Patent ID: 11880547
Assignee: KONINKLIJKE PHILIPS N.V.
Field: Computer technology (Electrical engineering)
Classification: CPC G | IPC G

Claim 11:
12. A non-transitory computer readable medium storing instructions executable by at least one electronic processor for performing a method of navigating a hierarchical electronic questionnaire, the method comprising:
providing a user interface (UI) via which:
at least a portion of the hierarchical electronic questionnaire is presented on a display device as a tree-based questionnaire map with a plurality of nodes connected by a plurality of branches, the nodes of the plurality of nodes corresponding to questions;
a user input is received, via at least one user input device, indicative of a selection of at least one of the nodes and/or at least one of the branches; and
the question corresponding to the selected node is displayed and a user input indicative of an answer to the question corresponding to the selected node or the selected branch is received via the at least one user input device;

populating one or more nodes other than the selected node based on the selected node and/or the answer to the question corresponding to the selected node, wherein the populating includes populating one or more nodes in branches of the tree-based questionnaire map other than a branch containing the selected node with the answer to the question corresponding to the selected node; and
annotating one or more nodes or the nodes in one or more branches that require answers to the question represented by the nodes and cannot be populated with the answer to the selected node.