Method, device and system for providing educational services

• US 6,895,214 B2
• Filed: 03/04/2002
• Issued: 05/17/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rockstar New England, Inc. (Take-Two Interactive Software Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Rick L. Murphy
• Inventors: Murphy, Rick L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US10/090,460
• Publication Number:
  US 20030165802A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,170 Days
• Field of Search: 434/118, 434/169, 434/201, 434/307.R, 434/322, 434/323, 434/350, 434/362, 434/365, 705/14, 705/51, 706/927, 713/185, 713/200
• US Class Current: 434/350
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/00 Electrically-operated teaching apparatus or devices working with questions and answers mechanically operated G09B3/00; computing arrangements G06F

Abstract

A method for providing educational services to at least one user engaging in at least one activity, the method including: enabling an agent to automatically monitor the user'"'"'s engaging in the at least one activity; detecting an occurrence of at least one criteria using the enabled agent; automatically and temporarily interrupting the engaging in the at least one activity using the enabled agent dependently upon the detecting; automatically presenting educational services to the at least one user using the enabled agent; and, allowing the at least one user to reengage with the activity based upon user interaction with the enabled agent; wherein, the user interaction is associated with the educational services.

Claims

1. A method for providing educational services to at least one user engaging in at least one activity, said method comprising:

automatically monitoring, by an agent, of said engaging in said at least one activity;

detecting, by said agent, of an occurrence of at least one criteria;

automatically and temporarily interrupting, by said agent, of said engaging in said at least one activity, dependently upon said detecting;

automatically presenting educational services to said at least one user by said agent during said interrupting; and

,

allowing said at least one user to reengage with said activity based upon an interaction with said agent during said presenting;

wherein, said interaction is associated with said educational services and wherein said at least one user comprises a plurality of users, and said allowing said at least one user to reengage with said activity is based upon a collaborative interaction of said plurality users with said agent.

2. A computer program product embodied on a computer-readable storage medium for providing educational services to at least one user engaging in at least one activity, said computer program product comprising:

code for enabling an agent to automatically monitor said user'"'"'s engaging in said at least one activity;

code for detecting an occurrence of at least one criteria using said enabled agent;

code for automatically and temporarily interrupting said engaging in said at least one activity using said enabled agent dependently upon said detecting;

code for automatically presenting educational services to said at least one user using said enabled agent; and

,

code for allowing said at least one user to reengage with said activity based upon user interaction with said enabled agent,

wherein, said user interaction is associated with said educational services and wherein said at least one user comprises a plurality of users, and said code for allowing said at least one user to reengage with said activity is based upon a collaborative interaction of said plurality users with said enabled agent.