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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 30, 2019
Filed:
Apr. 18, 2017
Fox Broadcasting Company, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Joseph B. Earley, Los Angeles, CA (US);
David B. Wertheimer, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Edward A. Skolarus, Manhattan Beach, CA (US);
William Bradford, Westlake Village, CA (US);
Matthew Moroz, Venice, CA (US);
Nicole H. Ruby, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Ori Nakar, Culver City, CA (US);
Bryan J. Gonzalez, Culver City, CA (US);
FOX BROADCASTING COMPANY, Los Angeles, CA (US);
Abstract
A method, apparatus, article of manufacture, and a memory structure for allocating and committing votes in a variety of voting paradigms is described. In one embodiment, the method describes a system applicable in a plurality of time zones and comprises determining if an allocation of at least a portion of Nvotes among one or more candidates is received from a first user via a first device during a first period, accepting and storing the allocation of votes, only if the allocation is received during the first period, receiving a user command committing the stored allocation of the Nvotes among the plurality of candidates, determining if the command is received during a second period, and committing the stored first user allocation of Nvotes among the one or more candidates only if the command is received during the second period.