Patents by Inventor Elizabeth H. Budra
Elizabeth H. Budra has filed for patents to protect the following inventions. This listing includes patent applications that are pending as well as patents that have already been granted by the United States Patent and Trademark Office (USPTO).
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Patent number: 7150630Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: December 19, 2006Assignee: Scientific Learning CorporationInventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Patent number: 7101185Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: GrantFiled: April 27, 2005Date of Patent: September 5, 2006Assignee: Scientific Learning CorporationInventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Patent number: 6986663Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: GrantFiled: February 26, 2004Date of Patent: January 17, 2006Assignee: Scientific Learning CorporationInventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Publication number: 20040180311Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: ApplicationFiled: February 26, 2004Publication date: September 16, 2004Applicant: Scientific Learning CorporationInventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Patent number: 6726486Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: GrantFiled: September 26, 2001Date of Patent: April 27, 2004Assignee: Scientific Learning Corp.Inventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Publication number: 20020076675Abstract: A computer program for execution on a computing device is provided to cross-train students in language development skills such as letter-word correspondence, word recognition, vocabulary, and sentence and paragraph comprehension. A set of programs provide an adaptive methodology for training a student in decoding (semantic, syntactic, phonological, and morphological relationships), knowledge of rhymes, synonyms, antonyms, and homophones, spelling, letter-word correspondences, sentence comprehension, grammatical comprehension, working memory, vocabulary, paragraph comprehension, and improved reading comprehension. In each program, students are presented with an animated scene that poses a question, and a set of answers. The set of answers contain a correct response, and a number of incorrect responses or foils. The student advances to more complex levels by satisfying predetermined correct thresholds. Through repetition and intensity, the student's language skills are developed.Type: ApplicationFiled: September 26, 2001Publication date: June 20, 2002Applicant: SCIENTIFIC LEARNING CORPORATIONInventors: Elizabeth H. Budra, Elizabeth C. Cottle, Logan E. De Ley, Jefferson A. Dewey, William M. Jenkins, Virginia A. Mann, Steven L. Miller
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Patent number: 6290504Abstract: An apparatus and method on a computing device for training of auditory and graphical discrimination in humans is provided. The method and apparatus provides a number of stimulus sets, each stimulus set having a number of different phonemes. Speech processing is used to provide multiple levels of emphasis and or stretching for enhancing a subject's ability to discriminate between similarly sounding phonemes. The processing is applied to phonemes and presented to the human as a trial. As a subject correctly identifies phonemes in the stimulus sets, the amount of processing applied to the phonemes is reduced, ultimately to the level of normal speech. A performance feedback mechanism is provided to allow the human to obtain a summary of his/her success over the stimulus sets, at the different processing levels. More detailed feedback is also provided indicating specific processing levels achieved for each of the stimulus sets.Type: GrantFiled: October 8, 1999Date of Patent: September 18, 2001Assignee: Scientific Learning Corp.Inventors: Angela Jane Benitz, Elizabeth H. Budra, William M. Jenkins, John J. Montgomery