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Method for data collecting and processing
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Inventors: Pekkanen, Antti;
Assignee: InterQuest Oy (Helsinki, FI)
Primary Examiner: Metjahic; Safet
Assistant Examiner: Al-hashemi; Sana
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Birch, Stewart, Kolasch & Birch, LLP
The object of the invention is a method for collecting data from users of terminals connected to a data network, through the said data network utilizing the terminals, by presenting to the users of the terminals one or more questions included in the questions of the inquiry. With the method according to the invention, the disturbance level directed to the user of the terminal is kept as low as possible by defining the maximum number of the questions to be answered by a single respondent. For each question is computed on the basis of the received answers at least one statistical characteristic after one or more answers given to the question. The selection of the questions to be presented can be based at least partly to the said statistical characteristics. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION The object of the invention is to provide a method, with which data is collected from the users of the terminals connected to a data network, preferably e.
g.
to the Internet, through the data network using the terminals, in such a way that the disturbance level caused by the data collection to the user of the terminal is as low as possible and at the same time statistically reliable results are achieved.
The method comprises also the storing of the data to the database and the computing of one or more statistical characteristic based on the stored data.
It is characterizing to the method that the method comprises steps: the questions to be included in the inquiry are chosen from a store of questions, the number of the questions to be presented to the user of the terminal is chosen, the chosen number of questions is chosen from the questions included in the inquiry, the chosen questions are sent to the user of the terminal to be answered, the answers given by the user of the terminal are received, the received answers are stored to the data store of the answers, one or more statistical characteristic is computed based on the stored answers in the data store of the answers, the computed statistical characteristics are stored in the data store of the characteristics.
The store of the questions is composed preferably e.
g.
of the questions made for earlier inquiries by the authors of the inquiries and of the questions made for each inquiry.
The stored questions in the store of the questions, composed earlier and used in earlier inquiries, can be provided with data on the received answers and on the statistical characteristics associated with them.
The method according to the invention is suitable to be utilized in all such data and data communication networks in which a number of terminals is connected to the network, the terminals being in connection through the network to at least one such a terminal having means for generating a connection to at least another terminal connected to the network, means for storing the questions to be sent to the terminal, means for choosing at least one terminal connected to the network for presenting a question to the chosen terminal, means for sending at least one question to at least one terminal connected to the network, means for storing the answer given from the terminal and means for processing the given answers
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