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Test.com U.S. Patent 6,513,042

The Patent issued to the founders of 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 numerous situations, including but not 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 sales proceeds with 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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