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Audience response system and method

a technology for audience response and display screens, applied in emergency connection handling, television systems, instruments, etc., can solve the problems of difficulty in gauging whether the audience is absorbing or even paying attention to the information being presented, handheld units without display screens, and display screens lacking the ability to switch

Inactive Publication Date: 2006-12-28
RENAISSANCE LEARNING
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Benefits of technology

[0005] There are a variety of possible implementations of the response system. In some implementations, the question or questions are transmitted to users as part of one or more markup languages documents. The handheld units process the markup language documents and displ

Problems solved by technology

When a presentation is given to an audience, whether it is a lecture to a class of students or a sales pitch to a group of executives, it is often difficult to gauge whether the audience is absorbing or even paying attention to the information being presented.
In most existing systems, however, the handheld units do not have display screens.
Furthermore, even those that have display screens lack the ability to switch between a prompted mode, in which questions are electronically transmitted to handheld units and displayed on the screen, and an unprompted mode, in which only an answer template is transmitted to and displayed on the handheld units, with the question itself being conveyed to the audience verbally or in written form.

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example request

[0100]

POST / Wasabi / ConfirmGetFile HTTP / 1.1Device-Address: 32781ae3896cb366eRequest-ID: 101User-Agent: Wasabi / 1.0Content-Length: 64

[0101] Response to a ConfirmGetFile request

HTTP / 1.1 200 OKDevice-Address: 32781ae3896cb366eRequest-ID: 101Content-Length: 33

[0102] Status Codes for service program 26:

CodeDescription200OK401Unauthorized500Internal server failure516File not found

[0103] HTTP Status Codes:

CodeDescription200OK400Bad request404Not found408Request timeout500Internal server failure503Service unavailable

[0104] PutFile request. The PutFile request is invoked when a handheld unit 16 requests to upload a file to the application program 22.

[0105] Format of a PutFile Request

[0106] POST / service_uri / Putfile HTTP / 1.1

ParameterValidationValueapplication / idNot NullThe guid identifying theapplication.homework / idNot NullThe ID identifying the file.homework file dataNot NullFile data.

[0107] Example Request:

POST / Wasabi / Putfile HTTP / 1.1Device-Address: 32781ae3896cb366eRequest-ID: 101...

example

[0138] Example

[0139] {act\i 1234567890123456{t\ Chapter 1 Quiz}}

[0140] The element. The element identifies the application program that served the activity.

[0141] Example:

content elements

[0142] Attributes [0143] id [0144] A required attribute that identifies the application program 22. The value is required to be a unique GUID in 32 character ascii-hex. [0145] name [0146] An optional attribute that identifies the application name that served the activity.

[0147] Compact Markup Language

ItemDescriptionUsageappApplication elementapp\iApplication id attributeUnique GUID; requiredapp\nApplication nameOptional

[0148] Example

[0149] {app\i 1234567890123456\n AccelTest}

[0150] The element. The element contains sub elements that specify the device environment settings for the activity.

[0151] Example:

content elements

[0152] Attributes [0153] None.

[0154] Content [0155][0156] An optional element that specifies whether the calculator is to be enabled or disabled during the activity.

[0...

example 1

[0302] Example 1

[0303] {r\i2{p\ Saturn is the ______ planet from the sun.}{q\i2\n10\t n}}

[0304] Example 2. A 50 question multiple choice repeater.

[0305] {r\i2{q\si1\ei50\n10\t e\ms\a}}

[0306] The element. The element is a sub element of the element and is used to specify the multiple choice distractor elements.

[0307] Example 1: A multiple choice question with one correct answer.

MosineeMadisonMilwaukeeWisconsin Rapids

[0308] Attributes [0309] None.

[0310] Content [0311][0312] A required element which specifies the text of a multiple-choice answer.

[0313] The element. The element is a sub element of the element and is used to specify the text of a multiple choice answer.

[0314] Example:

[0315]Mosinee

[0316] Attributes [0317] None.

[0318] Content [0319] Text.

[0320] Compact Markup Language

ItemDescriptionUsageddistractor element

[0321] Example

{r\i2{p\ Which planet is the sixth planet from the Sun?}{q\i2\n10\t d{d\Mars}{\d Jupiter}{\d Saturn}{\d Venus}}}

[0322] Homework is a spe...

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Abstract

An audience response system is provided. In various implementations, the response system includes a base station, handheld units, and a wireless network. The response system may have a prompted mode and an unprompted mode of operation. In the prompted mode of operation, the base station transmits questions to the handheld units over the wireless network. The questions are displayed to users on their handheld units. The users respond to the question, and their responses are transmitted to the base station via the wireless network. In the unprompted mode, answer templates are transmitted and displayed to the users, with the actual questions being conveyed in some other manner, such as verbally or by written handout.

Description

CROSS-REFERENCE TO RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This application claims the benefit of the filing date of U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 694,414, filed Jun. 27, 2005 and U.S. Provisional Application No. 60 / 729,428, filed Oct. 21, 2005, each of which are incorporated herein by reference in their entirety.FIELD OF THE INVENTION [0002] The invention relates generally to wireless audience response systems, and, more particularly, to wireless audience response systems that solicit responses to questions posed to an audience by wireless communication with handheld units possessed by members of the audience. BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION [0003] When a presentation is given to an audience, whether it is a lecture to a class of students or a sales pitch to a group of executives, it is often difficult to gauge whether the audience is absorbing or even paying attention to the information being presented. Audience response systems address this difficulty. Many audience response systems includ...

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IPC IPC(8): H04N5/44G06F13/00H04N7/18G06F3/00H04N5/445H04W4/90H04W48/16H04W48/18H04W72/04H04W76/00H04W84/12
CPCG06Q30/02G06Q50/20G08B25/016G08B25/08G09B7/02G08B25/007H04W48/16H04W48/18H04W72/0486H04W76/007H04W84/12H04W4/22H04W76/50H04W4/90H04W72/52
Inventor SWANSON, MARK R.MOSS, WILLIAM L. JR.JUNGWIRTH, PETER WILLIAM
Owner RENAISSANCE LEARNING
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