PATENT CLAIM ANALYSIS

Application Number: 15878609
Application Type: Utility
Filing Date: 2018-01
Publication Date: 2018-06
Patent Classification: ["235", "386000"]

Abstract:
The system and method providing enhanced security ballot image records of the present invention includes an enhanced security ballot image tabulator and an enhanced security ballot image audit station. The tabulator processes each ballot of a plurality of ballots to be tabulated to provide an enhanced security ballot image record having diachronically and synchronically coordinated enhanced security ballot image files, each for another ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated. The enhanced security ballot image record may be broadcast upon completion of tabulation and/or simulcast real time during tabulation or otherwise provide such as on a secure media upon completion of tabulation to the public or other parties interested in the tabulation of cast votes. The enhanced security audit station receives the enhanced security ballot image record and analyzes it to selectively identify out-of-bounds diachronic and/or synchronic security parameters. Any identified ballots may then be reviewed by election officials or other interested parties for validity and authentication purposes. The tabulator may be used to also produce images of the voter sign-in sheets, for the purpose of analytic correlation with the enhanced security files of the enhanced security ballot image record and their tabulation.

Claim (Index 1):
An enhanced security ballot image tabulator providing from a plurality of ballots to be tabulated an enhanced security ballot image record constituted by a like plurality of enhanced security ballot image files each corresponding to another one of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated, comprising:\n a serial ballot feeder module adapted to serially feed at a feed rate each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated one after the other, each at a date and feed time that defines its unique time and date of feed, and each with another unique serial number that depends on its respective position in the sequence of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a ballot image module operatively coupled to said serial ballot feeder adapted to serially process each ballot of the plurality of ballots to be tabulated and to serially provide a plurality of ballot images thereof each corresponding to another ballot of said serially fed ballots, each at its said unique time and date of feed and each with another said unique serial number; a ballot image analyzer module coupled to the ballot image module adapted to serially recognize whether or not the serially provided ballot images have races and/or matters having cast votes and to serially tabulate a plurality of cumulative running counts of the races and/or matters of the ballot images having recognized cast votes current with each said ballot image of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated; a record compiler module coupled to said feeder, said image and said analyzer modules adapted to serially provide a plurality of enhanced security ballot image files, that respectively include, for each ballot of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, its corresponding ballot image, its unique time and date of feed, its unique serial number, and its cumulative running votes cast tabulation, and to compile an enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, each for another one of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated, each at its said unique time and date of feed and each with another said unique serial number; and a memory for storing said enhanced security ballot image record that is constituted by said enhanced security ballot image files, each for another one of said serially fed ballots of said plurality of ballots to be tabulated.

Metadata:
- Claim Count in Document: 35.0
- Percentile: 86.0
- Lexical Diversity: 2.1828
- Patent Class: 235.0
- Transitional Phrase Type: open
- Component Type: 1
- Foreign Priority: False
- Related Applications: ['15361439', '12372422', '11143503', '11121997', '10288023']

Analysis Scores:
- 35 USC 101 Eligibility (BERT): 0.6145226760064071
- 35 USC 102 Novelty (BERT): 0.6830892587301648
- Combined Prediction Score: 0.6213793342787829
- Mean Citation Score: 407.381042
- Max Citation Score: 720.2255
- Similarity Product: 713.8864209503233

Labels:
- Claim Label 101: 1
- Claim Label 102: 1
- Claim Label 103: 1
- Claim Label 112: 1
- Combined Label: 1
- Label 101 Adjusted: 1

Dataset: test