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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5944530 | Learning method and system that consider a student's concentration level A computer-aided-educational method and system that consider a student's concentration level when teaching the student. The system monitors automatically more than once the student's concentration-sensitive behavior while the student is working on the stu... | 08/31/1999 |
| 5934910 | Learning method and system based on questioning A method and a system to teach a user a subject based on his questions. The system allows the user to control his learning process, and helps to fill in gaps of misunderstanding in the subject. In one embodiment, the system, including a database, presents... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5934909 | Methods and apparatus to assess and enhance a student's understanding in a subject An educational method and system that assess and enhance a student's understanding in a subject. Based on the student's understanding, individually-tailored tests are generated, whose difficulties are geared towards the student's level of understanding in... | 08/10/1999 |
| 5884302 | System and method to answer a question A database-processing method and system for answering a natural-language question by a computer system with a database. In one embodiment, the system analyzes the grammatical structure of the question. In the analysis, the system scans the question to ext... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5863208 | Learning system and method based on review A system and method to provide dynamic reviews for individual students. In one embodiment for a student, the system selects an un-learnt line-item, and generates detailed learning materials for the un-learnt line-item. Then the system selects a learnt lin... | 01/26/1999 |
| 5836771 | Learning method and system based on questioning A Method and System to teach a user a subject based on his questions. The system allows the user to control his learning process, and helps to fill in gaps of misunderstanding in the subject. In one embodiment, the system, including a database, presents s... | 11/17/1998 |
| 5743746 | Reward enriched learning system and method A computer-aided-educational system and method for rewarding a student when the student attains a milestone in a subject. The subject is divided into line-items with at least one line-item being more difficult than another line-item. In one embodiment, th... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5743743 | Learning method and system that restricts entertainment Method and system to help a student to focus on study materials on a computer by restricting the student from enjoying entertainment materials on the computer. The study materials are presented through a study program, and the entertainment materials are ... | 04/28/1998 |
| 5727951 | Relationship-based computer-aided-educational system A computer-aided-educational system and method to further a student's understanding in a subject through associating the subject's different areas that the student has learnt. The subject is divided into line-items and relationship-items, with each relati... | 03/17/1998 |
| 5457355 | Asymmetrical field emitter Providing a field emitter with an asymmetrical emitter structure having a very sharp tip in close proximity to its gate. One preferred embodiment of the present invention includes an asymmetrical emitter and a gate. The emitter having a tip and a side is ... | 10/10/1995 |
| 5448550 | Selecting sectors in a storage medium Selecting different sectors in a storage medium using switches on the storage medium, instead of programming the instrument reading the storage medium. Each switch has a switching material. The switching material can be located at more than one interchang... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5446804 | Magnifying digital image using edge mapping A method of magnifying a digital image based on an edge map. The image has many original pixels, with each pixel having a level, and the locations of the pixels having a resolution. The method to magnify the image includes the steps of producing an edge m... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5410719 | Field compositor for merging data and including cells each receiving three control and two data inputs and generating one control and one data output therefrom A field compositor, with a regular and systematic structure, that merges fields of data together to compose new data words. Starting from a basic cell, the field compositor merges longer words by connecting more of the basic cells together in a systematic... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5388268 | Methods of indicating states of software processes cooperating on a single task A visual display system providing an operator simultaneous descriptions of the states of many cooperating sub-processes working on a task and residing in various instruments in a distributed system. A server process is connected to receive and translate s... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5340997 | Electrostatically shielded field emission microelectronic device A field emission microelectronic device based on field emitter structures and fabrication processes. In one embodiment, the microelectronic device includes an electron source, a collector adjacent to the source, and an isolator. The source and the collect... | 08/23/1994 |
| 5339431 | Software compiler and linker with improved line-number table A compiler-linker software system translates a source code file into a machine executable code file. The compiler converts source code files to corresponding object code files. The linker converts the object code files to machine executable code files and... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5187677 | Waveform synthesizer through simulating multiplication A novel waveform synthesizer that generates a select output waveform, through simulating the multiplication of the components of the output waveform, is disclosed. One embodiment of this synthesizer is based on the following equation: Sin(Sin-1... | 02/16/1993 |
| 5175490 | Reference voltage source A reference voltage source which provides a plurality of reference voltages with equal step size between voltages despite loads connected to the reference voltage source. The reference voltage source is composed of a plurality of slave resistors connected... | 12/29/1992 |
| 5094984 | Suppression of water vapor absorption in glass encapsulation A method for encapsulation of an integrated circuit array that suppresses or eliminates absorption and subsequent out-gassing of water vapor and suppresses or eliminates out-gassing of toxic constituents of the encapsulation layer such as trimethyl borate... | 03/10/1992 |
