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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jan. 27, 2009
Filed:
Oct. 29, 2004
Derek Hung Kit Tam, Reston, VA (US);
Mark R. Smith, Warrenton, VA (US);
Christian Zimmern, Fairfax, VA (US);
Robert C. Lovell, Jr., Leesburg, VA (US);
Derek Hung Kit Tam, Reston, VA (US);
Mark R. Smith, Warrenton, VA (US);
Christian Zimmern, Fairfax, VA (US);
Robert C. Lovell, Jr., Leesburg, VA (US);
Sybase 365, Inc., Reston, VA (US);
Abstract
A method and system for providing a universal voting card (UVC) is disclosed. Generic votes stored in association with a UVC may be used at any time in any combination against voting campaigns that span, e.g., wireless carrier networks, television networks and television shows. A generic vote is issued by a UVC holder through the dispatch of an SMS message to a destination address (USC, toll-free TN, etc.). Each time that a generic vote is issued by a UVC holder the 'number of votes remaining' on the UVC is decremented; when the 'number of votes remaining' on the UVC reaches zero then the UVC is no longer usable.