Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8187101 | System and method for collecting and using player information A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Respo... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187099 | Game method and apparatus for enabling a video game system console to execute video game programs originally written for execution on architecturally different video game platforms A video game selection program runs on a home video game console system connected to the Internet and displays on a home color television set a menu of one or more video game titles corresponding to video game programs available via the Internet from a remote server... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187100 | Shared execution of hybrid states An application is executed in a first state on a handheld device. The first state is combined with a second state being executed on an additional device to generate a hybrid state, execution of the hybrid state being shared between the handheld device and the additi... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187103 | Gaming method and apparatus utilizing secondary software applications In a gaming method for facilitating game play via a gaming apparatus, the gaming apparatus comprising a controller and a first display unit, the controller communicatively coupled to the first display unit, a game software application may be executed, and value inpu... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8187102 | Gaming system obtaining time-of-day data from a plurality of terminals and providing games matching customer preferences at respective times-of-day A gaming system 10, composed of a server 11 and a plurality of gaming terminals 13, submits selection information including a game type to be executed in a gaming terminal 13 and a picture type, selected by a player in the gaming terminal... | 05/29/2012 |
| 8182346 | System and method for collecting and using player information A distributed computer system is provided for collecting player information. Further, a scoring system is provided that rates a player based on one or more elements of the collected information. Players may be rated with respect to a number of characteristics. Respo... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8182345 | Game system, server apparatus and register terminal Each of game machines sends result information indicating an individual ID and play result to a server. The server has a common ID control file and an individual game control file, which store common points, a common ID and an individual ID, associated with each oth... | 05/22/2012 |
| 8177646 | System and method for secondary promotion gaming in a gaming system A system for playing a secondary game in a network of play devices having at least one display, and a processor for controlling a display to display at least one primary device feature. Each device receives serial inputs to operate discrete operational functions. Th... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8177645 | Methods and apparatus for providing communications services at a gaming machine In a first aspect, a method is provided that includes the steps of (1) providing an auxiliary unit adapted to allow a gaming machine to be retrofitted to provide communications services; and (2) retrofitting a non-communications-enabled gaming machine with the auxil... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8172683 | Network gaming system A casino gaming system is disclosed that provides an opportunity to win a prize in response to game play, each game being played in exchange for monetary input. The gaming system includes a casino game server and a plurality of casino game units connected via a netw... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172684 | Networks for use in gaming According to one example embodiment disclosed herein, a connection is established between a network and a plurality of gaming units located in a gaming establishment, wherein each gaming unit includes at least one wagering input unit; wherein the network includes on... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172685 | Wagering game with persistent state of game assets affecting other players A gaming system includes a plurality of linked gaming machines, each gaming machine including a display for displaying a plurality of symbols that indicates a randomly selected outcome of a wagering game. The randomly selected outcome is selected from a plurality of... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172687 | Wagering game community environment A wagering game community environment is described herein. In some embodiments, the environment includes a community server to provide services for a wagering game community. In some embodiments, the community server comprises a communications controller configured ... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8172686 | Configurable wagering game manager Methods and systems for monitoring and/or servicing wagering game machines are described herein. In one embodiment, a method includes receiving a request to configure wagering game manager content, wherein the request is associated with a user identifier. The method... | 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 |
| 8167725 | System and method for using a game to interact with television programs A system, computer-readable storage medium including instructions, and a computer-implemented method for obtaining votes for participants in a television program are described, in which code for a game is transmitted to a computer system, where the game includes an ... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167724 | Guest management in an online multi-player virtual reality game A guest management method and system for an online multi-player virtual realty environment or social networking site. A network interface receives guest access requests from guest clients and input data from a plurality of remotely-located clients. The input data is... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167722 | Distributed processing system and method A solution for managing communicative interactions between network elements is described herein. A system incorporating teachings of the present disclosure may include a processor module that monitors communications between a program resident on a user machine and a... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8167723 | Reconfigurable gaming display and system A gaming system having a reconfigurable gaming machines and reconfigurable gaming displays is disclosed herein. The gaming system comprises one or more gaming machines including one or more reconfigurable video displays where at least one display presents video cont... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8162757 | Multiplayer platform for mobile applications A wireless terminal comprising a transmitter configured to support a wireless connection with a server and a processor configured to enable a user to play an interactive game through the server with a plurality of other users on wireless terminals across a plurality... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162758 | Implementing video contests A video hosting site allows a contest owner to specify parameters to be used for a contest. Examples of parameters include contest name, description, how the contest will be judged, who may enter the contest, etc. Once the parameters are set, a contest manager initi... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162759 | Network game system, network game program, network game apparatus, and network game control method A player can be prevented from successively using an object that affects the outcome of a match in a network competition game executed among a plurality of clients via a network. An object is selected at the end of a match event of competition game by a client on th... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162760 | Gaming system and method A method and apparatus for providing gaming services to remote game players. In one embodiment, a method of providing gaming services comprises providing one or more player game values to a first remote game player and a second remote game player, and receiving one ... | 04/24/2012 |
| 8162756 | Time and location based gaming An activating and deactivating of a gaming device may be based at least in part on a duration of time in which the gaming device is permitted to be activated, a period of time during which the gaming device is permitted to be activated, and/or a location of a user o... | 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 |
| 8157653 | Automatic player information generation for interactive entertainment Automatic player profile generation may be implemented for an interactive online game in which one or more players interact via one or more client devices connected to a server device via a network. Information relating to game activity may be collected for the one ... | 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 |
| 8152643 | Solitaire game played over the internet with features to extend play The present invention provides a method for playing a computer-based solitaire game including the steps of retrieving an input from an internet server to a computer, playing and scoring the game according to the input. The internet server and the computer are interm... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8152644 | Data stream processing A method for outputting data streams in a communication system, the method comprising the steps of: executing an electronic game application at a user terminal, the game application being programmed to allow two or more users of th... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8147336 | Competitive game system, method, apparatus and program which can be played via network A competitive game method which can be executed via a network is achieved irrespective of the type of the game. Terminal devices receive personal data from a center server, and respectively determine whether it will become a master terminal device in an initial game... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147340 | Methods and regulated gaming machines configured for service oriented smart display buttons A regulated gaming system includes a plurality of computer nodes communicating over a network. At least one of the computer nodes includes a gaming machine, which may include a game controller and an interactivity apparatus to accept wagers from a player and to prov... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147337 | Game system An ensemble game system for executing an ensemble game comprises a plurality of game apparatuses 10a through 10c communicable to each other. Each of the game apparatuses 10a through 10c outputs a sound of an ow... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147338 | Gaming network A gaming network is disclosed which includes point to point cabling infrastructure connectable to at least one first gaming machine and connectable to at least one second gaming machine. Each first gaming machine is arranged to communicate using a master/slave proto... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8147339 | Systems and methods of serving game video A multiplayer game is supported by a backend game server and a plurality of clients configured to communicate over a computing network such as the internet. Images for display on the clients are at least partially rendered by the backend game server and then deliver... | 04/03/2012 |
| 8142290 | Gaming machine security interface module A gaming machine includes an electronic gaming module which includes a game controller, and also includes a separate security interface module which monitors door switches and various devices. The security interface module has a separate unswitched power supply and ... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8145524 | System and method for presenting prioritized advertising data during execution of video trick play command data A computer readable medium is disclosed containing computer executable instructions that when executed by a computer perform a method, the method including but not limited to receiving trick play command data at an end user device; receiving a plurality of advertisi... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8142289 | Dead reckoning in a gaming environment Client position in a multi-client game is determined using dead reckoning. Clients send information to a server over a network. The server distributes this information to other clients. A client uses this information and dead reckoning to determine a character's pos... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8137200 | Networked gaming system having a browser manager An integrated browser manager and networked gaming system that provides server based dynamic content onto a content display area of one or more gaming machines is disclosed. The system includes: a browser manager, one or more application servers connected to the bro... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137201 | Arrangement for building and operating human-computation and other games A game description language is provided for human computation games, as well as a game platform or generator component that can generate the code base for the game. The game description language and schema framework can be used to represent the game logic and synchr... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8137197 | System and method for generating targeted newsletters A system and a method of providing a targeted newsletter is provided. The method includes monitoring a game while a game player plays the game on a game computer, collecting game related information, uploading the game related information to a remote server, generat... | 03/20/2012 |
