Audience response management system
OwnerJeffrey D. Burnsinventor
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Abstract
An audience response management system including a computer software program utilized to collect, analyze, summarize, present and distribute responses, evaluations, opinions and votes from an audience using audience response hardware. The software allows configuration of the appearance and behavior of the polling system, testing of the connections to audience response hardware (required as the source of the polling data), organizing of multiple sets of data into user-defined groups of presentations, and exporting and printing of data in its raw form or in any of a selection of desired compiled formats for the purposes of further analyzing and presenting the data.
Claims20
A method for polling an audience to determine the consensus response of the audience to a given stimulus, comprising the steps of:
- utilizing a polling software program which is loaded in a computer to provide an interface with a plurality of external audience response hardware devices to facilitate the flow of response data from the external audience response hardware devices into the computer so that the response data can be collected and interpreted by the polling software program;
- utilizing said polling software program to collect, analyze, and summarize the response data which is received without being prompted by said polling software program;
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- utilizing said polling software program to configure the appearance and behavior of a real-time representation of the response data to an intended viewer.
In an audience response system having a means for presenting stimuli to an audience for purposes of prompting responses therefrom via a plurality of audience response hardware devices linked to a computer, wherein the improvement comprising:
- an audience response/polling management software program which is loaded in said computer and which is separate and distinct from said stimuli presentation means;
- said audience response/polling management software program providing an interface with said audience response hardware devices to facilitate the flow of response data from the audience response hardware devices into the computer so that the response data can be collected and interpreted by said audience response/polling management software program;
- said audience response/polling management software program providing response data collection, analyzing, and summarizing functions, the response data collected by said audience response/polling management software program being received without being prompted for by said audience response/polling management software program;
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- said audience response/polling management software program providing a real-time representation of the response data to an intended viewer and permitting a configuration, appearance and behavior thereof to be modified.
In an audience response/polling management software program for use in polling an audience to determine the consensus response of the audience to a given stimulus, wherein the improvement comprising:
- said stimulus being presented to the audience externally and apart from said audience response/polling management software program such that said stimulus is not represented in any form within said audience response/polling management software program;
- said audience response/polling management software program being loaded in a computer and providing an interface with a plurality of external audience response hardware devices to facilitate the flow of response data from the external audience response hardware devices into the computer so that the response data can be collected and interpreted by the audience response/polling management software program;
- said audience response/polling management software program providing collection, analyzation and summarization functions of the response data which is received without being prompted by said audience response/polling management software program;
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- said audience response/polling management software program permitting modification of a configuration, appearance and behavior of a real-time representation of the response data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.