Secure delivery and processing of paper-based exam questions and responses

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United States of America Patent

PATENT NO 11763692
APP PUB NO 20200388179A1
SERIAL NO

16431861

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Methods and systems for the secure delivery and processing of exam questions and responses. One or more exam questions and one or more identifiers of one or more designated individuals who are authorized to print the one or more exam questions are transported using a secure protocol. Biometric information is obtained from an individual requesting to print the one or more exam questions and information is read from an embedded tag that identifies a corresponding exam sheet as a unique exam sheet for a specified exam and that identifies that the specified exam is for a particular student. The specified exam is printed on the unique exam sheet in response to a first current time being in a printing time window TW1 and the biometric information from the individual matching biometric information of one of the one or more designated individuals.

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  • INTERNATIONAL BUSINESS MACHINE CORPORATION

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Inventor Name Address # of filed Patents Total Citations
Lenchner, Jonathan Nairobi, KE 184 1987
Mann, Benjamin Joseph Nairobi, KE 1 0
Yurdakul, Reha Istanbul, TR 6 2

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