Patent ID: 7311666

Claim:
An apparatus for collecting information associated with migraines, comprising: at least one processor; at least one memory; and at least one program module, the program module stored in the memory and configurable to be executed by the processor, the program module including: instructions for a set of pre-determined questions; instructions for asking, multiple times during a time interval, a subset of pre-determined questions in the set of pre-determined questions, wherein the time interval is to include onset times for multiple migraines for at least one individual, and wherein adjacent onset times for at least two migraines in the multiple migraines are to be separated by a time period that is longer than a time period associated with recurrence headaches; instructions for receiving, multiple times during the time interval, answers to the subset of pre-determined questions; and instructions for receiving configuration instructions, wherein the configuration instructions select the subset of pre-determined questions that are to be asked during the time interval, wherein the configuration instructions are based on information available prior to the time interval, and wherein the instructions for asking include providing pre-selected answers for multiple pre-determined questions in the subset of the pre-determined questions such that answering a respective pre-determined question that has an associated pre-selected answer only involves selection if a respective answer to the respective pre-determined question is different than the associated pre-selected answer.