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The present invention generally relates to blockchain technology. Specifically, this invention relates to adapting blockchain technology for the storage of voting data in an electronic voting system. The system includes a distributed network of voting machines in communication with each other. Each voting machine has a barcode scanner, a network communications device and a computer system running a voting client. Votes are received through the barcode scanner or a voter interface system and stored securely on a blockchain. The tally for various candidates in the election is updated and stored as each vote is received and counted. This creates an auditable trail of votes and the tally which can be used to detect, correct, and prevent fraud and error in the vote counting process.

A hybrid prediction system may aggregate electronic data to identify and initially predict an outcome of a future event and subsequently update the initial prediction. The system may include at least one processor and a memory. The processor may access data scraped from the Internet. The data may be associated with at least one future event. The processor may further store the scraped data, determine, from the scraped data, an initial prediction of the outcome of the at least one future event, generate, from the scraped data, an initial likelihood indication associated with the initial prediction, and transmit the initial prediction and the initial likelihood indication to a device associated with one or more users. The processor may further receive proprietary information, store the proprietary information, determine, using the scraped data and the proprietary information, a subsequent likelihood indication, and transmit the subsequent likelihood indication to the device.

The present invention generally relates to blockchain technology. Specifically, this invention relates to adapting blockchain technology for the storage of voting data in an electronic voting system. The system includes a distributed network of voting machines in communication with each other. Each voting machine has a barcode scanner, a network communications device and a computer system running a voting client. Votes are received through the barcode scanner or a voter interface system and stored securely on a blockchain. The tally for various candidates in the election is updated and stored as each vote is received and counted. This creates an auditable trail of votes and the tally which can be used to detect, correct, and prevent fraud and error in the vote counting process.

In one aspect, the invention is a computer program product residing on a computer readable medium having a plurality of instructions stored thereon. The instructions when executed by the processor, cause that processor to schedule a network-based media event; and to invite an attendee to attend the network-based media event. Other aspects of the invention includes a process and a method.

A method and system for aggregating opinions on questions from participants. The selection of a category is received from each participant for each question previously presented to each participant. The selection is a category into which each participant has placed an idea associated with each question. A percentage vote, which is calculated for each selected category of each idea, is a percent of participants that selected each category of each idea. A winning category is selected for each idea, based on the calculated percentage vote for each selected category of each idea. A next idea, consisting of the idea having the lowest calculated percentage vote of the ideas's winning category, is determined. A next question associated with the next idea having the lowest calculated percentage vote of the ideas's winning category is determined and presented to a new participant.

The invention discloses a verifiable post quantum electronic voting system and an implementation method thereof. The system comprises an authentication center, a user side, a verification server, a vote counting server, a verification program and a notice board; the authentication center verifies identity of users, generates identity ID for each legal user and signs for the identity ID; the user side proves own identity to the authentication center, receives an identity ID signature, encrypts own votes and sends a votes ciphertext and the identity ID signature to the verification server; the verification server comprises two servers, and the two servers jointly complete verification of legality of the votes and a dynamic vote counting work; the vote counting server decrypts some dynamic vote counting ciphertext and publishes the decrypted dynamic vote counting ciphertext on the notice board; and the verification program verifies whether the vote counting server performs vote counting correctly. The system and the implementation method thereof, provided by the invention, can effectively resist attacks of a quantum computer and have excellent computation efficiency.

A method and system for evaluating and sharing user-generated media files have been disclosed. The method and system is embodied in a contest / festival that entices visitors to return to the site to vote on their favorite videos by providing a plurality of phases in which the best performing media files are promoted based on voting scores. According to one embodiment, a computer implemented method comprises generating scores for each media file in four phases and calculating the total score for each of the four phases. The scores are calculated based on the number of views and votes from users for each media file. The votes are generated using questions, percentage of video viewed, comments, social distribution, and recommendations.

The invention provides a blockchain common recongnition method, an accounting node and a node. The accounting node generates a block and broadcasts verification information thereof to other of N accounting nodes; the accounting node receives confirmation information from the other accounting nodes and verifies the confirmation information; and when the received confirmation information satisfies asecond set condition, the block is added to a blockchain. The accounting nodes are selected from candidate nodes according to the currency age instead of solving the difficulty of workload proof, sothat the accounting nodes are determined in higher efficiency, and resource consumption is reduced. The accounting node generates the block, the information of the accounting node and the informationof the block are broadcast, the broadcast information is verified by the other accounting nodes, and the accounting node adds the block to the local blockchain; and thus, the blockchain network is kept consistent and secure, the accounting node can make common recongnition after generating the block, and the common recongnition efficiency is improved.

A text analytics system may ascertain sentiment about multi-sectioned documents and may associate the sentiment with particular sections. The system may include at least one processor configured to scrape the Internet for text data associated with comments expressed by a plurality of individuals about a common multi-sectioned document. The comments may not be not linked to a particular section. The at least one processor may be further configured to analyze the text data in order to determine a sentiment associated with each comment; apply an association analysis filter to the text data in order to correlate at least a portion of each comment with one or more sections of the multi-sectioned document; and transmit for display to the system user a visualization of the sentiment mapped to one or more sections of the multi-sectioned document.

Methods, systems, and computer-readable media are provided for conducting an election. In one exemplary embodiment, there is provided a method for ensuring integrity of an electronic ballot. The method can include creating electronic ballots for voters based on votes received from the voters; digitally signing the electronic ballots; storing the signed electronic ballots; retrieving the signed electronic ballots from storage; verifying the digital signatures on the retrieved electronic ballots; and presenting the voters with validation pages derived from the retrieved electronic ballots, the validation pages including a user interface element for the voters to confirm that the retrieved electronic ballots accurately reflect their vote.

A Near Field Communications (NFC) voting system comprising a pair of NFC tags, each of the pair of tags is configured to emit a signal corresponding to an answer, an NFC reader configured to receive a signal from the pair of NFC tags, a display, a server adapted to store a plurality of referendums and their corresponding statistics and an application configured for retrieving a referendum from the server, displaying the referendum on the display, wherein the application is configured to associate a signal received from the pair of NFC tags to the referendum and update the statistics of the referendum in the server.

An electronic voting system includes a terminal, authentication servers, and voting servers. Each authentication server includes an authentication processor that authenticates a voter using authentication data, and a first synchronizer that synchronizes a first blockchain including first transaction data with at least one other authentication server. The authentication data including a first identifier and authentication information. Each voting server includes a voting processor that receives voting data including a second identifier and voting information, and a second synchronizer that synchronizes a second blockchain including the voting information as second transaction data with at least one other voting server. Each voting server further includes a block generator that connects a block including the second transaction data to the second blockchain, and a determiner that determines the block to include the second transaction data. The terminal transmits the authentication data to at least one other authentication server and transmits the voting data to one of the voting servers after authentication.

System and method of performing a crowdsourced online idea generation and peer review process for main topic of interest for a client, often involving large numbers of expert participants and a panel of expert moderators. Qualified participants are drawn from a database of system members, and moderators are often qualified client employees or consultants. A server, capable of hosting various threaded discussions on various related topics, is first initialized with various related topics, seed ideas and comments. Participants are then given access for a predetermined time, and contribute new ideas, peer review other participant's ideas, and vote ideas up and down. Moderators review progress, and vote to highlight ideas and comments, close ideas, and delete off-topic contributions. Various voting analysis algorithms draw attention to promising ideas. Participants are rewarded on a daily basis for contributing ideas, comments, and votes. The system produces new ideas that are peer reviewed and prioritized.

An electronic voting system including a terminal, authentication servers, and voting servers is provided. Each authentication server includes an authentication processor that authenticates a voter using authentication data including a first identifier associated with the voter and authentication information regarding the voter, and a first synchronizer that synchronizes a first blockchain including first transaction data indicating that the voter has been authenticated. Each voting server includes a voting processor that receives, from the terminal, voting data including a second identifier associated with a vote cast by the voter, and voting information indicating the vote. Each voting server further includes a second synchronizer that synchronizes a second blockchain including second transaction data and dummy transaction data with at least one other voting server. The terminal transmits the authentication data to each authentication server and transmits the voting data to at least one of the voting servers.

The invention discloses a method, a device, a computer device and a storage medium for electing representative node equipment, belonging to the technical field of block chains. The method includes receiving new candidate transaction data, the new candidate transaction data carrying credential data provided by an auditor, the credential data being used to indicate that the first target node devicemeets the qualification requirements of the candidate node device; when a plurality of node devices in the block chain system agree to pass the new candidate transaction data, storing the new candidate transaction data on a target block chain of the block chain system; an election process for a representative node device is performed according to the newly-added candidate transaction data stored on the target block chain and the candidate node device transaction data. The invention selects the representative node equipment by voting the candidate node equipment which meets the qualification requirements of the representative node equipment. The process can ensure the qualification of the representative node equipment and further ensure the normal operation of the block chain system.

A system includes a content generation subsystem that features a playlist controller and multimedia service logic. The playlist controller is configured to generate a presentation playlist that controls retrieval and playback of audio clips along displayable images. The multimedia service logic, in response to receiving at least a vehicle identification number from the playlist controller, (i) automatically determines vehicle option codes associated with the vehicle, each vehicle option code identifies an option installed on the vehicle; (ii) automatically translate the vehicle option codes into information that is used in recovery of a plurality of text descriptions directed to features of the vehicle, and (iii) automatically determine the a plurality of audio clip links corresponding to the plurality of text descriptions that are used in the formation of the playlist. The second plurality of audio clip links is greater in number than the first plurality of audio clip links.

The invention discloses an intelligent contract upgrading method with controllable authority based on an intelligent contract. The method firstly deploys a contract upgrading intelligent contract, andthen deploys an intelligent contract to be upgraded including contract participant information and minimum agreed quantity information required to pass the contract related proposal. And then any block chain node receives the intelligent contract address to be upgraded proposed by the user to the contract upgrading intelligent contract, After the contract upgrading intelligent contract is judgedto be passed, the proposed event is generated and forwarded to all the user clients participating in the contract, and the client receives the user's vote and feeds it back to the contract upgrading intelligent contract after receiving the proposal. If the number of consents exceeds the preset number, the proposal is passed and applied, replacing the binary contract and completing the contract upgrade. The invention solves the centralization problem of the traditional contract upgrading mode, solves the problem of a single point of failure, and improves the safety of the contract upgrading.

The present invention generally relates to blockchain technology. Specifically, this invention relates to adapting blockchain technology for the storage of voting data in an electronic voting system. The system includes a distributed network of voting machines in communication with each other. Each voting machine has a barcode scanner, a network communications device and a computer system running a voting client. Votes are received through the barcode scanner or a voter interface system and stored securely on a blockchain. The tally for various candidates in the election is updated and stored as each vote is received and counted. This creates an auditable trail of votes and the tally which can be used to detect, correct, and prevent fraud and error in the vote counting process.

A text analytics system may predict whether a policy will be adopted. The system may include at least one processor configured to access information scraped from the Internet to identify text data associated with comments expressed by a plurality of individuals about a proposed policy. The at least one processor may be further configured to analyze the text data in order to determine a sentiment of each comment; apply an influence filter to each comment to determine an influence metric associated with each comment; weight each comment using the influence metric; determine based on an aggregate of the weighted comments, an indicator associated with adoption of the policy; and transmit the indicator to a system user.

A method for electronic voting is provided. The method comprises receiving a selection of a vote vi from a voter, generating one or more first values associated with the voter, calculating one or more second values based on the one or more first values, providing a first type of receipt including the one or more second values to the voter, updating a tally, t, based on the vote vi, updating a sum, s, based on the one or more first values, and publishing the receipt including the one or more second values.

A method of collecting opinions and surveying data is provided, including the steps of: step A, an asker raises an opinion; step B, the contents of the opinion is filtered by a keyword filter of a system website to determine whether the opinion can be posted in the system website and notify the asker; step C, a user browses the system website to select an opinion, respond to the opinion, and participate in voting opinion; and step D, a compiler of the system website collects and integrates the responded opinions and voted opinions from step C into survey data that is stored in a database of the system website to allow the system owner to effectively collect and integrate the opinions for further applications.

A blockchain system is disclosed. A blockchain system according to one embodiment includes a plurality of nodes for communicating with each other through a distribution network and communicating with a blockchain client device outside the blockchain system, wherein each of the plurality of nodes can be configured to process transactions occurring in the blockchain system, collect vote items included in the transactions and including an account address corresponding to any one of the plurality of nodes, and elect, as a block generator, at least one of the plurality of nodes on the basis of the collected vote items. Other various embodiments identified through the specification are possible.

A system for remotely monitoring a plurality of ballot tabulation devices is provided. The ballot tabulation devices are located at a plurality of polling locations, each of which is operable to process a plurality of marked paper ballots and maintain health status information for the device. The system includes a central server located remotely from the ballot tabulation devices that is operable to periodically receive the health status information for each device and generate an alert that identifies any irregularities associated with each device based on the received health status information. Preferably, the health status information is encoded in a machine-readable code that is displayed on a display screen of the ballot tabulation device, and a reading device is used to read the machine-readable code from the display screen and transmit the health status information to the central server.

In an embodiment, communities are generated on demand. In this specification a community is a group of webpages in which users share ideas with one another by posting ideas and sending messages for one another to read. An on-demand community is a community that may be created via tools specialized for creating communities, with just a few keys strokes and / or mouse clicks and by adding information (e.g., about the members and / or the topic or set of topics that the community is focused upon), such that a community maybe established within a short amount of time, such as a few minutes or a few hours. Optionally, the communities may be initially populated with ideas related to a particular topic or set of topics. Optionally, each member may be provided with tools for establishing one or more profile page and / or one or more friend pages.

The present invention provides an improved system and method for using cryptography to secure computer-implemented choice mechanisms. In several preferred embodiments, a process is provided for securing participants' submissions while simultaneously providing the capability of validating their submissions. This is referred to as a random permutation. In several other preferred embodiments, a process is provided for securing participants' advance instructions while simultaneously providing the capability of validating their advance instructions. This is referred to as a secure advance instruction. Applications include voting mechanisms, school choice mechanisms, and auction mechanisms.

A prediction system provided with an integrated communications interface may include at least one processor configured to scrape the Internet to identify a currently pending legislative bill and information about legislators slated to vote on the pending bill. The processor may parse the information to determine a tendency position for each legislator. The processor may transmit for display to a system user a virtual whipboard that groups legislators into a plurality of groups based on determined tendency positions. The processor may receive a selected one of the plurality of groups of legislators for a communication interaction based on the determined tendency position of the group and access a legislator database that includes legislative communication addresses of legislative personnel scraped from the Internet and divided into a plurality of legislative function categories and receive from the system user a selection of at least one of the plurality of legislative function categories.

A system for predicting and prescribing actions for impacting policymaking outcomes may include at least one processor configured to access first information scraped from the Internet to identify, for a particular pending policy, information about a plurality of policymakers slated to make a determination on the pending policy. The processor may parse the scraped first information to determine an initial prediction relating to an outcome of the pending policy. The processor may access second information to identify an action likely to change at least one of the initial prediction and the propensity of at least one policymaker, to thereby generate a subsequent prediction corresponding to an increase in a likelihood of achieving the desired outcome. The processor may display to the system user a recommendation to take the action in order to increase the likelihood of achieving the desired outcome.