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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8185890 | Method and device for implementing a downloadable software delivery system A method and device implementing a downloadable operatively connected to a plurality of gaming machines either by a direct communications link or through the use of one or more site controllers or PCs. Each gaming machine and site controller or PC contains two execu... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8185425 | Dates locator Disclosed are apparatus and methods for locating one or more dates. Specific embodiments include a dates locator that is operable to analyze a date request in the form of natural language words or phrases and determine that such words or phrases correspond to a spec... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8184824 | Differentiated audio The present invention provides novel methods and devices for providing audio to players of a gaming machine and to nearby players. According to preferred implementations, sounds intended for a person currently using a gaming machine are distinguished from second sou... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8183286 | EP2 and EP4 agonists as agents for the treatment of influenza a viral infection The present invention is directed to the use of EP2 and/or EP4 agonists as therapeutics for the treatment of diseases associated with influenza A viruses, such as for example H5N1 and mutations thereof. ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182946 | Tin and tin-zinc plated substrates to improve Ni-Zn cell performance An improved Ni—Zn cell with a negative electrode substrate plated with tin or tin and zinc during manufacturing has a reduced gassing rate. The copper or brass substrate is electrolytic cleaned, activated, electroplated with a matte surface to a defined thickness ... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182943 | Composite solid electrolyte for protection of active metal anodes A composite solid electrolyte include a monolithic solid electrolyte base component that is a continuous matrix of an inorganic active metal ion conductor and a filler component used to eliminate through porosity in the solid electrolyte. In this way a solid electro... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8180755 | Matching reviews to objects using a language model A method is provided to associate reviews that have unknown correspondences to tangible entities to structured objects that have known correspondences to tangible entities comprising: transforming a respective review and text from a respective structured object to a... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180752 | Apparatus and methods for managing a social media universe Methods and apparatus include features for managing social media universes. In one embodiment, media content and community members that have been associated with a new concept for creating a new universe are searched on a plurality of media content servers. For each... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8180396 | User augmented reality for camera-enabled mobile devices Disclosed are apparatus and methods for providing a user augmented reality (UAR) service for a camera-enabled mobile device, so that a user of such mobile device can use the mobile device to obtain meta data regarding one or more images/video that are captured with ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8179313 | Antenna tracking profile estimation Estimation of a desired antenna tracking profile is provided for a radio frequency autotracked (RFAT) antenna in the absence of a ground reference. A first RFAT antenna subsystem has a first antenna and a first antenna positioning mechanism (APM), each mounted on a ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8178443 | Hardmask materials Hardmask films having high hardness and low stress are provided. In some embodiments a film has a stress of between about −600 MPa and 600 MPa and hardness of at least about 12 GPa. In some embodiments, a hardmask film is prepared by depositing multiple sub-layers... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177637 | Button panel control for a gaming machine Disclosed are gaming machines, including related methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer program products, implementing and using techniques for providing a game of chance. Peripheral devices, such as a bill acceptor and ticket printer, are consolidated ... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177624 | Gaming machine printing a ticket for promoting play of a bonus event Disclosed are gaming machines, including related methods, apparatus, and systems, including computer program products, for promoting play of a bonus event in a wagering environment with one or more gaming machines providing games of chance. The gaming machines are c... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8173630 | Multipodal tethers for high-density attachment of redox-active moieties to substrates This invention provides redox-active molecules attached to polypodal (e.g., bipodal, tripodal, quadrapodal, pentapodal, etc.) tethers that can be used for attachment of the redox-active molecules to a substrate (e.g., an electrode). The tethered redox-active molecul... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173602 | Detecting CYP24 expression level as a marker for predisposition to cancer This invention pertains to the discovery that an amplification of the CYP24 gene or an increase in CYP24 activity is a marker for the presence of, progression of, or predisposition to, a cancer (e.g., breast cancer). Using this information, this invention provides m... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8173537 | Methods for reducing UV and dielectric diffusion barrier interaction Stability of an underlying dielectric diffusion barrier during deposition and ultraviolet (UV) processing of an overlying dielectric layer is critical for successful integration. UV-resistant diffusion barrier layers are formed by depositing the layer in a hydrogen-... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172992 | Wafer electroplating apparatus for reducing edge defects Methods, apparatuses, and various apparatus components, such as base plates, lipseals, and contact ring assemblies are provided for reducing contamination of the contact area in the apparatuses. Contamination may happen during removal of semiconductor wafers from ap... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172682 | Computer network and method for changing the pay schedules of gaming devices Electronic gaming devices are connected by a network to a host computer. The gaming devices award winners based on a first pay schedule. The pay schedule at a selected one or more of the machines is changed by sending information over the network. This change is acc... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172646 | Magnetically actuated chuck for edge bevel removal Provided are magnetically actuated wafer chucks that permit a wafer to be clamped or unclamped at any time during a process and at any rotational speed, as desired. Such wafer chucks may include constraining members that are movable between open and closed positions... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171206 | Avoidance of self eviction caused by dynamic memory allocation in a flash memory storage device The operating firmware of a portable flash memory storage device is stored in the relatively large file storage memory, which is non executable. It is logically parsed into overlays to fit into an executable memory. The overlays can be of differing sizes to organize... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170806 | Methods of populating data structures for use in evolutionary simulations In particular, this invention provides novel methods of populating data structures for use in evolutionary modeling. In particular, this invention provides methods of populating a data structure with a plurality of character strings. The methods involve encoding two... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170552 | Mobile network device multi-link optimizations Methods and apparatus for performing optimizations for a mobile network device such as a Mobile Node or Mobile Router supporting multiple links to a Home Agent (or Correspondent Node in a Mobile IPv6 environment) are disclosed. During the registration process, link ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8170025 | Switch port analyzers Methods and devices are provided for non-disruptive monitoring of network traffic through one or more ports of a Fibre Channel network device. Preferred embodiments of the invention are used in conjunction with the switched port analyzer (“SPAN”) and/or remote S... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168540 | Methods and apparatus for depositing copper on tungsten Apparatus and methods for depositing copper on tungsten are presented. The invention finds particular use in the semiconductor industry for depositing copper seed layers onto fields or through silicon vias having tungsten barrier layers, both reducing cost and compl... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8168284 | Fabrication of complex three-dimensional structures based on directed assembly of self-assembling materials on activated two-dimensional templates Methods of fabricating complex three-dimensional structures on patterned substrates and related compositions are provided. The methods involve depositing on the substrate a block copolymer material that is “mismatched” to the substrate pattern, and then ordering... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8166237 | Configurable allocation of thread queue resources in an FPGA A programmable logic device includes a hard-logic portion that selectively aggregates bandwidth of data ports and maps logically and physically the transactions from these ports. The memory interface structure is a part of a hard-logic portion that includes random a... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165290 | Methods and apparatus for bootstrapping mobile-foreign and foreign-home authentication keys in mobile IP Methods and apparatus for dynamically generating authentication keys are disclosed. Specifically, a Mobile-Foreign authentication key is separately generated by both the Mobile Node and Foreign Agent. Similarly, a Foreign-Home authentication key is separately genera... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165136 | Virtual port based SPAN Methods and apparatus for performing SPAN for a virtual port are disclosed. Specifically, a frame is received from a first port. The frame or a copy thereof is transmitted to a second port, where the second port is identified in a header of the frame. At least one o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8165021 | Policy-based resource management In one embodiment, a network device receives a request from a client in association with a connection, where the request indicates an amount of one or more resources that is requested to support the connection. The network device determines whether the amount of the... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8164818 | Electrochromic window fabrication methods Methods of manufacturing electrochromic windows are described. An electrochromic device is fabricated to substantially cover a glass sheet, for example float glass, and a cutting pattern is defined based on one or more low-defectivity areas in the device from which ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8163642 | Package substrate with dual material build-up layers Multi-layered, organic build-up semiconductor package substrates have build-up layers with layers of both fibrous organic dielectric material and non-fibrous organic dielectric material. Non-fibrous dielectric material layers are positioned below the signal metal la... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162755 | Open architecture communications in a gaming network Open architecture communication systems and methods are provided that allow flexible data transmission between gaming machines and other devices and nodes within a gaming machine network. The gaming machine and other devices employ a communication interface that sen... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162737 | Contactless player card with improved security A gaming system that is compatible with photonic-powered card devices is described. The gaming system may comprise a number of host devices each coupled to one or more gaming machines. The gaming machines may be operable to provide wagering on an outcome of a game o... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8161134 | Smart zoning to enforce interoperability matrix in a storage area network The present invention describes various mechanisms which may be used for improving SAN device interoperability enforcement techniques implemented in SAN or Fiber Channel networks. In one implementation, the technique of the present invention allows a SAN to automati... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8160094 | Fibre channel over ethernet The present invention provides methods and devices for implementing a Low Latency Ethernet (“LLE”) solution, also referred to herein as a Data Center Ethernet (“DCE”) solution, which simplifies the connectivity of data centers and provides a high bandwidth, ... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158586 | Inhibitors of protein kinases and uses thereof Compounds that are capable of inhibiting the activity of one or more protein kinases are provided. The compounds are short, predominantly basic peptidic compounds comprising between about 5 and about 20 amino acids, and can optionally comprise an ATP mimetic moiety.... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158532 | Topography reduction and control by selective accelerator removal Plating accelerator is applied selectively to a substantially-unfilled wide (e.g., low-aspect-ratio feature cavity. Then, plating of metal is conducted to fill the wide feature cavity and to form an embossed structure in which the height of a wide-feature metal prot... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8158207 | Durable modification of the wetting properties of a surface This invention provides compositions and methods to durably increase or decrease the wetting properties of a surface. In certain embodiments the methods utilize a polyquaternary ammonium compound to decrease wettability of the surface or a cationic polysaccharide to... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157652 | Interactive gaming table Interactive gaming tables and systems adapted to facilitate the automated administration of gaming table events are provided. Tables can have a playing surface, an outer circumference with active player positions, a slave controller for each active player position a... | 04/17/2012 |
| 8157647 | Tournament manager for use in casino gaming system Various techniques are disclosed for operating a gaming device of a casino gaming network. In at least one embodiment, the gaming device includes a tournament manager and a first meter. In at least one embodiment, the first meter is operable to perform one or more o... | 04/17/2012 |
