Survey of information about a vote

• US 20050043988A1
• Filed: 10/30/2002
• Published: 02/24/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 10/31/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Original Assignee: Accenture Global Services GmbH (Accenture PLC)
• Inventors: Kaldor, Jonathan, Feinbier, Loic, Berglund, David, Illsley, Martin
• Application Number:
  US10/494,158
• Publication Number:
  US 20050043988A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/12
• CPC Class Codes: G07C 13/00 Voting apparatus

Abstract

A computer based method and system for automatically managing votes, comprising the steps of collecting the votes of persons about a given subject, collecting a time information, combining the results of the votes with the time information; and displaying in real-time the vote results to a target person acting on the given subject.

Claims

1. A computer based method for automatically managing votes, comprising the steps of:

collecting the votes of persons about a given subject;

collecting time information;

combining the results of the votes with the time information; and

displaying in real-time the vote results to a target person acting on the given subject.

2. The method of claim 1, further comprising the steps of:

collecting information about at least one environmental parameter of the voting persons, said parameter being different from the subject of the vote; and

combining the results of the parameter information with the results of the vote.

3. The method of claim 2, further comprising the steps of:

determining a window of acceptable values of the environmental parameter; and

indicating and/or not taking into account the votes occurring when the current value of the environmental parameter is out of said window.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the subject of the vote is the satisfaction of a current event or service.

5. The method of claim 1, comprising several voting sessions of limited duration.

6. The method of any of claims 1 to 5, applied to survey customer satisfaction votes in a shop, a mall or similar.

7. The method of any of claims 1 to 5, applied to survey a satisfaction vote of an audience during a presentation.

8. A computer based system for automatically monaying votes comprising:

voting devices (10, 10′

, 50) to acquire votes about a given subject;

a central control device (20) to collect votes sent by the voting devices;

means to combine the results of the votes with a time information; and

means to display in real-time the vote results to a target person acting on said subject.

9. The system of claim 8, further comprising at least one environmental parameter sensor (40), the results of which are collected by the central control system (20), said parameter being different from the subject of the vote.

10. The system of claim 8 or 9, wherein the connections between the voting devices (10, 10′

, 50) and the central control device (20) are wireless connections.

11. The system of any of claims 8 to 10, wherein the voting devices are handset devices (10).

12. The system of any of claims 8 to 10, wherein the voting devices are resident devices (10′

).