Patent ID: 6705872
Filing Date: 2004-03-16
Classification: G06Q

Abstract:
A method for a user to create and maintain assessments comprising:providing access through a user's interface device to an assessment control system; requiring said user to identify information related to information content, including identifying the electronic and/or communications channel or channels location or locations of said information content, within information content identification tools located within said assessment control system; designating a stored assessment event upon said user's saving of said information related to information content; providing electronic storage of said stored assessment event; associating said stored assessment event with said user; managing the delivery to said user's interface device of multiple components, including a component containing said information content and a component containing assessment development tools located within said assessment control system; providing a format in which said multiple components within said user's interface device is presented in a manner that produces a continuous unified perceptual experience and allows for user activity to occur in any single component of the said multiple components; allowing the user to create and maintain said assessments within the said component containing the said assessment development tools while said information content remains within the said component containing said information content; designating a stored assessment upon said user's saving of said assessment; providing storage of said stored assessment; associating the said stored assessment with the said user; associating said stored assessment with the said stored assessment event; permitting alteration, deletions or other maintenance of said stored assessment event and said stored assessment; allowing for the creation of a new said stored assessment based on previous said stored assessment or previous said stored assessment event; and allowing for the creation of a new said stored assessment event based on previous said stored assessment or previous said stored assessment event.