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7603343 |
Quality of web search results using a game
A system combines individual estimates of the subjective appeal of web pages into a combined rating for each web page that can be used to rank web pages during a web search. In a gaming...
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7599938 |
Social news gathering, prioritizing, tagging, searching, and syndication method
A “URLIT” identifier is assigned to a URL and embedded in an HTML document located at the URL. The URLIT and other data are described using a Universal Advertisement Markup Language such that...
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7597258 |
Confidential electronic election system
A system is provided for improved elections which may separate the identity of the voter from the content of the vote she casts. The system may be implemented using electronic or other...
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7593916 |
Managing data administration
Data administration may be managed by receiving in a computer system a first input identifying a data object to be assigned to a control object in the computer system. A second input for the...
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7581677 |
Vote by mail envelope that protects privacy of voter's signature
Methods and systems that provide privacy of signatures on envelopes containing ballots are provided. The envelope for returning ballots includes a flap with a window that aligns with a signature...
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7577680 |
Web-enabled subscription marketing application
The present invention provides network based reporting techniques designed to meet the needs of subscription based marketers. Clients access, edit report on, and analyze their subscriber database...
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7566006 |
Pre-printed document marking system and apparatus
A terminal for marking a pre-printed document which lists a plurality of choices and which includes a marking space for each choice which can be either hand-marked by a user, or machine marked by...
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7565540 |
Fully electronic identity authentication
The present invention relates to a system and method for fully electronic identity authentication, with particular application to electronic election registration and voting. In particular, the...
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7562819 |
Voter information system
A method for providing voters with election information specific to voter polling location. A voter registration file is queried for a name of a registered voter in response to an input from a...
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7549049 |
Dynamic auditing of electronic elections
The present invention relates to a system and method for dynamically auditing of electronic elections using an electronic registration and voting system. In particular, the present invention...
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7537159 |
Electronic voting pad input device, system and method
In the preferred embodiment, the invention is a data entry device intended for use by voters during an election to enter selected choices. Its basic functions are to display available options and...
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7533813 |
Wireless voting method
A wireless voting method is disclosed. The method comprises generating an optical voting indication ( 140 ), and controlling a plurality of handsets ( 112 ), capable of electromagnetically...
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7519562 |
Automatic identification of unreliable user ratings
Techniques are described for enhancing the reliability of information received from users in various ways, such as by analyzing votes or other ratings supplied by a user in order to identify...
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7516892 |
Electronic voting system and method having confirmation to detect modification of vote count
A voting system includes one or more voting machines provided at a specific location, wherein for each authorized voter one of the voting machines is adapted to record a first set of voting...
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7516891 |
Ballot integrity systems
Disclosed are voting systems based on paper ballots that provide integrity of the election outcome through the novel use of encrypted votes and other techniques. In some example embodiments, holes...
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7506055 |
System and method for filtering of web-based content stored on a proxy cache server
A system and method for filtering of web-based content in a proxy cache server environment provides a local network having a client, a directory server and a proxy cache server that caches...
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7464874 |
Method and system for transparent and secure vote tabulation
A system and method to improve the transparency and security of an election are provided. In a first version, a tabulation system includes a paper ballot reader. The ballot reader informs a...
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7454509 |
Online playback system with community bias
A method for entertaining individuals according to a community having similar tastes. Information derived from user accounts form the basis of a community and collateral preferences allow other...
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7451928 |
Verifiable, auditable voting system maintaining voter privacy
In a transparent election system that protects voter privacy, the actual votes cast are published as a public record, with individual voter information redacted, allowing verification of the...
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7441700 |
Method and system for validating mail ballots
Methods and systems for validating signatures on ballots sent through the mail that do not require significant amounts of hardware and/or software to perform are provided. The envelope for...
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7433826 |
System and method for identity validation for a regulated transaction
A system and method for performing an identity validation is provided. The invention includes an identity transaction engine component and a communication component. The identity transaction engine...
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7427025 |
Automated postal voting system and method
A voting indicium product including a human-readable portion to represent a unique vote identification element for a specific ballot choice by a specific voter. The voting indicium further...
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7422151 |
Systems and methods for providing security in a voting machine
The invention provides systems and methods for ensuring security for a voting machine. The voting machine can include a display screen upon which numerous election choices are displayed for...
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7421704 |
System and method for identifying and generating business events
A system for identifying business events is provided. The system includes a store of business process policies, and a business process manager operative to define and process the business process...
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7418401 |
Secure internet transactions on unsecured computers
The present invention is directed to a secure electronic registration and voting solution incorporating integrated end-to-end voting system architecture and processes providing secure...
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7417774 |
Method and apparatus for selective processing of captured images
Methods and apparatus are disclosed for identifying intended response marks in an optically scanned image of a response sheet having key marks and response targets printed in the same color. Pixel...
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RE40449 |
Auto-verifying voting system and voting method
A voting system provides for a computer-prepared and computer-printed election ballot generated by input from the voter, and provides for auto-verification whereby the voter has the opportunity and...
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7406480 |
Automated voter registration and tabulation system
A system and method of registering voters and tabulating an election is provided. A voter database is maintained with a record of each eligible voter comprising at least one voter characteristic....
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7401053 |
Electronic information content automatic distribution service system, information processing apparatus, recording medium, and electrical information content automatic distribution method
An electronic information content automatic distribution service system according to the present invention is directed to a service system for automatically distributing electronic information...
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7395964 |
Secure voting system
Methods, systems and program products for securely voting by providing a secure voting module in communication with a voting device. A voter signs onto the voting device using a unique voter...
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7389250 |
Coercion-free voting scheme
A facility for conducting a coercion-resistant electronic collection is described. The facility receives from the voter a first voter conformation value. At a later time, the facility receives from...
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7387244 |
Electronic voting system and method with voter verifiable real-time audit log
A voting system and method with a voter verifiable real-time audit log is disclosed. The voting system includes at least one voting terminal operable to record a plurality of poll worker actions...
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7377431 |
System and method for overcoming decision making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices
A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient...
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7363246 |
System and method for enhancing buyer and seller interaction during a group-buying sale
A method and system are provided that enable buyers and sellers to communicate with each other and to negotiate the purchase terms of featured merchandise in a group-buying opportunity. Sellers and...
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7360702 |
Verifiable voting system
A method of processing votes in an election includes receiving a voter identity for a voter, receiving a vote set for the voter, providing a phrase to the voter based on the received vote set,...
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7360094 |
Verifiable secret shuffles and their application to electronic voting
We present a mathematical construct which provides a cryptographic protocol to (verifiably shuffle) a sequence of (k) modular integers, and discuss its application to secure, universally...
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7353239 |
Online interactive voting system for live interactive evaluation and comparison of proposals
An online system for conducting live interactive evaluation, comparison and selection of proposals includes a standardized database architecture that integrates proposal submission and proposal...
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7344071 |
Voting system and apparatus using voter selection card
A voting system for storing voter input data on a voter selection card, which is capable of storing data for a plurality of candidates, and the system, subsequently, prints a ballot marked in...
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7318052 |
Knowledge transfer evaluation
A knowledge transfer approach is assessed by assigning multiple situation attributes for the knowledge transfer approach. Furthermore, a plurality of communication forms are attributed to the...
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7270269 |
Secure electronic voting device
A secure device for electronic voting employs a write-once vote-recording medium. The medium has an initial writing mode in which data can be written but not read and a subsequent reading mode...
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7260552 |
Secure remote electronic voting system and cryptographic protocols and computer programs employed
The method employs interrelated cryptographic processes and protocols to provide reliability to vote casting, ballots recount, and verification of vote or poll results. These cryptographic...
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7257566 |
Method for decision and risk analysis in probabilistic and multiple criteria situations
A computer-implemented decision device and a family of methods and procedures are used for representing and analyzing imprecise, vague, and incomplete probabilistic decision and risk problems...
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7254605 |
Method of modulating the transmission frequency in a real time opinion research network
A computer-implemented transmission scheme is provided to control client-server interchanges within a distributed communications network, such as a real time opinion research system. Interchanges...
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7240835 |
Integrated vote by mail processing system
A modular integrated software and hardware suite can accept data exported from a voter registration database corresponding to requests for mail ballots, sort the data as necessary for ballot...
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7237717 |
Secure system for electronic voting
An electronic voting system comprising of one or more intelligent fixed in place voting machines, mobile voting machines and one or more trusted servers connected by secure wired or wireless...
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7231436 |
Object-based machine automation method and system
Automation objects are implemented in a client-server model to control operations on one or more client machines from a single machine automation control module, such as a test program. The machine...
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7216807 |
Automated processing of by-mail ballots
A ballot packaging system is automated to place ballots in envelopes. The ballots are printed by an assigned type according to voter information stored in a database. Each ballot includes a first...
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7210617 |
Secret-ballot systems with voter-verifiable integrity
An election system provides, in one example, each voter with multiple physical “layers” that the voter is able to choose between. The voter takes part of the layers as a kind of receipt and the...
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7178730 |
Vote verification system and method
A vote verification system and method which provides assurance to voters that their votes were processed. The system includes a computer including a reader, wherein the computer is for reading...
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7165038 |
System using electronic campaign yard sign for gathering supports from email recipients
A method and system to empowers a candidate to design and customize his/her own “Yard sign.” The candidate may send out his/her message to multiple email addresses that he/she has collected....
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