REFERENDUM ENHANCED SUBSCRIPTION BASED APPLICATION SYSTEM
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1. A system of conducting a referendum, said system comprising:
- (a) a subscription based application having a content; and
(b) a referendum having at least one attribute relevant to said content and wherein said referendum is presented in close proximity to said content within said subscription based application.
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Abstract
The present invention is directed toward a system and method for conducting a referendum. The system comprises a subscription based application having a content and a referendum having at least one attribute wherein the at least one attribute is relevant to the content and the referendum is presented in close proximity to the content within the subscription based application.
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1. A system of conducting a referendum, said system comprising:
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(a) a subscription based application having a content; and (b) a referendum having at least one attribute relevant to said content and wherein said referendum is presented in close proximity to said content within said subscription based application. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4)
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5. A method of conducting a referendum anonymously, said method comprising the steps of:
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(a) transmitting a request from a client system to a server system, wherein said request comprises at least one user specific data and said client system is a subscription based application; (b) determining a referendum as identified by a referendum identifier and corresponding to said at least one user specific data of said request; (c) returning said referendum from said server system to said client system; (d) transmitting a referendum result from said client system to said server system via a message having a header portion and a data portion, wherein said header portion comprises a unique identifier identifiable to said server system as originating from a source but not identifiable with respect to the true identity of said client system; (e) comparing said unique identifier to a list of unique identifiers, whereby if said unique identifier does not match a member of said list of unique identifiers, said referendum result is added to a database relating said referendum to a list of referendum results and if said unique identifier matches a member of said list of unique identifiers, said referendum result is discarded; and (f) adding said unique identifier to said list of unique identifiers. - View Dependent Claims (6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14)
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15. A system of conducting at least one referendum anonymously, said system comprising:
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(a) a storage to store a result associated with said at least one referendum; (b) at least one server system to serve said at least one referendum over a network to a subscription based application; (c) at least one client system to transmit a referendum result of said at least one referendum to said server system via a message including a header portion and a data portion, said header portion comprising a unique identifier identifiable to said server system as originating from a source but not identifiable with respect to the true identity of said at least one client system; and (d) a software program to compare said unique identifier to a list of unique identifiers, whereby if said unique identifier does not match a member of said list of unique identifiers, said referendum result is added to said storage and if said unique identifier matches a member of said list of unique identifiers, said referendum result is discarded. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 20)
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