Patents by Inventor Michael Nealis
Michael Nealis 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).
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Patent number: 12445444Abstract: Systems and methods of the disclosure provide for receiving, from a GUI on a client device, a request to download and install an OS image and integrated interactive service on a bootable resource; transmitting to the client device the OS image and the integrated interactive service to be installed on the bootable resource, wherein the bootable resource is configured to: on a restart of the client device, boot to the OS image and launch the interactive service; and deny access to any software, service, or resource not available on the bootable resource.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2022Date of Patent: October 14, 2025Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventor: Michael Nealis
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Patent number: 12175549Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more entity and/aggregate risk scores and/or aggregate anticipated risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 24, 2024Assignee: NCS PEARSON, INC.Inventors: Joseph Brutsche, Darrick Jensen, Michael Nealis, Peter Pascale, Vladan Pulec
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Patent number: 12079741Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more entity and/aggregate risk scores and/or aggregate anticipated risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: September 3, 2024Assignee: NCS PEARSON, INC.Inventors: Joseph Brutsche, Darrick Jensen, Michael Nealis, Peter Pascale, Vladan Pulec
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Patent number: 11875242Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by nested machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. Entity data for each entity may be separately processed by entity-specific machine learning models to generate intermediate entity risk scores. The intermediate entity risk scores may be input to an aggregate machine learning model, which may output an aggregate risk score. A resource management server may cause the predefined actions to be taken after comparing the aggregate risk score to the one or more thresholds.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: January 16, 2024Assignee: NCS PEARSON, INC.Inventors: Joseph Brutsche, Darrick Jensen, Michael Nealis, Peter Pascale, Vladan Pulec
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Patent number: 11854103Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: GrantFiled: July 28, 2020Date of Patent: December 26, 2023Assignee: NCS PEARSON, INC.Inventors: Joseph Brutsche, Darrick Jensen, Michael Nealis, Peter Pascale, Vladan Pulec
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Patent number: 11785094Abstract: Systems and methods for secure content delivery are disclosed herein. The system can include a content driver communicatingly connected with a user device via a layered protocol model or via a User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The content driver can generate a signal directing the creation of a secured partition on a bootable media device connected to a user device, identify content for delivery, and generate pixel data for the content. The content driver can send the pixel data to the user device, wherein the user device is configured to store the pixel data in the secured partition of the bootable media device. The content driver can receive a plurality of response inputs from the user device, wherein the response inputs are generated by a software application running on the bootable media device, generate a response based on the received response inputs, and provide the generated response to an evaluation module.Type: GrantFiled: August 20, 2020Date of Patent: October 10, 2023Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Michael Nealis, Corey Hoesley, Nick Wilson, Vladan Pulec
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Publication number: 20230061291Abstract: Systems and methods of the disclosure provide for receiving, from a GUI on a client device, a request to download and install an OS image and integrated interactive service on a bootable resource; transmitting to the client device the OS image and the integrated interactive service to be installed on the bootable resource, wherein the bootable resource is configured to: on a restart of the client device, boot to the OS image and launch the interactive service; and deny access to any software, service, or resource not available on the bootable resource.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 25, 2022Publication date: March 2, 2023Inventor: Michael NEALIS
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Publication number: 20220036488Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Joseph BRUTSCHE, Darrick JENSEN, Michael NEALIS, Peter PASCALE, Vladan PULEC
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Publication number: 20220036156Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by nested machine learning models to produce one or more aggregate risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. Entity data for each entity may be separately processed by entity-specific machine learning models to generate intermediate entity risk scores. The intermediate entity risk scores may be input to an aggregate machine learning model, which may output an aggregate risk score. A resource management server may cause the predefined actions to be taken after comparing the aggregate risk score to the one or more thresholds.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Joseph BRUTSCHE, Darrick JENSEN, Michael NEALIS, Peter PASCALE, Vladan PULEC
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Publication number: 20220036489Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more entity and/aggregate risk scores and/or aggregate anticipated risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Joseph BRUTSCHE, Darrick JENSEN, Michael NEALIS, Peter PASCALE, Vladan PULEC
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Publication number: 20220036253Abstract: Systems and methods may involve processing of entity data by machine learning models to produce one or more entity and/aggregate risk scores and/or aggregate anticipated risk scores, which may be compared to one or more thresholds to determine when one or more predefined actions should be taken. The entity data may be collected for various entities related to an exam registration and delivery process, which may include a candidate, an exam, a test center, an exam registration event, a proctor, and an exam delivery event. The exam registration and delivery process may include multiple states—each being associated with a different set of entities. Aggregate risk scores for a given state may be calculated using only entity data for the set of entities associated with that state. The predetermined actions taken may also be dependent on the current state.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 28, 2020Publication date: February 3, 2022Inventors: Joseph BRUTSCHE, Darrick JENSEN, Michael NEALIS, Peter PASCALE, Vladan PULEC
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Publication number: 20220014518Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for at least one processor executing program code instructions on a server computer coupled to a network. The program code instructions cause the server computer to receive from a user client an assessment audio file. The instructions also cause the computer to extract a plurality of audio features from the assessment audio file using a voice profile module. In addition, the instructions cause the computer to store the assessment audio file and extracted features in a database. Further, the instructions cause the computer to calculate a candidate confidence score indicating the probability that the assessment audio file is from a common speaker as a previously stored audio file within the database. Lastly, the instructions cause the computer to generate a based on the candidate confidence score.Type: ApplicationFiled: July 7, 2020Publication date: January 13, 2022Inventors: Joseph BRUTSCHE, Sara-Jane DICKINSON, Bryan FRIESS, Michael NEALIS
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Patent number: 10977595Abstract: A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices includes one or more processors and memory storing instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a request to verify an identity of a user attempting to complete an examination provided by an online proctored examination platform to a candidate user authorized to complete the examination and repeatedly, at a predefined interval during the examination, determine, based at least in part on user data collected by the online proctored examination platform during the examination, the user data identifying the user at a time that the interval elapses, whether the user is the candidate user, and, responsive to a determination that the user is not the candidate user, perform one or more of a plurality of actions associated with a failed identity verification, the plurality of actions including stopping the examination.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: April 13, 2021Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger, Julianne Michael Schaffer
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Patent number: 10922639Abstract: A system includes a candidate device including a processor configured to implement a candidate evaluation software application and a server computer configured to communicate with the candidate device using a network. The server computer is configured to receive, from the candidate device, a request to access an evaluation service. The request includes a candidate identifier. The server computer is configured to access historical candidate data in a memory accessible by the server computer to determine a trust score for a candidate associated with the candidate identifier, and when the trust score exceeds a threshold, transmit a credential to the candidate device enabling an evaluation of the candidate to be performed on the candidate device via a secured local area network.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: February 16, 2021Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger
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Publication number: 20200382607Abstract: Systems and methods for secure content delivery are disclosed herein. The system can include a content driver communicatingly connected with a user device via a layered protocol model or via a User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The content driver can generate a signal directing the creation of a secured partition on a bootable media device connected to a user device, identify content for delivery, and generate pixel data for the content. The content driver can send the pixel data to the user device, wherein the user device is configured to store the pixel data in the secured partition of the bootable media device. The content driver can receive a plurality of response inputs from the user device, wherein the response inputs are generated by a software application running on the bootable media device, generate a response based on the received response inputs, and provide the generated response to an evaluation module.Type: ApplicationFiled: August 20, 2020Publication date: December 3, 2020Inventors: Michael NEALIS, Corey HOESLEY, Nick WILSON, Vladan PULEC
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Patent number: 10846639Abstract: A system includes one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network. The one or more server hardware computing devices include one or more processors and memory storing specific computer-executable instructions that, when executed by the one or more processors, cause the system to receive a first request to calculate a trust score for a user associated with a user account of an online proctored examination platform. The trust score represents results of a risk analysis of the user. The instructions cause the system to obtain internal data of the online proctored examination platform, the internal data describing usage of the online proctored examination platform by the user, perform the risk analysis using at least the internal data to produce the trust score, associate the trust score with the user account, and perform an action based on the trust score.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: November 24, 2020Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger
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Patent number: 10785311Abstract: Systems and methods for secure content delivery are disclosed herein. The system can include a content driver communicatingly connected with a user device via a layered protocol model or via a User Datagram Protocol (UDP). The content driver can direct the launch of first and second virtual machines on the user device and can provide encrypted pixel data to the second virtual machine. The second virtual machine can generate and display an image based on the received encrypted pixel data.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Michael Nealis, Corey Hoesley, Nick Wilson
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Patent number: 10785312Abstract: Systems and methods for secure cloud-based content delivery are disclosed herein. A system for secure cloud-based content delivery can include an administrator device communicatingly connected with a server via a wireless network. The administrator device can: receive a request for check-in information from the server via the wireless network; and transmit check-in information to the server via the wireless network. The system can include a user device communicating connected with the server and with the administrator device. The user device can: receive a launch signal from a content driver of the server; launch a first virtual machine; launch a second virtual machine within the first virtual machine; receive pixel data at the second virtual machine; generate an image from the received pixel data; receive a plurality of user inputs via an input/output subsystem of the user device; and relay the user inputs to the content driver.Type: GrantFiled: May 12, 2017Date of Patent: September 22, 2020Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Michael Nealis, Corey Hoesley, Nick Wilson
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Patent number: 10769571Abstract: A system includes a candidate client device including a processor, a camera, and a microphone. The system includes one or more server hardware computing devices communicatively coupled to a network and in communication with the candidate client device. Each of the one or more server hardware computing devices includes at least one processor executing specific computer-executable instructions within a memory that, when executed, cause the one or more server hardware computing devices to receive the sequence of images and the audio data from the candidate client device, extract a first video attribute from the sequence of images, extract a first audio attribute from the audio data, determine that at least one of the first video attribute violates a first video condition and the first audio attribute violates a first audio condition, and prevent the candidate client device from performing a candidate evaluation function using candidate evaluation software application.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: September 8, 2020Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger
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Patent number: 10650338Abstract: A system includes a client device and a server computer coupled to a network and in communication, via the network, with the client device. The server computer is configured to receive, from the client device, a queue request. The queue request includes a candidate identifier.Type: GrantFiled: March 28, 2018Date of Patent: May 12, 2020Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.Inventors: Gregory Anderson, Wayne Bailey, Colleen M. Dolan, Jide Fajobi, Darrick Jensen, Ronald D. Lancaster, Jr., Matthew Maloney, Michael Nealis, Steven C. Nordberg, Peter Pascale, Andrew Stockinger