Patents by Inventor Jerry N. Zimmermann

Jerry N. Zimmermann 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).

  • Publication number: 20040023191
    Abstract: The interactive, adaptive system (10) and method presented in this application promotes and supports the acquisition of language skills and facilitates the transfer of oral language to the written symbolic system. A developmental model drives the rules that systematically assess and inform instructional progression at the individual student level. The framework for the developmental model has the logical elements of curricular structure, skill level and auditory visual support level. Progression through the curriculum is dynamically determined depending on an individual's level of perception and performance.
    Type: Application
    Filed: March 4, 2002
    Publication date: February 5, 2004
    Inventors: Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry N. Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20030087218
    Abstract: An interactive adaptive learning system. A collection of core stimuli consisting of at least auditory and visual symbols and information, are stored on a computer. A number of different relationships between the core stimuli are created which can then be presented as discrimination or identification tasks to the user. Different sets of stimuli are then presented succeedingly to the user and the user is requested to respond. The form of response can either be to investigate and analyze the stimuli, or attributes of the stimuli, or answer of the quarry regarding the discrimination or identification task. The system has a built in strategy for progressing the user through learning tasks. The users actions and responses in reaction to the stimuli are all recorded and analyzed. Based not only on the success rate of the user responses, but also on other characteristics of the users reaction to the stimuli, the users learning strategy is classified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 18, 2002
    Publication date: May 8, 2003
    Inventors: Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry N. Zimmermann
  • Publication number: 20010041330
    Abstract: An interactive adaptive learning system. A collection of core stimuli consisting of at least auditory and visual symbols and information, are stored on a computer. A number of different relationships between the core stimuli are created which can then be presented as discrimination or identification tasks to the user. Different sets of stimuli are then presented succeedingly to the user and the user is requested to respond. The form of response can either be to investigate and analyze the stimuli, or attributes of the stimuli, or answer of the quarry regarding the discrimination or identification task. The system has a built in strategy for progressing the user through learning tasks. The users actions and responses in reaction to the stimuli are all recorded and analyzed. Based not only on the success rate of the user responses, but also on other characteristics of the users reaction to the stimuli, the users learning strategy is classified.
    Type: Application
    Filed: December 11, 2000
    Publication date: November 15, 2001
    Inventors: Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry N. Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 6206700
    Abstract: An interactive adaptive learning system. A collection of core stimuli consisting of at least auditory and visual symbols and information, are stored on a computer. A number of different relationships between the core stimuli are created which can then be presented as discrimination or identification tasks to the user. Different sets of stimuli are then presented succeedingly to the user and the user is requested to respond. The form of response can either be to investigate and analyze the stimuli, or attributes of the stimuli, or answer of the quarry regarding the discrimination or identification task. The system has a built in strategy for progressing the user through learning tasks. The users actions and responses in reaction to the stimuli are all recorded and analyzed. Based not only on the success rate of the user responses, but also on other characteristics of the users reaction to the stimuli, the users learning strategy is classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: October 14, 1994
    Date of Patent: March 27, 2001
    Assignee: Breakthrough to Literacy, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry N. Zimmermann
  • Patent number: 6186794
    Abstract: An interactive adaptive learning system. A collection of core stimuli consisting of at least auditory and visual symbols and information, are stored on a computer. A number of different relationships between the core stimuli are created which can then be presented as discrimination or identification tasks to the user. Different sets of stimuli are then presented succeedingly to the user and the user is requested to respond. The form of response can either be to investigate and analyze the stimuli, or attributes of the stimuli, or answer of the quarry regarding the discrimination or identification task. The system has a built in strategy for progressing the user through learning tasks. The users actions and responses in reaction to the stimuli are all recorded and analyzed. Based not only on the success rate of the user responses, but also on other characteristics of the users reaction to the stimuli, the users learning strategy is classified.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: April 2, 1993
    Date of Patent: February 13, 2001
    Assignee: Breakthrough to Literacy, Inc.
    Inventors: Carolyn J. Brown, Jerry N. Zimmermann