Patent ID: 7258275
Filing Date: 2007-08-21
Classification: G07C,H04H

Abstract:
1. A method of totaling votes relating to a competition amongst a plurality of contestants, said competition having two or more voting sessions, comprising: (a) compiling raw voting totals for a current session of said voting sessions for said competition for each contestant still remaining in said competition, (b) compiling raw voting totals for a predetermined number of said voting sessions occurring prior to said current voting session for said competition for each said contestant still remaining in said competition as of said current voting session, (c) converting each said raw voting totals for each of said contestants into a score for each of said voting totals for each said contestant, (d) weighting each of said scores with predetermined weights, (e) summing each of said weighted score for each of said remaining contestants, (f) ranking each of said summed weighted scores for each of said remaining contestants from highest to lowest, whereby said method yields said ranked weighted scores that can be more useful in judging success or failure of said contestants in said competition than said raw voting totals for said current voting session alone, and whereby said ranked weighted scores may be deemed by observers of said competition to be fairer than said raw voting totals for said current voting session alone, and whereby said method will be expected to result in higher popularity of said competition amongst said observers.