Patent ID: 7962359

Claim:
A method of collecting and disseminating survey information, comprising the steps of: providing a website with hardware and software server components, the components including non-standard or specialized components that perform services for web site users, the specialized components including a questionnaire database and a survey answers database storing previously collected survey results relating to particular subject matter, and wherein the previously collected survey results include a composite survey response; establishing communication via the internet between a client and the web site; receiving, at the web site, a request from the client to view a composite survey response; providing the client with a survey questionnaire from the survey questionnaire database directed to subject matter that is unrelated to the subject matter of the composite survey response; providing access to the composite survey response to the client only if the web site receives a response to the survey questionnaire from the client; and rejecting the client's request for the survey results if a response to the survey questionnaire is not received from the client.