Patent ID: 7693743

Claim:
A method for accomplishing a data inquiry in a data network where an evaluation group is distributed in time or in location, the method comprising: providing a software application at a server that is connected to said data network for processing evaluations entered by evaluation group members through workstations regarding evaluated features of various targets of evaluation: a main user of the data network establishing through his workstation a connection to the software application provided at the server in order to log in to the service, said main user creating input tables to be used in collecting data, said input tables being at least two-dimensional, so that value axes of said input tables are mutually perpendicular, and that the origins of said axes are located at the center point of each input table; and said main user creating evaluation targets, including features to be fed in the input tables for evaluation; transmitting to the evaluation group members a message that an inquiry has been started; registering the evaluation group members as respondents of said inquiry; the evaluation group members obtaining in their workstations the input tables created by the main user; the evaluation group members individually evaluating each feature to be evaluated by each entering an individual evaluation comprising values about two independent variables in a desired location in an at least two-dimensional input table having two evaluation axes perpendicular to each other by utilizing graphic features of their workstations; after receipt of each of the individual evaluations by each of the evaluation group members: normalizing the values entered in the input tables of the individual evaluation by moving the entered values to change an average of the values to an origin with a preset deviation by means of the software application provided at the server; each of the evaluation group members accepting the normalized values; and recording the accepted normalized values in a database provided at the server, terminating a response time reserved for the inquiry; combining each of the accepted normalized values that are recorded in the database to create combined values; normalizing the combined values to create second normalized values by utilizing the software application provided at the server so that a common average of all values falls on the origin with the preset deviation; recording the second normalized values in a graphical sum-up table; and transmitting the second normalized values, recorded in the graphical sum-up table, to be available for the evaluation group members by means of said sum-up table.