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US 8,864,562 B2Granted
Online political prediction game
AssigneePatrick Daly
InventorPatrick D. Daly
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Abstract
This is a method and system for a computerized online apparatus allowing users to engage in political prediction games based on contemporary American elections at the presidential, congressional, state, and local level, assigning points based on the results from the actual political election contests, the user's predictive accuracy relative to the actual outcomes and results of those aforementioned elections, and by comparing the user's predictive success relative to other users.
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A method for providing online political prediction-based games, comprising:
- a participant terminal having a user interface that is interactive with a browser or Internet access to communicate online;
- and
- a server communicating online with the participant terminal, wherein the server provides the participant terminal with a user identification system that enables access to an online community, offers an interactive selection of political election contests to a user by displaying potential selections to the user on the participant terminal, enables the user to make predictions relative to political election contests for a given election season;
- assigns points relative to any votes, vote percentage, and delegates earned by candidates participating in the political election contests, including bonus points for a win or loss, and;
- recognizes users according to their points accumulated in predicting political election contests, and ranks them accordingly.
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A system for providing online political prediction-based games, comprising:
- a participant terminal having a user interface that is interactive with a browser or Internet access to communicate online;
- and
- a server communicating online with the participant terminal, wherein the server provides the participant terminal with a user identification system that enables access to an online community, offers an interactive selection of political election contests to a user by displaying potential selections to the user on the participant terminal, enables the user to make predictions relative to political election contests for a given election season;
- assigns points relative to any votes, vote percentage, and delegates earned by candidates participating in the political election contests, including bonus points for a win or loss, and;
- recognizes users according to their points accumulated in predicting political election contests, and ranks them accordingly.
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