Large group interactions

• US 8,549,076 B2
• Filed: 07/05/2006
• Issued: 10/01/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 05/01/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Invoke Solutions, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Invoke Solutions, Inc.
• Inventors: Mizrahi, Aharon Ronen, Weisenstern, Amir Meir
• Primary Examiner(s): Donaghue, Larry
• Assistant Examiner(s): MCLEOD, MARSHALL M
• Application Number:
  US11/428,626
• Publication Number:
  US 20060252547A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,645 Days
• Field of Search: 709/205, 709/204
• US Class Current: 709/205
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/10 Control of the course of the game, e.g. start, progess, end
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/12 involving interaction between a plurality of game devices, e.g. transmisison or distribution systems protocols for networked virtual reality, networked games H04L29/06034
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/30 Interconnection arrangements between game servers and game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game devices; Interconnection arrangements between game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/335 using Internet
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/45 Controlling the progress of the video game
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/80 Special adaptations for executing a specific game genre or game mode
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 2300/8064 Quiz
• 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 99/00 Subject matter not provided for in other groups of this subclass
• 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 of managing an on-going interactive event. The method includes transferring statements between participants over a computer network, during a live interactive event, analyzing, by a computer, at least some of the transferred statements, so as to generate feedback on said event and controlling the event responsive to the generated feedback.

Claims

1. A computer program product, comprising at least one non-transitory computer readable medium having a computer readable program code embodied therein, said computer readable program code adapted to be executed to implement a method of managing an on-going interactive event, comprising:

receiving, by a computer, over a computer network, a plurality of statements from a plurality participants of a live interactive event having at least one interaction parameters;

analyzing, by the computer, at least some of the received statements, so as to compute automatically feedback on the live interactive event;

modifying at least one of the at least one interaction parameter responsive to the computed feedback; and

managing the live interactive event according to the modification.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback on the event comprises an interaction dynamics state of the event.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback on the event comprises statistics regarding the interaction of the plurality of participants with the interactive live event.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback on the event comprises feedback on a participation level in a discussion.

5. A method according to claim 1, wherein analyzing at least some of the received statements comprises searching for similar statements.

6. A method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback comprises statements of participants.

7. A method according to claim 6, wherein the feedback comprises questions or comments of participants.

8. A method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback comprises free-form feedback.

9. A method according to claim 1, wherein the managing comprises displaying the feedback to a human operator and controlling by the human operator.

10. A method according to claim 1, wherein the managing comprises controlling automatically by a computer.

11. A method according to claim 1, wherein the managing comprises controlling the transfer of statements between participants.

12. A method according to claim 1, wherein the managing comprises damping propagation of content generated by a particular participant.

13. A method according to claim 1, wherein the managing comprises generating a question or statement for transfer to a plurality of participants.

14. A method according to claim 1, wherein The managing comprises performing an act directed at encouraging discussion.

15. A method according to claim 1, wherein the statements include questions, answers and/or comments.

16. A method of managing an on-going interactive event, comprising:

receiving, by a computer, over a computer network, a plurality of statements from a plurality of participants of a live interactive event;

managing, by the computer, a plurality of time lines documenting the plurality of statements each said time line being controlled by another of the plurality of participants over the computer network;

manipulating a display of the live interactive event for each said participant according to a respective the time line; and

separately presenting the manipulated display event to a respective the participant.

17. A method according to claim 16, wherein the statements include questions, answers and/or comments.

18. A method according to claim 16, wherein the documenting comprises documenting ratings given by the participants.

19. A method according to claim 16, wherein the managing comprises filtering the statements responsive to an analysis.

20. A method according to claim 16, wherein the documenting comprises documenting a style and/or a coherence of at least some of the plurality of statements.

21. A method according to claim 16, wherein the documenting comprises documenting an amount of attention given to at least some of the plurality of statements by said plurality of participants.

22. A method according to claim 19, wherein the analysis comprises determining whether the statements are content related to the event.

23. A method according to claim 16, wherein the manipulating is performed by a computer.

24. A method according to claim 16, wherein at least one of the plurality of time lines documents an interaction of participants with the statement.

25. A method according to claim 16, comprising displaying at least one of the plurality of time lines during the event by at least one of a computing station associated with a participant and a management station of the event.

26. A method according to claim 25, comprising controlling a display of statements during the event by at least one of the computing station and the management station responsive to a manipulation of the participant.

27. A method according to claim 16, wherein the display is presented in real time.

28. A method according to claim 16, wherein the event is time bound.

29. A method of managing a poll among a large audience of participants, during an event comprising:

broadcasting, over a computer network, a live interactive event to a plurality of participants;

receiving a request for presenting a question at a computer connected to the computer network;

presenting the question to the plurality of participants;

receiving a plurality of answers to the question over the computer network, at the computer; and

collecting a plurality of answers to the question over the computer network during the event;

analyzing, by a computer connected to the computer network, at least some of the plurality of answers, so as to compute a feedback on the live interactive event and

manipulating the live interactive event according to said feedback.

30. A method according to claim 29, wherein said presenting comprises automatically selecting the plurality of participants responsive to an event time line associated with each participant.

31. A method according to claim 29, wherein the manipulating comprises facilitating a discussion of the question among the plurality of participants.

32. A method according to claim 29, wherein the presenting comprises selecting participants that are expected to have free attention resources for considering the question.

33. A method according to claim 29, wherein the presenting comprises selecting the plurality of participants so as to acquire an exposure to a statistical representation of the large plurality of participants.