Patent ID: 7856374
Filing Date: 2010-12-21
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
1. In a computing system having a display, a method for using multimedia training materials and an edu-game to train a retail sales representative about a brand and for providing results of the training, wherein the multimedia training materials include one or more manufacturer brand storylines and wherein the edu-game comprises a plurality of questions that are presented to retail sales representative along with a correct answer and one or more incorrect answers that correspond to the one or more manufacturer brand storylines and an allotted amount of time to answer each question, and wherein results of the edu-game are correlated with sales productivity of the retail sales representative, the method comprising: at a computing system, presenting one or more multimedia presentations of manufacturer brand storylines to a retail sales representative corresponding to one or more manufacturer products that are sold by the retail sales representative, the one or more multimedia presentations being presented on a display of the computing system; at the computing system, testing the retail sales representative about the one or more brand storylines within an edu-game, wherein the testing results in an edu-game score associated with the retail sales representative and the one or more brand storylines that the retail sales representative was tested about during the edu-game; and generating a report which displays the edu-game score along with sales production data corresponding to sales of the one or more manufacturer products sold by the retail sales representative, wherein the testing within the edu-game includes the following: