Large group interactions

• US 9,925,466 B2
• Filed: 09/30/2013
• Issued: 03/27/2018
• 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): Deodhar, Omkar
• Assistant Examiner(s): Lee, Wei
• Application Number:
  US14/040,846
• Publication Number:
  US 20140038725A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,639 Days
• Field of Search: 463 9, 463 42
• 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 computerized method of managing interactions in a system during an interactive event having a plurality of participants, comprising:

providing, by at least one presenter, presentation material during the interactive event to the plurality of participants;

connecting the plurality of participants over a communication medium to synchronously view the presentation material provided by the at least one presenter;

receiving an interaction component from at least one of the plurality of participants;

automatically selecting a group of participants from the plurality of participants to whom the interaction component is to be exposed to establish a ranking for a level of exposure;

automatically exposing the interaction component to the selected group of participants, the exposing comprising generating a question or statement for presentation to the group of participants;

receiving feedback to the interaction component from a plurality of members of the group of participants; and

when a desired level of exposure for the interaction component is not yet achieved, repeating the automatically selecting and exposing to achieve the desired level of exposure for the interaction component based on the received feedback to the exposed interaction component.

2. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the ranking the participant-generated content further comprises ranking by the plurality of participants.

3. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the ranking the participant-generated further comprises ranking content according to a rate of information assimilation by the participants.

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

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

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

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

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

9. A computerized method according to claim 1, wherein the exposing comprises displaying the feedback to a human operator.

10. A computerized method according to claim 1, wherein the plurality of participants joins an event associated with the interaction component.

11. A computerized method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback is recoded by an instant messaging tool.

12. A computerized method according to claim 1, wherein the feedback is recoded by a chat tool.

13. The computerized method of claim 1, wherein the receiving feedback comprises analyzing a plurality of statements received from the plurality of participants using for the analysis of each of the analyzed statements information from a plurality of participants and assigning a score to each of the analyzed statements, during the event, responsive to the analysis.

14. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein the statements include questions, answers and/or comments.

15. The computerized method of claim 13, wherein assigning the score comprises assigning responsive to ratings given by the participants.

16. A system of managing interactions in a system during an interactive event having a plurality of participants, comprising:

a processor;

providing, by at least one presenter, presentation material during the interactive event to the plurality of participants;

connecting the plurality of participants over a communication medium to synchronously view the presentation material provided by the at least one presenter;

a network interface which receives an interaction component from at least one of the plurality of participants;

a moderator module which selects automatically, using the processor, a group of participants from the plurality of participants to whom the interaction component is to be exposed to establish a ranking for a level of exposure; and

a user interface module which automatically exposes the interaction component to the selected group and receives feedback to the interaction component from a plurality of members of the group of participants via the network, the exposing comprising generating a question or statement for presentation to the group of participants;

when a desired level of exposure for the interaction component is not yet achieved, the moderator module and the user interface module perform the automatically selecting and exposing to achieve the desired level of exposure for the interaction component based on the received feedback to the exposed interaction component.

17. A computer program product of managing interactions in a system during an interactive event having a plurality of participants, comprising:

a non-transitory computer readable storage medium;

first program instructions to provide, by at least one presenter, presentation material during the interactive event to the plurality of participants;

second program instructions to connect the plurality of participants over a communication medium to synchronously view the presentation material provided by the at least one presenter;

third program instructions to receive an interaction component from at least one of the plurality of participants;

fourth program instructions to automatically select a group from the plurality of participants to whom the interaction component is to be exposed to establish a ranking for a level of exposure;

fifth program instructions to automatically expose the interaction component to the selected group of participants, the exposing comprising generating a question or statement for presentation to the group of participants;

sixth program instructions to receive feedback to the interaction component from a plurality of members of the group of participants; and

seventh program instructions to repeat the automatically selecting and exposing to achieve a desired level of exposure for the interaction component based on the received feedback to the exposed interaction component, when the desired level of exposure for the interaction component is not yet achieved;

wherein the first, second, third, fourth, fifth, sixth, seventh, and eighth program instructions are stored on the non-transitory computer readable storage medium.