Patent ID: 8073013
Filing Date: 2011-12-06
Classification: G06Q,H04L

Abstract:
1. A communication network configured to conduct a multi-media survey conducted based on streaming media from a multi-media data file to one or more survey participants, said communication network comprising: a network gateway configured to receive reactionary feedback via a wide area network from a plurality of participants, and to associate the received reactionary feedback with the corresponding participant, wherein the reactionary feedback comprises a recorded reaction that quantifies a reaction of a participant to the streamed media by corresponding a position of a movable reaction tool to the reaction of the participant as the participant moves the movable reaction tool between a minimum value and a maximum value, and wherein the reactionary feedback further comprises a time marker corresponding to each recorded reaction and representing a time of a recorded reaction relative to a time reference of the multi-media data file; a study manager configured to compile the reactionary feedback from the plurality of participants to generate survey results comprising a survey value between the minimum value and the maximum value at each of a plurality of time markers spanning at least some portion of the multi-media data file, wherein each survey value comprises a compilation of the reactionary feedback received for the corresponding time marker; a viewer configured to display synchronized survey results and multi-media data file; and a view manager configured to control the viewer responsive to user commands, wherein the viewer manager is further configured to synchronize the survey results with the multi-media data file to generate synchronized survey results and multi-media data by associating the survey results with the multi-media data having common time markers.