Audience response systems, methods and apparatus
OwnerScott Thielman, George Niederauerinventors
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Abstract
In some embodiments of the present invention, a wireless audience response system can have a host unit, presenter device, and a plurality of audience response units with keypads, with the host unit being communicatively coupled to a computer. The audience response units can check-in to the host unit based on adjustable check-in times that are updated and adjusted by the host unit and transmitted to the audience response units.
Claims23
An audience response system comprising:
- at least one host unit;
- and
- a plurality of audience response units, said host unit and plurality of audience response units being configured to communicate in a wireless setting in which the host unit transmits at least one check-in period to the plurality of audience response units and wherein the audience response units check-in as a function of the at least one check-in period.
A method of communicating using an audience response system having a host unit and a plurality of audience response units that are communicatively connected within a wireless network, comprising:
- adjusting check-in periods of the audience response units, the check-in periods being a function of check-in frequency on the network;
- and
- transmitting the adjusted check-in periods to a plurality of the audience response units.
A method of communicating using an audience response system having a host unit and a plurality of audience response units that are communicatively connected within a wireless network, comprising:
- initiating a check-in by an audience response unit to transmit a message from the audience response unit to the host unit;
- and
- initiating a check-in by the audience response unit to retrieve information from the host unit, wherein when the audience response unit is successful in checking-in to the host unit, the host unit transmits information to the audience response unit.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.