Patents by Inventor Phil Bacchus

Phil Bacchus 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).

  • User profiles
    Patent number: 7937348
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for correlating user profiles to software applications. The system may be adapted as part of a software system that interrogates a user profile and reading a learning objective as a first input, interrogates a software application and reading a learning objective as a second input, calculates a relevance of the first input learning objective to the second input learning objective, and adapts the software application in accordance with the determined relevance and/or updating the user profile in accordance with the determined relevance. A method is disclosed that correlates user profiles to software applications by reading a first learning objective from a user profile, reading a second learning objective from a software application, determining a relevance of the first to the second learning objective, and adapting the software application in accordance with the determined relevance and/or updating the user profile in accordance with the determined relevance.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Date of Patent: May 3, 2011
    Assignee: ITI Scotland Limited
    Inventors: Craig Shaw, Phil Bacchus, Andrew Foster, David Setty, Peter Astheimer
  • User profiles
    Publication number: 20080133437
    Abstract: A system is disclosed for correlating user profiles to software applications. The system may be adapted as part of a software system that interrogates a user profile and reading a learning objective as a first input, interrogates a software application and reading a learning objective as a second input, calculates a relevance of the first input learning objective to the second input learning objective, and adapts the software application in accordance with the determined relevance and/or updating the user profile in accordance with the determined relevance. A method is disclosed that correlates user profiles to software applications by reading a first learning objective from a user profile, reading a second learning objective from a software application, determining a relevance of the first to the second learning objective, and adapting the software application in accordance with the determined relevance and/or updating the user profile in accordance with the determined relevance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: June 7, 2007
    Publication date: June 5, 2008
    Inventors: Craig Shaw, Phil Bacchus, Andrew Foster, David Setty, Peter Astheimer