Automated system and method to develop computer-administered research questionnaires using a virtual questionnaire model

US7342583B2 · kind B2 · utility

Assignee

• PICS, Inc. · US

Inventors

• Albert Behar · Charlotte, US
• William T. Riley · Ashburn, US
• Jatinder Pal Singh · Mountain View, US
• Philip Andrew Syrne · Arbutus, US
• Ofer Asif · Herndon, US
• Marco de Palma · Laurel, US

Key dates

• Filing date: Nov 17, 2004
• Grant date: Mar 11, 2008
• Expiry date: May 2, 2026

Classification

• Technology area (CPC G): Physics
• CPC primary: G06Q10/10
• WIPO field: IT methods for management
• WIPO sector: Electrical engineering

Abstract

A configurable electronic system provides a software based system by which researchers set up self-monitoring field protocols in a common computer format and deploy the protocols to computer devices to research participants. The system includes electronic software modules of tasks useful in generating of questionnaires for recording research data. By selecting, modifying and sequencing the modules, a researcher generates a sequence of questionnaires to be displayed on the computer devices operated by the research participants. The participants' computer devices include alert queues to stage questionnaires to be presented to a participant and resolve conflicts between questionnaires staged at substantially the same time.