Internet-based system and method for fairly and securely enabling timed-constrained competition using globally time-sychronized client subsystems and information servers having microsecond client-event resolution

a technology of information servers and internet-based systems, applied in the field of internet-based information systems and methods, to achieve the effect of avoiding shortcomings and drawbacks
US20020026321A1Inactive Publication Date: 2002-02-28REVEO
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Authority / Receiving Office
US · United States
Patent Type
Applications(United States)
Current Assignee / Owner
REVEO
Publication Date
2002-02-28
Estimated Expiration
Not applicable · inactive patent

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Abstract

An improved system and method of fairly and securely enabling timed-constrained competitions over the Internet among millions of competitors while compensating for the variable network communication latencies experienced by client machines used by the competitors. The system employs globally time-synchronized Internet information servers and client machines in order to synchronize the initial display of each invitation to respond (e.g. stock price to buy or sell, query to answer, or problem to solve) on a client machine so each competitor can respond to the invitation at substantially the same time, regardless of his or her location on the planet, or the type of Internet-connection used by his or her client machine. Also, by using globally time-synchronized client machines, each competitor's response is securely time and space stamped at the client machine to ensure that competitor responses are resolved within microsecond accuracy.
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BACKGROUND OF INVENTION

[0001] 1. Field of Invention

[0002] The present invention relates generally to improvements in the operation and performance of client-server type internetworked computer systems of global extent, such as the Internet, and more particularly to a novel Internet-based information system and method which enables a millions of timed-constrained competitions, contests or transactions, among the mass population in a fundamentally fair and secure manner, using globally time-synchronized client subsystems and information servers having client-event resolution with extreme accuracy independent of variable network latency.

[0003] 2. Brief Description of The State of The Art

[0004] While the role of cooperation has a secure place in the history of mankind, so too does the role of competition. Few will disagree that, over the course of time, human beings have competed in widely diverse ways for both tangible and intangible objects of need and desire. Such objects of need or ...

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