Patents by Inventor Keith MacKenzie

Keith MacKenzie 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).

  • Creating and discovering learning content in a social learning system
    Patent number: 9792335
    Abstract: In analyzing learning content, a social learning system receives from at least one client system in the social learning system a creation of at least one informal course by a learning content creator. Each informal course comprises learning content and metadata describing the learning content and the learning content creator. The social learning system further receives social data from a plurality of client systems in the social learning system for the at least one informal course. When the social learning system receives a query from a learning content administrator system in the social learning system including query parameters, the social learning system searches at least one of the metadata and the social data for one or more informal courses matching the query parameters and returns a list of one or more informal courses matching the query parameters as a query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Date of Patent: October 17, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Boyer, Adam L. Cutler, Jodi M. Cutler, Keith MacKenzie
  • Creating and discovering learning content in a social learning system
    Patent number: 9773046
    Abstract: In analyzing learning content, a social learning system receives from at least one client system in the social learning system a creation of at least one informal course by a learning content creator. Each informal course comprises learning content and metadata describing the learning content and the learning content creator. The social learning system further receives social data from a plurality of client systems in the social learning system for the at least one informal course. When the social learning system receives a query from a learning content administrator system in the social learning system including query parameters, the social learning system searches at least one of the metadata and the social data for one or more informal courses matching the query parameters and returns a list of one or more informal courses matching the query parameters as a query result.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Date of Patent: September 26, 2017
    Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
    Inventors: John M. Boyer, Adam L. Cutler, Jodi M. Cutler, Keith MacKenzie
  • CREATING AND DISCOVERING LEARNING CONTENT IN A SOCIAL LEARNING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160180729
    Abstract: In analyzing learning content, a social learning system receives from at least one client system in the social learning system a creation of at least one informal course by a learning content creator. Each informal course comprises learning content and metadata describing the learning content and the learning content creator. The social learning system further receives social data from a plurality of client systems in the social learning system for the at least one informal course. When the social learning system receives a query from a learning content administrator system in the social learning system including query parameters, the social learning system searches at least one of the metadata and the social data for one or more informal courses matching the query parameters and returns a list of one or more informal courses matching the query parameters as a query result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 11, 2015
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: John M. Boyer, Adam L. Cutler, Jodi M. Cutler, Keith MacKenzie
  • CREATING AND DISCOVERING LEARNING CONTENT IN A SOCIAL LEARNING SYSTEM
    Publication number: 20160179907
    Abstract: In analyzing learning content, a social learning system receives from at least one client system in the social learning system a creation of at least one informal course by a learning content creator. Each informal course comprises learning content and metadata describing the learning content and the learning content creator. The social learning system further receives social data from a plurality of client systems in the social learning system for the at least one informal course. When the social learning system receives a query from a learning content administrator system in the social learning system including query parameters, the social learning system searches at least one of the metadata and the social data for one or more informal courses matching the query parameters and returns a list of one or more informal courses matching the query parameters as a query result.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 19, 2014
    Publication date: June 23, 2016
    Inventors: John M. Boyer, Adam L. Cutler, Jodi M. Cutler, Keith MacKenzie