Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC

Ian Marriott

Jong S Huang

Curtis N Von Veh

A system and method for facilitating high-density interactive voting (such as during a live event) using a computer network and tabulating and providing voting results in real-time. In general, the high-density interactive voting system of the present invention includes five major components that reside on the voting network: (1) a Live Event Wizard; (2) a Live Event Staging Component; (3) a Live Event Database; (4) a Live Event Object (LEO); and (5) a Live Event Display Engine. The Live Event Wizard is enables a user to quickly and easily create polling questions for distribution and presentation to a voter. The Live Event Staging Component ensures the validity of the polling questions and sends a copy of a live event definition and the polling questions to the Live Event Database. The Live Event Database tabulates current voting results at specified (or pre-determined) time intervals and performs statistical calculations of voting results. The present invention also includes a Live Event Object (LEO) that resides and remains in memory (such as random access memory (RAM)). The LEO establishes and maintains persistent connections with the Live Event Database such that these connections do not have to be continually opened and closed, thus greatly reducing the burden on the server and increasing system performance. The Live Event Display Engine receives the live event definition from the LEO and renders the definition and results on a display device for voters to view.

System and method for high-density interactive voting using a computer network

A method and system are provided for providing a physical object for a web site in response to a user request. The system includes a staging server having a logical content store for storing logical content and a staging server context manager including a rendering component for rendering a physical object from the logical content. The system additionally includes a web server for seeking the requested physical object, the web server includes a web server context manager for seeking the requested physical object from the staging server and for returning the requested physical object to the requester.

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