Automated testing error assessment system

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-10795754-B2
Application number	US-201916443676-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Jun 17, 2019
Priority date	Nov 16, 2015
Publication date	Oct 6, 2020
Grant date	Oct 6, 2020

Abstract

Methods and systems for automatically resolving computerized electronic communication anomalies are disclosed herein. The system can include a memory including an error database containing information identifying a plurality of previous detected errors and configuration information associated with those errors. The system can include a plurality of user devices. Each of these plurality of user devices can include: a first network interface to exchange data via the communication network; and a first I/O subsystem to convert electrical signals to user interpretable outputs via a user interface. The system can include a server that can: receive an indication of the initiation of electronic communication; receive an electrical signal including attribute information; receive an error message; identify a trend in error messages; and provide an error solution if a trend is identified.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A system, comprising:
a memory including an error database including information identifying a plurality of detected errors and associated configuration information; and
a server computer, wherein the server computer is configured to:
receive an electrical signal comprising attribute information identifying an attribute of a user device;
receive an error message associated with an electronic communication between the server computer and the user device;
identify a trend in error messages for the electronic communication between the server computer and the user device by comparing the error message to the plurality of detected errors and using the attribute of the user device;
generate an adjustment value with which testing scores of students can be adjusted using the trend in error messages;
adjust a testing score of a student associated with the user device using the adjustment value to generate an adjusted testing score; and
store the adjusted testing score in a score database.

2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the attribute information comprises location information, wherein the location information identifies the location of each of a plurality of user devices.

3. The system of claim 1 , wherein the electronic communication comprises test communications.

4. The system of claim 3 , wherein the test communications comprise a plurality of questions and a plurality of responses to the plurality of questions.

5. The system of claim 1 , wherein the attribute information comprises hardware information, wherein the hardware information identifies hardware of each of a plurality of user devices.

6. The system of claim 5 , wherein the attribute information comprises software information, wherein the software information identifies software on each of the plurality of user devices.

7. The system of claim 6 , wherein the attribute information comprises an event log identifying operations performed by each of the plurality of user devices before the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the server computer and identifying software running on each of the plurality of user devices at a time the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the server computer.

8. The system of claim 1 , wherein the server computer is further configured to send an alert, wherein the alert is sent from the server computer to the user device.

9. The system of claim 8 , wherein the alert launches an application within the user device, wherein the application displays data contained in the alert.

10. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a server computer, an electrical signal comprising attribute information identifying an attribute of a user device;
receiving, by the server computer, an error message associated with an electronic communication between the server computer and the user device;
identifying, by the server computer, a trend in error messages for the electronic communication between the server computer and the user device by comparing the error message to a plurality of detected errors stored in an error database;
generating, by the server computer, an adjustment value with which testing scores of students can be adjusted using the trend in error messages;
adjusting, by the server computer, a testing score of a student associated with the user device using the adjustment value to generate an adjusted testing score; and
storing, by the server computer, the adjusted testing score in a score database.

11. The method of claim 10 , wherein the attribute information comprises location information, wherein the location information identifies the location of each of a plurality of user devices.

12. The method of claim 10 , wherein the electronic communication comprises test communications including a plurality of questions and a plurality of responses to the plurality of questions.

13. The method of claim 10 , wherein the attribute information comprises hardware information, wherein the hardware information identifies hardware of each of a plurality of user devices.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the attribute information comprises software information, wherein the software information identifies software on each of the plurality of user devices.

15. The method of claim 14 , wherein the attribute information comprises an event log identifying operations performed by each of the plurality of user devices before the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the server computer and identifying software running on each of the plurality of user devices at a time the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the server computer.

16. A method, comprising:
receiving, by a first server computer, an error message associated with an electronic communication between a second server computer and a user device;
identifying, by the first server computer, a trend in error messages for the electronic communication between the second server computer and the user device by comparing the error message to a plurality of detected errors stored in an error database;
generating, by the first server computer, an adjustment value with which testing scores of students can be adjusted using the trend in error messages; and
transmitting, by the first server computer, the adjustment value to the second computer server.

17. The method of claim 16 , wherein the electronic communication comprises test communications including a plurality of questions and a plurality of responses to the plurality of questions.

18. The method of claim 16 , further comprising identifying, by the first server computer an attribute of the user device by accessing an attribute database storing attribute information for a plurality of user devices, wherein the attribute information for the plurality of user devices includes hardware information, wherein the hardware information identifies hardware of each of the plurality of user devices and identifying the trend in error messages using the attribute of the user device.

19. The method of claim 18 , wherein the attribute information comprises software information, wherein the software information identifies software on each of the plurality of user devices.

20. The method of claim 19 , wherein the attribute information comprises an event log identifying operations performed by each of the plurality of user devices before the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the first server computer and identifying software running on each of the plurality of user devices at a time the error message associated with the electronic communication was received by the first server computer.

Assignees

• Pearson Education Inc

Inventors

• Sherlock James
• Walker Judah
• Setaro James
• Schmidt Jeffrey

Classifications

• H04L41/147 Primary

  for predicting network behaviour · CPC title

• G06F11/079 Primary

  Root cause analysis, i.e. error or fault diagnosis (in a hardware test environment G06F11/22; in a software test environment G06F11/36) · CPC title

• H04L41/0654

  using network fault recovery (ring fault isolation or reconfiguration in loop networks without recovery actions by a network management system H04L12/437) · CPC title

• G06F11/0751

  Error or fault detection not based on redundancy (power supply failures G06F1/30; network fault management H04L41/06) · CPC title

• G06F11/0793

  Remedial or corrective actions (recovery from an exception in an instruction pipeline G06F9/3861; by retry G06F11/1402; for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity H04L69/40) · CPC title