Data processing: financial – business practice – management – or co – Automated electrical financial or business practice or... – Voting or election arrangement
Reexamination Certificate
2009-12-02
2011-12-13
Meinecke Diaz, Susanna M (Department: 3684)
Data processing: financial, business practice, management, or co
Automated electrical financial or business practice or...
Voting or election arrangement
Reexamination Certificate
active
08078490
ABSTRACT:
A proxy voting system enables an investor with a large number of investments to efficiently manage and vote proxies. A shareholder enters preferences regarding how to vote his or her proxies into a computer system, which then screens the received proxies, automatically enters the shareholder's preferences onto the proxy card and returns the completed proxy card to the appropriate election authority at the proper time. The system includes a central controller, a user interface for each investor, a proxy server and a manual entry subsystem, which provides an interface for those corporations that are not equipped to handle electronic formatted proxies.
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FolioFn, Inc.
Kenyon & Kenyon LLP
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