Patent Document ID: 9928752
Application ID: 14699678

Base Claim:
1. A system to facilitate conducting a social choice survey of members of an online community associated with a computer network, the system comprising: a computer accessible to the computer network, the computer defining a social choice administrator server, the social choice administrator server having a memory coupled to a processor; operational instructions stored in the memory of the social choice administrator server that, when executed by the processor of the social choice administrator server, cause the social choice administrator server to selectively perform the operations of: generate a first user interface on a computer display associated with a survey administrator, prompt the survey administrator with the first user interface to define the social choice survey, receive the social choice survey defined by the survey administrator with the first user interface, prompt the survey administrator with the first user interface to define a group of participants from the members of the online community on a social media website to participate in the social choice survey, receive the group of participants defined by the survey administrator with the first user interface, generate a second user interface on a computer display associated with each of the participants on the social media website the second user interface providing an interactive portion to receive a participant's response to the social choice survey, receive and register each of the participants' responses to the social choice survey collected with the second user interface, prompt the survey administrator to view and to select a progress of the social choice survey, in response to the selection of the progress of the social choice survey, generate a display of the progress of the social choice survey on the social media website that includes at least one of a list of participants who have participated in the social choice survey and a list of participants who have not participated in the social choice survey, amalgamate the participants' responses to the social choice survey to thereby determine a result of the social choice survey, and show the result of the social choice survey on a computer display of the survey administrator.

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Claim 9:
9. The system of claim 1 , wherein the operational instructions, that, when executed by the processor, cause the social choice administrator server to further perform the operations of: amalgamating the participants' responses to the social choice survey using a single-winner election algorithm.