Polling and Voting Methods to Reach the World-wide Audience through Creating an On-line Multi-lingual and Multi-cultural Community by Using the Internet, Cell or Mobile Phones and Regular Fixed Lines to Get People's Views on a Variety of Issues by Either Broadcasting or Narrow-casting the Issues to Particular Registered User Groups Located in Various Counrtries around the World

• US 20080154627A1
• Filed: 12/19/2007
• Published: 06/26/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 12/23/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Advanced E-Financial Technologies Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Advanced E-Financial Technologies Incorporated
• Inventors: Liu, Ralph
• Application Number:
  US11/960,630
• Publication Number:
  US 20080154627A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 705/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0203 Market surveys; Market polls

Abstract

An invention of a new business method as well as its associated mechanical and electronic devices for polling and voting methods to reach the world-wide audience through creating an on-line multi-lingual, multi-culture community by using the Internet, cell or mobile phones and regular fixed lines to get people'"'"'s views on a variety of issues by either broadcasting or narrowcasting the issues to particular registered user groups located in various countries around the world. The verified or unverified registered users can either express their views freely on anything that could be for political, religious, philosophical, sports, entertainment, recreational, environmental, welfare, rating, popularity competition purposes or simply for compensated marketing surveys all at either a global, national, regional or local scale across different cultural, racial, religious, and geographical groups. The results will be published freely or to restricted receivers at a dedicated Internet site such as http://www.egualview.com, posted to the registered users'"'"' email addresses, cell or mobile phones, device such as i-Pods, PDAs or any other derivatives on a real time basis in multi-lingual formats to be viewed and heard by people located in different regions and countries throughout the world depending on whether it is a paid or free result. The revenue business models could be ad-based, subscription based, sponsored marketing survey based or by any other viable commercial methodologies.

Claims

1. A business method and process and its associated mechanical and electronic devices to create a world-wide community to allow people all over the world to express their views on anything and any issues for polling, voting and surveying purposes.

2. A world-wide and global platform or forum to let people express their views or opinions by overcoming the language, cultural, political, religious, ethnic barriers by using Internet-based and other communication technologies as well as videos, images, text, audio media marketing and facilitating methodologies.

3. Methods to generate revenues from offering such views or opinions expressing services to either smaller local groups or the world-wide audiences.