Patent ID: 6768895
Filing Date: 2004-07-27
Classification: G07C,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
A method for controlling telephonic voting in a digital mobile communication network that includes a plurality of mobile stations through which voting is carried out from the mobile stations, comprising the steps of:calculating, by a polling server connected to the network, a statistical reliability of the telephonic voting, and determining from the calculated statistical reliability a proportion of the plural mobile stations to be concurrently authorized to transmit a vote to the polling server; transmitting, from the polling server over a predetermined control channel, a voting authorization to the mobile stations in said determined proportion of the plural mobile stations, wherein the statistical reliability is calculated before said step of transmitting the voting authorization, such that the authorization of the mobile stations in said predetermined proportion of the plural mobile stations is based on the determined statistical reliability; and using a voting application of the plural mobile stations, monitoring the predetermined control channel and enabling transmission of a vote from an authorized mobile station when the voting authorization is received by the authorized mobile station as determined by the channel-monitoring voting application.