Patents by Inventor G. Vinay Shashidhar

G. Vinay Shashidhar 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).

  • Tutoring agent improvement recommendation
    Patent number: 10984672
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a plurality of transcripts, each transcript corresponding to an interaction between a student and a tutoring agent; identifying conversational patterns within the plurality of transcripts, the identified conversational patterns indicating a level of understanding regarding the interaction between the tutoring agent and the student, wherein the identifying comprises (i) identifying an exchange between the tutoring agent and the student, the exchange comprising a conversational turn by each of the tutoring agent and the student and (ii) classifying each of the conversational turns into a response type; determining, based upon the identified conversational patterns, a possible improvement to the tutoring agent, wherein the possible improvement is determined based upon the classified response types of each of (i) the tutoring agent and (ii) the student; and notifying a developer of the tutoring agent of the identified possible improvement.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Date of Patent: April 20, 2021
    Assignee: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: Tejas Indulal Dhamecha, Renuka Sindhgatta, Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya, G. Vinay Shashidhar, Shazia Afzal, Bikram Sengupta
  • TUTORING AGENT IMPROVEMENT RECOMMENDATION
    Publication number: 20190362642
    Abstract: One embodiment provides a method, including: receiving a plurality of transcripts, each transcript corresponding to an interaction between a student and a tutoring agent; identifying conversational patterns within the plurality of transcripts, the identified conversational patterns indicating a level of understanding regarding the interaction between the tutoring agent and the student, wherein the identifying comprises (i) identifying an exchange between the tutoring agent and the student, the exchange comprising a conversational turn by each of the tutoring agent and the student and (ii) classifying each of the conversational turns into a response type; determining, based upon the identified conversational patterns, a possible improvement to the tutoring agent, wherein the possible improvement is determined based upon the classified response types of each of (i) the tutoring agent and (ii) the student; and notifying a developer of the tutoring agent of the identified possible improvement.
    Type: Application
    Filed: May 23, 2018
    Publication date: November 28, 2019
    Inventors: Tejas Indulal Dhamecha, Renuka Sindhgatta, Smitkumar Narotambhai Marvaniya, G. Vinay Shashidhar, Shazia Afzal, Bikram Sengupta