Patent ID: 11915801
Assignee: MEI RESEARCH, LTD.
Field: Medical technology (Instruments)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 18:
19. A survey data request system comprising:
a participant table, on a web server running on a computer, designating individual participants in a research study, and mobile personal computing devices personally associated with corresponding individual participants in the research study;
means for identifying one or more individual participants in the research study via a corresponding mobile personal computing device associated with the individual participant in the research study;
means for creating a data request comprising at least one item of a survey including one or more of a statement, a recommendation, a command, a question or an instruction to record data from a sensor;
means for configuring one or more trigger conditions for a corresponding data request such that one or more of the individual participants are provided a notification of a corresponding pending data request through one or more annunciations at a predefined date and time of day;
means for writing the data request and one or more trigger conditions into a transport file, in JSON format, for download to the corresponding mobile personal computing device associated with an intended individual participant; and
an application on the mobile personal computing device for downloading the transport file to the corresponding mobile personal computing device and unpacking the transport file to provide:
one or more trigger conditions registered on the corresponding mobile personal computing device; and
a predefined elapsed time, provided on the corresponding mobile personal computing device, to remove the notification and the corresponding pending data request when at least one of the one or more trigger conditions is no longer met.