Patents by Inventor Lorna Maguire

Lorna Maguire 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).

  • Selective writing assessment with tutoring
    Patent number: 8608477
    Abstract: An on-line, computerized, software-driven system provides writing assessment of submitted essays with instructional feedback. The feedback incorporates comments and prompts provided to the user which are generated in response to the assessment evaluation of written text. Skill level and developmental level comments, remarks and prompts on various genre specific domain areas are provided in a real-time mode or in a request response mode, as elected by the user. Assessment and scores are provided by machine methods driven by a software engine. All appropriate comments and prompts are generated to the user by analysis logic software operating on a database of genre specific, educationally acceptable comments and prompts.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Date of Patent: December 17, 2013
    Assignee: Vantage Technologies Knowledge Assessment, L.L.C.
    Inventors: Brian C. Maguire, Kevin M. MacClay, Lorna Maguire
  • Selective writing assessment with tutoring
    Publication number: 20070238084
    Abstract: An on-line, computerized, software-driven system provides writing assessment of submitted essays with instructional feedback. The feedback incorporates comments and prompts provided to the user which are generated in response to the assessment evaluation of written text. Skill level and developmental level comments, remarks and prompts on various genre specific domain areas are provided in a real-time mode or in a request response mode, as elected by the user. Assessment and scores are provided by machine methods driven by a software engine. All appropriate comments and prompts are generated to the user by analysis logic software operating on a database of genre specific, educationally acceptable comments and prompts.
    Type: Application
    Filed: April 6, 2006
    Publication date: October 11, 2007
    Inventors: Brian Maguire, Kevin MacClay, Lorna Maguire