Patents Assigned to Institute for Research on Learning
  • Patent number: 6216098
    Abstract: Methods and apparatus for modeling behavior. A computer model includes an agent having one or more beliefs, a world model, and facts. Behavior is modeled by frames including workframes modeling a time-consuming portions of an activity or thoughtframes modeling non-time-consuming portions of an activity or information processing. Detectables model acquisition of, and response to, information during a defined portion of an activity. A detectable tests facts to form beliefs of the agent, which can affect continued performance of the activity. The model is run by selecting for each time one of the frames to be the working frame; maintaining a context of active frames representing activities that are underway at any time; performing the working frame until it completes or another frame is selected to be performed in its place.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 5, 1998
    Date of Patent: April 10, 2001
    Assignees: Institute for Research on Learning, Bell Atlantic Network Services, Inc.
    Inventors: William J. Clancey, David M. Torok, Maarten Sierhuis, Ron J. J. van Hoof, Patricia Sachs
  • Patent number: 5745113
    Abstract: A system for recording and displaying information about work practice through a set of at least two different graphical tools, each associated with at least one kind of information about work practice and at least one kind of workplace object. The graphical user interface of each tool has at least one characteristic display metaphor conventional for a kind of information associated with the tool. Each tool has at least one characteristic display metaphor that differs from at least one of the characteristic display metaphors of every other tool in the set of tools. The graphical user interface of one of the tools is augmented to display information of a kind associated with a different one of the tools.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 3, 1996
    Date of Patent: April 28, 1998
    Assignees: Institute for Research on Learning, Bell Atlantic Science & Technology, Inc.
    Inventors: Brigitte Jordan, Ron Goldman, Patricia Sachs