US 2016/0260064 A1Published application

Systems and methods for a career and courses portal

AssigneeGradberry Inc.

InventorsSyed A. Ahmed, Iba Masood

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Abstract

The present application is directed to systems and methods for a career and courses portal. Users of the portal may be students or recent graduates, or employers. The portal may utilize gamification, or providing game-like achievement features such as awards or badges, to encourage users to enroll in and take courses, take assessment tests, edit their profiles, look for career opportunities, etc. Employers may place job openings on the portal and associate skill requirements with the job openings. Users who possess the skill requirements may qualify for these job openings. The portal may operate under a freemium model, where some services are available to users without charge and other services are behind a paywall. The portal may also charge employers for some services. The portal may utilize an algorithm that matches jobs and courses for each user. The portal may include a leaderboard system. The portal may determine one or more trending jobs.

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Dependent claims

A method for generating a course selection list, the method comprising:

receiving, by a server from a client computing device, a request identifying an history of a user comprising one or more previously obtained courses and jobs;
identifying, by an analogous course finder of the server for each of the one or more previously obtained courses, a corresponding one or more predetermined courses in a known course database stored in a storage device of the server;
identifying, by the analogous course finder from the known course database, skills associated with the one or more predetermined courses, the identified skills added to a profile for the user;
identifying, by an analogous job finder of the server for each of the one or more previously obtained jobs, a corresponding one or more predetermined jobs in a known jobs database stored in the storage device;
identifying, by the analogous job finder from the known jobs database, skills associated with the one or more predetermined jobs, the identified skills added to the profile for the user;
retrieving, by the server, one or more identifications of available jobs from an available jobs database stored in the storage device;
identifying, by the server, for each of the one or more identifications of available jobs, skills associated with said available job;
determining, by a skill matcher of the server, a subset of skills common to the profile for the user and each available job;
identifying, by the skill matcher from the one or more identifications of available jobs, a first available job associated with at least one skill of the subset of skills and associated with a second at least one skill not identified in the profile of the user;
retrieving, by the server from a storage device, one or more identifications of available courses from an available courses database, each available course associated with one or more skills;
identifying, by the skill matcher, a first available course associated with the second at least one skill associated with the first available job and not identified in the profile of the user;
adding, by the skill matcher, the first available course to a list of relevant courses for the user;
and
transmitting, by the server, the list of relevant courses to the client computing device.

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A system, comprising:

a server comprising a processor executing an analogous course finder, an analogous job finder, and a skill matcher, and a storage device;
wherein the server is configured for:
receiving, from a client computing device, a request identifying an history of a user comprising one or more previously obtained courses and jobs,
retrieving one or more identifications of available jobs from an available jobs database stored in a storage device,
identifying, for each of the one or more identifications of available jobs, skills associated with an available job,
retrieving, from a storage device, one or more identifications of available courses from an available courses database, each available course associated with one or more skills, and
transmitting a list of relevant courses to a client computing device;
wherein the analogous course finder is configured for:
identifying, for each of one or more previously obtained courses, a corresponding one or more predetermined courses in a known course database stored in the storage device of the server, and
identifying, from the known course database, skills associated with the one or more predetermined courses, the identified skills added to a profile for the user;
wherein the analogous job finder is configured for:
identifying, for each of one or more previously obtained jobs, a corresponding one or more predetermined jobs in a known jobs database stored in the storage device, and
identifying, from the known jobs database, skills associated with the one or more predetermined jobs, the identified skills added to the profile for the user;
and
wherein the skill matcher is configured for:
determining a subset of skills common to a profile for the user and each available job,
identifying from the one or more identifications of available jobs, a first available job associated with at least one skill of the subset of skills and associated with a second at least one skill not identified in the profile of the user,
identifying a first available course associated with the second at least one skill associated with the first available job and not identified in the profile of the user, and
adding the first available course to the list of relevant courses for the user.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/059,703Filed 3 Mar 2016
Priority: 3 Mar 2015
Published: 8 Sep 2016
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification4 codes

G06Q 10/1053
Human resources: employment or hiring
H04L 67/306
Profiles: user profiles
G06Q
Information and communication technology [ict] specially adapted for administrative, commercial, financial, managerial
H04L
Digital communication

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Application62/127,578Us provisional application · filed 3 Mar 2015
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