Patent ID: 6477504
Filing Date: 2002-11-05
Classification: G06Q,G09B

Abstract:
A method for providing an automated survey system over a network system, the method comprising the steps of:maintaining, on a computer readable medium electronic information for use in determining where to field surveys; causing an interface to be displayed at a particular client of said network system, wherein the interface allows a user of said particular client to define a survey; after causing the interface to be displayed, and in response to the user interacting with said interface displayed at said particular client, performing the step of creating a survey at a server that is romotely located from said particular client based on information received over said network system from said interface; after maintaining the electronic information, using the automated survey system to read said electronic information; after reading said electronic information, based on said electronic information, said automated survey system identifying one or more target resources into which to embed links to said survey; wherein the one or more target resources are located at locations that are remote relative to said automated survey system and accessible to said automated survey system over said network system; and after the automated survey system identifies the one or more target resources, the automated survey system inviting participation in said survey by causing one or more links to said survey to be embedded in said one or more target resources, to allow users of said network to request participation in said survey by accessing one of said target resources over said network and activating said link in said one of said target resources.