ASKANYWHERE@: WEB-BASED SURVEY SOFTWARE

描述（由申请人提供）：申请的目的是完成 AskAnywhere网络调查系统的设计、编码和营销。 该系统由三个部分组成：问卷编辑应用程序、 客户端数据采集小程序，以及通信和数据处理 服务器程序。这三个组件在所有运行Java的计算机上都可以工作 虚拟机。调查问卷编辑应用程序有一个简单的 图形用户界面简化了复杂的设计和编辑，WYSIWYG 问卷调查问卷编辑器简化了 调查问卷，其中包括复杂的跳过，动态计算和嵌入式 填写问题和回答的措辞。文件可以写成 因为所有文件都存储为Unicode。调查 引擎，一个Java小程序，下载到受访者的机器时， 调查，为受访者和调查管理员提供了一个安全，强大的 基于Web的数据收集协议。Web服务器程序提供会话 跟踪、数据解密，保持问卷之间的实时链接 和JDBC兼容的数据库，并提供自动统计分析， 通过网络绘制图表。进一步协助社会和健康科学家， 调查各地的研究人员，一个广泛使用的问题库， 将汇编和整合调查问卷。编辑器将导入并 以各种跨应用程序格式导出调查问卷文件。 拟定商业应用： 社会和健康科学家，教育工作者和市场研究人员寻求强大的调查 将吸引能够编写和导入来自各种来源的调查问卷的工具 AskAnywhere的编辑选项、调查问卷的通用性和多语言功能。 市场分析师和企业调查研究人员将欣赏AskAnywhere的多层， 高度可扩展设计，其中公司遗留数据库可并入数据 收集的努力。

DESCRIPTION (provided by applicant): The application's objective is completion of the design, coding and marketing of the AskAnywhere web-based survey system. The system consists of three components: a questionnaire editing application, a client-side data collection applet, and a communication and data processing server program. These three components work on all computers running Java Virtual Machines. The questionnaire editing application has a straightforward graphical user interface easing the design and editing of complex, WYSIWYG questionnaires. The questionnaire editor simplifies the "programming" of questionnaires, which include complex skips, dynamic calculations and embedded fills in the wording of questions and responses. Questionnaires can be written in any modern language since all files are stored as Unicode. The survey engine, a Java applet downloaded to the respondent's machine at the time of the survey, offers both respondents and survey administrators a secure, robust protocol for web-based data collection. The web-server program offers session tracking, data decryption, maintains real-time links between the questionnaire and a JDBC compliant database and offers automatic statistical analysis and charting via the web. To further assist social and health scientists, and survey researchers everywhere, a bank of widely used questions and questionnaires will be compiled and integrated. The editor will import and export questionnaire files in a wide variety of cross-application formats. PROPOSED COMMERCIAL APPLICATION: Social and health scientists, educators and market researchers seeking powerful surveying tools capable writing and importing questionnaires from a variety of sources will be attracted to AskAnywhere's editing options, questionnaire ecumenicity, and multilingual capabilities. Market analyst and corporate survey researchers will appreciate AskAnywhere's multi-tier, highly scalable design in which corporate legacy databases can be incorporated into data collection efforts.