Patent Document ID: 9530327
Application ID: 13765448
Patent Flag: 1

Claim One:
1. A computer system to facilitate management of a user's continued attention to distance learning content, the system comprising: a general purpose computer including: a central processing unit and an operating system configured to run multiple program applications concurrently; and a distance learning application comprising a player suitable for presenting the distance learning content; and a distance learning module comprising code executable on the central processing unit as one of the multiple program applications operable to interrupt a presentation of the distance learning content at the player to the user in response to a prescribed event concerning another one of the multiple program applications, wherein the prescribed event comprises an event in one of the multiple program applications other than the distance learning application, wherein the multiple program applications include program applications implemented by the user on the computer and excludes a background process implemented by the computer, the operating system, or a peripheral device, and wherein the prescribed event in one of the multiple program applications excludes any event generated by the background process.