Reaction information display system

• US 7,487,449 B2
• Filed: 12/22/2003
• Issued: 02/03/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 12/22/2003
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: UP, Inc. (USA) (Benesse Holdings, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: UP, Inc. (USA) (Benesse Holdings, Inc.)
• Inventors: Mizuta, Takeshi
• Primary Examiner(s): Hulton; Doug
• Assistant Examiner(s): Dasgupta; Soumya
• Application Number:
  US10/583,980
• Publication Number:
  US 20070150811A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,870 Days
• Field of Search: None
• US Class Current: 715/700
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/20 Education
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/08 providing for individual presentation of information to a plurality of student stations
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/14 with provision for individual teacher-student communication
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 7/02 of the type wherein the student is expected to construct an answer to the question which is presented or wherein the machine gives an answer to the question presented by a student

Abstract

To provide a reaction information display system that makes it possible, although simple in constitution without using special equipment, to grasp, easily in real time, the reaction, from a large number of users, to a single piece of evaluated object information supplied through an information communication network. A evaluated object information transmission means 16 transmits evaluated object information. A reaction information display means 13 of a provider side terminal device 4 receives through the information communication network 8 the reaction information made to correspond to the user side terminal device 6 and transmitted as a result of a user side input operation device 31 being operated in reaction to the evaluated object information transmitted from a evaluated object information transmission means 16 and received with a user side terminal device 6 through the information communication network 8 and displayed on a user side display device 32, and displays information, corresponding to the received reaction information, on a provider side display device 12.

Claims

1. A reaction information display comprising:

a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device; and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein

the provider side terminal device has an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information,

each user side terminal device has an evaluated object information display means for receiving and displaying on the user side display device the evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network, and a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal device when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, and

the provider side terminal device further has a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information transmitted from the user side terminal devices through the information communication network and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the reaction information display means has a user icon display means that defines, in part of the provider side display device, a user icons collective display area including a plural number of user icon display areas corresponding to the respective user side terminal devices

and displays, using icons, information corresponding to the reaction information from the respective user side terminal devices in corresponding user icon display areas, and

the user icon display means changes colors of the icons displayed in the user icon display areas based on the reaction information.

2. A reaction information display system comprising:

a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device; and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein

the provider side terminal device has an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information,

each user side terminal device has an evaluated object information display means for receiving and displaying on the user side display device the evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network, and a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal device when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, and

the provider side terminal device further has a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information transmitted from the user side terminal devices through the information communication network and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the reaction information display system further has a communication information memory device having a communication information database for storing contents of information, communicated between the devices constituting the system, related to communication time and information type,

the provider side terminal device further has a communication information reproduction means for acquiring, while specifying communication time and information type, the whole or part of the information communicated between the respective terminal devices and stored in the communication information database, and for reproducing and displaying information corresponding to the acquired information on the provider side display device, and

the communication information reproduction means acquires graphic information sampled at certain intervals as the evaluated object information, acquires a reaction information transition graph showing a transition of sums in even sampling period of the number of pieces of the reaction information corresponding to the evaluated object information, and reproduces and displays the graphic information and the reaction information transition graph adjacent to each other on the provider side display device.

3. A provider side terminal device used in a system comprising:

the provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein the provider side terminal device has;

an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information, and

a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information, corresponding to the user side terminal devices, transmitted as a result of the user side input operation devices being operated in reaction to the evaluated object information transmitted from the evaluated object information transmission means

and received by the user side terminal devices through the information communication network and displayed on the user side display devices, and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the reaction information display means has a user icon display means that defines, in part of the provider side display device, a user icons collective display area, including a plural number of user icon display areas corresponding to the respective user side terminal devices and displays using icons, information corresponding to the reaction information from the respective user side terminal devices in corresponding user icon display areas and

the user icon display means changes colors of the icons displayed in the user icon display areas based on the reaction information.

4. A provider side terminal device used in a system comprising:

the provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein the provider side terminal device has;

an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information, and

a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information, corresponding to the user side terminal devices, transmitted as a result of the user side input operation devices being operated in reaction to the evaluated object information transmitted from the evaluated object information transmission means and received by the user side terminal devices through the information communication network and displayed on the user side display devices, and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the system further has a communication information memory device having a communication information database for storing contents of information, communicated between the devices constituting the system, related to communication time and information type,

the provider side terminal device further has a communication information reproduction means for acquiring, while specifying communication time and information type, the whole or part of the information communicated between the respective terminal devices and stored in the communication information database, and for reproducing and displaying information corresponding to the acquired information on the provider side display device, and

the communication information reproduction means acquires graphic information sampled at certain intervals as the evaluated object information, acquires a reaction information transition graph showing a transition of sums in every sampling period of the number of pieces of the reaction information corresponding to the evaluated object information, and reproduces and displays the graphic information and the reaction information transition graph adjacent to each other on the provider side display device.

5. A user side terminal device used in a system having:

a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein

each user side terminal device has;

an evaluated object information display means for receiving evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network and for displaying the received information on the user side display device, and

a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information so that information, corresponding to the reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal device and transmitted to the provider side terminal device through the information communication network when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, is displayed on the provider side display device, wherein

each user side terminal device is capable of communicating with other user side terminal devices through the information communication network and further comprises;

an other user information acquisition means for receiving reaction information transmitted from other user side terminal devices through the information communication network, and

a reaction information display means for displaying information corresponding to the reaction information from other user side terminal devices on the user side display device, wherein

the reaction information display means has a user icon display means that defines, in part of the user side display device, a user icons collective display area including a plural number of user icon display areas corresponding to the respective user side terminal devices and displays, using icons, information corresponding to the reaction information from the respective user side terminal devices in corresponding user icon display areas, and

the user icon display means changes colors of the icons displayed in the user icon display areas based on the reaction information.

6. A user side terminal device used in a system having:

a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and

a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal device, wherein

each user side terminal device has;

an evaluated object information display means for receiving evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network and for displaying the received information on the user side display device, and

a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information so that information, corresponding to the reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal device and transmitted to the provider side terminal device through the information communication network when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, is displayed on the provider side display device, wherein

the system further has a communication information memory device having a communication information database for storing information contents, related to communication time and information type, transmitted between terminal devices constituting the system,

the user side terminal device is capable of communicating with also the communication information memory device through the information communication network, and further has a communication information reproduction means for acquiring, while specifying communication time and information type, the whole or part of the information transmitted between the terminal devices and stored in the communication information database, and for reproducing and displaying information corresponding to the acquired information on the user side display device, and

the communication information reproduction means acquires graphic information sampled at certain intervals as the evaluated object information, acquires a reaction information transition graph showing a transition of sums in every sampling period of the number of pieces of the reaction information corresponding to the evaluated object information, and reproduces and displays the graphic information and the reaction information transition graph adjacent to each other on the user side display device.

7. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium that causes a provider side terminal device used in a system comprising the provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and a plural number of user side terminal devices each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, and capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal, to function as:

an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information, and

a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal devices, transmitted through the information communication network when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the evaluated object information transmitted from the evaluated object information transmission means and received with the user side terminal device through the information communication network and displayed on the user side display device, and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the reaction information display means has a user icon display means that defines, in part of the provider side display device, a user icons,

collective display area including a plural number of user icon display areas corresponding to the respective user side terminal devices and displaying, using icons, information corresponding to the reaction information from the respective user side terminal devices in corresponding user icon display areas, and

the user icon display means changes colors of the icons displayed in the user icon display areas based on the reaction information.

8. A recording medium recording thereon the computer program of claim 7.

9. A computer program embodied on a computer-readable medium that causes a provider side terminal device used in a system comprising the provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and a plural number of user side terminal devices each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, and capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal, to function as:

an evaluated object information transmission means for transmitting evaluated object information, and

a reaction information display means for receiving reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal devices, transmitted through the information communication network when the user side input operation device is operated in reaction to the evaluated object information transmitted from the evaluated object information transmission means and received with the user side terminal device through the information communication network and displayed on the user side display device, and for displaying information corresponding to the received reaction information on the provider side display device, wherein

the system further has a communication information memory device having a communication information database for storing information contents, related to communication time and information type, transmitted between terminal devices constituting the system,

the computer program further causes the provider side terminal device to function as a communication information reproduction means for acquiring, while specifying communication time and information type, the whole or part of the information communicated between the terminal devices and stored in the communication information database, and for reproducing and displaying information corresponding to the acquired information on the provider side display device, and

the communication information reproduction means acquires graphic information sampled at certain intervals as the evaluated object information, acquires a reaction information transition graph showing a transition of sums in every sampling period of the number of nieces of the reaction information corresponding to the evaluated object information, and reproduces and displays the graphic information and the reaction information transition graph adjacent to each other on the provider side display device.

10. A recording medium recording thereon the computer program of claim 9.

11. A computer program embodied in a computer-readable medium for causing a user side terminal device used in a system comprising a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, and capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal, to function as:

an evaluated object information display means for receiving evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network and for displaying the received information on the user side display devices, and

a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information so that information corresponding to the reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal devices and transmitted to the provider side

terminal device through the information communication network when the user side input operation devices are operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, is displayed on the provider side display device, wherein

the user side terminal devices are capable of communicating with other user side terminal devices through the information communication network,

the computer program further causes each user side terminal device to function as;

an other user information acquisition means for receiving reaction information transmitted from other user side terminals through the information communication network and

a reaction information display means for displaying information corresponding to reaction information from the respective user side terminal device, s on the user side display device, wherein

the reaction information display means has a user icon display means that defines, in part of the user side display device, a user icons collective display area including a plural number of user icon display areas corresponding to the respective user side terminal devices and displaying, using icons, information corresponding to the reaction information from the respective user side terminal devices in corresponding user icon display areas, and

the user icon display means changes colors of the icons displayed in the user icon display areas based on the reaction information.

12. A recording medium recording thereon the computer program of claim 11.

13. A computer program embodied in a computer-readable medium for causing a user side terminal device used in a system comprising a provider side terminal device having a provider side display device, and a plural number of user side terminal devices, each having a user side input operation device and a user side display device, and capable of communicating through an information communication network with the provider side terminal, to function as:

an evaluated object information display means for receiving evaluated object information transmitted from the provider side terminal device through the information communication network and for displaying the received information on the user side display devices, and

a reaction information transmission means for transmitting reaction information so that information, corresponding to the reaction information corresponding to the user side terminal devices and transmitted to the provider side terminal device through the information communication network when the user side input operation devices are operated in reaction to the displayed evaluated object information, is displayed on the provider side display device, wherein

the system further has a communication information memory device having a communication information database for storing information contents, related to communication time and information type, transmitted between terminal devices constituting the system,

the user side terminal devices are capable of communicating with the communication information memory device,

the computer program further causes the user side terminal devices to function as a communication information reproduction means for acquiring, while specifying communication time and type of information, the whole or part of the information communicated between the terminal devices and stored in the communication information database, and for reproducing and displaying information corresponding to the acquired information on the user side display device, and

the communication information reproduction means acquires graphic information sampled at certain intervals as the evaluated object information, acquires a reaction information transition graph showing a transition of sums in every sampling period of the number of pieces of the reaction information corresponding to the evaluated object information, and reproduces and displays the graphic information and the reaction information transition graph adjacent to each other on the user side display device.

14. A recording medium recording thereon the computer program of claim 13.