Patent ID: 7353239

Claim:
An online system for live interactive evaluation and comparison of a plurality of proposals in a first group and selection of proposals among the proposals in the first group to be included in a second group, the second group including only a predetermined number of proposals, the online system comprising a server including: a memory storing information about proposals, the memory having, for each proposal, a specific area storing information about the respective proposal; and a processor receiving judgments concerning proposals in the first group from users; the processor: performing for each user connected to the server a judgment submission procedure allowing the user to enter a judgment concerning a proposal, the judgment being a grade selected by the user from a scale of grades, performing a procedure of calculating an index indicating a measure of a need for any of the proposals included in the first group, but not included in the second group, in the case where the second group does not include the predetermined number of proposals, to receive more judgments, such judgments only being allowed from users who have not yet submitted any judgment concerning the proposal to make the proposal be included in the second group, and performing a further procedure of determining for any of the proposals included in the first group whether a mean of received judgments for the proposal meets a predetermined selection criteria so as to be included in the second group.