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The Patent issued to Test.com, Inc. protects
its intellectual property in the area of distributing and selling
tests on the Internet and sharing revenues received for the test
with the test creator.
Patent Abstract
The Test.com invention relates to a method of making a test and
posting the test online for potential test-takers including providing
a host system and a plurality of remote terminals coupled to the
Internet, inputting questions at one of the remote terminals,
compiling the questions at the host system to make a compiled
test, posting the test online for potential test-takers, wherein
a test-taker is required to pay to take the compiled test, and
wherein the test-maker and the proprietor of the host system share
the revenues generated by the test-taker taking the test.
Business Impact
Test.com's Patent for Internet Based Testing covers the following
situations, but are not solely limited to:
- Online ("e-learning") content providers that purchase
or license content (that include tests and practice tests) and
sell such content to individuals and organizations.
- Book publishers (such as: textbook and self-help) who share
a royalty of sales back to the textbook authors, whose textbook
content is shared on the Internet, and such content includes
sample or actual tests.
- Organizations that provide online certifications based on
testing content provided by third parties for a fee.
- Schools or Universities that provide to students, for a fee,
access to Internet based tests (and practice tests) where such
tests are provided from a third party and such Schools and Universities
pay the third party for access to such tests.
- Testing software companies that host their software product
on the Internet and whose customers receive revenues for tests
loaded in the software product and remit payment to an author
for the use of the test.
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