Wireless audience polling and response system and method therefor

摘要

A wireless audience response system that comprises a plurality of remote response units, each of the response units comprising a first transmitter, a first receiver and a first processor coupled to the first transmitter and the first receiver and having a selectable input, the input being operable by a user to instruct the first processor to provide a response output, comprising at least one of a plurality of outputs, to the first transmitter. There also is a central control unit comprising a second transmitter, a second receiver and a second processor operatively coupled to the second transmitter and the second receiver. The second processor is operative to control the second transmitter to selectively transmit a command signal, comprising at least one of a plurality of command signals, to said plurality of remote response units, and dynamically assign a plurality of time slots to respective ones of the remote response units. The first transmitter at each of the remote response units is in communication with the second receiver at the central control unit over an assigned channel, the assigned channel being operative to carry information input by audience members and transmitted by a plurality of the remote response units in the respective dynamically assigned time slots to the central unit.