Content management

• US 20100161382A1
• Filed: 10/27/2009
• Published: 06/24/2010
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2008
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Survcast Corp.
• Original Assignee: Survcast Incorporated
• Inventors: Cole, Robert J.
• Granted Patent: US 8,533,013 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/10
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9535 Search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls

Abstract

A content management system can have one or more of an aggregation engine, a survey engine, a polling engine, an apparent-interest engine, an explicit-interest engine, and a results processing engine.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

aggregating content in association with survey questions;

calculating apparent interest as a function of interaction with the content, wherein the function includes survey question responses;

ranking aggregated content in association with apparent interest;

polling clients using the survey questions;

processing poll results, wherein the processing of poll results including associating survey question responses with the associated clients;

reporting results.