Patents by Inventor John Huppenthal

John Huppenthal has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20140087351
    Abstract: A system for providing educators an approach to peer learning that helps students develop skills in specific content areas and build their self-efficacy: (a) collaborative, (b) reward-based educational techniques, and (c) teacher feedback on skill building effectiveness in the classroom environment. The configurable problem settings, problem generator, leveling milestones, classroom configurations, game play, and reporting analytics are made available through a Web portal to those involved with the subject children for which the programs are intended. Additionally, the portal allows for access to on-line reward based point program, a program comprised of a pool of merchants that partner with the present system program to allow exchange of products or discounts on their respective products for participants in the present system program. Players in the game receive virtual rewards for participation.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2012
    Publication date: March 27, 2014
    Inventor: John Huppenthal
  • Publication number: 20020198768
    Abstract: A method for organizing, entertaining and motivating people using the internet with the steps of participation in a internet web-site, the step of joining groups, teams, divisions, clusters or pods on the web-site, the step of automatic membership in successively nested groups until all participants share one common group, the step of participants ranking other participants on the web-site, the step of participants ranking groups on the web-site, the step of giving internet corporate stock ownership rewards as a function of performance measures for the internet site, the step of giving internet web-site corporate stock rewards as a function by formula of the ranking of an individual participant, the step of giving internet web-site corporate stock rewards calculated by formula as a function of the ranking of a group, the step of membership within successively nested groups, the step of stock rewards calculated by formula as a function of the ranking of successively nested groups, the step of rankings as frequ
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 30, 2001
    Publication date: December 26, 2002
    Inventor: John Huppenthal