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Job recall services in online education platforms

  • US 10,049,416 B2
  • Filed: 11/26/2013
  • Issued: 08/14/2018
  • Est. Priority Date: 11/26/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method for correlating job recall materials to educational courses, the method comprising:

  • extracting learning units, by an automated learning units extraction system of an online education platform, from content stored on a platform content catalog database of the online education platform, the extracting comprising;

    performing text extraction on the content to extract sequences of glyphs and embedded fonts;

    mapping the extracted sequences of glyphs and embedded fonts into character strings in a Unicode format, a position of each character identified by a horizontal and a vertical location;

    generating multilayered markup language documents from the character strings by aggregating content layers onto the character strings, the content layers comprising advertising content, social content, and user-generated content;

    identifying, from the multilayered markup language documents, content media types of the content comprising primary sources and secondary sources, the primary sources comprising one or more of a summary, a syllabus, and a textbook, the secondary sources comprising one or more of related content, user-generated content, Q&

    A, and testing materials, andsorting the content media types according to reliability of the content media types, wherein reliability of the primary sources is higher than reliability of secondary sourcesreceiving at the online education platform, a job recall material uploaded to the online education platform;

    extracting properties from the job recall material, the properties comprising content attributes and delivery attributes of the job recall material;

    mapping, by the online education platform, the job recall material to at least one of the plurality of learning units based on the extracted properties of the job recall material; and

    responsive to a user of the online education platform completing the at least one of the plurality of learning units to which the job recall material is mapped, recommending the job recall material to the user.

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