Method, device and system for providing educational services

• US 6,907,223 B2
• Filed: 12/05/2003
• Issued: 06/14/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 03/04/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Rockstar New England, Inc. (Take-Two Interactive Software Incorporated)
• Original Assignee: Rockstar New England, Inc. (Take-Two Interactive Software Incorporated)
• Inventors: Murphy, Rick L.
• Primary Examiner(s): Cheng, Joe H.
• Application Number:
  US10/729,711
• Publication Number:
  US 20040081953A1
• Time in Patent Office: 557 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; 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, comprising:

automatically monitoring, by an agent, of the at least one activity;

detecting, by said agent, of at least one criteria comprising the event;

upon an event, automatically and temporarily interrupting, by the agent, of the at least one activity;

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

,

allowing the at least one user to reengage with the at least one activity based, at the point of said interrupting, upon an interaction with the agent during said presenting;

wherein the interaction is associated with the educational services;

wherein said automatically presenting comprises retrieving data from at least one remote database by any one of manual and automatic use of a Uniform Resource Locator address; and

wherein said retrieving comprises generating at least one Hyper Text Transfer Protocol request.

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 automatically and temporarily interrupting said engaging in said at least one activity using said enabled agent upon an event;

code for detecting the event occurrence using said enabled agent;

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;

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; and

wherein said code for retrieving comprises code for generating at least one Hyper Text Transfer Protocol request.