System and method for presenting survey data over a network

A system for generating display presentations on a user computer, said system comprising:

• a communication network for connecting a user computer to the system;
• a web server for receiving a web page request from the user computer and for serving a presentation to the user computer over said communication network;
• a servlet engine for executing servlets served by said web server according to said web page request from the user computer;
• a memory for storing an HTML template comprising test data, wherein said HTML template corresponds to said web page request and wherein said HTML template refers to at least one applet;
• an interpreter for interpreting said HTML template, said interpreter activated by the execution of said servlet, wherein
• said interpreter strips said test data from said HTML template and embeds previously collected survey data in said HTML template for said web server to serve to said user computer, and wherein
• said web server serves said at least one applet to said user computer for execution by said user computer for generating a graphical image for providing said display presentation according to said HTML template.

A method for displaying survey results in a display presentation on a user computer, comprising the steps of:

• storing survey data from a previously conducted survey;
• storing updated survey data based on an updated survey conducted after said previously conducted survey;
• storing a plurality of HTML templates created in advance;
• receiving a web page request from the user computer;
• in response to receiving said web page request, retrieving one HTML template from said plurality of HTML templates, wherein said one of said HTML templates is utilized for generating a format of said display presentation, and wherein said HTML template is comprised of test data and refers to at least one applet;
• substituting display data for said test data of said one HTML template;
• serving said applet to said user computer based on an interpretation of said one HTML template;
• serving said display data to said user computer;
• serving HTML to said user computer based on the interpretation of said HTML template, said HTML for generating a display presentation on said user computer by executing said applet on said user computer, said applet analyzing said display data for generating a graphical display presented as a web page formatted according to said HTML.

A method for generating a web page for displaying a display presentation on a user computer comprising the steps of:

• storing a plurality of HTML templates in advance, wherein said HTML template comprises one or more of:
• title information, descriptive data for labeling said display presentation, and/or JavaScript code to communicate size and location information to said at least one applet for directing the size and location of a graph or a table included in said display presentation;
• receiving a web page request from a user computer, said web page request for generating said display presentation on the user computer;
• executing a servlet corresponding to said web page request;
• retrieving one of said HTML templates according to said executed servlet, said one of said HTML templates corresponding to said web page request, wherein said one of said HTML templates refers to one or more applets;
• interpreting said one of said HTML templates, said interpreting including the steps of:
• retrieving display data from a database for serving to the user computer, said display data included in one or more structure tables,
• generating a web page based on said one of said HTML templates, and
• retrieving said one or more applets referred to by said one of said HTML templates,
• serving said web page to the user computer;
• serving said one or more applets to the user computer;
• displaying said display presentation on the user computer using said web page and said one or more applets executing on the user computer to generate a graphical image, wherein
• said display presentation is for presenting survey results of a previously conducted survey based on said structure table, and further wherein
• a display presentation of another survey can be presented by substituting another one or more structure tables for said one or more structure tables.