Education and demonstration inventions

20090280456 - Method and system for automatically generating questions for a programming language: The present invention provides a method, system and computer program product for generating a family of questions for a programming language. Generating the family of questions includes the generation of various questions from a particular compilable code, and the corresponding options for the questions. The options include various correct and... Agent: Lerner, David, Littenberg, Krumholz & Mentlik

20090280457 - card game for learning and practicing foreign languages: A card game played with a deck of playing cards in a native language that are organized in thematic suits. Each player aims at having as many full suits as possible. Each player in turn asks other players for cards out of suits held by the player. The thematic suits... Agent: Ron Elazari-volcani

20090280458 - Combination teaching and learning kit and method: A combination teaching and learning kit is provided. Such combination teaching and learning kit includes a chart member for at least one of free standing and attachment to a wall, a table, and an item of furniture. A plurality of card members having predetermined indicia disposed on at least first... Agent: James Ray & Associates

20090280459 - Low contrast training: Methods and equipment to improve the visual ability of a subject during athletic activities are provided. One such method includes configuring a sporting object to visually approximate the appearance of a background or configuring a background to visually approximate the appearance of a sporting object. A subject may then train... Agent: Nike, Inc. C/o Shook, Hardy & Bacon L.L.P.

20090280460 - Systems and methods for providing personalized interactive educational displays: Systems and methods are provided for capturing student interaction data, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements. A student's personalized interactive educational display is configured based at least in part on the captured student interaction data, and then displayed. The systems and methods provide access to... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20090280461 - Interactive book with detection of lifted flaps: An interactive system for providing multimedia data in response to interaction with lift-the-flap elements. The system may include a housing which forms a substantially planar surface configured to support at least one printed media sheet. The printed sheet may include at least one lift-the-flap element. The system may further include... Agent: Meyertons, Hood, Kivlin, Kowert & Goetzel, P.C.

20090280462 - Systems and methods for goal attainment in post-graduation activities: Systems and methods are provided for electronically correlating pre-graduation student interactions with one or more post-graduation outcomes. The systems and methods comprise capturing pre-graduation student interaction data and capturing post-graduation student data. The systems and methods determine one or more post-graduation outcomes from the captured post-graduation student data, and correlate... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20090280463 - Systems and methods for goal attainment in achievement of learning: Systems and methods are provided for measuring how well a student achieves learning outcomes. A student identification card or an electronic device may be associated with a student that may contain student data or other student information. The card or device may be swiped, read by a proximity reader, engaged... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20090280464 - System and method for providing educational content through gaming over a network: A method of distributing educational content over a network is disclosed. Educational content is divided into topics and the topics are split into smaller educational units. Professionals reviewing the material for accreditation purposes choose particular units to study and are subject to minimum and maximum time parameters. The partitioning of... Agent: Lahive & Cockfield, LLP Floor 30, Suite 3000

20090280465 - System for the normalization of school performance statistics: A method and system is provided to directly compare school districts and individual schools across state lines, and the geographic areas served by those schools (counties, municipalities, zip codes, neighborhoods) based on their reported standardized test scores despite the fact that each state has prepared their own version of standardized... Agent: Barlow, Josephs & Holmes, Ltd.

20090280466 - Learning assessment and programmatic remediation: Learning content may be provided to a user where the learning content may contain learning objectives. A response to the learning content may be received. The response may be analyzed by determining whether the response was the proper response to the learning objectives. If the response was a proper response,... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20090280467 - Platform and method for automated phone education: A platform and method for providing telephonic education. The platform utilizes a telephone-server connection to provide automated registration, payment, course materials, and sending of a notice of completion.... Agent: Matthew L. Ahart, Esq.

20090280468 - Systems and methods for providing early warning of student absence: Systems and methods are provided for electronically providing notification that a student has not been engaged with an educational institution for a predefined period of time. Student interaction data may be captured, wherein the student interaction data has one or more data elements and relates to use of the one... Agent: Mcdermott, Will & Emery

20090275001 - Hair dressing and beauty technique training device and model for hair dressing and beauty technique training: The hair dressing and beauty technique training device includes a securing portion 2 secured to a head model 100, a joint portion 3 formed in the securing portion 2, an attaching portion 6 formed detachably in the joint portion 3, and one or a plurality of strip-shaped portions 8 whose... Agent: Sughrue Mion, PLLC

20090275004 - Feeding aid: A feeding aid for teaching children to feed themselves. The feeding aid includes a feeding implement (2), an anchor device (4) for fixing the feeding aid to a surface and a resilient member (6) connecting the feeding implement to the anchor device.... Agent: Fay Sharpe LLP

20090275002 - Nutrition informatics method: The present invention provides a method for providing a user the information and tools for determining individual nutritional information and requirements particularly pertaining to menus and recipes that are suited to that user and that may be individually and easily tailored in a method that is heretofore unknown in the... Agent: Nold Intellectual Property Law

20090275003 - Nutritional game: A game that encourages a player to eat nutritious food items that includes a game board having a plurality of contiguous spaces defining a playing path, wherein each space designates a given activity, and wherein one activity is designated to encourage the player to eat a nutritious food item; a... Agent: Italia Ip

20090275005 - Methods, systems, and computer program products for speech assessment: Methods, Systems, And Computer Program Products For Speech Assessment are disclosed. According to an embodiment, a speech assessment method can be provided and include prompting a speaker to pronounce one or more words. The one or more words pronounced by the speaker can be recorded to generate one or more... Agent: Jenkins, Wilson, Taylor & Hunt, P. A.

20090275006 - Method and system for developing and administering subject-appropriate implicit tests of association: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to developing and administering subject-appropriate ITAs. Various embodiments of the present invention evaluate many aspects of ITA content, content presentation, and administration with regard to particular categories of test subjects in order to develop subject-appropriate ITAs (“SAITAs”) and to administer SAITAs appropriately to... Agent: Olympic Patent Works PLLC

20090275007 - System and method for strength training: A method of strength training that includes initiating eccentric contraction of a muscle of interest at a starting position where the muscle of interest is maximally flexed without losing contraction force or increasing the load on a joint. The method also includes eccentrically contracting the muscle of interest through a... Agent: Swanson & Bratschun, L.L.C.

20090275008 - Coaching stick agility training device, swivel clip and assembly: A training aid for use during footwork, coordination, speed and/or agility training exercises is provided. The training aid is one or more obstacles about which a player weaves, jumps, or ducks and includes at least one coaching stick. The coaching stick is elongate, has opposite free ends, and has a... Agent: Howson & Howson LLP

20090275009 - System and method for school progress reporting: A method of determining staff effect and/or school effect on the educational progress of a student attending the school comprising the steps of selecting, collecting and verifying organizational, staff, and student information; transforming the collected information into data having relationships with other collected information usable by a system; analyzing the... Agent: Porter Wright Morris & Arthur, LLP Intellectual Property Group

20090275010 - Television vierwers interaction voting: A multi-talented show idea and voting methods to find a winner in multi-categories of tasks and talents through voting is disclosed. Viewers who vote for their favorite contestant and show via phone or internet has a chance to win a prize. Viewer vote via phone by using at least one... Agent: Micahael Findlay

20090263765 - Methods and apparatus to provide training against improvised explosive devices: Method and apparatus for a training system for improvised explosive devices (IEDs). An IED training system can include an inert explosive component that can resemble a large round, rocket propelled grenade (RPG), or the like. Various triggers can activate visual and/or audio devices in response to triggering the system, such... Agent: Raytheon Company C/o Daly, Crowley, Mofford & Durkee, LLP

20090263766 - Styling hands: The present disclosure provides toy sets which incorporate at least one manikin hand configured to removably secure one or more artificial fingernails so that they can be decorated.... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090263767 - Method for charting astrological events: A method of charting astrological events comprises the steps of obtaining a user's date of interest which is often a birthdate and using the date to chart the position of celestial objects at the date of interest on an astrological chart divided into 12 equal segments. The user selects a... Agent: Patwrite LLC

20090263768 - Generating an optimized analytical business transformation: A method, system, and computer program product for optimizing a Business Process Model (BPM) having at least one work process are presented. At a simulation client, a determination is made whether a simulated business outcome associated with a test BPM satisfies a business value deficiency associated with a current BPM.... Agent: Dillon & Yudell LLP

20090263769 - Method and system for arranging and displaying project management intelligence: A method and system for arranging, displaying, conveying, learning, and communicating project management intelligence utilizes a device formed of a plurality of 3-dimensional geometric polytopes movably connected together and movable relative to one another. The polytopes represent the domain of project knowledge, the domain of project process groups, and the... Agent: Kenneth A. Roddy

20090263771 - Contamination detection simulation systems and methods: Provided are contamination detection simulation systems and methods comprising a control unit that generates a first signal comprising data corresponding to a simulated source of contamination; a simulated detector that receives the signal from the control unit, the simulated detector positioned at a distance from a surface; a proximity detector... Agent: Mills & Onello LLP

20090263770 - System and method for simulating hazardous environments for portable detection meters used by first responders: The system and method for simulating hazardous environments provides simulated meter readings of hazardous environment for training first responder entry teams by controlling a simulated display provided to portable detection meters, such as via a wireless interface. The simulator provides meter reading displays for selected environments and allows for two-way... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20090263772 - Physical education system: A method for group teaching of physical activity. The method includes: selecting a video, wherein the video displays instructions for at least one physical activity; assembling selected exercise equipment, wherein the exercise equipment is selected based on the instructions displayed in the video and a number of participants in the... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20090263773 - Breathing exercise apparatus and method: A breathing exercise apparatus includes (a) a graphical display, (b) input elements for receiving from a user durations for inhalation, exhalation and pause phases of a breathing exercise pattern; and (c) a controller for causing the graphical display to display a sequence of graphical images according to the received durations... Agent: Haynes And Boone, LLPIPSection

20090263774 - Radiopaque artificial tooth: An artificial tooth is provided that mimic the essential features of natural a tooth for use in training dental professionals. The artificial tooth is a radiopaque artificial tooth that is capable of providing for anatomically correct contrast on a radiograph. The artificial tooth also mimics the hardness, debris characteristics, and... Agent: Panitch Schwarze Belisario & Nadel LLP

20090263775 - Systems and methods for surgical simulation and training: A surgical simulation and training platform can mimic human physiology to the extent possible, while enabling dynamic pathology and complication introduction to facilitate training and evaluation needs. The platform can include a subject body having an outer surface and defining at least one cavity, with a capture mechanism configured to... Agent: Patent Department (51851) Kilpatrick Stockton LLP

20090263776 - Course development program: The present invention is directed to a method of operating a knowledge capture program. The knowledge capture program has the steps of starting the knowledge capture program wherein a user can access content that is either existing content or creating new content. Once the content has been selected then a... Agent: Warn, Hoffmann, Miller & Lalone, .p.c

20090263777 - Immersive interactive environment for asynchronous learning and entertainment: The present immersive interactive environment for asynchronous learning and entertainment enables customization a lesson embodied in at least one lesson data file residing on a computing device. This is accomplished by providing a lesson data file-editing program embodied in at least one sequence of computer executable instructions to an instructor... Agent: Kolisch Hartwell, P.C.

20090263778 - System and method for real-time observation assessment: Techniques for real-time observation assessment are provided. The techniques, which are designed for educators, take advantage of handheld computers, desktop/laptop computers and Internet access in order to reduce the paperwork associated with conventional educational assessments. An array of instructional assessment applications are designed to run on handheld computers. The instructional... Agent: Fish & Richardson P.C.

20090263779 - Method and system of providing a college level course from a third party provider to a college: The present invention relates to a system and method of providing a college level course from a third party provider to a college. The present invention allows the college to offer the course to its students as if the course was produced and offered by the college itself rather than... Agent: Passe' Intellectual Property, LLC