OPPORTUNISTIC OPINION SCORE COLLECTION ON A MOBILE DEVICE

• US 20090265366A1
• Filed: 04/22/2008
• Published: 10/22/2009
• Est. Priority Date: 04/22/2008
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Storch, Mark Robert, Joseph, George, Fischer, David James, Marshall-wilson, Maria I.
• Application Number:
  US12/107,667
• Publication Number:
  US 20090265366A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/60 Scheduling or organising the servicing of application requests, e.g. requests for application data transmissions using the analysis and optimisation of the required network resources admission control or resource allocation H04L47/70

Abstract

Opportunistic transmission of voting and/or opinion data can occur from a user'"'"'s mobile device to a server. The user can be presented a form to complete, where the form is designed to facilitate gathering of opinion information. Opinion data gathered from the form can be opportunistically transmitted to a server, where transmission commonly occurs when a supplemental transmission takes place. The transmission can be received by a server and a user that provided the opinion and/or voting information can be rewarded, such as through a monetary payment. The opinion and/or voting information can be extracted and retained in storage.

Claims

1. A method that facilitates collection of opinion information, comprising:

obtaining operator opinion information through utilization of a mobile device application, obtainment of opinion information is facilitated through use of a form; and

transmitting the opinion information to an auxiliary location at an opportunistic time.

2. The method of claim 1, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

3. The method of claim 1, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

4. The method of claim 1, further comprising storing at least part of the opinion information.

5. The method of claim 4, storing the opinion information takes place upon a mobile device operating the mobile device application.

6. The method of claim 4, storing the opinion information takes place upon the auxiliary location.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising selecting the opportunistic time to transmit the opinion information, transmitting the opinion information to an auxiliary location takes place at the selected opportunistic time.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising presenting the operator with a user interface that facilitates opinion information obtainment.

9. The method of claim 1, further comprising authenticating a request to obtain opinion information, obtaining opinion information takes place when a request is authenticated.

10. The method of claim 1, further comprising performing a financial operation based upon obtaining opinion information of an operator.

11. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:

a data collector that obtains operator opinion information, obtainment of opinion information is facilitated through use of a form; and

a data transmitter that emits the obtained operator opinion information to an auxiliary location at an opportunistic time.

12. The apparatus of claim 11, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

13. The apparatus of claim 11, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

14. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising an accounter that performs a financial function in accordance with data obtainment or data emission.

15. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising an initializer that enables the data collector to obtain operator opinion information.

16. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising a form selector that selects an interface to present to an operator, the data collector obtains operator opinion information through presentment of the interface.

17. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising a verifier that checks validity of operation of the data collector or data transmitter.

18. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising storage that retains the obtained operator opinion information.

19. The apparatus of claim 11, further comprising an authenticator that determines if the data collector should commence operation, the data collector obtains operator opinion information upon successful determination.

20. A wireless communications apparatus that facilitates opinion information collection, comprising:

means for obtaining operator opinion information through utilization of a mobile device application, obtainment of opinion information is facilitated through use of a form; and

means for transmitting the opinion information to an auxiliary location at an opportunistic time.

21. The apparatus of claim 20, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

22. The apparatus of claim 20, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

23. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising means for storing at least part of the opinion information.

24. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising means for selecting the opportunistic time to transmit the opinion information.

25. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising means for presenting the operator with a user interface that facilitates opinion information obtainment.

26. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising means for authenticating a request to obtain opinion information, obtaining opinion information takes place when a request is authenticated.

27. The apparatus of claim 20, further comprising means for performing a financial operation based upon obtaining opinion information of an operator.

28. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for:

obtaining operator opinion information through utilization of a mobile device application, obtainment of opinion information is facilitated through use of a form; and

transmitting the opinion information to an auxiliary location at an opportunistic time.

29. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

30. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

31. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions for storing at least part of the opinion information.

32. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising instructions for selecting the opportunistic time to transmit the opinion information.

33. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising presenting the operator with a user interface that facilitates opinion information obtainment.

34. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising authenticating a request to obtain opinion information, obtaining opinion information takes place when a request is authenticated.

35. The machine-readable medium of claim 28, further comprising performing a financial operation based upon obtaining opinion information of an operator.

36. In a wireless communication system, an apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

obtain opinion information of an operator through utilization of a mobile device application, obtainment of opinion information is facilitated through use of a form; and

transmit the opinion information to an auxiliary location at an opportunistic time.

37. The method of claim 36, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

38. The method of claim 36, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

39. A method that facilitates collection of opinion information, comprising:

receiving a data transmission with opinion information from a mobile device at an opportunistic time; and

rewarding an entity that provided the opinion information based upon successful receipt of the opinion information.

40. The method of claim 39, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

41. The method of claim 39, further comprising extracting opinion information from the data transmission

42. The method of claim 41, further comprising storing the extracted opinion information.

43. The method of claim 41, further comprising aggregating the extracted opinion information with other opinion information.

44. The method of claim 39, further comprising transmitting a form to the mobile device, the form is utilized to gather the opinion information included in the data transmission.

45. The method of claim 44, further comprising choosing the form that is transmitted to the mobile device.

46. The method of claim 39, further comprising requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information.

47. The method of claim 46, further comprising determining if a party inquiring about an opinion has authority to request a data transmission, requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information occurs upon a determination that the party has authority to request a data transmission.

48. The method of claim 39, further comprising authenticating at least part of the data transmission.

49. The method of claim 39, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

50. A wireless communication apparatus, comprising:

a memory that retains instructions related to reception of a data transmission with opinion information from a mobile device at an opportunistic time and providing a reward to an entity that provided the opinion information based upon successful receipt of the opinion information; and

a processor coupled to the memory, configured to execute the instructions retained in the memory.

51. The apparatus of claim 50, the memory stores the opinion information.

52. The apparatus of claim 50, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

53. The apparatus of claim 50, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

54. A wireless communications apparatus that facilitates opinion information collection, comprising:

means for receiving a data transmission with opinion information from a mobile device at an opportunistic time; and

means for rewarding an entity that provided the opinion information based upon successful receipt of the opinion information.

55. The apparatus of claim 54, further comprising means for extracting opinion information from the data transmission.

56. The apparatus of claim 55, further comprising means for storing the extracted opinion information.

57. The apparatus of claim 55, further comprising means for aggregating the extracted opinion information with other opinion information.

58. The apparatus of claim 54, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

59. The apparatus of claim 54, further comprising means for transmitting a form to the mobile device, the form is used to gather the opinion information included in the data transmission.

60. The apparatus of claim 59, further comprising means choosing the form that is transmitted to the mobile device.

61. The apparatus of claim 54, further comprising means for requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information.

62. The apparatus of claim 61, further comprising means for determining if a party inquiring about an opinion has authority to request a data transmission, requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information occurs upon a determination that the party has authority to request a data transmission.

63. The apparatus of claim 54, further comprising means for authenticating at least part of the data transmission.

64. The apparatus of claim 54, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

65. A machine-readable medium having stored thereon machine-executable instructions for:

receiving a data transmission with opinion information from a mobile device at an opportunistic time; and

rewarding an entity that provided the opinion information based upon successful receipt of the opinion information.

66. The medium of claim 65, further comprising instructions for extracting opinion information from the data transmission.

67. The medium of claim 66, further comprising instructions for storing the extracted opinion information.

68. The medium of claim 66, further comprising instructions for aggregating the extracted opinion information with other opinion information.

69. The medium of claim 65, the opportunistic time is a time when at least one other transmission is taking place.

70. The medium of claim 65, further comprising instructions for transmitting a form to the mobile device, the form is utilized to gather the opinion information included in the data transmission.

71. The medium of claim 70, further comprising instructions for choosing the form that is transmitted to the mobile device.

72. The medium of claim 65, further comprising instructions for requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information.

73. The medium of claim 72, further comprising instructions for determining if a party inquiring about an opinion has authority to request a data transmission, requesting that the mobile device send a data transmission with opinion information occurs upon a determination that the party has authority to request a data transmission.

74. The medium of claim 65, further comprising instructions for authenticating at least part of the data transmission.

75. The medium of claim 65, the opportunistic time is off-peak time.

76. In a wireless communication system, an apparatus comprising:

a processor configured to;

receive a data transmission with opinion information from a mobile device at an opportunistic time; and

reward an entity that provided the opinion information based upon successful receipt of the opinion information.