Patent Document ID: 20110076656
Application ID: 12869067
Patent Flag: 0

Claim One:
1. An on-line interactive empathy training system using feedback about a user's empathic responses, the system comprising: a network interface configured to communicate with at least one remote client processor; a server coupled to the network interface and configured to communicate electronic messages via the network interface, wherein the server comprises: a content engine configured to generate electronic packets of information that, when delivered to the remote client processor, provide a user with access to an interaction with a virtual partner, receiving an empathic response from the user, transmitting the empathic response to the virtual partner, and receiving feedback from the virtual partner on the user's empathic response; a scoring engine for generating a cumulative score based in part on feedback from the virtual partner on the user's empathic response in an interaction between the user and the virtual partner; a processor for comparing the cumulative score with a predetermined threshold for interaction with a virtual partner and providing user access to registration to the interaction with a real partner if the cumulative score is greater than or equal to the predetermined threshold for an interaction with a real partner; and a tier access database for storing the user's cumulative score and access rights to different.