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Wearable Device For Feeding and Observing Birds and Other Flying Animals
A device for feeding and observing flying animals comprising a hat, a support mounted on the hat and extending outward from the hat, and a feeder mounted on the support.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8177643 | Out-of-band voice communication with interactive voice response services during gameplay While executing a game program, a game console determines that a user wishes to issue a voice command through a headset or other audio input/output device connected to the console. The game console switches the communication channel for the audio input/output device... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177644 | Wagering game with fantasy-sports feature A gaming system and method of conducting a wagering game having a fantasy-sports feature on a gaming system is disclosed. A wager is received from a user to play the wagering game. A roster having one or more player is created, via user selection. A projected team s... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8152641 | On line gaming with real-world data In one aspect, a method, systems, and apparatuses provide for online gaming that integrates sensory data and/or gameplay data from a real-world environment, and in particular, interactive online gaming within an environment incorporating playback of a recorded insta... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147334 | Universal game server A trusted disaster tolerant system architecture supporting concurrently a number of distributed online gaming operations such as slip-scan lottery, video lottery, fixed odd betting terminals, internet gaming, and interactive TV. A personality front end resolves the ... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8128500 | System and method for generating a virtual environment for land-based and underwater virtual characters A method provides a virtual presentation including a virtual character in an environment other than a natural environment of the virtual character. The method includes validating a registration code associated with a toy, providing at least one virtual room represen... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8105165 | Controlling interaction between protected media A method, gaming system, and computer program storage product are disclosed. At least one unique identifier is received from a remote processing system. The at least one remote unique identifier is associated with a remote software package that is on the remote proc... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8092306 | Interactive sports-themed game An interactive sports-themed game is disclosed. The game involves generating a list of predicted outcomes of the next play of a live sporting event, ranking the list, selecting one or more of the predicted outcomes to form a subset list. The outcome of the next play... | 01/10/2012 |
| 8075402 | Multigame selection A gaming system (100) comprises a gaming server (system controller) (54), a plurality of gaming machines (10), and a communications system (63) connecting each of the plurality of gaming machines (10) to the gaming server (53 | 12/13/2011 |
| 8062133 | Positioning within a video gaming environment using RF signals The position of a mobile gaming object within a video gaming environment is determined using at least one combined Radio Frequency (RF) signal. Each combined RF signal includes at least a pair of RF signals that have a known relationship therebetween. Based on signa... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8062132 | Subscription based services for closed computing systems A disclosure of a subscription service is provided, where this service allows for the running of unsigned content, such as games, on closed computing systems, such as gaming consoles. The subscription service checks whether gamer tags have an account to run unsigned... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8016676 | Child's car seat assembly enabling access to remote gaming applications and two-way person-to-person communications A child's car seat assembly includes built-in components enabling wireless gaming applications. A child's car seat assembly includes built-in components enabling two-way, person-to-person communications. A child's car seat assembly includes built-in components enabl... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8016675 | Network-based game system and method A network-based game system includes a game processing subsystem for providing a virtual game environment in which player-controlled virtual game entities can move. Players communicate with the game processing subsystem via connectivity subsystems, such as wireless ... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8012023 | Virtual entertainment Systems and methods that provide for a virtual reality entertainment system that supplies immersive entertainment and creates a sensation for a user similar to having guests in a remote location to be physically present as virtual guests. Such virtual reality entert... | 09/06/2011 |
| 7972213 | Method and apparatus for player communication Systems and methods are provided for monitoring gaming activities of a player at a gaming device. It is determined, based on the gaming activities, whether to initiate communication between the player and an individual. Communication is enabled between the player an... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7955174 | Game program A CPU core of a game machine displays a game image on an LCD, executes a game process, and performs an updating process on the game image. Also, it is determined whether or not a result of the game process satisfies a predetermined condition, and if the result of th... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7914380 | Game device and game system A multi-player game system (100) includes a lobby server (3) and a plurality of game devices (A1, A2, . . . and B1, B2, . . . ). When there is a preceding entry game device in a competition waiting state, since the server de... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7878907 | Real-time HD TV/video IP streaming to a game console Program code enabling the streaming of HD content in real-time to a game console is stored on a storage medium remote from the game console. The game console executes software that facilitates transfer of the program code from the remote storage medium to the game c... | 02/01/2011 |
| 7867091 | Multiplayer gaming system and method of operation thereof A multiplayer gaming system that is usable by a number of participating players to play a multiplayer game, comprises a plurality of player stations, each player station enabling a respective participating player to place a wager on an outcome of the multiplayer gam... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7862432 | Multiple player game system, methods and apparatus Methods and systems are described for providing a multi-player game system using standard consumer electronics equipment. For example, a system for playing multi-player games on a DVD player and other standard consumer electronics equipment receives commands from pl... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7827202 | Content scheduling for fantasy gaming A user database includes information concerning at least one entity of interest. A program database includes multimedia content information associated with items of multimedia content and including a temporal interval during which the items of multimedia content are... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7785203 | Communication game system, communication system, communication apparatus, and communication state indication method A communication game system controlling a development of a game by establishing communication between plural terminal apparatuses and displaying shared information at the terminal apparatuses is provided, the system enabling easy recognition of a communication state... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7780528 | Reception apparatus, reception method and recording medium A transmission apparatus used for transmitting a question to a recipient. Generates a control signal for limiting an answer-inputting function of a reception apparatus used by the recipient; adds the control signal generated by a generation mechanism and used for li... | 08/24/2010 |
| 7648416 | Information expressing method A musical rhythm is expressed by the number of the timing marks (for example, three timing marks when in simple triple time); and a musical tempo is expressed by the distance among the timing marks and a timing ball that moves at a fixed speed among those timing mar... | 01/19/2010 |
| 7632186 | Spectator mode for a game Methods and systems for broadcasting game sessions to be viewable by spectators are disclosed. In addition to sending telemetry data to other game clients participating in a game session, one or more game clients in the game session also sends the game telemetry dat... | 12/15/2009 |
| 7618324 | Server-less cashless gaming systems and methods Methods and systems that enable cashless gaming dispense with the need to set up and operate a complex centrally controlled system or dispense with the need to distribute expensive smart cards. The patrons' gaming session meters (including, for example, a measure of... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7607983 | Game program and game device using touch panel Reading from a RAM, image data of a rotating object, and displaying the rotating object on the display screen; obtaining touch position coordinates on the touch panel; when a contact to the touch panel is performed, calculating at each interval of a given period, an... | 10/27/2009 |
| 7575518 | Video game control system and a video game control server A player terminal transmits event generation request information, including current position information, player identification information and event generation request information, to a video game control server via a communication network. A game map is delivered ... | 08/18/2009 |
| 7462104 | Method of conducting an interactive competition An interaction competition provides an entertaining enjoyable environment for a player to compete against a celebrity in a head-to-head trivia game. The questions may be associated with the celebrity rather than random general information or general trivia. The cele... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7455590 | Sending messages in response to events occurring on a gaming service Alerts are transmitted to subscribers to an alerts service in response to events that occur within a gaming environment. Communication within the gaming environment is limited to specific game consoles and the gaming service. A subscriber to the alert notification s... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7442123 | Gaming device having mechanical indicator with values and modifiers and selection of values and modifiers A gaming device includes a symbol generator which includes a plurality of sections. Each of the sections is associated with a symbol. Upon a triggering event, the gaming device determines which symbol to indicate. The gaming device rotates or moves the symbol genera... | 10/28/2008 |
| 7438643 | 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... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7431297 | Card game device, card data reader, card game control method, recording medium, program, and card A card game apparatus includes a large-size panel display, a main control unit that controls screens on the large-size panel display, and a plurality of terminal apparatuses that are communicably connected to the main control unit. A game player purchases an integra... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7431651 | Data processing method A data processing method is provided whereby, even if communication delay occurs between computer game devices connected through a communication network, data is processed practically simultaneously between the respective computer game devices. When a computer game ... | 10/07/2008 |
| 7427234 | Method, apparatus and article for hierarchical wagering A primary wager is placed by a primary player regarding an outcome of a gaming event, and a secondary wager is placed by a secondary player regarding an outcome of the primary wager. Tertiary wagers may also be placed regarding an outcome of the secondary wager. The... | 09/23/2008 |
| 7424304 | Method and apparatus for interactive audience participation at a live entertainment event The present invention relates to a method for providing interactive audience participation at live entertainment events. The method includes providing audience members with an interactive device that presents a promotional message and includes a user interface, broa... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7417600 | Electronic entertainment and communication system A data processing system and method in which, by way of example, a memory system is coupled to a video game program processing system. The video game program processing system has a predetermined address space for executing programs stored in a program memory portio... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416488 | System and method for playing a game of skill The present invention is directed to a method and apparatus for playing a game of skill in a networked environment. A host server transmits a game data packet to each participant after receiving a request from the participant. Upon initiation of game play, the parti... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416487 | Communication device, game machine, and communication method A game machine which can be connected with a plurality of wireless controllers is proposed. A game machine according to the present invention holds identification information of wireless terminal equipment in the periphery as a list. The list may be a blacklist spec... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7412348 | Storage medium storing a game program, game apparatus, and game controlling method A game system includes a game apparatus and a controller. The controller is furnished with an acceleration sensor for detecting accelerations in at least two axis directions. Game processing corresponding to the kind of an acceleration input by means of the controll... | 08/12/2008 |
| 7407437 | Word based lottery game A lottery terminal apparatus and method of playing a word based lottery includes a value input device, a display unit and a lottery input unit for receiving alphabetical game play information wherein the display unit is adapted to visually display the received alpha... | 08/05/2008 |
