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Date of Patent:
Sep. 12, 2023

Filed:

May. 17, 2021
Applicant:

International Business Machines Corporation, Armonk, NY (US);

Inventors:

Jeb R. Linton, Manassas, VA (US);

David K. Wright, Monroe, MI (US);

Michael Amisano, East Northport, NY (US);

John Melchionne, Kingston, NY (US);

John Behnken, Hurley, NY (US);

Dennis Kramer, Siler City, NC (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/0639 (2023.01); G07C 13/00 (2006.01); H04N 21/475 (2011.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06Q 10/06398 (2013.01); G07C 13/00 (2013.01); H04N 21/4758 (2013.01); H04N 21/4756 (2013.01);
Abstract

Technology for voting, or endorsing with votes, a set of subjects under review, such as a group of human individual peers or a set of products. Each voter in this system is provided with an amount of voting credits that may be allocated among and between at least some of the subjects under review. In some embodiments a discounting scheme is applied to the voting credit allocations so that multiple credits allocated to a single subject will typically count for fewer net 'votes' for the subject as the number of credits allocated to that single subject increases. In some embodiments, the discounting scheme is polynomial voting.


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