Method for Questioning Jurors
OwnerJeb C. Griebatinventor
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Abstract
The disclosure details a computer program enabling parties to litigation to produce a questionnaire through an internet-based website and enabling jurors to respond to the questionnaire through such website. The program comprises numerous code sequences that assist the court, a court reporter, the parties to litigation (and counsel), and the judge in the process of selecting and empaneling jurors from a plurality of candidates.
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A process embodied in an executable computer program stored on a non-transitory computer-readable storage medium for managing video and audio recordings of interviewees responding to questions, comprising:
- capturing, using a computing device, a video and audio recording of an interviewer orally stating at least one question;
- transmitting, using the computing device, the video and audio recording of the interviewer to a website;
- capturing, using the computing device, a video and audio recording of an interviewee orally responding to the question presented on the website;
- preventing, using the computing device, a webcam or video recording device that is recording the interviewee's audio and video response from pausing or stopping recording while the video and audio recording of the interviewer presenting the question is being presented on the website;
- associating, using the computing device, the recording of the interviewee with a formatted identifier corresponding to the interviewee;
- preventing copying, transferring, exporting, or printing of the interviewee's video and audio recording through the website;
- encrypting, using the computing device, at least a portion of the video and audio recording of the interviewee's response using an encryption algorithm to generate an encrypted portion;
- generating, using the computing device, a decryption key for decrypting the encrypted portion of the recording;
- decrypting, using the computing device, the encrypted portion of the recording using the decryption key;
- presenting, using the computing device, a playable video and audio recording of the interviewee orally responding to the question together with the formatted identifier corresponding to the interviewee via the website;
- generating, using the computing device, an ordered list of interviewee identifiers based on at least one exclusion indicator assigned to each interviewee, wherein the ordered list prioritizes interviewees for exclusion from a plurality of interviewees;
- excluding from the plurality of interviewees by the interviewer an interviewee based on the interviewee's respective assigned exclusion indicator in the automatically arranged order.
A process comprising steps embodied in an executable computer program consisting of a code sequence stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and providing to an interviewer typed formatted interviewee names arranged in an order that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, the process comprising the steps of:
- generating automatically with the code sequence a different password for each of functions A, B, and C contained in a website produced by the code sequence, the different password for each function allows access to the function wherein the function A comprises the steps of 1) capturing at least one video and audio recording depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question, 2) transmitting and presenting through the function B the video and audio recordings, 3) presenting through the function A each typed formatted interviewee name arranged in an order based on an assigned number that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, 4) capturing an assigned number for each typed formatted interviewee name into the function A that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, and/or 5) adding automatically the assigned number of each typed formatted interviewee name presented through the function A with the assigned number of each respective typed formatted interviewee name captured into the function A wherein the function B comprises the steps of 1) removing a video and audible recording that was transmitted and presented into the function B upon activation of a remove function in the function B, 2) linking at least one audio recording of the interviewer and the video recording of the interviewer with a function capable of encrypting a video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording upon activation of the linking function in the function B, 3) transmitting and presenting through a function D the video and audio recordings of the interviewer and the linked function of encrypting, and/or 4) decrypting a video and audio recorded portion upon activation of a decrypting function in the function B wherein the function C comprises the steps of 1) capturing analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigned strike indicators to the names of the interviewees and/or 2) transferring each analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee to the function A;
- pairing a different email address with each of the functions A, B, and C in the code sequence;
- capturing said typed formatted interviewee names into the website in communication with a computer server;
- enabling the function A to transmit questions to the function B in the website;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a respective notice to each email address, each respective notice indicates the one different password that accesses the function of which the email address is paired;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function A;
- capturing with the code sequence at least one video and audio recording depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question into the function A located in the website;
- transmitting and presenting with the code sequence through the function B located in the website the video and audio recordings depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function B;
- playing with the code sequence through the function B located in the website the video and audio recordings depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question that were captured into the function A;
- providing with the code sequence the function B in the website with a function capable of removing any video and audible recording that was transmitted and presented into the function B for the purpose of removing any question;
- removing with the code sequence a video and audible recorded question that was transmitted and presented into the function B upon activation of the remove function in the function B in the website;
- providing with the code sequence the function B in the website with a function where upon activation of the function in the function B the function is capable of linking any video and audio recording of the interviewer with a function that will be presented in the function D where upon activation of the function in the function D the code sequence completes the steps of 1) encrypting the video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording to the linked question after it is transmitted and presented into the function D by encoding it using an encryption algorithm, a cipher, generating ciphertext to where the original presentable state of the imagery and sound in such encrypted portion is unintelligible, muted, and hidden, 2) generating a pseudo-random decryption key to decrypt the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response by using an algorithm, 3) presenting through the function B the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion, 4) linking the pseudo-random decryption key to a function, 5) presenting through the function B the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key whereupon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key the code sequence decrypts the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion that is presented through the function B to where the imagery and sound of the interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion is returned to its original presentable state;
- linking at least one video and audio recording of the interviewer with the said function of encrypting upon activation of the linking function in the function B in the website;
- transmitting and presenting through the function D in the website with the code sequence each remaining video and audio recording of the interviewer separately and without any other video and audio recording appearing until an interviewee has completely finished responding to the presented question and the said function of encrypting linked with a video and audio recording of the interviewer if the said function is provided from the function B wherein the function D comprises the steps of 1) playing the video and audio recordings of the interviewer, 2) capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees orally responding to the video and audio recorded questions of the interviewer, and/or 3) encrypting a video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording;
- playing through the function D in the website with the code sequence only the one video and audio recording of the interviewer that is being presented;
- preventing with the code sequence a webcam or video recording device that is paired with the function D and that is recording audio and video footage from pausing or stopping audio and video recordation until the presented question is no longer presented in the function D;
- capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees orally responding to each remaining video and audio recording of the interviewer into the function D located in the website with the code sequence;
- pairing the video recordings that depict interviewees responding to the video and audio recordings with the respective typed formatted interviewee names depicted in the video recordings automatically with the code sequence;
- providing with the code sequence the function D with the said function of encrypting linked with a video and audio recording of the interviewer if the said function is provided from the function B;
- performing automatically with the code sequence the steps of 1) encrypting the video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording to the linked question after it is transmitted and presented into the function D by encoding it using an encryption algorithm, a cipher, generating ciphertext to where the original presentable state of the imagery and sound in such encrypted portion is unintelligible, muted, and hidden, 2) generating a pseudo-random decryption key to decrypt the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion by using an algorithm, 3) presenting through the function B the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion, 4) linking the pseudo-random decryption key to a function, 5) presenting through the function B the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key whereupon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key the code sequence decrypts the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion that is presented through the function B to where the imagery and sound of the interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion is returned to its original presentable state, if the said encrypting function is provided from the function B and upon the activation of the said function;
- transmitting and presenting automatically with the code sequence each video and audio recording depicting an interviewee orally responding to the questions that were presented through the function D paired with the respective typed formatted interviewee name depicted in the video and audio recording;
- playing with the code sequence through the website at least one video and audio recording specifically depicting an interviewee;
- preventing with the code sequence the functions A and C from copying, transferring, exporting, or printing an interviewee's video recording that was produced in the function D;
- decrypting an encrypted video and audio recorded portion to where the imagery and sound of the video and audio recorded portion is changed to its respective original presentable state by the code sequence, if an encrypted video and audio recorded portion becomes presented into the function B and upon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key in the function B in the website;
- preventing with the code sequence the function B from copying, transferring, exporting, or printing a decrypted video and audio recorded portion;
- providing with the code sequence the function C in the website with a function capable of transferring analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigning strike indicators to the names of the interviewees depicted in the video and audio recordings into the function A located in the website with each assigned strike indicator representing when an interviewer should strike the interviewee from the plurality of interviewees;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function C;
- capturing with the code sequence analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigned strike indicators to the names of the interviewees depicted in the video and audio recordings into the function C located in the website;
- transferring with the code sequence each analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to a question from the function C to the function A;
- grouping automatically with the code sequence in the function A in the website each transferred analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to questions from the function C with their respective type formatted interviewee name;
- arranging automatically with the code sequence in the function A in the website each interviewee's typed formatted name grouped with its respective analysis and its respective assigned strike indicator that was transferred from the function C into an order based on its respective assigned strike indicator;
- the order of the assigned strike indicators paired with their respective typed formatted interviewee names from the function C prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from the plurality of interviewees;
- presenting automatically with the code sequence through the function A located in the website each typed formatted interviewee name grouped with its respective analysis and respective assigned strike indicator that was transferred from the function C in the automatically arranged order based on its respective assigned number;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function A;
- excluding from the plurality of interviewees by the interviewer an interviewee based on the interviewee's respective assigned strike indicator in the automatically arranged order.
A process comprising steps embodied in an executable computer program consisting of a code sequence stored in a non-transitory computer readable storage medium for capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and providing to an interviewer typed formatted interviewee names arranged in an order that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, the process comprising the steps of:
- generating automatically with the code sequence a different password for each of functions A, B, and C contained in a website produced by the code sequence, the different password for each function allows access to the function wherein the function A comprises the steps of 1) capturing at least one video and audio recording depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question, 2) transmitting and presenting through the function B the video and audio recordings, 3) presenting through the function A each typed formatted interviewee name arranged in an order based on an assigned number that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, 4) capturing an assigned number for each typed formatted interviewee name into the function A that prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from a plurality of interviewees, and/or 5) adding automatically the assigned number of each typed formatted interviewee name presented through the function A with the assigned number of each respective typed formatted interviewee name captured into the function A wherein the function B comprises the steps of 1) removing a video and audible recording that was transmitted and presented into the function B upon activation of a remove function in the function B, 2) linking at least one audio recording of the interviewer and the video recording of the interviewer with a function capable of encrypting a video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording upon activation of the linking function in the function B, 3) transmitting and presenting through a function D the video and audio recordings of the interviewer and the linked function of encrypting, and/or 4) decrypting a video and audio recorded portion upon activation of a decrypting function in the function B wherein the function C comprises the steps of 1) capturing analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigned strike indicators to the names of the interviewees and/or 2) transferring each analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee to the function A;
- pairing a different email address with each of the functions A, B, and C in the code sequence;
- capturing said typed formatted interviewee names into the website in communication with a computer server;
- enabling the function A to transmit questions to the function B in the website;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a respective notice to each email address, each respective notice indicates the one different password that accesses the function of which the email address is paired;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function A;
- capturing with the code sequence at least one video and audio recording depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question into the function A located in the website;
- transmitting and presenting with the code sequence through the function B located in the website the video and audio recordings depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function B;
- playing with the code sequence through the function B located in the website the video and audio recordings depicting the interviewer orally stating at least one question that were captured into the function A;
- providing with the code sequence the function B in the website with a function capable of removing any video and audible recording that was transmitted and presented into the function B for the purpose of removing any video and audible recorded question;
- removing with the code sequence a video and audible recorded question that was transmitted and presented into the function B upon activation of the remove function in the function B in the website;
- providing with the code sequence the function B in the website with a function where upon activation of the function in the function B the function is capable of linking any video and audio recording of the interviewer with a function that will be presented in the function D where upon activation of the function in the function D the code sequence completes the steps of 1) encrypting the video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording to the linked question after it is transmitted and presented into the function D by encoding it using an encryption algorithm, a cipher, generating ciphertext to where the original presentable state of the imagery and sound in such encrypted portion is unintelligible, muted, and hidden, 2) generating a pseudo-random decryption key to decrypt the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response by using an algorithm, 3) presenting through the function B the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion, 4) linking the pseudo-random decryption key to a function, 5) presenting through the function B the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key whereupon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key the code sequence decrypts the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion that is presented through the function B to where the imagery and sound of the interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion is returned to its original presentable state;
- linking at least one video and audio recording of the interviewer with the said function of encrypting upon activation of the linking function in the function B in the website;
- transmitting and presenting through the function D in the website with the code sequence each remaining video and audio recording of the interviewer separately and without any other video and audio recording appearing until an interviewee has completely finished responding to the presented question and the said function of encrypting linked with a video and audio recording of the interviewer if the said function is provided from the function B wherein the function D comprises the steps of 1) playing the video and audio recordings of the interviewer, 2) capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees orally responding to the video and audio recorded questions of the interviewer, and/or 3) encrypting a video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording;
- playing through the function D in the website with the code sequence only the one video and audio recording of the interviewer that is being presented;
- preventing with the code sequence a webcam or video recording device that is paired with the function D and that is recording audio and video footage from pausing or stopping audio and video recordation until the presented question is no longer presented in the function D;
- capturing video and audio recordings depicting interviewees orally responding to each remaining video and audio recording of the interviewer into the function D located in the website with the code sequence;
- pairing the video recordings that depict interviewees responding to the video and audio recordings with the respective typed formatted interviewee names depicted in the video recordings automatically with the code sequence;
- providing with the code sequence the function D with the said function of encrypting linked with a video and audio recording of the interviewer if the said function is provided from the function B;
- performing automatically with the code sequence the steps of 1) encrypting the video and audio recorded response portion of an interviewee's entire video and audio recording to the linked question after it is transmitted and presented into the function D by encoding it using an encryption algorithm, a cipher, generating ciphertext to where the original presentable state of the imagery and sound in such encrypted portion is unintelligible, muted, and hidden 2) generating a pseudo-random decryption key to decrypt the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion by using an algorithm, 3) presenting through the function B the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion, 4) linking the pseudo-random decryption key to a function, 5) presenting through the function B the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key whereupon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key the code sequence decrypts the encrypted interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion that is presented through the function B to where the imagery and sound of the interviewee's video and audio recorded response portion is returned to its original presentable state, if the said encrypting function is provided from the function B and upon the activation of the said function;
- assigning automatically with the code sequence at least one indicator to the at least one question that was transmitted and presented;
- the at least one assigned indicator represent which of the video recordings of the interviewer was transmitted and played through the website at the same time a respective question was transmitted and presented through the website;
- transmitting and presenting automatically with the code sequence each video and audio recording depicting an interviewee orally responding to the questions that were presented through the function D paired with the respective typed formatted interviewee name depicted in the video and audio recording;
- playing with the code sequence through the website at least one video and audio recording specifically depicting an interviewee;
- transmitting and presenting through the website with the code sequence the at least one indicator assigned to the at least one question that was transmitted and presented automatically with the code sequence;
- assigning automatically with the code sequence a different interactive video location retriever symbol to each respective question that was presented to an interviewee;
- pairing automatically with the code sequence each different interactive video location retriever symbol of each respective question that was transmitted and presented in the function D in the website with each respective exact location in each interviewee's video and audio recording where the respective question first appeared to each interviewee through the website in each interviewee's video and audio recording with the code sequence;
- transmitting and presenting automatically through the website with the code sequence each different interactive video location retriever symbol assigned to each respective question that was presented to an interviewee;
- playing with the code sequence an interviewee's video and audio recording at the exact location that was paired with the at least one video location retriever symbol through the website immediately upon activating the at least one video location retriever symbol;
- capturing a picture from each video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to questions automatically with the code sequence;
- pairing each picture from each video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to questions with its respective typed formatted interviewee name automatically with the code sequence;
- presenting through the website automatically with the code sequence each picture from each video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to questions in an interactive format paired with its respective typed formatted interviewee name;
- preventing with the code sequence the functions A and C from copying, transferring, exporting, or printing an interviewee's video recording that was produced in the function D;
- playing at least one interviewee's video and audio recording through the website immediately upon activating the at least one interactive picture with the code sequence;
- decrypting an encrypted video and audio recorded portion to where the imagery and sound of the video and audio recorded portion is changed to its respective original presentable state by the code sequence, if an encrypted video and audio recorded portion becomes presented into the function B and upon activation of the function linked with the pseudo-random decryption key in the function B in the website;
- preventing with the code sequence the function B from copying, transferring, exporting, or printing a decrypted video and audio recorded portion;
- providing with the code sequence the function C in the website with a function capable of transferring analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigning strike indicators to the names of the interviewees depicted in the video and audio recordings into the function A located in the website with each assigned strike indicator representing when an interviewer should strike the interviewee from the plurality of interviewees;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function C;
- capturing with the code sequence analyses of video and audio recordings depicting interviewees responding to questions and assigned strike indicators to the names of the interviewees depicted in the video and audio recordings into the function C located in the website;
- transferring with the code sequence each analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to a question from the function C to the function A;
- grouping automatically with the code sequence in the function A in the website each transferred analysis and assigned strike indicator of a video and audio recording depicting an interviewee responding to questions from the function C with their respective type formatted interviewee name paired with its respective interactive picture;
- arranging automatically with the code sequence in the function A in the website each interviewee's typed formatted name paired with its respective interactive picture grouped with its respective analysis and its respective assigned strike indicator that was transferred from the function C into an order based on its respective assigned strike indicator;
- the order of the assigned strike indicators paired with their respective typed formatted interviewee names with their respective interactive pictures from the function C prioritizes which interviewees should be excluded from the plurality of interviewees;
- presenting automatically with the code sequence through the function A located in the website each typed formatted interviewee name paired with its respective interactive picture grouped with its respective analysis and respective assigned strike indicator that was transferred from the function C in the automatically arranged order based on its respective assigned number;
- emailing automatically with the code sequence a notice to the email address paired with the function A;
- excluding from the plurality of interviewees by the interviewer an interviewee based on the interviewee's respective assigned strike indicator in the automatically arranged order.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.