Patent ID: 9733698
Date: 2017-08-15
CPC Classifications: G06F,G06Q

Claim:
1. A method, in a polling system, for enabling a user to create polls that are posted on a microblogging website and that can be answered on the microblogging website, the method comprising: obtaining in the polling system the user's login information for an external microblogging system; enabling the user to create a poll in the polling system, wherein the polling system provides a user interface via which the user is able to search for a photo to associate with the poll; generating a microblog post in the polling system for the poll and, in response to the user associating a photo with the poll, such photo is included in the microblog post; sending the microblog post from the polling system to the microblogging system to post under the user's account on a website associated with the microblogging system, wherein other users on the microblogging system are able to respond to the poll within the microblogging system by replying to the user's microblog post with another post that includes a response to the poll; sending a query from the polling system to the microblogging system for posts directed to the user; receiving in the polling system the requested posts from the microblogging system; parsing the requested posts in the polling system to obtain poll responses; aggregating in the polling system the poll responses from the requested posts to calculate poll results; creating a second microblog post in the polling system with the poll results; and sending the second microblog post from the polling system to the microblogging system to post under the user's account in the microblogging website.