MULTIMEDIA EDUCATIONAL CONTENT DELIVERY WITH IDENTITY AUTHENTICATION AND RELATED COMPENSATION MODEL

摘要

High-quality multimedia content of on-line course offerings can be made available to users on both a free-of-direct-charge basis and on a fee-bearing subscription, member or for-credit basis, while providing a revenue split with originators and/or sponsors of educational content. In general, such compensation models rely on computational techniques that reliably authenticate the identity of individual student users during the course of the very submissions and/or participation that will establish student user proficiency with course content.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
providing multimedia educational content to users in an internetworking environment; authenticating identity of individual users at least in part by computationally processing key sequence timings captured in connection with passphrase responses unique to the individual users, wherein the passphrase for a particular individual user is structured to include key sequences for which timings were computationally determined to be characteristic of the particular user; and determining compensation for either or both of contributors and sponsors of the provided educational content based at least in part on a compensation metric that is based on population of users whose identity has been authenticated at least in part by the computational processing of the key sequence timings.