Jason A Haas

US Patent:

20090019078, Jan 15, 2009

Filed:

May 5, 2008

Appl. No.:

12/115278

Inventors:

Alexander S. Chisholm - West Roxbury MA, US
Kathleen K. Abbott - Ashland VA, US
Jason Haas - Somerville MA, US
Robert Stupay - Brooklyn NY, US

Assignee:

NBC Universal, Inc. - New York NY

International Classification:

G06F 17/30
G06F 3/048

US Classification:

707102, 715763, 707E17001

Abstract:

A system provides a multi-sided media viewer capable of displaying media assets from an electronic archival news and content database. Each side of the media player contains different information regarding the media asset. A primary side of the media asset may display a media asset related to an educational program, such as a course curriculum or the like. The secondary sides of the media viewer may contain additional information regarding that media asset, including personalized information generated by a system user as well as automatically populated information, such as information collected from other external news services or content providers. The system may further provide an educational game in which users are encouraged to find and draw connections between media assets to create an interconnection of related news items. The multi-sided media viewer may be a two-sided cue card, or a multidimensional news or content element having any number of sides depending on the additional information to be displayed with the media asset.