Adaptive clicker technique

US8903305B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• Microsoft Corporation · US

Inventors

• Jay Curtis Beavers · Duvall, US
• Juan Dai · Sammamish, US
• Ravipal Soin · Kirkland, US
• Christopher H. Moffatt · Sammamish, US
• Wei Zhang · Beijing, CN

Key dates

• Filing date: Jun 5, 2009
• Grant date: Dec 2, 2014
• Expiry date: Mar 12, 2032

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G09B5/08
• WIPO field: Control
• WIPO sector: Instruments

Abstract

An adaptive clicker technique is described that provides a standardized polling control and a registration system to support mixed types of clickers and integrate the polling data. One embodiment of the adaptive clicker technique operates as follows. User inputs from more than one type of clicker device (e.g., personal interactive response system device) are received. The inputs from the more than one type of clicker device are formatted with a clicker adapter for each type of clicker to adapt user inputs to a common polling controller. The adapted inputs are then processed with the common polling controller to interface the adapted inputs with a personal response system software application to allow user polling data to be collected and assessed.