Patent ID: 7299067

Claim:
A method of managing training completed remotely at a hand held device, said method comprising the step of: receiving at a training server training data transmitted to the training server through a data network from a user of a hand held device, the training data representing training taken by the user at hand held device; receiving identifying information for the user of a hand held device concurrently with the training data file; identifying the user of the hand held device; authenticating the identify of the user of the hand held device by requesting authentication data from the user and comparing the authentication data with a master user identification template containing authentication data associated with the user and accessible by the training server to determine if said comparison authenticates the user's identify as an authorized trainee; recording the training data in memory associated with the training server; locating at least one training file contained within the training data; determining status of the training file by comparing the training file with an associated master training template accessible from memory by the training server, the status including a determination if training represented by the training file meets a set criterion including at least one of: pending, incomplete, failed, passed; and recording training status in memory.