Patents by Inventor Samuel Downs

Samuel Downs 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: 11443140
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Scott Hellman, Lee Becker, Samuel Downs, Alok Baikadi, William Murray, Kyle Habermehl, Peter Foltz, Mark Rosenstein
  • Publication number: 20220138881
    Abstract: A system and method are presented. User metadata defining a set of activities undertaken by a user are received by a processor. The processor determines, based on the set of activities, a skill history for the user. The skill history identifies a first plurality of skills associated with the user. The processor determines a preferred career associated with the user, determines, for the preferred career and by accessing a career skill repository, a second plurality of skills associated with the preferred career, determines a missing skill by comparing the first plurality of skills associated with the user to the second plurality of skills associated with the preferred career to identify the missing skill that is in the second plurality of skills and not in the first plurality of skills and outputs a user interface identifying the missing skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: November 5, 2021
    Publication date: May 5, 2022
    Inventors: Peter SABATINI, Jodi McPHERSON, Andrew PINCKNEY, Scott DUSTAN, Samuel DOWNS, Sara Bakken, John SADAUSKAS, Heather L. RESER, David ARENDS, Michael CASKEY, Matthew HOFFBERG, Benjamin ROGERS, Norman LEVESQUE
  • Publication number: 20190258715
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated custom training of a scoring model are disclosed herein. The method include: receiving a plurality of responses received from a plurality of students in response to providing of a prompt; identifying an evaluation model relevant to the provided prompt, which evaluation model can be a machine learning model trained to output a score relevant to at least portions of a response; generating a training indicator that provides a graphical depiction of the degree to which the identified evaluation model is trained; determining a training status of the model; receiving at least one evaluation input when the model is identified as insufficiently trained; updating training of the evaluation model based on the at least one received evaluation input; and controlling the training indicator to reflect the degree to which the evaluation model is trained subsequent to the updating of the training of the evaluation model.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 20, 2019
    Publication date: August 22, 2019
    Inventors: Scott Hellman, Lee Becker, Samuel Downs, Alok Baikadi, William Murray, Kyle Habermehl, Peter Foltz, Mark Rosenstein