Patent ID: 9721265
Date: 2017-08-01
CPC Classifications: G06Q,G09B

Claim:
1. A method for generating a survey and a review for a business, the review comprising human-readable prose generated based on the survey, the method comprising: generating the survey comprising at least one question associated with the business and a plurality of answer options for the at least one question, using a processor; transmitting the survey from the processor to an electronic device associated with a user; receiving a selection of at least one answer from the plurality of answer options at the processor from the electronic device associated with the user; storing the selection of the at least one answer in a database as one or more answer trees having one or more answer nodes, using a survey generation engine of the processor, wherein each of the one or more answer nodes corresponds to i) an answer selected by the user for a particular question, ii) a sentence value for the answer, and iii) a syntactic type of the sentence value; automatically generating i) the human-readable prose of the review based on a plurality of sentence templates and the one or more answer trees, and ii) business analytic data based on the selection of the at least one answer, using the processor; transmitting the review from the processor to the electronic device associated with the user; receiving an edited review at the processor from the electronic device associated with the user; transmitting the edited review from the processor to an electronic device associated with the business; receiving an approval of the edited review at the processor from the electronic device associated with the business; and storing the edited review and the business analytic data in the database, using the processor, wherein the edited review is associated with the business; wherein each of the plurality of sentence templates comprises a semantic sentence type, a sentiment type, text, and a narrative type; wherein automatically generating the human-readable prose of the review comprises: