Patents by Inventor RICHARD D. MEISNER

RICHARD D. MEISNER 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).

  • Patent number: 11494560
    Abstract: The present disclosure provides systems and methods for providing interface rendering of passages for test item generation. Methods and systems can utilize natural language processing (NLP) and machine learning (ML) models to analyze passages that were provided in historical testing environments (e.g., first passage), determine one or more similar search strings that are also found in a current passage (e.g., second passage), and provide the first and second passages to a user interface of a user device. On the display, the search string in the historical and current passages may be highlighted at the user interface to identify the similarities.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: January 30, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 8, 2022
    Assignee: ACT, INC.
    Inventor: Richard D. Meisner
  • Patent number: 11087097
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatic item generation in an digital examination that includes obtaining a first string of text, the first string of text being organized based on a linguistic context, selecting a first textual term from the first string of text, identifying a first set of linguistic characteristics corresponding to the first textual term, obtaining a second textual term exhibiting at least one linguistic characteristic that is different from any linguistic characteristic of the first set of linguistic characteristics, and generating a second string of text by replacing the first textual term in the first string of text with the second textual term.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Date of Patent: August 10, 2021
    Assignee: ACT, INC.
    Inventor: Richard D. Meisner
  • Publication number: 20200098281
    Abstract: A comprehensive assessment is generated from sources of information. A base stimulus on a broad topic is received, wherein the base stimulus consists of components in the sources of information. Shorter stimuli are generated by selecting components from the base stimulus. The base stimulus may contain content for any type of subject, wherein the content is any combination of text, numbers, tables, charts, figures, audio clips, video clips, etc. The components for each sub-stimulus can be selected and rearranged based on examinee's performance and ability.
    Type: Application
    Filed: September 25, 2018
    Publication date: March 26, 2020
    Inventor: RICHARD D. MEISNER
  • Publication number: 20190272764
    Abstract: Systems and methods for enhanced monitoring of learning progressions include obtaining a first set of examinations and a first set of responses corresponding to the first set of examinations, a first set of examination assessments, training a machine-learning multidimensional scoring model based on the first set of examinations, the first set of responses, and the first set of examination assessments, generating a confusion matrix based on the first set of examination assessments, determining a performance assessment value from the confusion matrix, and determining that the multidimensional scoring model has been sufficiently trained if the performance assessment value meets or exceeds a selected threshold value.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 3, 2018
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: JAY THOMAS, BRADLEY BOLENDER, RICHARD D. MEISNER, JAMES GAMBRELL
  • Publication number: 20190163746
    Abstract: A computer-implemented method for automatic item generation in an digital examination that includes obtaining a first string of text, the first string of text being organized based on a linguistic context, selecting a first textual term from the first string of text, identifying a first set of linguistic characteristics corresponding to the first textual term, obtaining a second textual term exhibiting at least one linguistic characteristic that is different from any linguistic characteristic of the first set of linguistic characteristics, and generating a second string of text by replacing the first textual term in the first string of text with the second textual term.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 27, 2017
    Publication date: May 30, 2019
    Inventor: RICHARD D. MEISNER