Information gathering system
OwnerArcadio Roselliinventor
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Abstract
A set of forms and information gathering system comprising a questionnaire check having a place to insert answers to questions that are sent to a person along with the check is provided. Once the answers to the question from the questionnaire have been inserted in the supplied area the person taking the survey can cash the check. Once the check is cashed and processed through an Automated Clearing House (ACH) the cancelled check with the answers to the questions. Once the cashed check is received by the sending party, the answers to the questionnaire by the endorsed party will also be received. The data can then be processed and reports generated for the client requesting the data.
Claims7
A method for gathering information comprising:
- securing a prospect list comprising subjects to be surveyed using Standard Industrial Classification (SIC) codes to target an audience for a sample;
- creating and printing a questionnaire comprising questions specific to said subjects on said prospect list;
- designing and printing a questionnaire check comprising an area to insert answers to said questions from said questionnaire;
- placing said questionnaire and said questionnaire check into an envelope for mailing;
- developing an interrogatory scheme and alert triggers based on a condition or pattern of responses provided on the questionnaire;
- developing an OCR (Optical Character Recognition) template from a sample questionnaire check for automatic data capture and creating a database with said OCR template;
- designing reports for summarizing or categorizing said data captured from said questionnaire checks and using said reports to report said data gathered from said questionnaire checks;
- recording cancelled questionnaire checks by scanning said checks as viewable images, and scanning the questionnaire checks using said OCR templates from data capture;
- verifying said data captured from said questionnaire check and storing said data into a database;
- reporting said data using said reports designed for summarizing or categorizing data.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.