Patent ID: 6993495

Claim:
A method for assigning a survey to a respondent, the method comprising the steps of: determining which surveys, of a plurality of electronic surveys stored in a machine-readable medium, constitute a set of active surveys; after determining which surveys constitute the set of active surveys, performing the steps of a computerized system automatically generating a set of one or more screening questions by selecting the set of screening questions from a larger set of available screening questions based on a set of one or more factors; wherein each screening question in said larger set of available screening questions corresponds to one or more surveys in said set of active surveys; wherein one of the factors used by the computerized system to determine whether a particular available screening question is selected for said set of screening questions hinges on the one or more surveys to which said particular available screening question corresponds; wherein at least one screening question in said set of one or more screening questions is automatically generated by the computerized system, based on target participation criteria associated with a particular survey of said set of active surveys, to determine whether respondents qualify to take said particular survey; wherein said computerized system generates the set of one or wore screening questions based on the target participation criteria of at least two distinct surveys in the set of active surveys; the computerized system sending electronic signals that cause said set of screening questions to be presented to said respondent; the computerized system receiving input data in response to said respondent answering said set of one or more screening questions; and the computerized system determining which survey within the previously established set of active surveys to present to said respondent based on how said respondent answered said set of one or more screening questions.