Patents Examined by Nathan Hillery
  • Patent number: 11862041
    Abstract: Some embodiments of an integrated student-growth platform for discovering, designating, and organizing heterogeneous instructional electronic resources based on observational assessments of students are disclosed. The student-growth platform is configured to establish and generate the best possible set of skills and resources for an educator to teach a group of students on a particular day and for a student to quickly progress to meet preferred educational standards. In one embodiment, the student-growth system includes a communication unit for sending and receiving data among users (e.g., teachers and students), an assessment platform, a planning platform, a learning-progression platform, an assignment platform, a mastery-maker platform, a Multi-Dimensional Response Item (MIRT) platform, and a reporting platform.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 14, 2022
    Date of Patent: January 2, 2024
    Assignee: RENAISSANCE LEARNING, INC.
    Inventors: Mark Angel, Robert Zieroth, Pete Jungwirth, Eric Stickney, Diana Blythe, Gena Kukartsev
  • Patent number: 11823591
    Abstract: The disclosure herein describes an emotional insight management system that provides user-configured prompts and insights to the user. In some examples, an insights application provides personalized, recurring prompts to encourage users to provide current emotional state updates to a well-being journal. The user's responses over time are aggregated within a historical trends report, which provides emotional response data over time. The insights application generates insights into potential reasons for the user's emotional states on a given day. The system analyzes the user-provided emotion response data with integrated work-related data to identify reasons for the user's mood and make recommendations for actions to be taken by users to reduce stress and improve the user's emotional well-being.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 8, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 21, 2023
    Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC
    Inventors: Vivek Chauhan, Wendy Guo, Danny Lee Fraser, Justin Joseph Fagnan, Leanna Holly Robb, Chi Huang, Darren Glenn Austin, Jinkai Zhang
  • Patent number: 11817012
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatically assessing authorship of written work and progress toward successful completion of written tasks, such as academic or professional writing assignments are provided. Such systems and methods can include tracking research and writing tasks performed within a research application environment over time in connection creating an assignment document for a user account, extracting evaluation data from the research and writing tasks, and executing an assignment evaluation engine to generate a score for the assignment document based on the evaluation data.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 4, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 14, 2023
    Assignee: POWERNOTES LLC
    Inventors: Wilson Tsu, Matthew Pelmear
  • Patent number: 11797597
    Abstract: An online platform generates a playlist of clips of a lecture accessed by a plurality of users of the online platform. The online platform receives a recording of the lecture, and receives a plurality of events captured during a time period corresponding to the lecture. Each captured event is associated with a time stamp corresponding to a time at which a user performed an activity while listening to the lecture. The online platform clusters the captured events based on the time stamps, and generates one or more clips of the recording of the lecture from the clustered events. The online platform generates a playlist including the clips of the lecture.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 11, 2021
    Date of Patent: October 24, 2023
    Assignee: Chegg, Inc.
    Inventors: Oliver Raskin, Colin Murphy, Vincent Le Chevalier
  • Patent number: 11756443
    Abstract: Provided is a learning support system which can enhance a learning effect by sharing a matter of interest among learners viewing a learning content. The learning support system includes: a learning content display unit configured to play and display a teaching material video; a learner information reporting unit configured to acquire biological information of a learner during play of the teaching material video and report the biological information as learner information; a region-of-attention identification unit configured to identify a region-of-attention of the learner based on the biological information; a learner information display creation unit configured to generate a screen in which the region-of-attention is superimposed on the teaching material video of another learner belonging to the same cluster as the learner; and a learner information transmission unit configured to transmit the screen to the another learner.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 28, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 12, 2023
    Assignees: HITACHI, LTD., KYOTO UNIVERSITY
    Inventors: Takashi Numata, Ryuji Mine
  • Patent number: 11727326
    Abstract: Methods and systems described in this disclosure are directed at delivery of educational concepts for increasing the financial literacy of youths. In some embodiments, a mobile application program is disclosed that facilitates management of tasks assigned to youths, setting up a rewards program for participants that complete tasks successfully on time, integrating different types of data from various devices to determine whether an assigned task is successfully completed. In some embodiments, the disclosed platform can integrate with electronic payment systems managed by external third parties for rewarding youths on successfully completing the task.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 17, 2021
    Date of Patent: August 15, 2023
    Assignee: United Services Automobile Association (USAA)
    Inventors: Ryan James Fillinger, Richard Tanner, Joey Kessler, Layne Wiesendanger
  • Patent number: 11704383
    Abstract: Systems and techniques for dynamic generation and injection of edge-cached meta-data are described herein. A request for a component of a web page requested by a user from a content delivery network may be received. The component may be retrieved from an application server. Instructions may be generated for the component. The instructions may be injected around the component may be wrapped to form a wrapped component. The wrapped component may be transmitted to the content delivery network for storage in an edge cache.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2019
    Date of Patent: July 18, 2023
    Assignee: BBY SOLUTIONS, INC.
    Inventors: Sean Godinez, Praveen Kotla, David Adolphson
  • Patent number: 11687702
    Abstract: Functionality is described for creating objects that represent respective items provided in a store. The objects can be embedded in various hosts, such as network-accessible pages (e.g., web pages), network-accessible journals (e.g., blogs), messages (e.g., Emails), and so on. Consumers can activate the objects in the hosts to retrieve information associated with the corresponding items. According to one illustrative feature, the functionality provides a general interface for creating objects for different types of items stored in the store, including file items of various kinds (e.g., text files, image files, audio files, spreadsheet files, video files, etc.), list items, folder items, and so on. According to another illustrative feature, the functionality provides an interface for allowing users to customize various aspects of objects.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 11, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 27, 2023
    Assignee: MICROSOFT TECHNOLOGY LICENSING, LLC
    Inventors: Jason F. Moore, David Citron
  • Patent number: 11636252
    Abstract: Methods and systems for an accessibility system are provided. The methods and systems include operations comprising: receiving a request for a markup language document; obtaining the markup language document; processing a first portion of the markup language document with a machine learning technique to generate a first dictation corresponding to the first portion of the markup language document, the machine learning technique being trained to establish a relationship between a plurality of training markup language documents and training dictations corresponding to the training markup language documents; and replacing the first portion of the markup language document with the first dictation.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 24, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 25, 2023
    Assignee: Express Scripts Strategic Development, Inc.
    Inventors: Christopher M. Myers, Tatyana Feinstein
  • Patent number: 11620916
    Abstract: The invention provides a method and system for using a machine learning technique for identifying and outputting most relevant articles for a learning program.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 9, 2020
    Date of Patent: April 4, 2023
    Assignee: Amesite Inc.
    Inventor: Ann Marie Sastry
  • Patent number: 11615495
    Abstract: A method and system for representing usage of an electronic learning system. The method and system involve receiving an input indicative of a selection of a property of the electronic learning system to be represented, the property including a course content provided by the electronic learning system and an activity available for that course content; receiving representation parameters that define a scope of the usage to be represented; determining an event count for the property during the period of interest; and generating a usage indicator for the property based at least on the event count. The usage indicator is generally reflective of at least a usage amount of the property during the period of interest.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: March 28, 2023
    Assignee: D2L Corporation
    Inventors: Sebastian Mihai, Dariusz Grabka
  • Patent number: 11593451
    Abstract: A system and method for comparing zones for different versions of a website based on performance metrics are provided. The method includes collecting comparison versions of at least one website specified in a received comparison request; identifying at least one comparison zone in the collected comparison versions, wherein a comparison zone is a zone included in the at least one specified website; collecting at least one comparison zone metric for each of the at least one comparison zones for the collected comparison versions, wherein the at least one comparison zone metric is a numerical value related to a user interaction metric with the at least one comparison zone; analyzing the collected comparison zone metrics to determine zone performance; and returning the analysis results.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 27, 2020
    Date of Patent: February 28, 2023
    Assignee: Content Square SAS
    Inventors: Luis Diaz, Antoine Guo, Lionel Seguin
  • Patent number: 11551581
    Abstract: The present invention relates to an automatic injection training device comprising an elongated housing having a distal end and an opposite proximal end and extending along a longitudinally axis (L); a tubular demo container axially and rotationally fixed relative to the elongated housing and having a tubular wall extending along the longitudinally axis (L); a reloadable plunger assembly comprising a plunger rod which is movable in the demo container between a first and a second position and a first energy accumulating element configured to move the plunger rod from the first to the second position; an actuation assembly configured to hold the plunger rod in the first position and to release the plunger rod from the first position.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 16, 2021
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: SHL MEDICAL AG
    Inventors: Wen-An Chang, Yun-Hsuan Chang
  • Patent number: 11551567
    Abstract: The embodiments herein disclose a system and a method for providing an online web-based interactive audio-visual platform for note creation, presentation, sharing, organizing, and analysis. The system provides a conceptual and interactive interface to content; analyses a student's notes and instantly determines the accuracy of the conceptual connections made and a student's understanding of a topic. The system enables the student to add and use audio, visual, drawing, text notes, and mathematical equations in addition to those suggested by the note taking solution; to collate notes from various sources in a meaningful manner by grouping concepts using colors, images, and text; and to personalize other maps developed within the same environment while maintaining links back to the original source from which the notes are derived. The system highlights keywords in conjunction with spoken text to complement the advantages of using visual maps to improve learning outcomes.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 14, 2020
    Date of Patent: January 10, 2023
    Assignee: IDEAPHORA INDIA PRIVATE LIMITED
    Inventor: Anil Arvindam
  • Patent number: 11538358
    Abstract: A method of training for welding through virtual reality (VR) provides a VR headset, a processing device, and a welding training tool. The processing device is communicably coupled with the VR headset and the hand-held welding training tool designed to simulate a real-world welding experience in VR. A virtual welding environment is displayed through the VR headset, and motion tracking input is received through the welding training tool. The user input is analyzed using an AI algorithm to evaluate user welding performance. User feedback devices such as sound and scent generation may be implemented in order to simulate a welding procedure. AI user feedback is implemented based on the welding performance to guide learning. Welding scenarios may be completed to train for welding in the virtual welding environment, and virtual currency may be awarded for gamification purposes. Multi-participant welding scenarios and immersive, objective-based, simulated real-world environments are further implemented.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 23, 2021
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Inventor: Sherman McLeod
  • Patent number: 11538351
    Abstract: A processor based input system is provided for automatically determining the cognitive assessment of a human as an input source to a processor based automated system configured for use in a human-machine team. In some embodiments, the processor based input system comprises an input device, a cognitive assessment input system (CAIS) and a processor based automated system. In some embodiments the CAIS comprises an interaction data acquisition module configured to receive input data from the input device as interaction data, a cognitive indicators and work patterns analysis module configured to determine a cognitive measure from the interaction data, an intervention building module configured to determine automation directives for a processor based automated system from the cognitive measure and the automated system is configured to receive and execute automation directives from the CAIS as an input source to the processor based automated system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 14, 2019
    Date of Patent: December 27, 2022
    Assignee: Aptima, Inc.
    Inventors: Sylvain Bruni, Lisa Lucia
  • Patent number: 11508252
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automatic generation of a content presentation plan are disclosed herein. The method can include receiving content identification information, retrieving objective information for the one or several objectives identified for inclusion in a content presentation plan, identifying at least one prerequisite skill for completion of at least one of the one or several objectives, generating at least one remediation question configured to delineate between users having mastery of the at least one prerequisite skill and users not having mastery of the at least one prerequisite skill, pre-selecting remedial content for providing to users identified as not having mastery of the at least one prerequisite skill, selecting objective content corresponding to the at least one objectives, and creating a content presentation plan containing the at least one remediation question, the remedial content, and the objective content.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 27, 2021
    Date of Patent: November 22, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Vivek Govil, Wayne Press, Jennifer Walsh
  • Patent number: 11501655
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for storing textbook data, a glossary, and problems within a database; identifying a problem's guided solution, and a keyword within the solution matching an entry within the glossary, from which a skill tag is associated. The disclosed system then automatically generates an assessment including an assessment problem associated with the skill. If an incorrect response is received for the assessment problem, the database is updated to associate a user that input the response with the assessment problem and a skill. The system then automatically generates a customized exercise assignment associated in the database with the skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Elewitz, Juan Lin, Shushan He, Victoria Kortan
  • Patent number: 11494546
    Abstract: Systems and methods include requesting, from a first application system, of data associated with a data subject, reception, from the first application system and in response to the request, of the data associated with the data subject and data contexts respectively associated with the data, presentation of the data and the data contexts to a user, reception of instructions from the user to generate a first configuration including at least one mapping of a data context to a descriptive field value, generation of a first report based on the data, the data contexts and the first configuration, presentation of the first report to the user, and storage of the first configuration in association with the first application system.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 18, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: SAP SE
    Inventor: Benny Rolle
  • Patent number: 11450231
    Abstract: A math aid that strengthens addition, subtraction, multiplication and division skills as well as math memory. Math facts are displayed on two stuffed rolls using horizontal strips, color differences, various digit sizes and a roll shape all used to increase ease and focus on seeing selected facts for a math problem. Each roll displays numbers in a horizontal row for counting and subtracting. One of the rolls displays a column of even multiplicands, a row of multipliers, and corresponding rows of quotients. The second roll has a similar display but provides a column of odd multiplicands. In using the aid, one selects the facts needed by rotating the roll to the strip of facts needed, then flattening the roll enough to hold its position to see those needed facts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 13, 2021
    Date of Patent: September 20, 2022
    Inventor: Mark Jonathan Wilson