System for collecting data via the internet
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Abstract
A system, for collecting data through the Internet, that is characterized by the inclusion of a means for producing or arranging personal-life information/advice in a question-and-answer format that includes a plurality of questions for obtaining desired data requested by a business-user or other organization-user (hereinafter “business-user”); a means for supplying personal-life information/advice to an individual user, who can receive such information at any time; a means for selecting the aforementioned desired data from the user'"'"'s answers to a plurality of questions; and a means for supplying to the business-users the data that they desire.
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25 Claims
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8. A method of collecting data through the Internet, comprising the steps of:
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(A) collecting survey data requests by businesses seeking information from users;
(B) generating plural sets of questions to ask the users based on the survey requests collected in step (A);
(C) receiving requests from the users for personal-life information;
(D) selecting a set of questions from the sets generated in step (B) based on the type of personal-life information sought by the user in step (C);
(E) transmitting the set of the questions selected in step (D) and personal-life information to the user;
(F) collecting answers to the set of the questions transmitted by the users in step (E); and
,(G) transmitting to the businesses, information contained in the answers collected in step (F). - View Dependent Claims (9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17)
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18. A system for collecting data through the Internet, comprising:
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means for producing and editing personal-life information/advice in a question-and-answer format that includes a plurality of questions to be answered by individual users in order to provide data requested by business users, the producing and editing means including— (a) a first data base containing personal-life information/advice;
(b) a second database containing requests for data from the business users, (c) means for formulating the questions using data from the first and second databases;
means for supplying the personal-life information/advice and the formulated questions to the individual users, who can receive the information at any time;
means for collecting and analyzing the desired data based on the individual users'"'"' answers to the formulated questions when the individual users are obtaining personal-life information/advice; and
,means for supplying the desired data after it has been collected and analyzed, to the business user. - View Dependent Claims (19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25)
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