Patents by Inventor Robert S. Aughenbaugh

Robert S. Aughenbaugh 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: 20040091846
    Abstract: Apparatus and methodology employable in an e-learning environment which links with a selected e-learning management system to respond to e-learning benchmarks, and other events relating to e-learning activities, by offering buildable student bank accounts of value points which can be redeemed for various incentive awards that are made known and available to a participating student via a virtual store which is configurable freely to show and describe, and to present values of, such awards. Award inventory, award value, and the relationship which exists between made-available awards and particular benchmarked learning activities, or other events, are freely and widely reconfigurable and modifiable in various ways by a host who manages and configures the system and methodology of the invention.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 7, 2002
    Publication date: May 13, 2004
    Applicant: Via Training, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Robert S. Aughenbaugh, Bruce A. Carocci
  • Publication number: 20040043362
    Abstract: A method, apparatus, and resulting product involving the building, use and specific make-up of an e-learning, e-training, activity. This activity includes a core component template of activity-specific attributes, to which are linked to independently selectable and useable specific training information elements which collectively form the other major component in a completed e-learning activity. The training personality and content of a created activity are freely revisable and re-configurable either through the technique of changing, in some manner, the specific information-training contents in the activity, and/or changing the core make-up of activity attributes in the template of attributes which forms part of the activity.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 29, 2002
    Publication date: March 4, 2004
    Inventors: Robert S. Aughenbaugh, Bruce A. Carocci