System for conducting surveys in different languages over a network with survey voter registration

US6311190A · kind A · utility

Assignee

• Harris Interactive, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Leonard R. Bayer · Rochester, US
• John Jason Mott · Rochester, US
• Albina Radielovic · Rochester, US
• Frederick A. Beer · Rochester, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Feb 2, 1999
• Grant date: Oct 30, 2001
• Expiry date: Feb 2, 2019

Classification

• Technology area (CPC Y): Emerging Cross-Sectional Technologies
• CPC primary: Y10S707/99948
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A system for conducting surveys to voters in multiple different languages and registering voters is provided over a network, such as the Internet. The system includes a programmed computer system representing at least one network server which provides an addressable voting site and registration site on the network, and a database storing voting information for building surveys in multiple languages and recording the results of the surveys, and registration information for building registration questionnaires and recording the results of the questionnaires. The network server accesses and updates the records of multiple tables of the database through a transaction server connected to the database. In response to a computer of a voter connecting to the network server over the network, the network server determines the language and country of the voter, and then dynamically constructs a survey in the voter's language in accordance with the voting information stored in the database. The survey is transmitted in a survey form page to the voter's computer which enables the voter to answer each question and to submit such answers back to the network server. The received answers to the que…