6results about "Voting arrangement" patented technology

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.

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 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.

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.

Embodiments of the present application relate to anonymous cryptographic voting methods and systems based on blockchain. A system can facilitate voting (e.g., blockchain-based) recorded based on distributed ledger technology (DLT). 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 mobile device is described having an antenna to detect a communication target from a point-of-user-interaction apparatus near the mobile device. The mobile device includes a reader that initiates a transmission of a command to the point-of-user-interaction apparatus and reads a response from the point-of-user-interaction apparatus. A display unit changes its display based on the response and / or the communication target. A circuitry executes instructions to receive a first authentication information from the point-of-user-interaction apparatus. The point-of-user-interaction apparatus transmits a second authentication information to a computing device. The circuitry executes instructions to send the first authentication information to the computing device. The computing device authenticates a transaction between the point-of-user-interaction apparatus and the mobile device via the first and second authentication information and notifies the circuitry of a valid transaction between mobile device and the point-of-user-interaction apparatus after the computing device authenticates the transaction. Unique ID(s) are also exchanged between the mobile device and the point-of-user-interaction apparatus.