SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR DATA MANAGEMENT
First Claim
1. A method for managing data including the steps of:
- (a) creating a questionnaire comprising a series of questions;
(b) tokenizing said questionnaire;
thereby producing a plurality of tokens representing said questionnaire;
(c) transmitting said plurality of tokens to a remote computing device;
(d) executing at least a portion of said plurality of tokens representing said questionnaire at said remote computing device to collect a response from a user;
(e) transmitting at least a portion of said response from the user to a server via a network; and
(f) storing said response at said server.
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Abstract
A method for the management of data collected from a remote computing device including the steps of: creating a questionnaire; transmitting the questionnaire to a remote computer; executing the questionnaire in the remote computer to prompt a user for responses to questions of the questionnaire; transmitting the responses to a sever via a network; making the responses available on the Web. Preferably, computers used in connection with the inventive method are loosely networked in that network connections between computers are not always available and, when a connection is not available, data is stored at a node of the network and transmitted at the earliest time when a connection is available. In one preferred embodiment, the inventive method is used to collect survey data and to make the responses to the survey available to a client in virtually real time over the Internet.
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11 Claims
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1. A method for managing data including the steps of:
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(a) creating a questionnaire comprising a series of questions; (b) tokenizing said questionnaire;
thereby producing a plurality of tokens representing said questionnaire;(c) transmitting said plurality of tokens to a remote computing device; (d) executing at least a portion of said plurality of tokens representing said questionnaire at said remote computing device to collect a response from a user; (e) transmitting at least a portion of said response from the user to a server via a network; and (f) storing said response at said server. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6)
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7. A method for collecting survey data from a user comprising:
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(a) designing a questionnaire having branching logic on a first computer platform; (b) automatically transferring said designed questionnaire to at least one loosely networked computer; (c) executing said transferred questionnaire on said loosely networked computer, thereby collecting responses from the user; (d) automatically transferring via the loose network any responses so collected to a central computer; and
,(e) making available on the Web any responses transferred to said central computer in step (d). - View Dependent Claims (8)
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9. A method for managing data transfers between computers including the steps of:
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(a) creating a questionnaire at a first site in a first computer located at a second site, said first site and said second site being connected by a network; (b) transmitting said question to a remote computer via said network, said remote computer running an OIS; (c) modifying said questionnaire with incremental changes at a third site in said first computer located at said second site; and (d) modifying said questionnaire in said remote computer with said incremental changes. - View Dependent Claims (10, 11)
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