Invention Grant
- Patent Title: Secure delivery and processing of paper-based exam questions and responses
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Application No.: US16431861Application Date: 2019-06-05
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Publication No.: US11763692B2Publication Date: 2023-09-19
- Inventor: Jonathan Lenchner , Reha Yurdakul , Benjamin Joseph Mann
- Applicant: International Business Machines
- Applicant Address: US NY Armonk
- Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
- Current Assignee Address: US NY Armonk
- Agency: Otterstedt & Kammer PLLC
- Agent Shimon Benjamin
- Main IPC: G09B7/00
- IPC: G09B7/00 ; G06F21/32

Abstract:
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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