System for taking interactive surveys of a user at a client display station through the dynamic generation of a sequence of linked hypertext documents built at the client display station

摘要

A method, system and program for conducting user surveys and electronic interviews that has greater flexibility in determining sets of questions to be generated, and does not require the downloading of a whole Java object oriented program at a client display station. An implementation for accessing and displaying at a client display station a hypertext document including a plurality of survey questions having user selectable answers, and for triggering, by at least one of said answers, a hyperlink to a dynamically generated hypertext document including a different plurality of questions also having user selectable answers. There also in an implementation for generating such a dynamically generated hypertext document. The survey and, consequently, the hypertext documents may be readily available from the World Wide Web or other network sources. The invention is preferably implemented through a World Wide Web browser at the client display station that includes both the accessing and displaying at a client display station of a hypertext document including a plurality of survey questions having user selectable answers, as well as the implementation for triggering, by at least one of said answers, a hyperlink to a dynamically generated hypertext document. The documents or pages used in the surveys are preferably dynamically generated HTML documents, such as DHTML that use scripting languages, such as Javasript in the generation of HTML pages.