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Trading system on user commitments to participate in questionnaires and other interactions

a trading system and questionnaire technology, applied in the field of trading system on user commitments to participate in questionnaires and other interactions, can solve the problems of small screen with very limited viewing area, inability to provide user interaction in real time, and often inability of a user using a cell phone, etc., to facilitate audio recording, facilitate text entry, facilitate the effect of recording

Inactive Publication Date: 2008-05-08
QUALTRICS
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Benefits of technology

Enables efficient creation, dissemination, and trading of questionnaires on mobile devices, reducing costs and labor by leveraging user commitments, and effectively utilizing user time for market research and feedback collection.

Problems solved by technology

Electronic devices, such as mobile phones and personal digital assistants (PDA's), often contain small screens with very limited viewing area.
User interaction in real time, such as those provided for a user using a PC on the Internet, are often not possible for a user using a cell phone.
For example, the amount of textual information cannot be a full page of textual information that is typically made available o a PC.
Graphical information also cannot be large.
The same website, when accessed from a cell phone, would be not only unreadable but also frustrating.
Thus, there is presenting user with information in order to solicit user input when the user is using a cell phone rather than a PC is a big problem.
Cell phones are therefore a device for which traditional websites are ill prepared to provide information.
In addition, surveys or questionnaires that are created for Internet based access via a PC are not appropriate for cell phone access.
However, the same web page would be unmanageable and difficult to navigate on a cell phone with a small LCD screen and small keyboard for user input.
However, contacting a user is a problem.
Contacting users via postal services or email for making them answer questionnaires or provide feedback, or answer surveys is therefore time consuming, expensive and labor intensive.
Unfortunately, traditional questionnaires are not setup to take advantage of users responses.
Without detailed instructions provided, questionnaires that try to guide users to specific questions based on their potential answers end up being confusing to a user.
Therefore, traditional questionnaires are not flexible or dynamically arranged.
Currently, if a manufacturer, marketing organization or advertising company has to purchase a block of “questionnaire time” (QTime) to be used for conducting surveys or questionnaires, there is no mechanisms or institutions to purchase them from.
Similarly, if a carrier wants to sell accumulated QTime to manufacturers of consumer products or advertising and marketing companies, there is no forum or sales environment for them to sell them in.

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[0031] The present invention relates generally to the interactions between a mobile handset and a server within a carrier network, and, more specifically, to the ability to create questionnaires for a mobile handset, store them in a network, and disseminate them to collect results.

[0032]FIG. 1 is a perspective diagram of a QTime trading system 109 that comprises a QSupply database 115 that gathers information from one a more carrier networks 107 that have a supply of QTime, a QTime Demand Forecasting component 121 that provides information on the estimated demand for QTime (in the market) based on historical data and based on existing trading information maintained by the Trading activity manager 119, and a QPricing engine that determines pricing for trades of QTime based on current supply, current demand and forecasted demand. A manufacturer of products 111 or a marketing company (or other consumers of QTime) can trade QTime or purchase QTime. The present invention introduces a ne...

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Abstract

A questionnaire network makes it possible to create, disseminate, conduct questionnaires or surveys on mobile handsets and to collect results for processing and storage. The questionnaire network is powered by a questionnaire creation tool and a questionnaire trading system. A questionnaire trading system for QTime makes it possible for producers of QTime, such as carriers, and consumers of QTime, such as product manufacturers and advertising companies, to buy or sell QTime in bulk and to trade in QTime as a commodity. In one embodiment, supplementary information and preambles that are part of a questionnaire are captured in audio form using the questionnaire creation tool and are stored selectively along with the questionnaire in a carrier's questionnaire repository or separately at a hosted repository.

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RELATED APPLICATIONS [0001] This patent application is a continuation of, makes reference to, claims priority to and claims benefit from, the U.S. patent application Ser. No. 11 / 010,985, entitled “QUESTIONNAIRE NETWORK FOR MOBILE HANDSETS AND A TRADING SYSTEM FOR CONTRACTS ON USER COMMITMENTS TO ANSWER QUESTIONNAIRES,” filed on Dec. 13, 2004, docket number BRR2003US04-U1. The complete subject matter of the above-referenced United States Provisional Patent Application is hereby incorporated herein by reference, in its entirety. [0002] This patent application makes reference to U.S. patent application Ser. No. 10 / 985,702, entitled “QUESTIONNAIRE NETWORK FOR MOBILE HANDSETS,” filed on Nov. 10, 2004, docket number BRR2003US03-U1. The complete subject matter of the above-referenced United States patent application is hereby incorporated herein by reference, in its entirety.FEDERALLY SPONSORED RESEARCH OR DEVELOPMENT [0003] [Not Applicable]MICROFICHE / COPYRIGHT REFERENCE [0004] [Not Applic...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(United States)
IPC IPC(8): G06Q40/00G06Q99/00G06F17/00G06Q30/00
CPCG06Q30/02G06Q30/0283G06Q30/0203G06Q40/04
Inventor RAO, BINDU RAMA
Owner QUALTRICS
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