Patent ID: 8512046
Filing Date: 2013-08-20
Classification: G06Q,G07C

Abstract:
1. A method of surveying a population of voters concerning a pool of contestants, the method executed by a computer system configured to perform a plurality of operations, the operations comprising: generating, using the computer system, a list of a number of small subsets of contestants in the pool; presenting, using the computer system, at least some of the number of small subsets of contestants in the list to voters in the population in an order that favors those small subsets that have been least voted on, and for each small subset of contestants presented, prompting the voter to select a preferred contestant among the contestants that appear in the small subset of contestants; assembling, using the computer system, a tally of preferred contestants among a plurality of the voters; and ranking, using the computer system, the preferred contestants based on the tally, wherein the pool of contestants is generated by accepting entrants from the population of voters over time.