Patents by Inventor David A. ZES

David A. ZES 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).

  • Patent number: 10346804
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are directed toward methods of providing a user interface for a job applicant self-assessment and computing an overall fit score between the applicant and a target job. An ideal job candidate may be specified by an employer on the basis of four categories: competencies, personality traits, motives, and experience levels. Then, an actual job applicant may interact with a user interface to perform a self-assessment on each of the four categories. A fit score may be determined between the applicant and the job for each of the four categories, and the four fit scores may be used to compute an overall fit score between the applicant and the job.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Date of Patent: July 9, 2019
    Assignee: Korn Ferry International
    Inventors: David A. Zes, Andrew R. Simmons, Jeff A. Jones, Susan D. D'Mello
  • Patent number: 9355485
    Abstract: A word cloud can quickly convey relative importance of words by displaying relatively important words larger than relatively unimportant words. Examples of the disclosure are directed to methods of generating a word cloud inside a predetermined polygon of arbitrary shape and size. For example, a word cloud may be generated with words to describe a particular company, and the word cloud may be generated inside the predefined shape of that company's logo, creating a single visualization that both describes and identifies the company. Further, whereas a traditional word cloud may illustrate relative word importance through relative word size, based on relative frequency of each word in a description or corpus, examples of the disclosure are directed to word clouds that can represent multiple dimensions of information for each word using size and color, for example.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Date of Patent: May 31, 2016
    Assignee: Korn Ferry International
    Inventor: David A. Zes
  • Publication number: 20150286991
    Abstract: Examples of the disclosure are directed toward methods of providing a user interface for a job applicant self-assessment and computing an overall fit score between the applicant and a target job. An ideal job candidate may be specified by an employer on the basis of four categories: competencies, personality traits, motives, and experience levels. Then, an actual job applicant may interact with a user interface to perform a self-assessment on each of the four categories. A fit score may be determined between the applicant and the job for each of the four categories, and the four fit scores may be used to compute an overall fit score between the applicant and the job.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 4, 2014
    Publication date: October 8, 2015
    Applicant: Korn Ferry International
    Inventors: David A. ZES, Andrew R. SIMMONS, Jeff A. JONES, Susan D. D'MELLO
  • Publication number: 20150262401
    Abstract: A word cloud can quickly convey relative importance of words by displaying relatively important words larger than relatively unimportant words. Examples of the disclosure are directed to methods of generating a word cloud inside a predetermined polygon of arbitrary shape and size. For example, a word cloud may be generated with words to describe a particular company, and the word cloud may be generated inside the predefined shape of that company's logo, creating a single visualization that both describes and identifies the company. Further, whereas a traditional word cloud may illustrate relative word importance through relative word size, based on relative frequency of each word in a description or corpus, examples of the disclosure are directed to word clouds that can represent multiple dimensions of information for each word using size and color, for example.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 11, 2014
    Publication date: September 17, 2015
    Applicant: Korn Ferry International
    Inventor: David A. ZES