Patent ID: 7194448
Filing Date: 2007-03-20
Classification: G06Q,G09B,Y10S

Abstract:
1. A computer implemented method of enhancing conducting a survey of users in a database of potential survey takers and rewarding actual survey takers and referrers of actual survey takers, comprising: receiving via a computer network a survey response from a first user, verifying that a survey response received from the first user is not a duplicate survey response, wherein the survey comprises a plurality of requests designed to collect data for analysis of an aspect of a plurality of respondents; rewarding the first user a first amount; analyzing identification information of the first user in a database of potential survey takers to determine the identity of a second user, wherein the second user referred the first user to the database; rewarding the second user a second amount; analyzing identification information of the second user in the database of potential survey takers to determine the identity of a third user, wherein the third user referred the second user to the database; and rewarding the third user a third amount.