Patent ID: 7284037

Claim:
A survey method comprising: a survey program prepared at a question preparation server is distributed to a portable terminal, and a management server collects survey programs executed on the portable terminal; the question preparation server receives an input of a question, sets an answer format, and generates said survey program, said survey program is configured to send a group of answers to the management server when a predetermined number of answers are inputted; the portable terminal that receives the survey program displays a question on a display unit of the portable terminal based on the survey program, receives the answer to the question via an input unit of the portable terminal, stores the answer in a memory unit of the portable terminal, monitors a volume of answer data stored in the memory unit of the portable terminal, issues a communication instruction in response to detecting that the volume of answer data stored in the memory unit reaches a predetermined level, and sends a group of answers stored in the memory unit to the management server via a communication unit of the portable terminal in response to the communication instruction; and the management server that has received the group of answers analyzes it, performs a statistical processing and generates visible survey report information.