Patent ID: 6287125
Filing Date: 2001-09-11
Classification: G09B

Abstract:
A method to interactively present subject matter information, including a problem statement, to audience members, the subject matter information presented by employing a presenter computer operated by a presenter and at least one audience computer operated by one or more audience members, the presenter computer having associated therewith a display unit to receive information from the presenter computer for displaying and viewing by the audience members, the method comprising the steps of:a) generating a problem statement by the presenter to be solved;b) delivering the problem statement to audience members via at least one of the display unit and respective audience computers being used by associated audience members, the problem statement delivered to the audience computers via a communication network that enables information to be exchanged between the presenter computer and the audience computers wherein the problem statement is translated from a language of the presenter to one or more languages of the audience members before being displayed on the display unit;c) providing a temporal period for analysis of the problem statement after delivery to the audience members;d) permitting additional information to be requested by audience members, wherein the requests for the additional information made by audience members are translated to the language of the presenter and then are provided to the presenter;e) determining and delivering at least one appropriate response to the requests for additional information received by the presenter, when such requests are made;f) repeating steps d) and e), as required, until audience members are able to attempt an answer to the problem statement;g) receiving answers at the presenter computer as they are provided by the audience members via the audience computers,h) displaying the answers for review and analysis by the presenter, via a display included with the presenter computer;i) discussing and reviewing, if deemed necessary by the presenter, at least one of the received answers from the audience member computers and a predetermined correct answer; andj) repeating steps a) through i), as required, until all problem statements to be presented to the audience members have been presented, analyzed and reviewed.