Patents by Inventor Rain Hughes

Rain Hughes 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: 20140255901
    Abstract: An apparatus, system, and method for displaying content. A portion of content may be displayed to a user. Personal and community data relating to the portion of content may be displayed alongside the portion of content. The personal and community data may include performance-related data. Furthermore, portions of content may be selectively displayed based on customizable performance thresholds.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 11, 2014
    Applicant: Fast Forward Academy, LLC
    Inventors: Rain HUGHES, Matthew McBride, Ryan Mills, James Brashear
  • Publication number: 20140193791
    Abstract: A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics or to a subset thereof, collecting personal information from each user of the plurality of users, subdividing the plurality of users into a plurality of communities based on the personal information of each user, facilitating interactions between the users within a community of the plurality of communities, and generating a credibility score for each user within the community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: January 16, 2014
    Publication date: July 10, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew D. MCBRIDE, Rain Hughes
  • Patent number: 8666302
    Abstract: A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics or to a subset thereof, collecting personal information from each user of the plurality of users, subdividing the plurality of users into a plurality of communities based on the personal information of each user, facilitating interactions between the users within a community of the plurality of communities, and generating a credibility score for each user within the community.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Date of Patent: March 4, 2014
    Inventors: Matthew D. McBride, Rain Hughes
  • Publication number: 20120301861
    Abstract: A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics or to a subset thereof, collecting personal information from each user of the plurality of users, subdividing the plurality of users into a plurality of communities based on the personal information of each user, facilitating interactions between the users within a community of the plurality of communities, and generating a credibility score for each user within the community.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 20, 2012
    Publication date: November 29, 2012
    Inventors: Matthew D. MCBRIDE, Rain Hughes
  • Publication number: 20120231435
    Abstract: A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, and comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 29, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: MATTHEW D. MCBRIDE, Rain Hughes
  • Publication number: 20120231440
    Abstract: A system and method for education including community-sourced data and community interactions. The method can include registering a plurality of users in a database, presenting educational material to a user of the plurality of users, recording the performance of the user in regards to the educational material, collecting personal statistics regarding the performance of the user, generating a momentum score for the user based on the personal statistics, displaying the momentum score to the user, compiling the personal statistics for the plurality of users to generate community statistics regarding the performance of the plurality of users, and comparing the personal statistics of a user to the community statistics.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 16, 2011
    Publication date: September 13, 2012
    Inventors: Matthew D. MCBRIDE, Rain Hughes