Patents by Inventor ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL

ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).

  • Publication number: 20180096444
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method including receiving a description of a work assignment; the description includes a keyword. The method also includes searching online content for training material related to the work assignment, and searching the online content for information regarding the training material; at least a portion of the training material is accessible via a website. The method also includes assigning a credibility ranking to the website; compiling a training material ranking in accordance with the information and the website credibility ranking; and generating a training program for performing the work assignment, based on the training material and the training material ranking. Training program data for facilitating access to the training program is stored in a database indexed using the keyword. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 3, 2016
    Publication date: April 5, 2018
    Inventors: NIGEL BRADLEY, TIMOTHY INNES, WASIB KHALLIL, ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL, BHUMIT PATEL
  • Publication number: 20180005190
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, selecting a subset of employees from among a group of employees according to performance data of the group of employees where the group of employees is associated with an employment position and where a group of known desired attributes is associated with the employment position, analyzing employee information for the subset of employees to identify a correlation, identifying an unknown desired attribute according to the correlation, obtaining candidate information for a group of candidates, selecting a subset of candidates from among the group of candidates according to a comparison of the group of known desired attributes, the unknown desired attribute and the candidate information. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 29, 2016
    Publication date: January 4, 2018
    Inventors: TIMOTHY INNES, NIGEL BRADLEY, ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL, BHUMIT PATEL, WASIB KHALLIL, DAVID SPIVEY
  • Publication number: 20170345058
    Abstract: Aspects of the subject disclosure may include, for example, a method that include combining an offer with media content to generate a notice within a portion of the media content, providing the notice in the designated portions of the media content with the notice during a media content presentation at equipment of a user, receiving an indication of interest in the portion, retrieving marketing information for the portion of the media content based on the user profile including location based information, time based information, and activity information, monitoring an activity of the mobile communication device to determine when the mobile communication device information satisfies a location, time, and activity information that matches the marketing information and determining a communication for the user based on the marketing information and the monitoring of the activity of the mobile communication device. Other embodiments are disclosed.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 25, 2016
    Publication date: November 30, 2017
    Inventors: TIMOTHY INNES, NIGEL BRADLEY, WASIB KHALLIL, ALEXANDER MACDOUGALL, BHUMIT PATEL, DAVID SPIVEY