Dynamic Content Manipulation Engine for Tiered Memory Evaluation

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Solution Overview

Problem

Current learning management systems lack efficient methods for generating and managing evaluation data, which affects the quality and quantity of educational feedback and student performance assessment.

Innovation Solution

A method and system that retrieve student data, academic performance information, learning styles, and feedback performance to select and generate surveys, utilizing tiered memory for real-time analysis and reporting, allowing for dynamic evaluation and data management.

Engineering Contradictions & Design Principles

VSEngineering Contradiction Analysis

1Measurement precision

If traditional learning management systems are used for evaluation data management, then system simplicity is maintained, but evaluation data quality and quantity are insufficient

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation data qualityVSAvoidsystem complexity
Core Design Contradiction:
Measurement precisionVSDevice complexity

Solution Approach 1:

The system segments evaluation data into multiple categories (formative, summative, diagnostic) and stores them in separate database tables with specific schemas. This segmentation allows for precise data management and retrieval while maintaining system organization, directly improving evaluation data quality without overwhelming system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #1Segmentation

Solution Approach 2:

The patent introduces an intermediary evaluation data management layer between the learning management system and users. This intermediary layer handles data collection, validation, storage, and retrieval operations, improving data quality through systematic processing while shielding users from underlying system complexity

Inventive Principle:
Principle #24Intermediary (Mediator)

2Reliability

If comprehensive student data is collected for evaluation, then evaluation effectiveness is improved, but data management time and resources increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improveevaluation effectivenessVSAvoiddata management time
Core Design Contradiction:
ReliabilityVSLoss of time

Solution Approach 1:

The system performs preliminary actions by pre-defining evaluation schemas, data validation rules, and storage structures before actual evaluation data collection. This preliminary setup ensures that comprehensive student data can be collected effectively while automated processing reduces the time and resources needed for subsequent data management tasks

Inventive Principle:
Principle #10Preliminary action

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements feedback mechanisms where evaluation data is continuously collected, processed, and analyzed, with results fed back into the system to improve future evaluations. This automated feedback loop enhances evaluation effectiveness while reducing manual data management time through systematic reprocessing of evaluation cycles

Inventive Principle:
Principle #23Feedback

3Speed

If real-time evaluation analysis is implemented, then feedback timeliness is improved, but system processing requirements increase

Engineering Contradiction:
Improvefeedback timelinessVSAvoidsystem processing requirements
Core Design Contradiction:
SpeedVSPower

Solution Approach 1:

The system applies local quality by implementing real-time processing only for specific evaluation data types that require immediate feedback, while other data is processed asynchronously. This selective real-time processing improves feedback timeliness for critical evaluations without requiring sustained high processing power across all system operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #3Local quality

Solution Approach 2:

The patent implements periodic batch processing for non-critical evaluation data alongside real-time processing for urgent cases. This periodic action allows the system to handle comprehensive evaluation analytics with varying processing intensities, improving overall feedback timeliness while managing peak processing requirements through scheduled operations

Inventive Principle:
Principle #19Periodic action

Data Source

PatentUS9911353B2Dynamic content manipulation engine
Publication Date: 2018.03.06 PEARSON EDUCATION INC
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AI summary

A content delivery system is disclosed herein. The content delivery system includes a content management server, a survey server, and a database server that are communicatingly connected with a plurality of user devices. The database server includes a plurality of databases that are organized in a tiered memory such that prioritized data is placed in memory tier having faster components and non-prioritized data is placed in a memory tier having relatively slower components. The content distribution system can generate an evaluation and evaluation data by identifying a cohort for receipt of the evaluation, compiling the evaluation, and receiving evaluation results.