United States Patent
Distributed Ledger-Based Voting System, Apparatus and Method. Inventor and applicant: Dennis Lyon, Oceanside, CA. Filed June 7, 2022. Issued April 16, 2024. 18 claims, 5 drawing sheets. Related to NFT origin Ethereum address 0x7cbeaD10F8dE9E049A0E887840E36105B8DC1184.
Claim 1 · Method
Issue unique cryptographic voting tokens via a smart contract executed by a plurality of nodes; receive voting transaction requests containing candidate selection, token ID, and voter address; determine the final result from those requests.
Claim 5 / 14 · Sidechain
Private cryptographic blocks stay unpublished during the contest, then are provided to a public ledger when the contest concludes.
Claim 8 / 17 · Candidate wallets
Each request may name a candidate cryptographic wallet. The winner is the wallet with the greatest number of verified, validated voting transactions.
Claim 10 · System
An administrator node generates the smart voting contract. A plurality of computing nodes each execute the same instructions to issue tokens, receive requests, and determine the result.
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