Information Processing for School-Level Sticky Note Analytics

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Solution Overview

Problem

Existing education support systems lack the ability to analyze and display the usage status of electronic sticky notes created by learners across different schools, making it difficult for administrators to understand the effectiveness of learning activities.

Innovation Solution

An information processing apparatus that connects with terminals used by instructors and learners, tracks the creation history of electronic sticky notes, and displays the total number of notes created by learners within a designated school, allowing administrators to analyze and derive results based on this data.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Loss of information

If electronic sticky notes are created by learners through terminals, then learning activities can be recorded and analyzed, but the system lacks the ability to aggregate and display usage status by school, making it difficult for administrators to understand effectiveness

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveusage status informationVSAvoidsystem functionality
Core Design Contradiction:
Loss of informationVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent extracts school identification information from the creation history data and separates the aggregation function from the individual note creation function. By extracting school IDs and aggregating counts at the school level, the system provides administrative insights without complicating the basic note creation functionality for learners.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #2Taking out (Extraction)

Solution Approach 2:

The server acts as an intermediary between individual learner terminals and the administrator's analysis terminal. It collects creation history data, identifies school affiliations, aggregates usage statistics by school, and transmits summarized results to administrators, enabling information flow without requiring direct complex connections between all components.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Quantity of substance

If the system tracks individual sticky note creation history, then detailed learning activity data is available, but aggregating this data by school requires additional processing and system capabilities

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvedata availabilityVSAvoiddata processing efficiency
Core Design Contradiction:
Quantity of substanceVSProductivity

Solution Approach 1:

The patent segments the data processing into distinct phases: individual note creation (logged by terminals), school-level aggregation (performed by server using school IDs), and administrative analysis (displayed on administrator terminal). This segmentation allows detailed data collection while simplifying the aggregation process through pre-established school identification fields.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The system performs preliminary action by pre-associating learners with schools through school IDs stored in the creation history data. This preliminary structuring of data with school identifiers enables efficient subsequent aggregation without requiring complex real-time processing or additional data collection steps.

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Data Source

PatentUS20250278161A1Information processing apparatus, information processing system, and recording medium
Publication Date: 2025.09.04 CASIO COMPUTER CO LTD
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AI summary

Disclosed is an information processing apparatus that is configured to be communicably connected to a first terminal used by a learning instructor or an administrator and a plurality of second terminals used by a plurality of learners, the second terminals each including an electronic sticky note function for creating an electronic sticky note related to learning, and includes a processor that: acquires creation history information of the electronic sticky note created by the learners via the second terminals; in response to a school being designated as an analysis unit of usage status of the electronic sticky note function by the learning instructor or the administrator via the first terminal, derives a total number of the electronic sticky note created by the learners of a school associated with the learning instructor or the administrator based on the creation history information, and causes the first terminal to display a derived result.