User interfaces for determining the reaction of a group with respect to a set of elements

• US 10,120,547 B2
• Filed: 10/07/2015
• Issued: 11/06/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/07/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Appgree SA
• Original Assignee: Appgree SA
• Inventors: Adarraga, Juan Moran
• Primary Examiner(s): Lu, Hua
• Application Number:
  US14/877,551
• Publication Number:
  US 20160103588A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,126 Days
• Field of Search: None
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/048 Interaction techniques based on graphical user interfaces [GUI]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0482 Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0484 for the control of specific functions or operations, e.g. selecting or manipulating an object, an image or a displayed text element, setting a parameter value or selecting a range
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/067 Enterprise or organisation modelling
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0201 Market modelling; Market analysis; Collecting market data
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 50/01 Social networking
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0421 Anonymous communication, i.e. the party's identifiers are hidden from the other party or parties, e.g. using an anonymizer
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/10 in which an application is distributed across nodes in the network software deployment G06F8/60; multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/46
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/535 Tracking the activity of the user network monitoring arrangements H04L43/00; recording of computer activity G06F11/34
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72403 with means for local support of applications that increase the functionality

Abstract

A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a mobile device, including displaying in the GUI on the mobile device an option subset comprising at least one option to which a response is requested and displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the mobile device configured to receive a reaction of an individual respondent in response to the at least one option in the displayed option subset, the individual respondent being from a respondent subset that is one of a plurality of respondent subsets taken from a respondent set and the option subset that is displayed in the GUI not being determined by the individual respondent and including fewer than all of a plurality of options in an option set from which the option subset is taken.

Claims

1. A method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a plurality of mobile devices, the method comprising:

(a) displaying in the GUI on a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices a first option subset comprising at least one option to which a response is requested;

(b) displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the first mobile device configured to receive a reaction of an individual respondent in response to the at least one option in the first option subset displayed in (a);

(c) determining a score for each of the at least one option in the first option subset using at least the reaction received by the feedback mechanism in the GUI on the first mobile device;

(d) based on at least the score determined for each of the at least one option in the first option subset, determining a second option subset comprising at least one option to be evaluated by at least one other individual respondent, the at least one option in the second option subset comprising one or more options from the first option subset;

(e) displaying in the GUI on at least one other mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices the second option subset comprising the at least one option to be evaluated by the at least one other individual respondent; and

(f) displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the at least one other mobile device configured to receive a reaction of the at least one other individual respondent in response to the at least one option in the second option subset displayed in (e).

2. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (c), the determining the score for each of the at least one option in the first option subset is further based upon a comparison of the reaction received by the feedback mechanism in the GUI on the first mobile device for each of the at least one option in the first option subset to a reaction received for each other option in an option set from which the first option subset and the second option subset are taken.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising:

(g) performing, at least once;

(i) determining an updated score for each option in the option set using at least the reaction received by the feedback mechanism in the GUI;

(ii) based on at least the updated score determined for each option in the option set, displaying in the GUI on at least one additional mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices at least one option to be evaluated by at least one additional individual respondent; and

(iii) displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the at least one additional mobile device configured to receive a reaction of the at least one additional individual respondent in response to the at least one option displayed on the at least one additional mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a), the at least one option in the first option subset has not been previously presented to other mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a), the at least one option in the first option subset has been previously presented to other mobile devices of the plurality of mobile devices.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein:

in (a), the first option subset that is displayed in the GUI on the first mobile device is not determined by the individual respondent and comprises fewer than all of a plurality of options in an option set from which the first option subset is taken.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein:

in (e), the second option subset that is displayed in the GUI on the at least one other mobile device is not determined by the at least one other individual respondent and comprises fewer than all of a plurality of options in an option set from which the second option subset is taken.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein, in (b) and (f), the feedback mechanism comprises buttons that are adjacent to one another that are configured to receive the indication of whether each of the at least one option to which the response is requested is accepted or rejected.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a) and/or (e), each of the at least one option to which the response is requested is simultaneously displayed on the GUI.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a) and/or (e), each of the at least one option to which the response is requested is sequentially displayed on the GUI.

11. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a) and (e), textual information, graphical information, and/or audio information soliciting a response from the individual respondent is displayed on the GUI.

12. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (b), the feedback mechanism is configured to receive an indication of whether the individual respondent accepts or rejects each of the at least one option to which the response is requested, and in (f), the feedback mechanism is configured to receive an indication of whether the at least one other individual respondent accepts or rejects each of the at least one option to which the response is requested.

13. The method of claim 1, further comprising inferring, with aid of a hardware processor, a statistical estimation of the reaction of a respondent set to each and every option in the first option subset and the second option subset.

14. The method of claim 13, wherein the inferring is based on a selected analysis of respondent reactions in respective respondent subsets to option subsets assigned to each of the respective respondent subsets.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein the GUI is configured to display information to the individual respondent about the selected analysis to be conducted using the respondent reactions, prior to giving the individual respondent the opportunity to provide a reaction.

16. The method of claim 13, wherein, in (b) and (f), the feedback mechanism includes a field that configured to receive textual, video, and/or audio information from the individual respondent.

17. The method of claim 13, wherein, in (b) and (f), the feedback mechanism comprises a visual representation of an option to approve the at least one option and a visual representation of an option to not approve the at least one option.

18. The method of claim 1, wherein the individual respondent and the at least one other individual respondent cannot access all of the plurality of option subsets.

19. The method of claim 1, wherein, in (a), the first option subset is randomly assigned to the individual respondent.

20. The method of claim 1, wherein:

in (b), the feedback mechanism is configured such that the individual respondent may provide the reaction in response to the at least one option in the first option subset that is received by the individual respondent in (a) and may not provide the reaction in response to other options in an option set from which the first option subset and the second option subset are taken that are not in the first option subset that is received by the individual respondent, and

in (e), the feedback mechanism is configured such that the at least one other individual respondent may provide the reaction in response to the at least one option in the second option subset that is received by the at least one other individual respondent in (d) and may not provide the reaction in response to other options in the option set that are not in the second option subset that is received by the at least one other individual respondent.

21. The method of claim 1, wherein the individual respondent and the at least one other individual respondent are part of a random sample of respondents.

22. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing a program causing a computer to execute a method for providing a graphical user interface (GUI) on a plurality of mobile devices, the method comprising:

(a) displaying in the GUI on a first mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices a first option subset comprising at least one option to which a response is requested;

(b) displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the first mobile device configured to receive a reaction of an individual respondent in response to the at least one option in the first option subset displayed in (a);

(c) determining a score for each of the at least one option in the first option subset using at least the reaction received by the feedback mechanism in the GUI on the first mobile device;

(d) based on at least the score determined for each of the at least one option in the first option subset, determining a second option subset comprising at least one option to be evaluated by at least one other individual respondent, the at least one option in the second option subset comprising one or more options from the first option subset;

(e) displaying in the GUI on at least one other mobile device of the plurality of mobile devices the second option subset comprising the at least one option to be evaluated by the at least one other individual respondent; and

(f) displaying a feedback mechanism in the GUI on the at least one other mobile device configured to receive a reaction of the at least one other individual respondent in response to the at least one option in the second option subset displayed in (e).