatus mounted on said terminal, which receives information on the teaching subject and teaching schedule of the teacher from said teaching affairs apparatus, prepares a profile of the teacher in accordance with instructions from the teacher, inputs the teaching subject and the teaching schedule desired by the teacher, and transmits the profile of the teacher and the teaching subject and teaching schedule desired by the teacher to said teaching affairs management apparatus.