41results about "Voting arrangement" patented technology

A method for creating and exchanging tokenized assets combines a dual ownership structure with a tiered exchange system. The method involves issuing membership non-fungible tokens to cooperative members, creating a tokenized asset through a legal entity and property ownership non-fungible token, and implementing a smart contract to generate property tokens representing fractional ownership. The exchange system for these property tokens implements sequential buying windows, providing initial exclusive access to non-token holders, followed by access to regional cooperative members, then global cooperative members, and finally institutional buyers. This approach may promote progressive decentralization of ownership while maintaining secure blockchain-based transfers within the cooperative framework. The method may enable fractional ownership of various assets, automated distribution of benefits, and a controlled secondary market structure that balances liquidity provision with ownership diversification.

An AI-powered canvassing and voter engagement platform is disclosed that allows users to find and support political candidates, conduct optimized canvassing with real-time tracking, engage in remote surveys and policy feedback, analyze voter sentiment dynamically, and monetize participation. The system includes an AI-driven route optimization module, a real-time canvasser tracking module, a survey and feedback module, a sentiment analysis module, and a monetization module. Machine learning algorithms are used to match users with candidates, optimize canvassing routes, analyze voter feedback, and provide data-driven insights to campaigns. The platform enables more efficient and effective political outreach while allowing voters to actively shape policy discussions and provide valuable input to campaigns.

An apparatus, including: a receiver; processor; distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system; and transmitter. The receiver receives a request for an e-voting ballot regarding an election. The e-voting ballot contains information regarding the elected office race or referendum issue in the election, and a link or hyperlink to information regarding a candidate or referendum issue. The apparatus receives a digital file, containing information regarding a picture, photograph, or video clip, of the individual. The processor transmits the e-voting ballot to a user device. The apparatus transmits a voter account use message and the digital file to the user device. The apparatus receives and stores information regarding a vote or votes cast pursuant to the e-voting ballot. The apparatus stores the information regarding the vote or votes cast in the distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system. The apparatus transmits a vote confirmation message to the user device.

An electric vertical take-off and landing (eVTOL) aircraft can enhance energy efficiency, safety, and operational range. A deployable wing structure can provide aerodynamic lift during horizontal flight, reducing reliance on energy-intensive propellers. Integrated flexible solar panels capture solar energy, contributing additional power and optimizing energy management. The wing system also includes an emergency descent mode, doubling as a glide-assist device for controlled landings during critical failures. The system offers modular configurations for various missions, ensuring adaptability and improved flight performance. The eVTOL can be implemented with systems and methods for mitigating motion sickness. The systems integrate tactile feedback systems into wearable devices and environmental components. Sensors detect motion and environmental changes, and a computing device can generate corresponding tactile feedback signals. Tactile actuators embedded in the devices or components provide non-visual motion cues, such as pressure, vibration, and haptic feedback, to resolve sensory mismatches between the vestibular and proprioceptive systems.

A system and method of reliable polling using sealed computing devices for the purpose of conducting an election.

The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods for executing events associated with an asset, which involve election of a multiplier of the asset by an owner of the asset. The present disclosure provides systems and methods for presenting an event associated with an asset to an owner of the asset, setting up a system for executing an event associated with an asset, and presenting an election result in an event associated with an asset, respectively.

An artificial intelligence (AI) entry management (EM) security system includes a camera, a microphone, a motion detector, a speaker, and a software platform. Geofences are utilized to create boundaries around physical areas, such as locations for package delivery or property boundaries. The EM device and other devices connected to the software platform are configured to monitor the geofences and detect a presence of an activity, an event, an object, or a device. At least one license plate reader is utilized to read license plate characters. Voice recognition and voice identification are used to grant or deny permissions for individuals on a property.

The present disclosure is generally related to systems and methods for executing events associated with an asset, which involve election of a multiplier of the asset by an owner of the asset. The present disclosure provides systems and methods for presenting an event associated with an asset to an owner of the asset, setting up a system for executing an event associated with an asset, and presenting an election result in an event associated with an asset, respectively.

An exemplary multistart and recombination system and method are disclosed for determining unique solutions to spatial aggregation problems using a multistart phase and a recombination phase algorithm, where the multistart phase generates a diverse pool of random solutions and where the recombination algorithm uses the generated random solution to create new, improved solutions, ensuring the discovery of multiple unique optimal or near-optimal configurations. The spatial aggregation problems may be used to analyze census data. In some embodiments, spatial aggregation problems may be used to perform voter district map analysis to identify a revised voter district map.

Aggregation and scoring system for collecting and analyzing public and survey data of public entities, private entities, elected officials, candidates for public office, and other individuals or entities who hold a position of public or private prominence, or public or private influence, to generate a five-tiered score predicated on predetermined metrics of evaluation.

A networked system of connected and trackable document deposit and destruction kiosks can be used to remotely dispose of and destroy confidential documents and monitors and records compliance with employer document destruction policies. A networked system of connected ballot deposit kiosks can be used to safely deposit, track, and verify the locations of completed ballots and to monitor and track the subsequent collection of the ballots by election officials or other authorized persons.

A system and method for improving the efficiency and security of election voting. The disclosure includes packages of ballot paper with unique identification tags, ballot transport containers with unique identification tags, a means of reading the identification tags, a means of sending the information from reading the identification tags to a software application, and a software application. The software application is configured with various interfaces to record election data, track ballot custody changes, and assist election officials in drafting election materials more efficiently.

The Decentralized Stakeholder Voting Layer enables trust-weighted blockchain voting by aggregating stakeholder metrics, weighting votes based on trust and alignment using dynamic machine learning, processing decentralized ballots with fraud detection, tallying results transparently, and delivering governance decisions securely. The system comprises a metric aggregator for data ingestion, a trust weighting engine for vote adjustment with feedback, a voting processor for ballot handling, a tally module for result compilation, and an output layer for secure delivery. The method aggregates metrics, weights votes, processes ballots, tallies results, and outputs decisions for applications like decentralized governance and organizational decision-making. By integrating trust metrics, ensuring GDPR compliance, providing immutable auditing, and optimizing consensus efficiency, this invention reduces manipulation risks, enhances transparency, and supports interoperable governance in distributed networks.

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 provided 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.

An election method for a representative node device, comprising: receiving newly-added candidate transaction data, the newly-added candidate transaction data carrying credential data provided by an auditor party, and the credential data being used for indicating that a first node device meets qualification requirements of a candidate node device; when multiple node devices in a block chain system agree to pass the newly-added candidate transaction data, storing the newly-added candidate transaction data on a target block chain of the block chain system; performing an election process for the representative node device according to the newly-added candidate transaction data stored on the target block chain and candidate node device transaction data.

A method and system for management and monitoring of leverage relating to low margins of a win in swing districts to command higher prices for political communications. The method includes selecting candidates, and a political party per election for elections. The candidate and the political party receive a free slate of political communications. The method includes offering at least one of one or more paid slate of political communications, and one or more slate of endorsements each, on behalf of each candidate and the political party. The method includes providing only one paid slate of political communications to solicited candidate constituencies per political communication cycle. The method includes initiating timers and receiving political communication requests and payments. The method includes creating a slate of political communications, and endorsements on behalf of a major candidate if the political communication requests and payments are received within a period of the timers.

A transposition error may occur in a voting machine when the voting machine switches candidates so that votes are counted for a different candidates than a voter intended. Such transposition errors may occur due to either intentional manipulation (e.g., a bad actor hacking the voting system, etc.), or unintentional human error (e.g., an unintentional human error in computer programming, etc.). In some embodiments, a “minimum test deck” is created that includes the minimum number of filled out ballots that will effectively test a voting machine to ensure that no transposition error occurred.

An apparatus, including a central processing computer and a distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system. The apparatus receives a request for an e-voting ballot regarding an election, polling activity, or marketing campaign. The e-voting ballot contains information regarding the election, polling activity, or marketing campaign, and a link or hyperlink to information regarding the election, polling activity, or marketing campaign. The apparatus receives and stores information regarding a vote or votes cast, or information provided, pursuant to the e-voting ballot. The apparatus stores the information regarding the vote or votes cast, or the information provided, in the distributed ledger and Blockchain technology system.

The inventive apparatus for printing, sending, receiving and counting absentee ballots, comprises a printer for creating a plurality of ballots, each of the ballots bearing a unique code device containing a unique identification code and a would-be voter personal computing device for sending a communication from a would be voter requesting a ballot and for sending personal identification information. The personal computing device must receive a biometric to become activated. A board of elections computing device receives a communication from a would-be voter requesting a ballot, the board of elections computing device being operated by software which causes it to execute a number of program steps comprising verifying that the personal computing device must receive a biometric to become activated, receiving personal identification information from the would-be voter personal computing device, and comparing the received personal identification information with voter record information contained in the database of registered voter information a board of elections to determine whether the would-be voter is registered to vote. A balloted voter database is adapted for storing a notation of a positive identification of the would-be voter as a registered voter, and for storing in the balloted voter database a notation that the would be voter is to be sent one of the ballots. A scanning device is adapted for scanning the unique code device on one of the ballots. A sent ballots database stores the identification of the one ballot in the sent ballots database. A voted ballots database receives an indication that a communication has been received from the registered voter personal computing device of the would be voter, the communication comprising the output of a scan of the unique code device on the ballot sent to the would-be voter, the information including the unique identification code, whereby returned voted ballots may be assessed for authenticity, wherein the program of steps comprises assessing authenticity of return ballots by determining that each ballot is included in the sent ballots database and is included in the voted ballots database, whereby the ballots that are included in the sent ballots database and in the voted ballots database are identified as verified ballots, and the election choices in the verified ballots may be counted.

One or more processors of a system that supports a commercial activity of a store execute processing to generate voting proposal information for making multiple candidates for at least one of a new product and a new service voting targets for request voting by customers of the store. The one or more processors also execute processing to send the voting proposal information to a voting reception terminal and processing to receive voting response information from the voting reception terminal in response to the voting proposal information.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.

An apparatus configured to break in footwear or sportswear includes: a three-dimensional model of a user's feet or body based on scanning or molding, wherein the three-dimensional model comprises a material configured to mimic biomechanical properties of the user's feet or body; a robotic motion simulator configured to simulate user-specific movements to break in the footwear or sportswear; and a controller configured to customize break-in protocols based on user-specific parameters, to thereby break in the footwear or sportswear emulating a process of the user's wearing the footwear or sportswear to break in without user discomfort while optimizing fit of the footwear or sportswear.

A method for presentation of content in a digital document includes automatically altering the presentation based on spatiotemporal parameters of the content inputted by one or more users.

An Internet-based and computer-implemented system and method operated by multiple users utilizing an electronic computing device, operably configured to efficiently streamline and consolidate the event and vacation planning, selecting, deliberating, and booking process, particularly among groups of users. Beneficially, the system and method comprise instant messaging, polling, and budgeting features which aid users within a travel group in deliberating and selecting various trip accommodations, e.g., destination, lodging, transportation, excursions, etc., related to a travel event. Recommended trip accommodations are generated based on event-identifying information and a personalized user budget of a user, wherein the personalized user budget may be visually and graphically compared to a simulated user budget to assist the user in calculating the cost of a travel event, an expense category, or a trip accommodation.

Embodiments of the present application relate to anonymous cryptographic voting methods and systems based on blockchain. A system can facilitate voting recorded based on distributed ledger technology (DLT), e.g., blockchain-based. Nodes configured to support a voter role can access DLT records to determine answers and / or parameters for a vote. An organizer of a vote can provide a voter token to a voter, which grants the voter a voting value. A voter can distribute the voting value to answers using a commitment token that binds the voter to a particular voting value without leaking the particular voting value when in cryptographic form. A voter can distribute the commitment token to multiple answers. In some cases, distributing the commitment token to multiple answers can foil attempts to determine one or more targets to which the voter delivered a non-empty voting value.

A user device transmits a digital representation of a document or contract to a document or contract validation system through one or more channels. The document or contract validation system validates the document or contract before submitting the document or contract to a transaction system as a valid transaction. The digital representation of the document or contract may include one or more sets of parameters that are useful in the validation process.

Provided is a community management method including: receiving, from a first terminal, a generation request for a standby community; generating the standby community including a user of the first terminal as a participant, according to the generation request for the standby community; and generating a regular community including participants of the standby community as members in response to a number of the participants of the standby community reaching a target number of the standby community, wherein a writing function is restricted in the standby community and allowed in the regular community.

A method comprising the steps of: publishing an original post by an author; investing a predetermined amount of money by an investor; selecting a percentage by the investor; upvoting the original post by a plurality of voters; and taking actions after expiration of an escrow duration. A system is configured to perform functions to: publish an original post by an author; invest a predetermined amount of money by an investor; select a percentage by the investor, upvote the original post by a plurality of voters; and take actions after expiration of an escrow duration.

Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on computer-storage media, for proof of play (PoP) blockchain mining. In some implementations, a corresponding method may include providing a set of one or more task parameters for a group task to each of two or more users; responsive to a consensus among the two or more users, storing a start-task transaction that includes the set of one or more task parameters signed by each of the two or more users; storing an end-task transaction at an address of a blockchain; determining respective rewards for at least a subset of the two or more users based at least on the start-task transaction and the end-task transaction; and recording the respective rewards in the blockchain.