Online survey spawning, administration and management
First Claim
1. A method for administering surveys, the method comprising the steps of:
- including in a first web page, sent from a publisher to a client, a redirector tag that causes cookie information stored at said client to automatically be provided from said client to a redirector in response to the first web page being decoded at said client;
wherein the cookie information was stored at the client in response to a tracker tag being contained in a content item, associated with a first ad campaign of a plurality of ad campaigns, in a second web page that was previously received by the client;
wherein the cookie information includes an identifier of the first ad campaign;
receiving, at the redirector, the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag; and
in response to the redirector receiving the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag, performing the steps of;
selecting a selected survey from a plurality of available surveys based, at least in part, on the identifier of the first ad campaign in the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag;
wherein a first survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with the first ad campaign and a second survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with a second ad campaign of the plurality of ad campaigns;
generating and displaying an invitation to participate in the selected survey;
wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices.
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Abstract
A method and apparatus for spawning and management of online surveys is provided. An administration and redirector subsystem (ARS) is used manage ongoing surveys for a plurality of sites. Surveys can be added to or removed from individual sites using the ARS. The ARS also tracks statistics for individual surveys. Redirector tags invite users to participate in surveys and track user survey participation through cookies. The system can be used to conduct advertisement effectiveness studies. Tracker tags and corresponding cookies are used to track users who have viewed content containing the tag. Each study is issued a unique content tag, but uses the same redirector tag.
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38 Claims
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1. A method for administering surveys, the method comprising the steps of:
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including in a first web page, sent from a publisher to a client, a redirector tag that causes cookie information stored at said client to automatically be provided from said client to a redirector in response to the first web page being decoded at said client; wherein the cookie information was stored at the client in response to a tracker tag being contained in a content item, associated with a first ad campaign of a plurality of ad campaigns, in a second web page that was previously received by the client; wherein the cookie information includes an identifier of the first ad campaign; receiving, at the redirector, the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag; and in response to the redirector receiving the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag, performing the steps of; selecting a selected survey from a plurality of available surveys based, at least in part, on the identifier of the first ad campaign in the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag; wherein a first survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with the first ad campaign and a second survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with a second ad campaign of the plurality of ad campaigns; generating and displaying an invitation to participate in the selected survey; wherein the method is performed by one or more computing devices. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19)
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20. A non-transitory computer-readable storage medium storing one or more sequences of instructions which, when executed by one or more processors, cause performance of:
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including in a first web page, sent from a publisher to a client, a redirector tag that causes cookie information stored at said client to automatically be provided from said client to a redirector in response to the first web page being decoded at said client; wherein the cookie information was stored at the client in response to a tracker tag being contained in a content item, associated with a first ad campaign of a plurality of ad campaigns, in a second web page that was previously received by the client; wherein the cookie information includes an identifier of the first ad campaign; receiving, at the redirector, the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag; and in response to the redirector receiving the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag, performing the steps of; selecting a selected survey from a plurality of available surveys based, at least in part, on the identifier of the first ad campaign in the cookie information provided by the client in response to the redirector tag; wherein a first survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with the first ad campaign and a second survey of the plurality of available surveys is associated with a second ad campaign of the plurality of ad campaigns; generating and displaying an invitation to participate in the selected survey. - View Dependent Claims (21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38)
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