Education and demonstration inventions 12/05

20050287499 - System and method for generating personalized meal plans: A system for personalized meal planning is provided which includes a client device and a meal planning center configured to communicate with the client device and to receive a customer's information, including a weight designator, a gender designator, a goal designator, and an activity level designator. The meal planning center...

20050287500 - Apparatus and method for labeling and identifying the location of individuals: An apparatus for labeling and identifying the location of individuals includes a display surface, including a map, and a plurality of markers releasably attachable to the display surface. Each marker includes an upper surface adapted be to written upon, or receive a label, with identifying indicia representing an individual. The...

20050287501 - Method of aural rehabilitation: A method for neurological rehabilitation is disclosed. The method can be used for listening, comprehension and communication rehabilitation. The methods include a cognitive module, a degraded speech module, a competing speech module, a context module, and an interactive communication module....

20050287502 - Health maintenance system for children: A system for monitoring and maintaining dietary intake and physical activity levels for children which involves reinforcing good dietary practices and punishing poor activity and dietary practices which utilizes a core application controlling access to selected third party software and which has an interface to allow parents to set goals...

20050287505 - System of teaching success and method of teaching same: A method and system of teaching success, comprising: instructing student(s) 1) to select at least one Creative Ambition(s) or compelling personal goal (CA′); 2) to identify at least one Thought (T) as in a STARS roadmap for achieving CA′; 3) to ascertain in which thought awareness stage their T for...

20050287503 - System of teaching success and method thereof: A method for teaching success to a student and a storage device incorporating computer instructions for teaching the method. The method including: instructing the student to identify a personal goal; instructing the student to identify a set of possible or potential activities to achieve the personal goal; teaching the student...

20050287504 - System of teaching success and method thereof: A method for teaching success to a student, such as sales personnel, and a storage device incorporating computer instructions for teaching the method. The method including: instructing the student, such as sales personnel to identify a personal goal; instructing the student, such as sales personnel to identify a set of...

20050287507 - Knowledge assessment: In order to assess knowledge holistically, a question pool having at least questions of a first type is maintained so that each of said questions of the first type has two or more attribute definitions (33), the attribute definition linking the question to two or more different domains....

20050287506 - Method and system for electronically generating random answers: The invention concerns a method (300) and system (110) for electronically generating random responses in a portable electronic device (110). The method includes the steps of detecting (316) motion of the portable electronic device, in response to the detecting step, generating (318) the random response and outputting (320) the random...

20050287509 - Learning objects in an electronic teaching system: Disclosed is a personalized, network-based, distributed learning system. The system allows for the dynamic delivery of course content to students. The course content can include metadata tagged content that allows a content author to tailor the course materials for the student....

20050287508 - Multi-institution scheduling system: A multi-institution scheduling system comprises an administration component adapted for establishing parameters for a first program in the multi-institution scheduling system, the parameters including at least one other program that can share shifts with the first program. The multi-institution scheduling system comprises a scheduling component adapted for creating a shift...

20050287510 - Integrated instructional management system and method: A method for generating a lesson plan for a course is provided that includes associating a plurality of standard objectives with the course. A plurality of learning activities are provided for selection. Each learning activity is associated with at least one standard objective for the course. A selection of at...

20050287511 - Dynamic curriculum generation system: The present invention provides a dynamic curriculum generation system, which is suitable for language courses or other interactive learning environments for dynamically generating an individual course menu for a client. When the client provides his or her information to the course database of the present invention through a network connection,...

20050282118 - Movable operation support system for shotgun shooting learning, games, competition and the course used therewith: The present invention discloses a movable operation support system, used in clay target shotgun shooting learning, games and competition, which can be set up and operated in any location of the field. A preferred embodiment of the system is composed of a mobile support device used to transport in any...

20050282119 - Method and apparatus for teaching life skills: An apparatus and method for teaching life skills is disclosed that includes a boss type selector, having a first boss type space representing a first management style and a second boss type space representing a second management style. Instructional cards are utilized in conjunction with the boss type selector to...

20050282120 - Teaching methods and apparatus for children: A teaching method and apparatus are provided for using a workshop and a classroom to assist in teaching at least one child about a topic. The method comprises reading a writing about the topic with or to the child in the classroom, creating an item in the workshop relating to...

20050282121 - Foreign language instruction by voice tonality technology: A method of foreign language education and instruction presents the student with a spoken target language expression in a series of specific contrasting voice tonalities, while at the same time the student is provided with contextually appropriate background sound. The expression to be presented may be a single word, a...

20050282122 - Handwriting tool: A progressive handwriting tool utilizes one of (a) color contrast within a writing segment, or (b) a grid of sloped lines, to properly guide a student in writing print and/or cursive letters in a proper style and form. In one aspect, a print writing tool includes a writing medium, such...

20050282123 - Universal numeration system: The proposed Universal Numeration System (U.N.S.) offers a new principled version of utilization. Flexibility and universality of this system is considered to be one of the new principles and enhancements in our life and all we stand for. Compactness and comprehension of numerals may be just one of the availabilities...

20050282124 - Sine of the time: An improved instructional method, whose advantage is in being directed and focused upon the point of math education where students are introduced to the three correlated nomenclatures of angle measure; degrees, radians, and gradians. This device removes the obfuscating array of incrementation marks, that are found piecemeal in the existing...

20050282125 - Individualized retention plans for students: Developing and executing individualized retention plans for students. A career success survey is provided to a student, and the survey includes queries used to derive a student vulnerability index. A completed version of the career success survey with answers to the queries is received from the student, and an communication...

20050282126 - Self-coaching method and system: The present application is generally directed to a method and system for coaching individuals such as, e.g., employees of organizations such as large enterprises, to achieve predefined goals through the preferably daily practice or use of preferably a single habit, skill, action, or behavior. For example, the method and system...

20050282127 - Rosary: A rosary prayer device has a ring or elongated housing containing a series of stops. The stops are arranged in five groups of five or ten with a starting space adjacent one of the groups of stops. A bead is positioned on the ring and sized to travel around the...

20050282128 - Apparatus and system for roping practice: An apparatus and system for roping practice incorporating an animal shaped head configured to simulate the movements of a live animal. The apparatus includes a swivel joint at the base of the head and a swivel joint where the neck joins to the body, and includes actuators that independently move...

20050282130 - Method for experiment using scientific phenomenon evaluation apparatus, and scientific phenomenon evaluation apparatus: A method for experiment using a scientific phenomenon evaluation apparatus in which at least two reservoirs constituting an inlet and an outlet communicate with each other through a minute channel having a sectional area of 1 mm2 or less, the method comprising the steps of a preparatory step of removing...

20050282129 - Scientific phenomena evaluation device and scientific phenomena evaluation method using the device: A scientific phenomena evaluation device comprising a base plate in which a plurality of long grooves having sectional areas of 1 mm2 or less are formed in a surface; and a cover plate that is bonded to the surface of the base plate and covers the long grooves to form...

20050282131 - Technology explorer toy: Involving mysterious gravity and mystical energy, an adjustable, instrumented, structural model, incorporating an object suspended from a frame in various ways with flexible line, freely swings, falls, bounces, and vibrates when manually disturbed. Through transfers of energy, visual sensors resembling flexible lollipops both structurally sense and suppress motion, creating puzzling...

20050282132 - Test pacing wristwatch with vibration reminder: A multimode electronic timepiece for assisting a person to take a multiple question timed examination. The number of questions and test time are entered into the timepiece along with selected alert points. A test timer mode then displays time remaining in the examination along with the corresponding question number, and...

20050282135 - Lock-in training method utilizing the entry of a portion of a keyword: A method that is performed by a computer system that includes a keyboard and a computer display. The method includes retrieving a keyword and displaying, on the computer display, a question and a partial answer to the question. The partial answer to the question does not include the keyword. However,...

20050282133 - System and method for facilitating computer-based testing using traceable test items: A system for facilitating computer-based testing according to an embodiment of the present invention includes a server facility and a test taking facility. Specifically, the server facility is configured to store one or more test items, associate a unique identifier with the one or more test items, and alter the...

20050282134 - System and method for training sales personnel in new business prospecting: A computer-based training system and method for use by sales personnel. Training materials on CDs are supplied to the participants who after reviewing the materials and participating in training exercises record information and data pertaining to results of the process. The information and data are input to computer software which...

20050282136 - Computer-implemented method, system and program product for providing an educational program: Under the present invention a plurality of learning objects for an educational program are provided. Based on the selections, a solution scenario having contextual data for interrelating the plurality of learning objects is developed, and is maintained separately from each of the plurality of learning objects. Using the solution scenario,...

20050282137 - System and method using visual or audio-visual programming for life science educational and research purposes: The current invention is a visual or audio-visual programming environment for life science and bioinformatics developed for educational purposes. This programming environment incorporates novel educational features including: an integrated overview page, quick reference guide, introductory video, hot-linked glossary, intelligent personalized tutor, library of primers, multimedia tutorials, entertainment features, educational error...

20050282138 - Computer-based data processing system and method for assessing the effectiveness of knowledge transfer: A computer-based data processing system is designed for assessing the level of effectiveness of knowledge transfer directed to defined areas of expertise. Sets of quality indicators are stored in a database of the data processing system. Each set of quality indicators is assigned to one of the defined areas of...

20050282139 - no glue puzzle frame: “Frame Your Puzzle” is the alternative framing method for puzzles, in comparison to what is currently available. Gluing is currently required to frame a jigsaw puzzle in a picture frame. “Frame Your Puzzle” eliminates the need for gluing. This allows the puzzle to be displayed, and later, to be disassembled...

20050282140 - Process of relaying a story having a unique plot: A process of relaying a story having a timeline and a unique plot involving characters includes indicating that a first character experiences déjà vu to mask an actual event. The actual event would, absent déjà vu, cause the first character substantial emotional trauma or be a reminder of a past...

20050282141 - Scenario workflow based assessment system and method: A system and a method for automating performance assessments of an exercise or a training activity provide event assessment information in real-time to one or more evaluators in conjunction with unfolding events. The evaluators can wirelessly communicate assessment information to a database for after action review (AAR)....

20050282142 - Soap dispenser base system: A method and apparatus are disclosed involving a soap dispenser base for helping assure the washing of a person's hands. Pressure exerted on a soap dispenser in contact with the soap dispenser base activates a timing means coupled with the base which gives information to the soap dispenser user on...

20050277092 - Motion platform device for spatial disorientation simulation: A motion platform device includes a moving platform which is coupled to a base platform by three pedestals and three linkages. Three actuators are disposed on the base platform and are synchronously movable relative to the base platform along three linear sliding paths, and are connected respectively to the pedestals....

20050277093 - Furniture template: This invention is directed to templates each consisting of a 2-dimensional sheet of light-weight, flexible material formed in the actual size of the footprint of an article of furniture. The sheets are easily transported from one location to another, and placed on the floor or wall of a room or...

20050277094 - System and method to teach reading: A system and method to teach reading by ranking the prevalence level of alphabet letter sounds as number phonics to alphabet letter words, associating pronunciation and voice emphasis codes to the number phonics, associating the number phonics to the alphabet letters of words, and speaking the word by blending the...

20050277095 - Bitwiz: An apparatus and method for motivating students in mathematics education, computer technology education and information encoding. The apparatus consists of a container holding multi-state sources and a reading device, if necessary, that can determine the state of the sources in the container when it is closed. Students determine the states...

20050277096 - Medical simulation system and method: A portable medical simulation system and method employs an artificial patient with a built-in haptic interface device, with up to four carriages for engaging different diameter catheters. A catheter stabilizer between each carriage expands and contracts in an accordion fashion as the carriages move in relation to each other, preventing...

20050277097 - Taxidermy-related products: Taxidermy-related products individually incorporate representations of body parts from two or more species. The merge or joining of the body parts can be so configured that the appearance of the product adjacent the merger or joint suggests continuity of thought and/or expression between the first and second body parts. The...

20050277098 - Interactive clock for children: An interactive clock includes a clock unit integrated with a timed reminder system having a central processing unit. The central processing unit is programmed to coordinate visual and audible alarms with the clock unit for providing a child with instructions for completing his or her morning routine at appropriate, predetermined...

20050277099 - System, apparatus and method for maximizing effectiveness and efficiency of learning, retaining and retrieving knowledge and skills: A system, method and apparatus for maximizing the effectiveness and efficiency of learning, retaining and retrieving knowledge and skills includes a main engine having a Learn Module, a Review Module and a Test Module. Each of the Learn, Review and Test Modules are capable of operating independently but are preferably...

20050277100 - Dynamic construction of games for on-demand e-learning: An e-learning game generator accesses a learning object repository, a learning object assessment object repository, and a video repository. The video repository includes scenes that are suggestive of success and failure of the student in answering questions from the learning object assessment objects. When a student answers a question correctly,...

20050277101 - Method of delivering a test to a candidate: The invention relates to a method and apparatus for delivering a test, such a test to a candidate. The invention also concerns an apparatus and method of assessing the relative cognitive ability of a candidate. The invention also concerns a method of assessing the progress of a candidate in response...

20050277102 - Methods and systems for interactive learning and other information exchanges, such as for use in a mobile learning environment: Computer-implemented methods and systems for exchanging various types of information are disclosed including, e.g., instructional information for interactive or mobile learning, information relating to performance or status for monitoring or analyzing various systems, and other types of information. Computer-implemented methods and systems disclosed herein enable mobile learning by receiving at...

20050277103 - Adaptive scoring of responses to constructed response questions: A method for adaptive scoring of responses to constructed response questions is disclosed. Adaptive scoring may be used to apply evaluator time in such a way that a predetermined reliability level is reached with the least possible use of evaluator time, including adjusting the number of response graded and/or the...

20050277104 - Automatic cutting machine teaching device: An automatic cutting machine teaching device includes image processing means and judgment means. The image processing means displays an image of a cutting area on a monitor and superimposes a cutting pattern of corrected making data on a position corresponding to the image of the cutting area displayed on the...

20050277105 - System and method for training personnel: System and method for training workplace personnel is disclosed. Labels having indicia corresponding to frequency with which predefined maintenance procedures are to be performed may be attached to various locations around an establishment premises to identify the area needing service and the required frequency of that service. Storage unit may...

20050272011 - Method and system for implementing a training facility: Methods for implementing a training facility, e.g., a military or law enforcement training facility, for a geographic location having at least one proposed observer position, e.g., a firing position, and at least one proposed target position are provided. In one embodiment, the method includes receiving design data (for instance, a...

20050272012 - Method and apparatus for thermal coding of colors: A method and apparatus of thermally coding a color-coded object is disclosed. The method includes the steps of: dividing the object into any number of zones based on the use of at least one color in the object; assigning each of said zones a desired temperature; thermally insulating each of...

20050272013 - Process of relaying a story having a unique plot: A process of relaying a story having a timeline and a unique plot involving characters includes indicating that a first character voluntarily enters a virtual reality, indicating a belief by the first character that he or she first character is not in virtual reality, and indicating that an interaction in...

20050272015 - Gathering data concerning publication usage: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits....

20050272016 - Gathering data concerning publication usage: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits....

20050272017 - Gathering data concerning publication usage: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits....

20050272018 - Gathering data concerning publication usage: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits....

20050272019 - Gathering data concerning publication usage: Methods and systems for measuring and gathering data relating to publication usage by participants in publication readership studies. Some methods and systems employ portable monitors carried by participants of the studies along with publications fitted with various devices, such as piezoelectric transducers, RFID tags and others devices and circuits....

20050272014 - Method for increasing mindful awareness of positive life elements: A method of increasing mindful awareness of a subset of positive life elements, chosen from a set of life elements. The method makes use of a mindful awareness assembly, having a set of articles, each article bearing at least one abstract designator indicating at least one of the set of...

20050272020 - Sporting event logistics system: A sporting event logistics system for use by a spectator in connection with attendance at a sporting event, the system comprising a map of a sporting event venue with predetermined rendezvous locations provided thereon, a personalized pace schedule cross-referencing predicted sporting event times with the predetermined rendezvous locations, a personalized...

20050272022 - Method and apparatus for project valuation, prioritization, and performance management: The invention is a method and system for scoring and prioritizing projects. The scoring system uses a combination of factors to calculate and present a score and scorecard for a project. The score and scorecard “grade” the project based on its expected and/or actual impact on or for an organization....

20050272021 - Method of multi-level analyzing personal learning capacity: A method of multi-level analyzing personal learning capacity mainly has a first and second question levels. The first question level is used to provide a user multiple questions of lessons with difficulty levels and records the questions incorrectly answered by the user. The second question level is further to provide...

20050272023 - Method and apparatus for providing product-information, and computer product: A training server, which is interconnected to a terminal device of an insurance company, provides various types of information pertaining to financial commodities offered by the insurance company to a terminal device of a consumer via a network. The training server conducts, through the terminal device of the consumer, a...

20050272024 - Automated training and evaluation: In order to provide improved training and testing, a solution to a given problem is accepted from a user. The solution is tested to ensure that it is syntactically and semantically correct. If it is not, then information is displayed to the user regarding the problems. Evaluation cases are used...

20050266385 - Computer program, method, and system for monitoring nutrition content of consumables and for facilitating menu planning: A computer program, method, and system for dynamically and interactively providing nutrition content information for consumables such that a user may monitor, tailor, plan, and review their intake thereof in light of a health-related interest or concern, such as, for example, weight-loss, food allergies, or diabetes or other nutrition affected...

20050266384 - Nutritional guide kit: The nutritional guide kit includes a set of nutritional guide cards, a large ring, and an athletic support device. The nutritional guide cards are preferably round cards which are made of plastic or laminated so that they may endure inclement whether conditions if left outside. The cards have indicia relating...

20050266386 - Print media apparatus including stroke recognition: Devices, systems and methods are provided which enhance the learning process by means of interactive exercises and games which involve drawing input from a user. In particular, the present invention provides an interactive print media apparatus which includes a specialized writing instrument and at least one sheet on which the...

20050266387 - Answer collection and retrieval system governed by a pay-off meter: The invention is a set of processes for improving the interface of a self-organizing database. This type of database stores both questions and answers. The improved interface processes enable a user who has found a (first) question in the database to enter a new (second) question and label that second...

20050266388 - System and method for online collaboration in a learning environment: A system and method is provided for the collection and automate dispatching of assignments and news from a teacher to their students and parents. This involves registering members and assigning them roles, scopes and groups based on scheduling and other data pulled from the school/district's database, capturing assignment data from...

20050266389 - Personalizable product packages: A personalized school or office tool package is disclosed. The personalizable school or office tool package includes packaging, and a school or office tool that is carried by the packaging. The school or office tool has an area that is suitable to receive a personalizing member. The package also includes...