Network based interviewing and processing system
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1. A method of conducting a network-based interview comprising:
- creating at least one online questionnaire residing on a web site wherein access to said web site is protected by at least an interviewee specific password;
providing automated email tools for creating email templates and generating an automated email campaign and sending at least one of an introductory email, a first and a second reminder email, and a late notice email;
providing management tools for managing and tracking the progress of the completion of said questionnaire by each interviewee;
providing data management tools for determining and documenting response data collected from said online questionnaires; and
providing reporting tools for generating reports based on the data collected from said online questionnaires.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for creating an online questionnaire, accessible only at a secure network site. The present invention discloses using such a questionnaire for collecting data necessary for the documenting and calculating R&D tax credit. Tools are provided to assist administrative functions such as setting up the due dates of an interview campaign, sending email notices and creating tracking and analysis reports regarding the questionnaire. Interviewees may access online help in the form of instructions, definitions, samples and incentives for timely completion of the questionnaire.
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1. A method of conducting a network-based interview comprising:
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creating at least one online questionnaire residing on a web site wherein access to said web site is protected by at least an interviewee specific password;
providing automated email tools for creating email templates and generating an automated email campaign and sending at least one of an introductory email, a first and a second reminder email, and a late notice email;
providing management tools for managing and tracking the progress of the completion of said questionnaire by each interviewee;
providing data management tools for determining and documenting response data collected from said online questionnaires; and
providing reporting tools for generating reports based on the data collected from said online questionnaires.
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2. An apparatus for conducting an online interview campaign comprising:
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a web server capable of generating web pages and allowing at least one administrator and at least one user to connect to an application server over a global network;
an application server hosting a business logic capable of generating online questionnaires residing on web sites hosted by said web server, and providing tools allowing said administrator to organize and manipulate data generated from said user'"'"'s responses to said online questionnaires whereby said data generated from said user'"'"'s responses are used in determining and documenting tax data;
a database for storing said tax data generated from said online questionnaires.
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4. A network-based method for determining and documenting tax data comprising:
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creating at least one online questionnaire residing on a web site and wherein access to said web site is protected by at least an interviewee specific password;
providing management tools to an administrator managing said online questionnaire process wherein said management tools includes at least one of providing a tracking tool allowing the administrator to track the progress of the completion of said questionnaire by each interviewee, providing an email management tool allowing the administrator to generate an email campaign related to the online questionnaire, and providing a report generation tool allowing the administrator to generate tracking reports; and
providing data organization tools allowing the administrator to document and determine tax data based on the response data collected from interviewee questionnaire.
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5. A computerized network-based method comprising:
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obtaining tax data using at least one online questionnaire residing on a password protected web site;
providing administration tools for organizing and documenting said tax data;
providing report generating tools; and
using said report generating tool and said tax data to generate reports used in documenting and determining tax credit. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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