Method and Apparatus for Hosting Group Response Events

• US 20080215992A1
• Filed: 03/15/2006
• Published: 09/04/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2005
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: InLive Interactive, Ltd.
• Original Assignee: InLive Interactive, Ltd.
• Inventors: Or, Amit
• Application Number:
  US11/886,239
• Publication Number:
  US 20080215992A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/753
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/95 Retrieval from the web
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 10/10 Office automation; Time management

Abstract

A system for allowing presentation of a Group Response Event (GRE) to a group of participants: the GRE comprising at least a first question and a range of possible answers to the at least a first question; the system comprising a hosting website accessible by at least one web-browser connected to a display, the web-browser and display being viewable by at least a first group of participants at a first location, such that members of said at least a first group of participants can individually respond to said at least a first question by inputting one of said range of possible answers via personal telecommunication devices.

Claims

1. A system for allowing presentation of a Group Response Event (GRE) to a group of participants:

the GRE comprising at least a first question and a range of possible answers to the at least a first question;

the system comprising a hosting website accessible by at least one web-browser connected to a display, the web-browser and display being viewable by at least a first group of participants at a first location, such that members of said at least a first group of participants can individually respond to said at least a first question by inputting one of said range of possible answers via personal telecommunication devices.

2. Use of the system of claim 1, for an application selected from the list of judgment voting, surveys, multi-player games and sales activities.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein said hosting website is supported by an application server and comprises functional modules selected from the list of a Client Account Management Module for managing individual client accounts, a GRE Registration Module for allowing registration of individual group response events, a GRE Authoring Module for allowing authoring of GREs by a GRE Author, a GRE Activation Module for allowing activation of a GRE by an operator, a GRE Results Processing Module for processing answers to GRE questions and displaying same, and a Participant Data Logging Module for logging data input by participants via the personal telecommunication devices.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least a first question has a range of possible answers and one answer is correct.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein said at least a first question has a range of possible answers and the system conducts a survey of responders. The system of claim 1 wherein a preliminary question is a grouping question and participants are grouped by their responses to the grouping question, and subsequent questions are tailored to specific groups.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein a preliminary question is a grouping question and participants are grouped by their responses to the grouping question, and subsequent responses to subsequent questions are analyzed on a group by group basis.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein said personal telecommunication devices are selected from the list of mobile phones, telecommunication enabled personal organizers and wired telephone handsets.

8. A web accessible application for facilitating hosting of Group Response Events, the web accessible application being supported on a network by an application server and being coupleable to display screens via network browsers and to personal telecommunication devices linked to the application server by a gateway via telephony communication channels, the web accessible application comprising functional modules selected from the list of a Client Account Management Module for managing individual client accounts, a GRE Registration Module for allowing registration of individual group response events, a GRE Authoring Module for allowing authoring of GREs by a GRE Author, a GRE Activation Module for allowing activation of a GRE by an operator, a GRE Results Processing Module for processing answers to GRE questions and displaying same, and a Participant Data Logging Module for logging data input my participants via the personal telecommunication devices.

9. The web accessible application of claim 8 further being accessible via a website and the network being an Internet.

10. A method of allowing a group of participants to participate in an interactive event comprising the steps of:

(i) providing a web accessible hosting service;

(ii) accessing the web accessible hosting service via the web;

(iii) displaying a question and a range of acceptable answers on a screen;

(iv) allowing a plurality of participants in said group of participants to respond to said question by inputting one of said range of said answers via personal telecommunication devices, such as mobile phones;

(v) repeating steps (iii) and (iv).

11. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of displaying correct answer to said question.

12. The method of claim 10 further comprising the step of displaying responses to said question in an aggregated form.