Andrew Timothy Schaefer

US Patent:

7565540, Jul 21, 2009

Filed:

Jul 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/176681

Inventors:

John J. Bogasky - Silver Spring MD, US
Carl Almond - Tampa FL, US
Andrew Schaefer - Hoboken NJ, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services GmbH - Schaffhausen

International Classification:

H04L 9/00

US Classification:

713173, 705 12

Abstract:

The present invention relates to a system and method for fully electronic identity authentication, with particular application to electronic election registration and voting. In particular, the present invention provides an authentication system that operates in conjunction with a secure server to authenticate users to provide access information as needed for the authenticated users to access the secure server.

US Patent:

7418401, Aug 26, 2008

Filed:

Jul 8, 2005

Appl. No.:

11/176685

Inventors:

John J. Bogasky - Silver Spring MD, US
Carl Almond - Tampa FL, US
Andrew Schaefer - Hoboken NJ, US

Assignee:

Accenture Global Services GmbH - Schaffhausen

International Classification:

G06F 11/00
H04L 9/00

US Classification:

705 12, 713173

Abstract:

The present invention is directed to a secure electronic registration and voting solution incorporating integrated end-to-end voting system architecture and processes providing secure identification and authentication, voter registration, ballot definition, ballot presentation to the voter, voting, and ballot tabulation via secure transmission over the network. The disclosed embodiments of the present invention describe an integrated solution to voting via a network, such as the Internet. A user logs into the system using through an application on a local computer that presents an electronic ballot to a user and accepts the user's voting selections. The voting selections are then associated with the user's login data and an identifier for the local computer. The local application than encrypts the voting data and forwards a server that authenticates the encrypted voting data using the user login and the computer identifier. The still-encrypted voting data is then stored.