Automatic determination of initial content difficulty

• US 10,110,486 B1
• Filed: 11/23/2016
• Issued: 10/23/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/30/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Pearson Education Incorporated (Pearson plc)
• Original Assignee: Pearson Education Incorporated (Pearson plc)
• Inventors: Anderson, Jacob, Miller, Josh
• Primary Examiner(s): Moutaouakil, Mounir
• Application Number:
  US15/360,597
• Time in Patent Office: 699 Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0241 Advertisements
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0282 Rating or review of business operators or products
• CPC Class Codes: G09B 5/00 Electrically-operated educational appliances working with questions and answers G09B7/00; simulators G09B9/00; advertising or displaying in general G09F
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 45/74 Address processing for routing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/306 User profiles
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/63 Routing a service request depending on the request content or context
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/22 Parsing or analysis of headers

Abstract

Systems and methods for accelerated stabilization of data packet metadata are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory having a content database and a user profile database. The system can include a user device having a first network interface and a first I/O subsystem. The system can include one or more servers. The one or more servers can: retrieve data packet metadata for a data packet; determine that the data packet metadata is unstable; identify a set of potential recipients of the data packet; select one of the set of potential recipients as the recipient of the data packet; provide the data packet to the recipient of the data packet; receive a response from the recipient to the provided data packet; and automatically update the data packet metadata based on the response received from the recipient.

Claims

1. A system for content provisioning via automatic determination of a content attribute, the system comprising:

memory comprising;

a content database comprising a plurality of data packets and metadata identifying an attribute of an associated data packet, wherein each of the plurality of data packets is associated with unique metadata;

a user profile database comprising user history data identifying an attribute of an associated user, wherein each user is associated with unique user history data;

a user device comprising;

a first network interface configured to exchange data via a communication network; and

a first I/O subsystem configured to convert received data to user interpretable outputs via a user interface; and

one or more servers communicatingly coupled with the memory and the user device, wherein the server is configured to;

receive a data packet comprising content for providing to a user via a user device;

retrieve data packet metadata associated with the data packet, wherein the data packet metadata comprises at least one attribute value identifying an attribute of the data packet;

determine that a difficulty of the received data packet is identified in the retrieved data packet metadata

identify a data packet content network relevant to the received data packet by matching metadata of the data packet content with content network metadata, wherein the metadata of the data packet and the content network metadata of the relevant data packet content network identify a common subject;

determine a position within the data packet network for initial placement of the data packet within the data packet content network;

generate a combined attribute value based on attribute values of similarly positioned data packets in the content network; and

update the data packet metadata of the received data packet, wherein the data packet metadata is updated to comprise an attribute value matching the generated combined attribute value of the similarly positioned data packets in the content network.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more servers are further configured to identify a plurality of similarly positioned data packets in the identified data packet content network.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the plurality of similarly positioned data packets in the identified data packet content network are identified based on the determined position for placement of the data packet within the data packet network.

4. The system of claim 3, wherein the one or more servers are further configured to retrieve attribute information for the identified plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the attribute information identifies a difficulty level for each of the plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

6. The system of claim 5, wherein the combined attribute value is generated based on difficulty levels for the plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

7. The system of claim 6, wherein the one or more servers are further configured to provide the received data packet to the user device based on the updated data packet metadata of the received data packet.

8. The system of claim 7, wherein providing the received data packet to the user device based on the updated data packet metadata of the received data packet comprises selecting a recipient of the received data packet.

9. The system of claim 8, wherein the recipient of the received data packet is selected based on a comparison of the data packet metadata and user metadata associated with the recipient.

10. A method for content provisioning via automatic determination of a content attribute, the method comprising:

receiving a data packet comprising content for providing to a user via a user device;

retrieving data packet metadata associated with the data packet, wherein the data packet metadata comprises at least one attribute value identifying an attribute of the data packet;

determining that a difficulty of the received data packet is not identified in the retrieved data packet metadata;

identifying a data packet content network relevant to the received data packet by matching metadata of the data packet content with content network metadata, wherein the metadata of the data packet and the content network metadata of the relevant data packet content network identify a common subject;

determining a position within the data packet network for initial placement of the data packet within the data packet content network;

generating a combined attribute value based on attribute values of similarly positioned data packets in the content network; and

updating the data packet metadata of the received data packet, wherein the data packet metadata is updated to comprise an attribute value matching the generated combined attribute value of the similarly positioned data packets in the content network.

11. The method of claim 10, further comprising identifying a plurality of similarly positioned data packets in the identified data packet content network.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of similarly positioned data packets in the identified data packet content network are identified based on the determined position for placement of the data packet within the data packet network.

13. The method of claim 12, further comprising retrieving attribute information for the identified plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the attribute information identifies a difficulty level for each of the plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the combined attribute value is generated based on difficulty levels for the plurality of similarly positioned data packets.

16. The method of claim 15, further comprising providing the received data packet to the user device based on the updated data packet metadata of the received data packet.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein providing the received data packet to the user device based on the updated data packet metadata of the received data packet comprises selecting a recipient of the received data packet.

18. The method of claim 17, wherein the recipient of the received data packet is selected based on a comparison of the data packet metadata and user metadata associated with the recipient.