Automatic audience survey system
Patent 4451700 Issued on May 29, 1984. Estimated Expiration Date: 
August 27, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.
August 27, 2002. Estimated Expiration Date is calculated based on simple USPTO term provisions. It does not account for terminal disclaimers, term adjustments, failure to pay maintenance fees, or other factors which might affect the term of a patent.Patent References 3688126 System for public opinion research Digital intercept recorder/announcer system Preprocessing method and device for speech recognition device Verbally interactive telephone interrogation system with selectible variable decision tree Patent #: 4320256 InventorsAssigneeApplicationNo. 06/412079 filed on 08/27/1982US Classes:379/88.01, Voice activation or recognition379/88.16, Voice message synthesis379/92.03Having central station equipmentExaminersPrimary: Pellinen, A. D.Assistant: Brady, W. J. Attorney, Agent or FirmInternational ClassH04M 11/00 (20060101)AbstractA telephone based automatic audience survey system for polling an audience to obtain data representative of the opinion regarding a question of interest is disclosed having a first means responsive to incoming calls for answering the calls with an analog voice signal that both identifies the telephone based automatic audience survey system and queries a response in regard to the question of interest, and a second means connected to the first means and responsive to the answers provided to the query portions of the analog voice signal for providing data representative of the consensus regarding the question of interest. Third means connected to the second means are operative to display the data in real-time. The third means includes a video character generator, an audio signal generator, and an operator display. | |
