Patent ID: 8265983

Claim:
A system for collecting information for use in conducting an interview of an interviewee by an interviewer, the system comprising a non-transitory computer readable medium configured to: transmit a first questionnaire to obtain information relating to an interviewee from the interviewee, the first questionnaire including a number of questions; receive information relating to the interviewee in response to the number of questions included on the first questionnaire, wherein the information received in response to the number of questions included on the first questionnaire includes a number of interviewee topics and the information received in response to the number of questions included on the second questionnaire includes a number of third party topics; transmit a second questionnaire to obtain information relating to the interviewee from a third party, the second questionnaire including a number of questions; receive information relating to the interviewee in response to the number of questions included on the second questionnaire; generate a number of interview topics and a number of interview questions for each of the number of interview topics based on the information received in response to the number of questions included on the first and second questionnaires; weight the number of interviewee topics and the number of third party topics to obtain a number of weighted topic scores; generate the number of interview topics and the number of interview questions for each of the number of interview topics based on the number of weighted topic scores; determine a question allocation factor for each of the number of interviewee topics and the number of third party topics based on the number of weighted topic scores; determine the number of interview questions for each of the number of interview topics based on the question allocation factors for each of the number of interviewee topics and the number of third party topics; and determine a time milestone schedule for the number of interview topics based on the question allocation factors for each of the number of interviewee topics and the number of third party topics and the total interview time.