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US 2017.0076623A1 (19) United States (12) Patent Application Publication (10) Pub. No.: US 2017/0076623 A1 Grimes et al. (43) Pub. Date: Mar. 16, 2017 (54) SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR A G06O 50/20 (2006.01) COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED G09B 7/08 (2006.01) EDUCATION SYSTEM (52) U.S. Cl. CPC ................. G09B 7/02 (2013.01); G09B 7/08 (71) Applicant: Edulock, Inc., Reno, NV (US) (2013.01); G09B 19/00 (2013.01); G06O 50/20 (2013.01) (72) Inventors: Patrick M Grimes, Reno, NV (US); Linda S Grimes, Reno, NV (US); Cody M Grimes, Reno, NV (US) (57) ABSTRACT (21) Appl. No.: 15/361,422 (22) Filed: Nov. 26, 2016 Agateway system for providing a comprehensive integrated education system. It is implemented through a cloud-com Related U.S. Application Data puting platform, linking together learning and assessment (62) Division of application No. 14/203,418, filed on Mar. systems, which provide learning, education, and evaluation services for a user, and reward systems, which provide 10, 2014. rewards for a user for Successfully completing learning and (60) Provisional application No. 61/775,623, filed on Mar. education processes, which are connected to the cloud 10, 2013. computing platform. In some embodiments, a user is a student, and a desired reward is access to certain features on Publication Classification the student's electronic computing device. The gateway (51) Int. Cl. system ensures that the student correctly answers certain test G09B 7/02 (2006.01) questions which have been appropriately chosen before G09B 9/00 (2006.01) unlocking those features. NETWORK 104 Gateway 102 DEVICE 106 EDUCATION 108 GATEWAY 102 REWARD 110 ASSESSMENT 112 MOWING FORWARD RETAIL 116 CASH 118 122 WENUE 124 Reward Assessment 110 112 SOCIAL 114 RESULTS 120 Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 1 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 NETWORK 104 Gateway 102 DEVICE 106 EDUCATION 108 GATEWAY 102 REWARD 110 ASSESSMENT 112 MOVING FORWARD RETAL 116 CASH 118 122 VENUE 124 ReWard ASSessment 110 112 SOCIAL 114 RESULTS 120 FIG. I. Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 2 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 ZPOICHOOZ?o?A?OJJasm Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 3 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 Gateway System 240 302 Control Module 308 304 Reward Module User Module 310 306 ASSessment Module Monitor Module FIG 3 Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 4 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 907 (s)uo?sano Z07 707 N Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 5 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 907 (s)uo?sano eZ07 Z07 <———||G) 707 Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 6 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 502 Accept a request from a user for a reward Choose a learning process for the user based on various factors, such as the user's location, Current performance level, and expected performance level Allow the user to go through the determined learning process Compute various statistics for the user's performance in the learning process, such as test scores and learning trends Determine whether the user's performance statistics meets expected performance level or preset performance objectives ldentify a reward for the user based on various factors, Such as the user's Or the monitor's Choice and the participating financial institutions and retailers Send a reward to the user FIG. 5A Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 7 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 GATEWAY REWARD 1Y. USER LEARNING AND EDUCATION FIG. 5B Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 8 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 622 Accept a request from a monitor to sign up for a plan where a user's reward is conditioned on the user's meeting certain learning objectives Send a request to a primary learning and assessment system for information on the user's current performance level Send the request to a secondary learning and assessment system through the primary one Receive information from secondary learning and assessment system through the primary one on the user's current performance level Receive the information from primary learning and assessment system on the user's current performance level 632 Send information on receiving an award to the monitor 634 Send the information through the parent to the user on receiving the award FIG. 6A Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 9 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 PARENTS NETWORK PROVIDER CHILD WITH SMARTPHONE SCHOOL SERVER EDUCATION SERVER FIG. 6B Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 10 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 Start 702 Receive a request to access a function of the Smart mobile device from the user 704 Inform the user that the reduest would not be granted until the user passes a test Send the request to a server 708 Receive a test for the user from the server 710 Allow the user to complete the test 712 Send the completed test to the SerWer The Y Completed test earns N a paSSing SCOrg 716 720 Receive an approval of the Receive a denial of the request request from the server from the server 718 22 Allow the user to access the Inform the user that the function reduest is denied FIG 7 Patent Application Publication Mar. 16, 2017. Sheet 11 of 11 US 2017/0076623 A1 800 810 Memory 820 Processor(s) Code 870 840 850 Network Adapter Storage Adapter TO/From TO/From clients Persistent and/or other Storage nodes FIG. 8 US 2017/0076623 A1 Mar. 16, 2017 SYSTEMAND METHOD FOR A When the determination result is positive, it selects a reward COMPREHENSIVE INTEGRATED for the user based on a preference of the user and delivers the EDUCATION SYSTEM selected reward to the client device. 0006. According to some embodiments, a gateway client RELATED APPLICATIONS which is connected to a cloud-computing platform performs 0001. The present application claims priority to and ben the following steps. It receives a request for a reward from efit from U.S. Provisional Patent Application No. 61/775, a user, and sends the request to a gateway server which is 623, titled “System and Method for a Comprehensive Inte connected to the cloud-computing platform. Next, it receives grated Education System (GIES), filed on Mar. 10, 2013. a task from the gateway server, wherein the task is deter And the present application is a divisional application of mined based on an objective preset for the user and a current and thus claims priority to and benefit from U.S. Utility performance level of the user. It then allows the user to patent application Ser. No. 14/203,418, titled “System and perform the task. Subsequently, it sends a task performance Method for a Comprehensive Integrated Education System, result to the gateway server. When an evaluation of the task filed on Mar. 10, 2014. The entire contents of the aforemen performance result against an expected task performance tioned applications are herein expressly incorporated by result meets the preset objective, it receives a reward from reference. the gateway server and presents the received reward to the USC. FIELD OF THE INVENTION 0007. Notwithstanding the examples and references with an emphasis on educational learning, the system and method 0002 Various embodiments of the present invention gen disclosed in the various embodiments are of particular erally relate to systems and methods for motivating learning relevance to other learning applications and conditions or experience with rewards, including access to personal elec third-party controlled instructions or requests such as, but tronic devices. More specifically, some embodiments relate not limited to, those in medical rehabilitation, hospital to integrating learning and rewards systems through cloud patients, special needs children, employees, professional services. groups (such as accountants, doctors, and lawyers who require annual continued professional credits), specialized BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION training courses, athletic training, physical education, mili 0003) Psychologists and researchers from around the tary training, trivia, pre-natal care, emergency response, globe agree that social media, for example, is highly addic farming basics, sanitation and infectious disease prevention, tive and can be similar to drug addiction. In general, a domestic violence awareness, and so forth. techno-addict is an individual who is addicted to the use of electronic computing devices (e.g., television, interactive BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS Video game, Internet searching, emailing, texting, chatting, 0008. The above and other features, aspects and advan twittering, etc.). As they continue staring at the screen, their tages of various embodiments will become better understood physical reaction helps their brain focus on the incoming with regard to the following description, appended claims, mental stimuli because of the release of the neurotransmitter and accompanying drawings where: dopamine that provides them a feeling of euphoria (e.g., the 0009 FIG. 1 is a diagram illustrating an example con reward for engaging in the activity) while also driving the ceptualization of integrating various components to provide craving for the activity. It would be useful to focus on using optimized learning and reward experience. this window of increased dopamine levels, along with other 0010 FIG. 2 is an environment diagram illustrating an neurological activity generally referred to as the reward example environment in which different systems interact to center, and hence increased ability to concentrate to enhance achieve a comprehensive integrated education system. the individual’s desire, appetite, and ability to learn new 0011 FIG. 3 is a block diagram illustrating example information. components of the gateway system. SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION 0012 FIG. 4A is a user interface diagram illustrating an example emergency override feature. 0004 Various embodiments provide systems, methods and computer program products to optimize the learning 0013 FIG.