Survey System

• US 20130111323A1
• Filed: 10/30/2012
• Published: 05/02/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2011
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: PopSurvey, LLC
• Original Assignee: PopSurvey, LLC
• Inventors: Pigford, Joshua G., Taghaddos, Siamak
• Application Number:
  US13/664,368
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111323A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/223
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 40/174 Form filling; Merging
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising

Abstract

A method, apparatus and computer program product for creating, editing and displaying surveys is presented. Techniques include receiving a request to create a survey from a survey creator, providing a plurality of survey question types, providing a graphical user interface for composing survey questions using at least one of the plurality of survey question templates, providing a graphical user interface for editing the survey questions in response to input from the survey creator and displaying the edited survey questions on a survey player.

Claims

1. A survey system comprising

a database comprising plurality of survey question types;

a survey editor; and

a survey player.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the survey editor displays a single survey question per screen.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the survey editor incorporates user supplied branding to represent a user brand in a survey question.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the survey editor limits the number of answer options included in a multiple choice type question and limits the length of survey answers.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the survey editor provides an interface for associating at least one rule with a survey question and wherein the survey player executes skip logic and branching for the at least one rule associated with a survey question.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the database further comprises a plurality of survey templates comprising at least one question pre-built from the plurality of question types.

7. The system of claim 1 further comprising providing a graphical user interface for integrated panel selection.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the survey player is executable on a mobile device and survey questions are automatically reformatted and optimized for mobile device interaction.

9. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising executable instructions encoded thereon operable on a computerized device to perform processing comprising:

receiving a request to create a survey from a survey creator;

providing a plurality of survey question types;

providing a graphical user interface for composing survey questions using at least one of the plurality of survey question types;

providing a graphical user interface for editing the survey questions in response to input from the survey creator; and

displaying the edited survey questions on a survey player.

10. A computer-implemented method for survey creation and distribution comprising:

receiving a request to create a survey from a survey creator;

providing a plurality of survey question types;

providing a graphical user interface for composing survey questions using at least one of the plurality of survey question types;

providing a graphical user interface for editing the survey questions in response to input from the survey creator; and

displaying the edited survey questions on a survey player.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein editing the survey questions further comprises

adding rules enabling skip logic and branching and wherein editing the survey further comprises integrating user supplied branding.

12. The method of claim 10, further comprising providing a plurality of survey templates comprising at least one question pre-built from the plurality of question types.

13. The method of claim 10, wherein graphical user interface for editing the survey questions presents a single question per screen to the survey creator.

14. The method of claim 10, wherein displaying the survey questions on a survey player further comprises executing skip logic and branching.

15. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

receiving an email list from a survey creator; and

sending email invites to participate in a survey to users on the email list.

16. The method of claim 10 further comprising:

collecting partial responses and

storing the partial responses for review.

17. The method of claim 10 further comprising providing a customizable thank you page.

18. The method of claim 17 further comprising:

redirecting a survey taker to a predetermined web site after displaying the thank you screen.

19. The method of claim 10 further comprising providing embed code to enable embedding the survey player on a web site of the survey creator.

20. The method of claim 10 further comprising automatically reformatting and optimizing edited survey questions for mobile device interaction.