Appeal No. 2003-0238
Application No. 08/886,349
(b)receiving a survey in an electronic format at a central
server, the survey having survey questions;
(c)automatically selecting a group of registered survey
participants for participation in the survey from the database of
registered survey participants;
(d)electronically providing the survey over the network from
the central server to the registered survey participants in the
group selected, said electronically providing (d)includes at
least (d1)forming a survey notification message, the survey
notification message indicating that the survey is available to
recipients of the survey notification message, (d2)obtaining
electronic mail addresses for the registered survey participants
in the group selected, and (d3)electronically sending the
notification message to the registered survey participants in the
group selected at their electronic mail addresses, the survey
notification message informs the registered survey participants
to obtain and complete the survey by accessing a predetermined
world wide web location;
(e)subsequently electronically receiving, at the central
server, responses over the network to the survey questions from
the registered survey participants in the group selected; and
(f)processing the responses at the central server to
determine survey results.
The prior art references of record relied upon by the
examiner in rejecting the appealed claims are:
"Online Market-Research Venture Offers Freebies to Respondents,"
American Marketplace, January 11, 1996. (Greenfield Online)
Dacko, Scott G, "Data Collection Should Not Be Manual Labor,"
Marketing News, vol. 29, no. 18, page 31, August 28, 1995.
Alreck, Pamela L. et al., The Survey Research Handbook (2nd ed),
Irwin Professional Publishing, page 456, 1995. (Alreck)
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