Patent ID: 6175833
Filing Date: 2001-01-16
Classification: G06Q,G07C,Y10S

Abstract:
An online voting system for facilitating live interactive online voting, comprising:a survey database to store one or more surveys, each survey having at least one question and answer options to the question;a server to serve the surveys over a network to users;a vote handler to process votes cast by the users in response to the surveys;a survey index table maintained in the survey database to hold the surveys, the survey index table correlating the survey questions, the answer options to the survey questions, and the voting results of the survey questions;a votes table maintained in the survey database to track which users have cast the votes and which options each voter has selected;a totals table maintained in the survey database to hold tallies of the votes in correspondence with ones of the answer options of the survey questions, the tallies being used to update the voting results in the survey index table; andwherein the survey index table is used by the server to either (1) present the survey questions and corresponding answer options to the users, or (2) display the voting results in conjunction with the survey questions.