PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 16106313
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-08
Publication Date: 2018-12
Patent Classification: ["434", "226000"]

Abstract:
The present invention is directed to systems and related methods of teaching pre-keyboarding and keyboarding on a QWERTY-style keyboard wherein a color-coded row-based metaphorical and visual cuing system is used in a curriculum to make foundational keyboarding skills easy-to-teach and easy-to-learn, including: unilateral hand/finger skills, Home Row hand/finger positions, relational position of symbol location, and the essential keystroke spectrum of Home Row positioning-based finger movements of the left and right hand. The invention provides a dynamic virtual keyboard with colored rows which hexfurcates the QWERTY layout into left- and right-handed row sections, independently toggling the visibility of each in a developmental order to teach keyboarding skills in incremental steps rather than all at once. The invention further provides a dynamic cursor that uses visual indicators that mirror the visual cuing system to reinforce instruction with the dynamic virtual keyboard and aid keyboarding accuracy.

Claim (Index 2):
A method for teaching a student keyboarding, said method comprising the steps of:\n a. providing a computing device having a display screen and a physical keyboard, wherein said display screen has an activity space; b. providing an interactive activity displayed in said activity space, wherein said interactive activity displays a target symbol; c. providing a virtual keyboard displayed on said display screen, wherein said virtual keyboard has a plurality of virtual keys, wherein every virtual key has a depression attribute that said interactive activity can toggle between a pressed state and a released state; d. wherein the interactive activity prompts said student to use a one finger of a first hand to press a physical key displaying said target symbol, wherein said pressing toggles the depression attribute of a corresponding virtual key displaying said target symbol to the pressed stated; e. wherein the interactive activity requires said student to then hold down said physical key with said one finger for the duration of said interactive activity, and wherein if the student releases said physical key then the interactive activity halts and toggles the depression attribute of the corresponding virtual key toggles to the released state until the student re-presses the physical key to re-toggle said depression attribute to the pressed state; and f. wherein the interactive activity prompts the student to use one or more fingers of a second hand to press physical keys while said one finger of the first hand holds down said physical key.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 26.0
- Percentile: 96.0
- Lexical Diversity: 1.6
- Patent Class: 434.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['14797704', '13012650', '14484714', '10379419', '11243953']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.2746611792991622
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6707868894265883
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.3142737503119048
- Mean Citation Score: 337.179544
- Max Citation Score: 734.2701400000003
- Similarity Product: 642.1945851722708

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test