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Online Testing Patented

Posted by timothy on from the mmm-obviousness dept.

An anonymous reader writes "For those who think that online testing is an obvious idea, please be advised that the USPTO recently issued U.S. Patent No. 6,513,042 for online testing to two Ohio inventors. According to an article in NEOhio CrainTech, "As of last week, Test Central Inc. in Cleveland owns the U.S. patent to conduct testing via the Internet and, in essence, owns the online testing business.""

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  1. Higher Learning by g(zerofunk.org) · · Score: 3, Interesting

    It will be interesting to see what this does for Colleges and Universities, at the university I attended they were pushing for 50% of all classes to be offered online by 2010. This included quizzes and tests.
    g

  2. Re:Breadth: Doesn't cover all online tests by wcbarksdale · · Score: 2, Interesting
    In claim 13: wherein a test-maker and a proprietor of the first computer share the revenues generated by the test-taker taking the test. There must be at least two parties making money of the testing. The first being the test maker and the second being the person who owns testing computer.
    Wouldn't this also mean that a test taker using his own computer would be exempt?
  3. onlinetrafficschool.com by wotevah · · Score: 2, Interesting

    These people have an online traffic school that ends with, guess what, an online test!

    Domain Name: ONLINETRAFFICSCHOOL.COM
    Status: ACTIVE
    Creation Date: 19-nov-1997

    [whois.opensrs.net]
    Registrant:
    Online Traffic School
    645 Fourth Street
    Santa Rosa, CA 95404
    US