Self-administered survey systems, methods and devices

US5740035A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Control Data Corporation · US

Inventors

• Gerald B. Cohen · Gaithersburg, US
• Louis W. Conley · Gaithersburg, US
• Roberta M. McConochie · Annapolis, US
• Robert H. Patchen · Bethesda, US
• James D. Peacock · Laurel, US
• Claude A. Rankin · Columbia, US
• Thomas W. White · San Jose, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Jul 23, 1991
• Grant date: Apr 14, 1998
• Expiry date: Jul 23, 2011

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q30/02
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

Self-administered survey devices include a display, an input device, a memory and a control device which controls the display to show at least one survey question and control the memory to store a response to the at least one question. A system and method for carrying out self-administered surveys utilize a centralized survey data processor and a plurality of self-administered survey devices for storing survey data entered by respective respondents and wherein survey data is wirelessly transmitted from the plurality of self-administered survey devices to the centralized survey data processor.