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Systems and methods for avoiding network congestion on web-based survey platforms

AssigneeToluna Israel

InventorsFrank Smadja, Jerome Labbe, Nitin Patel

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Abstract

Systems and methods for avoiding network congestion on a web-based survey system are provided using dynamic profiling of users and transmitting the most valuable survey. The system can receive information associated with a user and a number of surveys requested. The system can prompt the user to respond to the first set of routable questions. The system queries a router for a set of surveys with open sub quotas based on the information associated with the user and the answers to the first set of routable questions. The set of surveys are inserted into a list of surveys. Each survey in the list of surveys is assigned a score based on the priority of the survey, the difficulty of the survey and the urgency of the survey and sorted. The system can transmit at least one survey from the list of surveys.

Claims16

Dependent claims

A system for avoiding network congestion on a web-based survey system, the system comprising:

a computing system including a server, a database storing a plurality of surveys and a plurality of tactical questions, and a router including a plurality open sub quotas associated with each survey of the plurality of surveys, wherein the plurality of surveys include at least one routable question, the computing system programmed to:
receive an input from a user, wherein the input includes information associated with the user and a number of surveys requested;
query the database for a first set of routable questions from the plurality of surveys based on the information associated with the user;
request an answer to each question in the first set of routable questions;
in response to receiving an answer to the first set of routable questions, the computing system is programmed to:
query the router for a first set of open sub quotas associated with a first set of surveys matching the information associated with the user and the answer to the first set of routable questions,
insert the first set of surveys associated with the first set of open sub quotas in a first list of surveys, and
transmit at least one survey from the first list of surveys to the user;
and
in response to not receiving an answer to a subset of routable questions from the first set of routable questions, the computing system is programmed to:
insert a second set of surveys including the unanswered subset of routable questions in a second list of surveys,
query the database for at least one tactical question,
request the user to answer the at least one tactical question,
query the database for the unanswered subset of routable questions,
request the user to answer the unanswered subset of routable questions, and
in response to receiving answers to the tactical question and the routable questions, dynamically create a data table in the database associated with the user indicating the answers to the subset of routable questions and tactical question.

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A method for avoiding network congestion on a web-based survey system, the method comprising:

receiving, via a computing system including a server, a database storing a plurality of surveys and a plurality of tactical questions, and a router including a plurality open sub quotas associated with each survey of the plurality of surveys, wherein the plurality of surveys include at least one routable question the computing system, an input from a user wherein the input includes information associated with the user and a number of surveys requested;
querying, via the computing system, the database for a first set of routable questions from the plurality of surveys based on the information associated with the user;
requesting, via the computing system, an answer to each question in the first set of routable questions;
in response to receiving an answer to the first set of routable questions, the method further comprising:
querying, via the computing system, the router for a first set of open sub quotas associated with a first set of surveys matching the information associated with the user and the answer to the first set of routable questions,
inserting, via the computing, system, the first set surveys associated with the first set of open sub quotas in a first list of surveys, and
transmitting, via the computing system, at least one survey from the first list of surveys to the user;
and
in response to not receiving an answer to a subset of routable questions from the first set of routable questions, the method further comprising:
inserting, via the computing system, a second set of surveys including the unanswered subset of routable questions in a second list of surveys,
querying, via the computing system, the database for at least one tactical question,
requesting, via the computing system, the user to answer the at least one tactical question,
querying, via the computing system, the database for the unanswered subset of routable questions,
requesting, via the computing system, the user to answer the unanswered subset of routable questions, and
in response to receiving answers to the tactical question and the routable questions, dynamically creating, via the computing system, a data table in the database associated with the user indicating the answers to the subset of routable questions and tactical question.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Facts

Application: 15/653,111Filed 18 Jul 2017 · us provisional application
Priority: 4 Aug 2016
Published: US 2018/0041569 A18 Feb 2018
Granted: 18 Feb 2020
Term ends: Not estimatedThe source records don’t support an estimate.

Classification17 codes

H04L 67/1001
In which an application is distributed across nodes in the network: for accessing one among a plurality of replicated servers
G06F 9/445
Arrangements for executing specific programs: program loading or initiating
G06F 9/4451
Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files: user profiles; Roaming
G06F 16/9535
Querying, e.g. by the use of web search engines: search customisation based on user profiles and personalisation