Predictive recommendations for skills development

• US 10,737,179 B2
• Filed: 11/14/2018
• Issued: 08/11/2020
• Est. Priority Date: 09/30/2015
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bostick, James E., Ganci, Jr., John M., Keen, Martin G., Rakshit, Sarbajit K., Trim, Craig M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Shah, Milap
• Application Number:
  US16/190,212
• Publication Number:
  US 20190099676A1
• Time in Patent Office: 636 Days
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/35 Details of game servers
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/67 adaptively or by learning from player actions, e.g. skill level adjustment or by storing successful combat sequences for re-use
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/798 for assessing skills or for ranking players, e.g. for generating a hall of fame computing the game score A63F13/46
• CPC Class Codes: A63F 13/85 Providing additional services to players

Abstract

Receiving a data set including user skills as well as skill competency levels and an event with event-relevant skills as well as expected skill competency levels. Identifying one or more video games that can train a user'"'"'s skill competency levels in the event-relevant skills to the expected skill competency levels. Prioritizing which video games to train the user'"'"'s skill levels to the expected skill competency levels.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving a first user skill profile data set including information indicative of a plurality of first user skill parameter values respectively corresponding to a first user'"'"'s competency with respect to a related skill parameter;

receiving a training video game data set including information indicative of;

(i) identities of a plurality of training video games, and (ii) for each given training video game of the plurality of training video games, an indication of a set of respectively associated skill parameter(s) that the given training video game helps to develop in players of the given training video game;

receiving an event data set including information indicative of;

(i) an identity of a first event in which the first user is scheduled to participate, with the first competitive event including a set of activity(ies), and (ii) a plurality of first event skill parameter values respectively corresponding to relative amounts of skill parameters that are considered necessary for a user to complete the set of activity(ies) included in the first event;

selecting, by machine logic based rules, a subset of recommended training video games of the plurality of training video games based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set; and

responsive to the first user interacting with at least one video game of the subset of recommended training video games, updating at least one skill parameter value of the plurality of first user skill parameter values based, at least in part, on electronically tracked performance of the first user'"'"'s interaction with the at least one video game.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

determining, by machine logic based rules, priority values respectively corresponding to each recommended training video game of the subset of recommended training video games, with the determination of the priority values being based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set.

3. The method of claim 2 further comprising:

determining a video game training regimen based on the priority values for the recommended training video games of the subset of recommended training video games.

4. The method of claim 3 further comprising:

executing the training video games of the subset of recommended training video games based, at least in part, upon the video game training regimen.

5. The method of claim 1 wherein the set of activity(ies) included in the first event include at least one of the following type(s) of activity:

(i) hand-eye coordination, (ii) spatial-reasoning, and (iii) hiking.

6. A computer program product (CPP) comprising:

a machine readable storage device; and

computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing a processor(s) set to perform operations including the following;

receiving a first user skill profile data set including information indicative of a plurality of first user skill parameter values respectively corresponding to a first user'"'"'s competency with respect to a related skill parameter,

receiving a training video game data set including information indicative of;

(i) identities of a plurality of training video games, and (ii) for each given training video game of the plurality of training video games, an indication of a set of respectively associated skill parameter(s) that the given training video game helps to develop in players of the given training video game,

receiving an event data set including information indicative of;

(i) an identity of a first event in which the first user is scheduled to participate, with the first event including a set of activity(ies), and (ii) a plurality of first event skill parameter values respectively corresponding to relative amounts of skill parameters that are considered necessary for a user to complete the set of activity(ies) included in the first event,

selecting, by machine logic based rules, a subset of recommended training video games of the plurality of training video games based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set, and

responsive to the first user interacting with at least one video game of the subset of recommended training video games, updating at least one skill parameter value of the plurality of first user skill parameter values based, at least in part, on electronically tracked performance of the first user'"'"'s interaction with the at least one video game.

7. The CPP of claim 6 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

determining, by machine logic based rules, priority values respectively corresponding to each recommended training video game of the subset of recommended training video games, with the determination of the priority values being based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set.

8. The CPP of claim 7 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

determining a video game training regimen based on the priority values for the recommended training video games of the subset of recommended training video games.

9. The CPP of claim 8 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

executing the training video games of the subset of recommended training video games based, at least in part, upon the video game training regimen.

10. The CPP of claim 6 wherein the set of activity(ies) included in the first event include at least one of the following type(s) of activity:

(i) hand-eye coordination, (ii) spatial-reasoning, and (iii) hiking.

11. A computer system (CS) comprising:

a processor(s) set;

a machine readable storage device; and

computer code stored on the machine readable storage device, with the computer code including instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform operations including the following;

receiving a first user skill profile data set including information indicative of a plurality of first user skill parameter values respectively corresponding to a first user'"'"'s competency with respect to a related skill parameter,

receiving a training video game data set including information indicative of;

(i) identities of a plurality of training video games, and (ii) for each given training video game of the plurality of training video games, an indication of a set of respectively associated skill parameter(s) that the given training video game helps to develop in players of the given training video game,

receiving an event data set including information indicative of;

(i) an identity of a first event in which the first user is scheduled to participate, with the first event including a set of activity(ies), and (ii) a plurality of first event skill parameter values respectively corresponding to relative amounts of skill parameters that are considered necessary for a user to complete the set of activity(ies) included in the first event,

selecting, by machine logic based rules, a subset of recommended training video games of the plurality of training video games based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set, and

responsive to the first user interacting with at least one video game of the subset of recommended training video games, updating at least one skill parameter value of the plurality of first user skill parameter values based, at least in part, on electronically tracked performance of the first user'"'"'s interaction with the at least one video game.

12. The CS of claim 11 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

determining, by machine logic based rules, priority values respectively corresponding to each recommended training video game of the subset of recommended training video games, with the determination of the priority values being based, at least in part upon all of the following;

(i) the first user skill profile data set, (ii) the training video game data set, and (iii) the event data set.

13. The CS of claim 12 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

determining a video game training regimen based on the priority values for the recommended training video games of the subset of recommended training video games.

14. The CS of claim 13 wherein the computer code further includes instructions for causing the processor(s) set to perform the following operations:

executing the training video games of the subset of recommended training video games based, at least in part, upon the video game training regimen.

15. The CS of claim 11 wherein the set of activity(ies) included in the first event include at least one of the following type(s) of activity:

(i) hand-eye coordination, (ii) spatial-reasoning, and (iii) hiking.