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US 7,841,940 B2Granted
Human test based on human conceptual capabilities
AssigneeASTAV, inc
InventorAlexandre Bronstein
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Abstract
A human test that is based on a human conceptual capability. A human test according to the present techniques includes posing a question that is selected to exercise a human conceptual capability, obtaining an answer to the question, and comparing the answer to a correct answer that would be rendered by a human being.
Claims13
A method for determining whether an originator of an access to a computer-based system is a human being or a computer-based program imitating a human being, comprising:
- generating a computer-based message defining a human test which when rendered by another computer-based system using an output device presents a stimulus perceptible by one or more human senses such that the stimulus depicts an object that exists in the real-world and a question pertaining to the object wherein the question is selected to test human knowledge regarding a real-world capability of the object;
- transmitting the computer-based message to the originator and receiving a computer-based message containing an answer to the question from the originator and determining whether the answer is correct.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.