Presenting an interview question and answer session over a communications network
First Claim
1. A computer-implemented method of presenting an interview question and answer session over a communications network, comprising the steps of:
- retrieving, from a database of pre-stored sets of questions and respective answers, a plurality of question and answer sets; and
forwarding said question and answer sets to one or more selected communications network users.
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Abstract
The present invention relates to presentation of an interview question and answer session over a communications network, particularly over a wireless network such as a 3G mobile telephone network. In one form, the invention allows multiple mobile telephone users to remotely supply questions to a specific interview topic, and to view or listen to the answers to supplied questions as part of an interview question and answer session at a prescribed session time. The questions are submitted to and stored by a computer application for central access and review by an interviewee. Answers to selected questions are input at a single time or over several points in time, and question and answer sets are stored, edited and queued by a system operator. At the prescribed session time, the computer application then serves to mobile telephone users, in sequence, the question and answer sets with a suitable time delay between each question and its respective answer in order to simulate a real time interview session. The invention has particular application in ‘celebrity chatrooms’, involving question and answer interview sessions with persons in the public eye (politicians, celebrities, etc).
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19 Claims
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1. A computer-implemented method of presenting an interview question and answer session over a communications network, comprising the steps of:
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retrieving, from a database of pre-stored sets of questions and respective answers, a plurality of question and answer sets; and
forwarding said question and answer sets to one or more selected communications network users. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12)
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13. A computer-implemented system for presenting an interview question and answer session over a communications network, comprising:
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a question receiver unit configured to receive questions from a plurality of system users;
a question storage unit configured to store said questions;
an interviewee interface unit configured to allow an interviewee to access said questions and input respective answers to one or more of said questions;
an answer receipt and storage unit configured to receive and store answers submitted by the interviewee in response to said questions, and to associate each stored answer with a respective stored question, to provide a queue of stored question and answer sets;
a broadcast unit configured to forward, to multiple system users, at a predetermined question and answer session time, successive questions and their respective answers.
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14. A computer software product for presenting an interview question and answer session over a communications network, the software product comprising:
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computer program code which, when executed, causes retrieval from a database of pre-stored sets of questions and respective answers at least one question and answer set; and
computer program code which, when executed, causes said set to be forwarded to one or more selected communications network users. - View Dependent Claims (15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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