Patents by Inventor Victoria Kortan

Victoria Kortan 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: 11676503
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided by which a machine learning model may be executed to determine the probability that a given user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The machine learning model may process feature data corresponding to the user and the assessment item in order to determine the probability. The feature data may be calculated periodically and/or in real time or near-real time according to a machine learning model definition based on assessment data corresponding to the user's activity and/or based on responses submitted by all users to the assessment item and/or to content related to the assessment item.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: June 13, 2023
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Mark E. Liedtke, Sumona J. Routh, Clayton Tong, Daniel L. Ensign, Victoria Kortan, Srirama Kolla
  • Patent number: 11501655
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for storing textbook data, a glossary, and problems within a database; identifying a problem's guided solution, and a keyword within the solution matching an entry within the glossary, from which a skill tag is associated. The disclosed system then automatically generates an assessment including an assessment problem associated with the skill. If an incorrect response is received for the assessment problem, the database is updated to associate a user that input the response with the assessment problem and a skill. The system then automatically generates a customized exercise assignment associated in the database with the skill.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Date of Patent: November 15, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Zachary Elewitz, Juan Lin, Shushan He, Victoria Kortan
  • Patent number: 11443647
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided by which an adaptive learning engine may be executed to determine the probability that a given user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The adaptive learning engine may apply one or more machine learning models to feature data corresponding to the user and the assessment item in order to determine the probability. The feature data may be calculated periodically and/or in real time or near-real time according to a machine learning model definition based on assessment data corresponding to the user's activity and/or based on responses submitted globally by users to the assessment item and/or to content related to the assessment item. Based on the correct first attempt probability, the adaptive learning engine may identify and recommend assessment items for which a user should be preemptively assigned credit.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Date of Patent: September 13, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Mark E. Liedtke, Sumona J. Routh, Clayton Tong, Daniel L. Ensign, Victoria Kortan, Srirama Kolla
  • Patent number: 11250720
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated and direct network positioning are disclosed herein. The system can include memory that can include a content library database and a structure sub-database. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can: receive a data packet previously unassociated with the hierarchy in the structure sub-database; identify one of the plurality of positions within the hierarchy for the data packet; receive user information; present a series of assessment data packets to the user; receive a response from the user subsequent to presentation of each of the assessment data packets; evaluate the received responses; adjust a location of the user within the hierarchy based on the evaluating of the received responses; and present a content data packet to the user.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Date of Patent: February 15, 2022
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Victoria Kortan, Kateryna Lapina, Jacob Anderson
  • Publication number: 20220020282
    Abstract: Systems and methods of the present invention provide for storing textbook data, a glossary, and problems within a database; identifying a problem's guided solution, and a keyword within the solution matching an entry within the glossary, from which a skill tag is associated. The disclosed system then automatically generates an assessment including an assessment problem associated with the skill. If an incorrect response is received for the assessment problem, the database is updated to associate a user that input the response with the assessment problem and a skill. The system then automatically generates a customized exercise assignment associated in the database with the skill.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 15, 2020
    Publication date: January 20, 2022
    Inventors: Zachary ELEWITZ, Juan LIN, Shushan HE, Victoria KORTAN
  • Patent number: 11188841
    Abstract: Systems and methods for content provisioning are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving content corresponding to at least one source document, parsing the content, identifying segments from the parsed content, generating a networked grouping of the segments, receiving historical user information about a plurality of users, training a model by using the historical user information, receiving activities of a user, parsing the activities of the user, identifying components from the parsed activities, correlating the components with the segments, extracting features from the activities of the user based on the correlation, and using the trained model to estimate a mastery level of the user based on the features.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Date of Patent: November 30, 2021
    Assignee: PEARSON EDUCATION, INC.
    Inventors: Alison Doucette, Victoria Kortan, Daniel Ensign, Mark Potter, Chadwick Reimers, Brian Moriarty
  • Publication number: 20200258412
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided by which an adaptive learning engine may select a machine learning model service to determine a probability that a user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The adaptive learning engine may receive a request identifying the user, the assessment item, and request data. A model selector may generate a model reference corresponding to a model definition based on the request data. The feature data to be retrieved and/or calculated may be defined by the model definition. The feature data may be processed by a model service executing a machine learning model selected by the adaptive learning engine based on the model definition. Based on the probability output by the model, the adaptive learning engine may whether the user should be preemptively assigned credit for the assessment item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Mark E. LIEDTKE, Sumona J. ROUTH, Clayton TONG, Daniel L. ENSIGN, Victoria KORTAN, Srirama KOLLA
  • Publication number: 20200258410
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided by which an adaptive learning engine may be executed to determine the probability that a given user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The adaptive learning engine may apply one or more machine learning models to feature data corresponding to the user and the assessment item in order to determine the probability. The feature data may be calculated periodically and/or in real time or near-real time according to a machine learning model definition based on assessment data corresponding to the user's activity and/or based on responses submitted globally by users to the assessment item and/or to content related to the assessment item. Based on the correct first attempt probability, the adaptive learning engine may identify and recommend assessment items for which a user should be preemptively assigned credit.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Mark E. LIEDTKE, Sumona J. ROUTH, Clayton TONG, Daniel L. ENSIGN, Victoria KORTAN, Srirama KOLLA
  • Publication number: 20200257995
    Abstract: Systems and methods are provided by which a machine learning model may be executed to determine the probability that a given user will respond correctly to a given assessment item of a digital assessment on their first attempt. The machine learning model may process feature data corresponding to the user and the assessment item in order to determine the probability. The feature data may be calculated periodically and/or in real time or near-real time according to a machine learning model definition based on assessment data corresponding to the user's activity and/or based on responses submitted by all users to the assessment item and/or to content related to the assessment item.
    Type: Application
    Filed: February 10, 2020
    Publication date: August 13, 2020
    Inventors: Mark E. LIEDTKE, Sumona J. ROUTH, Clayton TONG, Daniel L. ENSIGN, Victoria KORTAN, Srirama KOLLA
  • Publication number: 20190304321
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated and direct network positioning are disclosed herein. The system can include memory that can include a content library database and a structure sub-database. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can: receive a data packet previously unassociated with the hierarchy in the structure sub-database; identify one of the plurality of positions within the hierarchy for the data packet; receive user information; present a series of assessment data packets to the user; receive a response from the user subsequent to presentation of each of the assessment data packets; evaluate the received responses; adjust a location of the user within the hierarchy based on the evaluating of the received responses; and present a content data packet to the user.
    Type: Application
    Filed: July 26, 2018
    Publication date: October 3, 2019
    Inventors: Victoria Kortan, Kateryna Lapina, Jacob Anderson
  • Publication number: 20190272770
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated content delivery and evaluation are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory. The memory can include a content library database including a plurality of problems and data for stepwise evaluation of each of the plurality of problems. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can automatically decompose a content item into a plurality of potential steps and associate attributes with the potential steps. The at least one server can receive a response from a user for the content item, identify steps in the received response, and select a next action based the identified steps of the received response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Victoria Kortan, Kateryna Lapina, David Strong, Eric Kattwinkel, Luis Oros, Quinn Lathrop, Matthew Sweeten, Thomas McTavish, David King, Johann Larusson, Timothy Stewart, Nina Shamsi, James David Corbin, Alex Nickel, Jacob Noble
  • Publication number: 20190272775
    Abstract: Systems and methods for automated content delivery and evaluation are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory. The memory can include a content library database including a plurality of problems and data for stepwise evaluation of each of the plurality of problems. The system can include at least one server. The at least one server can automatically decompose a content item into a plurality of potential steps and associate attributes with the potential steps. The at least one server can receive a response from a user for the content item, identify steps in the received response, and select a next action based the identified steps of the received response.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 1, 2019
    Publication date: September 5, 2019
    Inventors: Jacob Noble, Victoria Kortan, Kateryna Lapina, David Strong, Eric Kattwinkel, Luis Oros, Quinn Lathrop, Matthew Sweeten, Thomas McTavish, David King, Johann Larusson, Timothy Stewart, Nina Shamsi, James David Corbin, Alex Nickel, Ron Itelman
  • Publication number: 20180373994
    Abstract: Systems and methods for content provisioning are disclosed herein. The method includes receiving content corresponding to at least one source document, parsing the content, identifying segments from the parsed content, generating a networked grouping of the segments, receiving historical user information about a plurality of users, training a model by using the historical user information, receiving activities of a user, parsing the activities of the user, identifying components from the parsed activities, correlating the components with the segments, extracting features from the activities of the user based on the correlation, and using the trained model to estimate a mastery level of the user based on the features.
    Type: Application
    Filed: August 31, 2018
    Publication date: December 27, 2018
    Inventors: Alison Doucette, Victoria Kortan, Daniel Ensign, Mark Potter, Chadwick Reimers, Brian Moriarty