Patents by Inventor Marla A. Haddon

Marla A. Haddon 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: 20120054118
    Abstract: A system and associated method for automatically registering at least one applicant for a respective Learning Management System (LMS) course. The method creates a course data file from a course record stored in a database, and an order data file from an applicant order for a purchase of a LMS course. The course record and the applicant order are associated via a sale course code that represents specifics of the purchase of the LMS course. The method enrolls an individual student in the LMS course identified in the applicant order by registering the individual student with a corresponding user record in the database and updates transaction logs in the database according to a result of the enrollment.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHARLES W. GRIFFIN, MARLA A. HADDON
  • Publication number: 20120054071
    Abstract: A system and associated method for optimizing process of a purchase order of a Learning Management System (LMS) course for at least one student. The method creates a course data file from a course record stored in a database, and an order data file from an applicant order for a purchase of the LMS course. The course record and the applicant order are associated via a sale course code that represents specifics of the purchase of the LMS course. A quantity of the applicant order indicates a number of students for whom the LMS course purchased. If the quantity is greater than one, an access code is created for an interactive enrollment by each student in the applicant order. Even if the quantity is one, when a student e-mail address is not provided, the access code is produced to enable the individual student to interactively enroll in the LMS course.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2010
    Publication date: March 1, 2012
    Applicant: INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINES CORPORATION
    Inventors: CHARLES W. GRIFFIN, MARLA A. HADDON
  • Patent number: 7927105
    Abstract: Method for prescriptive learning. The method includes providing a user independent hierarchy of competencies, competency characteristics and assessments with associated rules that identify learning activities and identifying a user specific path through the hierarchy for a selected competency and competency characteristic based on the hierarchy, scoring of at least one question associated with at least one assessment associated with the selected competency characteristic. The rules and user specific information provide a user specific identification of learning activities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: September 2, 2004
    Date of Patent: April 19, 2011
    Assignee: International Business Machines Incorporated
    Inventors: Charles W. Griffin, Marla A. Haddon, Biao Luo, John R. Malpass, Benjamin J. Montello