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US 2003/0149616 A1Published application
Interactive electronic voting by remote broadcasting
OwnerTimothy V. Travailleinventor
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Abstract
An interactive voting application is broadcast to a broadcast receiver. The broadcast receiver executes the voting application, allowing a voter to cast one or more votes on an electronic ballot, and then transmits the votes to a server. In a preferred embodiment, the server stores the votes so that the voters cannot be associated with their votes.
Claims41
A computer-implemented method of collecting votes from at least some of a group of voters, comprising:
- broadcasting an interactive voting application to a plurality of remote broadcast receivers;
- receiving from at least some of the broadcast receivers authentication information associated with one or more voters;
- authenticating the voters by comparing the received authentication information with stored authentication information associated with the voter;
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- receiving electronic ballots from the broadcast receivers, each electronic ballot comprising a set of votes inputted into the broadcast receiver by a voter using the interactive voting application.
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A computer-implemented method of collecting votes from a plurality of voters comprising:
- transmitting in a broadcast television signal an interactive voting application to a plurality of set-top boxes, the set-top boxes adapted to receive the broadcast television signal, to extract the interactive voting application from the signal, and to execute the voting application and display the voting application on a television operatively coupled thereto;
- receiving electronic ballots from the plurality of set-top boxes, the electronic ballots including a set of votes that the voters selected using the interactive voting application;
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- storing the votes from the electronic ballots and data relating to which voters submitted electronic ballots, wherein the voters are not correlateable with their votes.
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A interactive method for voting, comprising:
- tuning a broadcast receiver to a voting channel, the broadcast receiver receiving a broadcast signal on the voting channel;
- decoding an interactive voting application contained in the broadcast signal;
- executing the interactive voting application to receive votes from a vote;
- creating an electronic ballot from the received votes;
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- transmitting the electronic ballot to a remote server.
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An electronic voting system comprising:
- a broadcaster adapted to transmit broadcast data, the broadcast data including an interactive voting application;
- a plurality of broadcast receivers, each broadcast receiver including a tuner adapted to receive the broadcast data from the broadcaster, a processor adapted to decode and execute the interactive voting application, a memory adapted to store the interactive voting application, a voter data input adapted to receive ballot data from a voter, and a communications interface adapted to transmit the ballot data;
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- a response server for receiving ballot data transmitted from the broadcast receivers.
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An electronic voting system comprising:
- a broadcaster adapted to transmit broadcast data, the broadcast data including an interactive voting application;
- a plurality of broadcast receivers, each broadcast receiver adapted to execute the interactive voting application to receive votes from a voter to create an electronic ballot, and to transmit the electronic ballot;
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- a response server for receiving electronic ballots from the broadcast receivers, wherein the response server includes means for disassociating each electronic ballot from the identity of a voter that created the ballot.
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An interactive voting application for being executed on a broadcast receiver, the application comprising:
- an input interface for receiving information from a voter;
- an output interface for transmitting data to a remote server;
- an authentication module adapted to collect authentication information from the voter using the input interface, and further adapted to transmit the authentication information to the remote server using the output interface;
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- a ballot module adapted to create an electronic ballot based on vote selections received from the voter, and further adapted to transmit the electronic ballot to the remote server.
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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.