WO2004059550A1 - Reunions virtuelles - Google Patents

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WO2004059550A1
WO2004059550A1 PCT/US2002/041357 US0241357W WO2004059550A1 WO 2004059550 A1 WO2004059550 A1 WO 2004059550A1 US 0241357 W US0241357 W US 0241357W WO 2004059550 A1 WO2004059550 A1 WO 2004059550A1
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Arthur Mitchell
Philippe Bennett
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Philippe Bennett
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    • G06Q10/109—Time management, e.g. calendars, reminders, meetings or time accounting

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  • the present invention relates to a method and system for providing
  • the present invention permits those attending the
  • the present invention provides a method of remote communication that
  • a means of communication such as telephone, electronic bulletin board, e-mail, instant messaging, the Internet, webcasting, video streaming, or any other form
  • the method of the present invention may be used to facilitate voting at meetings
  • the method of the present invention is designed to be employed in Japan, the
  • the method is to be used in conjunction with
  • the method of holding a meeting of the present invention includes
  • participant is permitted to access the list of eligible participants in a manner that
  • an eligible participant could send out materials soliciting votes for a Board of Directors
  • the website is able to poll the logged in participants at some
  • predetermined interval for instance once every 5 or 10 minutes, to ensure that the
  • participant is still in attendance. If the participant does not respond to the polling, the participant
  • the meeting is conducted on a
  • the meeting could consist of a plurality of pages posted to the website that are
  • the chair could permit one or more of the eligible meeting
  • a vote on each proposal may be cast by paper ballot
  • Internet for example, on the global computer network known as the Internet
  • Balloting systems emulate conventional absentee balloting by using ballots that are
  • users for example, 100,000 to 1,000,000, such as may be the case in an election.
  • PDN personal identification number
  • LDAP certificate directory service
  • An alternative strategy involves generation of public/secret key pairs on a
  • a storage device such as a password-encrypted floppy disk, or on a
  • the private-key device In addition, the private key is better protected within a
  • interfaces may be expensive, difficult to install/configure, and may not be universally
  • the secret is done on a secure platform other than the user's PC, for example, a server.
  • keys are stored in encrypted form on the secure server and downloaded to the client
  • the server must authenticate the user by some non-PKI-based method before allowing the user to download their private key. In most
  • a network which can be a local area network, or a wide
  • a data element is then created from the individual's digital signature of the
  • the ballot in a data store at the server, and retaining the ballot information as a vote.
  • This data element is then digitally signed using the server's private key to ensure its
  • the retention of the vote at the server can be
  • the method involves recording in the server's data store
  • the ballot can be generated in bit-map form such that the intentions of the voter or individual voting may be determined by monitoring the (x,y) coordinates of their
  • bit-map documents requires advanced optical character recognition technology, which
  • voting over a network for example, the global computer network known as the Internet,
  • the system includes a server having a data store associated
  • the server is configured for connection to the network for communicating
  • the server is further configured for
  • the server is further configured for receiving the ballot
  • the server is programmed for confirming retention of
  • system provides that the server is programmed for
  • system is capable of generating the ballot as
  • bit-map a bit-map or an HTML document.
  • Figure 1 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the notice to potential meeting
  • Figure 2 illustrates a preferred embodiment of the initiation of the virtual
  • Figure 3 is a system-level architectural view of how an operational system
  • Figure 4 is a block diagram illustrating the flow of the electronic ballot
  • FIGS. 3 and 4 are block diagrams showing in greater detail the components, and data information exchange illustrated in FIGS. 3 and 4;
  • Figure 6 is an architectural diagram showing in greater detail how a system
  • Internet global computer network known as the Internet.
  • said notice of the upcoming meeting conforms to all the formal
  • organization 1 is a social club with a set of by-laws that specifies
  • notice might specify the date and location (either physical or virtual) of the upcoming
  • the notice of the upcoming meeting asks the prospective
  • the prospective meeting attendees 3 can then install such on their respective workstations. Thereafter, at, or shortly before the date and time set forth in the
  • an appropriate person e.g., a member of an organization or a shareholder — to attend a
  • the virtual meeting system of the present invention can
  • present invention can permit a person to attend one or more parts of a meeting and
  • means of remote authentication is used such as a password or biometrics.
  • the prospective meeting attendee can be given access to the shareholder list, can deliver and receive electronic consents, proxies, options, warrants
  • the attendee's workstation has a plurality of
  • prospective meeting attendee's workstation can have open windows that display the text
  • the organization desiring to hold a virtual meeting retains a virtual meeting
  • the virtual meeting host gives each person
  • the virtual meeting is for shareholders of a Company, the virtual meeting host gives each
  • this set up may require the installation of software
  • the virtual meeting is called to
  • the company calls the meeting to order.
  • the virtual meeting host can identify each ballot as received and give each
  • Such ballot an appropriate weight. For instance, the ballot from a holder of 1000
  • the voter receives an electronic receipt
  • the virtual meeting host can announce
  • FIG. 3 is a system-level architectural view of how an operational system
  • PC 11 typically a personal computer running an operating system such as Microsoft
  • Windows which may optionally include a smart card reader 13 connected thereto,
  • the PC 11 includes network access capability which can
  • ISP Internet service provider
  • the web server 19 interoperates with a certificate authority 21, which can
  • the certificate authority 21 uses a certificate-generating system, such as
  • the web server 19 can also interoperate and be connected to a back
  • a certificate such as an X.509 certificate, which is a text file that is used to
  • X.509 certificates This can be done by placing them on a lightweight directory access
  • LDAP protocol server
  • LDAP certificate directory server 25 shown
  • LDAP servers are examples of LDAP servers.
  • LDAP is a protocol on a data architecture for storing
  • Java Servlets or Enterprise Java Beans (EJBs), which are
  • web server 19 receives a request for a certain web page and in that web page is a
  • the application/database server 23 is typically a separate machine that is
  • the application database server 23 for example, as Java Servlets. More particularly, the application database server 23
  • Java Servlets Java Servlets, EJBs, or some other type of reusable component.
  • a ballot which can be either in the form of an HTML
  • a Transfer Agent 27 may also be tied into the system
  • LDAP certificate directory server 25 a server such as an LDAP certificate directory server 25 to obtain the
  • Agent 27 Irrespective of what system is implemented, the agent would be acting as a
  • FIG. 4 illustrates in block diagram form the data and information flow
  • a ballot 51 is shown on the client 41 side which has been delivered from the
  • server 43 side can be some form of electronic document.
  • the document can take
  • bit-map representations can also be deployed in accordance with the system and
  • the difficulty in building a system and method for such voting is being able to verify that only a single individual can cast a ballot, that they can cast only one ballot,
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the essential implementation for being able to achieve these goals.
  • the ballot 51 is delivered, for example, to the home PC 11 through the web
  • the server computes DS(B,s), a digital
  • an upper case letter means a public key
  • a lower case letter means a secret or private key
  • this refers to the fact that when a ballot is received, the server creates a ballot
  • the client 41 side when an individual casts a ballot 51, the client 41 side creates a digital signature of
  • the individual's signature of the ballot is then delivered to the server 43 side
  • VSN which is, for example, like a ballot serial number and can be an arbitrary
  • the vote serial number can be generated per
  • confirmation token 61 can then be encrypted with the individual's public key, thus
  • token it is noted that while the term “token” is referred to, it could be characterized as a
  • the server can verify that the confirmation was issued by the
  • the server's digital signature is also recorded along with
  • a search is conducted through the database in a manner indexed to a vote serial number, and for each vote serial number, a ballot is reconstructed.
  • reconstructed ballot has no identification back to the voter and is completely anonymous.
  • ballot responses are the same as those that the individuals generated when
  • the arrow 63 represents the validation of the server's
  • universal verifiability refers to the property that allows for
  • the individual can present vote confirmation 61 through a transmission
  • the digital signature on that confirmation can then be recomputed, and it can
  • the database can be indexed to
  • the two horizontal arrows 71 and 73 illustrate what is known as individual
  • the server's ballot signature can be extracted out of the confirmation and
  • SSL secure socket layer
  • the public key of the individual on the individual's end of the connection can be obtained outside of the system and once it is
  • FIG. 5 shows in greater detail the general architecture shown in FIG. 3, and the
  • FIG. 5 shows the various components
  • FIG. 5 portion of FIG. 5 showing in greater detail the various resultant tables assembled with
  • a smart card reader 13 can be implemented connected to an individual's PC 11
  • a certificate such as an
  • the individual's PC 11 will typically be running a standard web browser 105, such as is commercially available from Netscape
  • Java script interpreter 107 is inside the web browser 105 .
  • a protocol can be implemented that combines anonymous context, and visual
  • the server side 43 which includes a number of function boxes assembled as one box
  • the web server 19 which includes an execution environment for Java Servlets 111
  • block 61 is then returned as shown by arrow 123.
  • ballots 113 vote serial numbers 119, and certificates 117, characterized preferably as
  • block 115 is typically the application database server
  • FIG. 23 shown in FIG. 1 and serves to compile the election voter table, election database and optionally, a voter demographics database, all of which will be described hereafter with
  • FIG. 5 illustrates how the various pieces of
  • Table 157 conceptually includes four columns.
  • the first column is the
  • the table 157 is indexed by the vote serial
  • VSN issue or office being voted on, and the choice the individual makes.
  • table is to retain the digital signatures that protect the integrity of the ballot and the
  • election verification table has at least three columns and perhaps others. The election
  • verification table is indexed by the vote serial number. It includes a column for time
  • demographic data could also be input into the election verification table 155 as long as this information would not, through
  • election voter table 153 which is a hashed table
  • FIG. 6 there is illustrated in block diagram form a large-scale
  • the Transfer Agent system 221 may provide registration information to a registration server
  • certificate authority servers 217 in cooperation with the other elements to allow
  • the organization might provide each eligible participant with a card that can be read by a
  • CD-ROM drive and contain a "key" that enables its holder to have access to the
  • the organization might provide each eligible participant with a
  • U.S.B. device that encodes a "key” that enables its holder to have access to the meeting.

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L'invention concerne un système, un procédé, un signal, un modèle de fonctionnement et un programme informatique pour réaliser une réunion sur un réseau électronique. Le procédé comprend les étapes consistant à fournir une notification concernant une réunion à venir à des participants remplissant des conditions requises, à une adresse à laquelle ils ont consenti de recevoir de telles notifications. Ce procédé comprend également des communications sécurisées lors de la réunion entre les différents participants remplissant les conditions requises, qui assistent à cette réunion. En outre, le procédé de cette réunion sur réseau électronique permet aux participants remplissant les conditions requises qui assistent à la réunion, de voter de manière sécurisée, selon leur droit de vote respectif.
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