Michael Perrone

US Patent:

20130267285, Oct 10, 2013

Filed:

Apr 4, 2012

Appl. No.:

13/439305

Inventors:

Timothy J. Kelley - Chicago IL, US
Michael J. Perrone - Chicago IL, US
Joseph T. Napoli - Chicago IL, US
Innokenty Y. Mihailov - Kiev, UA

International Classification:

A63F 13/12

US Classification:

463 9

Abstract:

A web application facilitates live on-line academic competition between teams and individuals based on multiple choice or fill-in-the-blank questions and fosters academic competition between students and schools. Using the software application, a team's Coach may enter his/her team in a league of regular competition, schedule a single competition with another team, or organize a competition between the team's members by dividing the team into multiple teams. The test environment provides the experience of competing over test questions, including a scoreboard that keeps track of progress with respect to the test time and the opponent. Students of comparable abilities on competing teams are matched using a matching algorithm that matches the students based on past test performance and the like.