Patents by Inventor Vaughn Hester

Vaughn Hester 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).

  • EVALUATING A WORKER IN PERFORMING CROWD SOURCED TASKS AND PROVIDING IN-TASK TRAINING THROUGH PROGRAMMATICALLY GENERATED TEST TASKS
    Publication number: 20140039985
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 8, 2013
    Publication date: February 6, 2014
    Applicant: CROWDFLOWER, INC.
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas A. Biewald
  • Evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training through programmatically generated test tasks
    Patent number: 8554605
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Date of Patent: October 8, 2013
    Assignee: CrowdFlower, Inc.
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas A. Biewald
  • EVALUATING A WORKER IN PERFORMING CROWD SOURCED TASKS AND PROVIDING IN-TASK TRAINING THROUGH PROGRAMMATICALLY GENERATED TEST TASKS
    Publication number: 20130006717
    Abstract: Systems and methods for evaluating a worker in performing crowd sourced tasks and providing in-task training are disclosed. In one aspect, embodiments of the present disclosure include a method, which may be implemented on a system, for selecting a job distributed through a job distribution platform for workers to work on, for use to generate a test task, the job being associated with a known correct result, associating a manipulated result, known to be an incorrect result for the job, with the job to generate the test task, and/or presenting the job with the manipulated result as the test task to a worker for evaluation of work quality of the worker. The job distribution platform crowd sources tasks online to workers to work on via their respective computing devices.
    Type: Application
    Filed: October 17, 2011
    Publication date: January 3, 2013
    Inventors: David Oleson, Alexander Sorokin, Greg Laughlin, Vaughn Hester, John Le, Christopher R. Van Pelt, Lukas Biewald