# US 11,113,981 B2 · Skill training system > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 11,113,981 B2 - Document ID: US11113981B2 - Status: Granted - Kind: B2 - Application number: 15/054,736 - Filed: 2016-02-26 - Published: 2017-04-13 - Granted: 2021-09-07 - Earliest claimed: 2015-10-13 - Assignees: ADP, Inc. - Applicants: Adp, LLC - Inventors: Agatha Kurjanowicz; Scott Crockett; Sirui Liu; Jesse S. Zolna; Michael Thibodeau; Valérie Felger; David Philander Derby; Jerome Gouvernel - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US11113981B2 ## CPC - G09B 5/02: with visual presentation of the material to be studied, e.g. using film strip - G09B: EDUCATIONAL OR DEMONSTRATION APPLIANCES; APPLIANCES FOR TEACHING, OR COMMUNICATING WITH, THE BLIND, DEAF OR MUTE; MODELS; PLANETARIA; GLOBES; MAPS; DIAGRAMS (devices for psychotechnics or for testing reaction times A61B5/16; games, sports, amusements A63; projectors, projector screens G03B) ## Abstract A computer system comprises a display system and a skill trainer in communication with the display system. The skill trainer receives a submission of content from a user relevant to a particular skill. The skill trainer publishes the content as material relevant to increasing a proficiency in the particular skill. Further, the skill trainer increases the proficiency of the user according to a policy for submission of content relevant to the particular skill, enabling performing an operation for the organization based on the skills for the people in the organization. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method for training skills in an organization, the method comprising: providing a skill trainer comprising a hardware processor in communication with a memory, a relevancy assessor connected to statistics and a proficiency assessor comprising benchmarks, wherein the hardware processor: receives a submission from a user, wherein the submission comprises content that is relevant to a particular skill, as identified by the relevancy assessor; publishes the content to a skill training library as material relevant to increasing a proficiency of other users in the particular skill; increases a proficiency of the user for the particular skill according to a policy for submission of the content to the skill training library that is relevant to the particular skill using the proficiency assessor; identifies whether the proficiency of the user for the particular skill exceeds a benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor; and responsive to identifying the proficiency of the user exceeding the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor: automatically designates the user as a skill mentor; automatically grants the user a plurality of additional privileges within the skill trainer with regard to feedback based on submission of positive feedback; and automatically grants administrative privileges over additional content submitted by other users who are different than the user, wherein the additional content is different than the content and the administrative privileges include at least one of review of content, approval of content, deletion of content, or content feedback; and using the skill trainer to perform operations for the organization implemented in the skill trainer automatically in at least one of a content manager, a program manager and a content generator based on the proficiency of the user for the particular skill, wherein the operations are selected from at least one of employee hiring, employee benefits administration, employee payroll, employee performance reviews, forming teams of employees for new products, or assigning research projects to employees. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the content is selected from at least one of a PDF file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a PPT file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a word processor document relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a publications relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a video relevant proficiency in the particular skill, or a link to a podcast relevant proficiency in the particular skill. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, wherein the user is a first user, and the method further comprises: the hardware processor identifying an action performed by a second user with respect to the content. ### Claim 4 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, further comprising: in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content, the hardware processor increasing a proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill. ### Claim 5 (depends on 3) The method of claim 3, further comprising: in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content, the hardware processor modifying a proficiency of the first user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill, wherein the action with respect to the content includes at least one of submitting the content, accessing the content, or providing feedback on the content. ### Claim 6 (depends on 5) The method of claim 5, wherein a step of increasing the proficiency of the second user further comprises: the hardware processor increasing the proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to feedback received from the first user about the content. ### Claim 7 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: in response to receiving the submission, the hardware processor generating a tag associated with the content, wherein the tag specifies that the content is relevant to the particular skill. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method of claim 1, further comprising: in response to identifying the proficiency of the user exceeding the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill, the content manager granting the user an additional reward wherein the additional reward includes a designation. ### Claim 9 (depends on 8) The method of claim 8, wherein the additional reward comprises designation of the user as a skill mentor. ### Claim 10 A computer system comprising: a processor unit; a memory in communication with the processor unit; and a skill trainer implemented by the processor unit and the memory, the skill trainer comprising a relevancy assessor connected to statistics and a proficiency assessor comprising benchmarks, wherein the skill trainer is for training skills in an organization, and the skill trainer is configured to: receive a submission from a user, the submission comprising content that is relevant to a particular skill, as identified by the relevancy assessor; publish the content as material relevant to increasing proficiency in the particular skill; increase a proficiency of the user for the particular skill according to a policy for submission of the content relevant to the particular skill using the proficiency assessor; identify whether the proficiency of the user for the particular skill exceeds a benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor; and responsive to identifying that the proficiency of the user exceeds the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor: automatically designate the user as a skill mentor; automatically grants the user a plurality of additional privileges within the skill trainer with regard to feedback based on submission of positive feedback; and automatically grant administrative privileges to the user over additional content submitted by other users who are different than the user, wherein the additional content is different than the content and the administrative privileges comprise at least one of review of content, approval of content, deletion of content, or content feedback; and enable a performance of operations for an organization implemented in the skill trainer automatically in at least one of a content manager, a program manager and a content generator based on the proficiency of the user in the particular skill, wherein the performance of operations is selected from at least one of hiring, benefits administration, payroll, human resource performance reviews, forming teams for new products, or assigning research projects. ### Claim 11 (depends on 10) The computer system of claim 10, wherein the content is selected from at least one of a PDF file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a PPT file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a word processor document relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a publications relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a video relevant proficiency in the particular skill, or a link to a podcast relevant proficiency in the particular skill. ### Claim 12 (depends on 10) The computer system of claim 10, wherein the user is a first user, and the skill trainer being is further configured to: identify an action performed by a second user with respect to the content. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The computer system of claim 12, wherein the skill trainer is further configured to: in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content, increase a proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The computer system of claim 12, wherein the skill trainer is further configured to: in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content, modify a proficiency of the first user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill, wherein the action with respect to the content includes at least one of submitting the content, accessing the content, or providing feedback on the content. ### Claim 15 (depends on 14) The computer system of claim 14, wherein increasing a proficiency of the second user further comprises: increasing the proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to feedback received from the first user about the content. ### Claim 16 (depends on 10) The computer system of claim 10, wherein the skill trainer is further configured to: in response to receiving the submission, generate a tag associated with the content, wherein the tag specifies that the content is relevant to the particular skill. ### Claim 17 (depends on 10) The computer system of claim 10, wherein the skill trainer is further configured to: in response to identifying that the proficiency of the user exceeds the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill, using the content manager to grant the user an additional reward wherein the additional reward includes a designation. ### Claim 18 (depends on 17) The computer system of claim 17, wherein the additional reward comprises designation of the user as a skill mentor. ### Claim 19 A computer program product comprising: a computer readable storage media including instructions that are executable by a hardware processor, wherein the instructions are for training skills in an organization, and the instructions comprise: first program code for receiving a submission from a user, wherein the submission comprises content that is relevant to a particular skill, as identified by a relevancy assessor connected to statistics; second program code for publishing the content as material relevant to increasing proficiency in the particular skill; third program code for increasing a proficiency of the user for the particular skill according to a policy for submission of the content relevant to the particular skill using a proficiency assessor comprising benchmarks; fourth program code for identifying whether the proficiency of the user for the particular skill exceeds a benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor; fifth program code for, responsive to identifying that the proficiency of the user exceeds the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor: automatically designating the user as a skill mentor; automatically grants the user a plurality of additional privileges within a skill trainer with regard to feedback based on submission of positive feedback, the skill trainer comprising a hardware processor in communication with a memory, the relevancy assessor and the proficiency assessor; and automatically granting administrative privileges to the user, wherein the administrative privileges are over additional content submitted by other users who are different than the user, and wherein the additional content is different than the content and the administrative privileges include at least one of review of content, approval of content, deletion of content, or content feedback; and sixth program code, in response to identifying that the proficiency of the user exceeds the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill using the proficiency assessor, for enabling operations for an organization implemented in the skill trainer automatically in at least one of a content manager, a program manager and a content generator based on reliance on the proficiency of the user for the particular skill, wherein the operation is selected from at least one of hiring, benefits administration, payroll, human resource performance reviews, forming teams for new products, or assigning research projects. ### Claim 20 (depends on 19) The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the content is selected from at least one of a PDF file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a PPT file relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a word processor document relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a publications relevant proficiency in the particular skill, a link to a video relevant proficiency in the particular skill, and a link to a podcast relevant proficiency in the particular skill. ### Claim 21 (depends on 19) The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the user is a first user, and the instructions further comprise: seventh program code for identifying an action performed by a second user with respect to the content. ### Claim 22 (depends on 21) The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the instructions further comprise: eighth program code for increasing a proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content. ### Claim 23 (depends on 21) The computer program product of claim 21, wherein the instructions further comprise: eighth program code for modifying a proficiency of the first user for the particular skill according to a policy for interacting with the content relevant to the particular skill in response to identifying the action performed by the second user with respect to the content, wherein the action with respect to the content includes at least one of submitting the content, accessing the content, or providing feedback on the content. ### Claim 24 (depends on 23) The computer program product of claim 23, wherein the eighth program code further comprises: ninth program code for increasing a proficiency of the second user for the particular skill according to feedback received from the first user about the content. ### Claim 25 (depends on 19) The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the instructions further comprise: seventh program code for generating a tag associated with the content in response to receiving the submission, wherein the tag specifies that the content is relevant to the particular skill. ### Claim 26 (depends on 19) The computer program product of claim 19, wherein the instructions further comprise: seventh program code for granting the user using the content manager an additional reward including a designation in response to identifying that the proficiency of the user exceeds the benchmark for proficiency in the particular skill. ### Claim 27 (depends on 26) The computer program product of claim 26, wherein the additional reward comprises designation of the user as a skill mentor.