Patent ID: 9299083
Filing Date: 2016-03-29
CPC Classification: G06F,G06Q

Claim Text:
1. An electronic method for generating group data indicative of the collective response of at least a subset of respondents who are members of an audience at one or more locations, the collective response being to a plurality of portions of a time-varying stimulus presented to the audience, the method comprising: receiving, by an output data generation system, responses to the time-varying stimulus from respective ones of a plurality of respondent devices, each respondent device being (i) in data communication with the output data generation system and (ii) operable by a member of the audience to participate as a respondent, each response (i) including data indicative of a response of a respondent associated with the respective respondent device to the time-varying stimulus and (ii) being entered by the associated respondent using the respective respondent device; filtering, by the output data generation system, responses corresponding to a plurality of portions of the time-varying stimulus to which the group data is intended to relate, to generate, for each one of the portions of the time-varying stimulus, a filtered response data set that excludes any delayed one or ones of the responses to the portion of the time-varying stimulus, the filtering being performed, for each portion of the time-varying stimulus, by excluding each delayed response that is (i) entered by a respondent using a respondent device within a time period corresponding to the portion of the time-varying stimulus but (ii) received from the respondent device by the output data generation system outside of a timing tolerance relative to the time period corresponding to the portion of the time-varying stimulus due to a transmission lag; processing at least a subset of the filtered response data sets to generate the group data; receiving an external computing system identifier of one of the respondents, and identifying one or more of the other respondents based on the external computing system identifier of the respondent; filtering the responses to generate a respondent response data set that excludes responses not received from the identified other respondents; generating message data based on the respondent response data set; and transmitting the message data to the external computing system using the external computing system identifier of the respondent, wherein the message data comprises one or more metrics, scores, or metrics and scores.