Did You Know...
...that Robert Adler has the dubious distinction of being the Father of the Couch Potato? Back in 1955 Adler was employed by what was then Zenith Radio Corp., where he was charged to invent something that would allow viewers to turn down the TV volume without leaving their chairs. After a series of flops (such as a wired contraption that people tripped over), Adler hit on the idea of using sound waves. Thus the Remote Control was born...
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7395964 | Secure voting system Methods, systems and program products for securely voting by providing a secure voting module in communication with a voting device. A voter signs onto the voting device using a unique voter identification, and the voter's voting selections are written to the voting... | 07/08/2008 |
| 7306148 | Advanced voting system and method According to one embodiment of the present invention, an advanced voting system includes one or more computing devices. The one or more computing devices display ballot questions to the voter and receive interactive voter selections from the voter. A ballot generato... | 12/11/2007 |
| 7270269 | Secure electronic voting device A secure device for electronic voting employs a write-once vote-recording medium. The medium has an initial writing mode in which data can be written but not read and a subsequent reading mode whereby data can be read but writing is permanently disabled. Once switch... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7172118 | System and method for overcoming decision making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices A system and method is provided overcoming decision-making and communications errors to produce expedited and accurate group choices. The invention provides collective outcomes that are resilient to communication and decision making errors, and which are provided wi... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7054829 | Method and system for validating votes A method and system for validating the creation and submission of absentee ballots is provided. An authentication/validation mark is generated and printed on an absentee ballot and/or the envelope that contains the absentee ballot. The authentication/validation mark... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6964372 | Conference-table-based wired information system A table-based wired information system includes a table having a plurality of actual positions designed to receive people and a monitor positioned so as to be observed by people at any of the plurality of actual positions. A flat ribbon cable with a plurality of ele... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6935561 | Method for carrying out votes, referendums and polls and system for the implementation thereof Method and apparatus with data collection and preprocessing subsystems interconnected by a network, carry out open and secret votes, referenda and public opinion polls. A payment system with communication environment is used with the subsystems and network. A poll d... | 08/30/2005 |
| 6722562 | Method for accurate and secure voting A method for secure, electronic, distributed voting using existing automated teller machines (ATMs), comprising issuing each voter an access card that can be read by an ATM and a personal identification number (PIN); enabling the ATMs to read access cards and accept... | 04/20/2004 |
| 6311164 | Remote job application method and apparatus A central location receives calls from remotely located job applicants and handles said calls including transmitting messages to applicants and receiving information from applicants over an electronic telecommunication link, automatically and directly. Th... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6038544 | System and method for determining the performance of a user responding to a call A system for determining the performance of a user responding to a call includes a processor, a memory, and an interface. The system presents stored audible and textual information to a user to simulate a call, and generates scores to determine the perfor... | 03/14/2000 |
| 5379212 | Locking memory device A method and apparatus for locking a memory device to prevent unauthorized data from being written to the memory device is disclosed. In a preferred embodiment an address of a memory device is selected such that when that address is selected, a "1" is wri... | 01/03/1995 |
| 5218528 | Automated voting system An automated voting system that integrates the stages of registering and certifying voters and collecting their votes. A computer-based voter registration station accesses a database to verify that the voter is eligible to vote. Vote entry stations provid... | 06/08/1993 |
| 4981259 | Ballot box A ballot box is disclosed for use in combination with an electronic voter ballot tabulating device which accepts marked paper ballots, tabulates the voter selection thereon and dispenses the tabulated ballots through one of a plurality of exit openings in... | 01/01/1991 |
| 4764120 | Student response system A student response system which centrally processes student response data received from a plurality of classrooms. The system includes a main controller coupled to an instructors's terminal in each of the classrooms. The system also includes a plurality o... | 08/16/1988 |
| 4641241 | Memory cartridge for electronic voting system A memory cartridge for use in connection with an electronic voting system features read only memories which carry signals from a computer at an election headquarters to a programmable voting machine prior to an election, and bring the results of the elect... | 02/03/1987 |
| 4029943 | Method and apparatus for opinion surveys Beginning with data cards which carry thereon a question or a statement to be a subject of a survey, such cards being pre-punched with appropriate indicia signifying the question being asked or the position being tested, the interviewer submits such posit... | 06/14/1977 |
