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A microwave oven adapted for use within a motor vehicle dashboard area. The microwave oven has a removable storage cassette, and slidable platforms for securing and serving containers of beverages and foods.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175726 | Seeding in a skill scoring framework Skill scores represent a ranking or other indication of the skill of the player based on the outcome of the game in a gaming environment. Skills scores can be used in matching compatible players on the same team and matching opposing players or teams to obtain an ev... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8121712 | System and method for determining an offensive, defensive, and cumulative efficiency of a sports team A system and method is described for determining a scoring efficiency of a team engaged in a sport, such as baseball, softball or other sport in which runners attempt to advance from a series of base positions. A memory or database stores a total number of runs scor... | 02/21/2012 |
| 8099182 | System and method for facilitating analysis of game simulation of spectator sports leagues Embodiments described herein facilitate an analysis of a game simulation of a series of sporting events that occur over a duration of time. A plurality of parameters may be associated with individual players in a series of sporting events. An input may be detected f... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8000819 | Manufacturing instruction evaluation support system, manufacturing instruction evaluation support method, and manufacturing instruction evaluation support program A manufacturing instruction evaluation support system includes a data reading part that reads a manufacturing instruction parameter group and manufacturing performance data corresponding thereto, a parameter sorting part that calculates a risk rate for each manufact... | 08/16/2011 |
| 7991492 | National remote controlled stock car racing association A method of conducting a competition with remote controlled vehicles involving young, or young-at-heart people from a plurality of local institutions or establishments, and involving a hierarchy of competitions. ... | 08/02/2011 |
| 7979145 | Method of script selection An elimination-style script-selection method includes a workshop reading of scripts performed before participants who have taken a theater-patronage-frequency survey. Any parallel survey responses between participants of disparate theatrical-patronage patterns are d... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7813821 | System, method and computer program product for determining a tennis player rating Systems, methods and computer program products for determining a player rating for at least one tennis player enhances the tennis playing experience of by matching tennis players of comparable tennis skills. The methodology comprises assigning numerical player ratin... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7787972 | Server based gaming system and method for selectively providing one or more different tournaments A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines. ... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7689302 | Server based gaming system and method for selectively providing one or more different tournaments A gaming system includes a central server or controller operable to communicate a plurality of different commands to a plurality of gaming machines to provide non-tournament game play and to provide tournament game play on the same gaming machines. ... | 03/30/2010 |
| 7620466 | Sporting event statistics tracking and computation system and method A computerized tracking system including hardware, software and data collection devices used to deduce events and accumulate statistics about a sporting event. Events and statistics are accumulated based on tracking possession of the ball, or primary object of play.... | 11/17/2009 |
| 7477954 | Wagering interface system and method In a method and system for providing racing information to a user, a request for program information for races within a multiple race wager group is received. Respective program information specific to each race within the multiple race wager group are displayed tog... | 01/13/2009 |
| 7418303 | System for and method of customizing an animal feed based on nucleic acid material content A system for and method of determining a formulation for an animal feed having a customized nucleic acid material content. The system can include an animal profile, an animal nutrient requirement profile, an evaluation criteria, and/or ingredient nutrient content pr... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7416489 | System and method for scoring, ranking, and awarding cash prizes to interactive game players A method and system for computing scores and determining a winner between a plurality of users playing a plurality of different games on an interactive gaming network. Players are sequentially assigned to a player group as they initially log on to the gaming network... | 08/26/2008 |
| 7390260 | Wagering game having a blind selection feature A gaming terminal for playing a wagering game includes a basic game and a bonus game. The basic game has a plurality of symbols that indicate a randomly selected outcome from a plurality of outcomes in response to a wager input by a player. The bonus game is trigger... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7376474 | Bayesian scoring Players in a gaming environment, particularly, electronic on-line gaming environments, may be scored relative to each other or to a predetermined scoring system. The scoring of each player may be based on the outcomes of games between players who compete against eac... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7373309 | System and method for calculating and displaying estimated wait times for transaction request based on the skill required to process the transaction request A reception management system for handling transactions includes a plurality of ACMs (Automated Contract/Consulting Terminals) for receiving procedure requests for predetermined transactions from customers, a plurality of ROTs (Remote Operation Terminals) to be empl... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7364509 | Systems and methods for facilitating a wager Methods and systems of facilitating a wager include, a computer implemented method of facilitating a wager between players. The method may include receiving an initial offer from an initial player and a challenging offer from a challenging player. The initial and ch... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7354345 | Multilevel online tournament A multilevel online tournament is provided. The first tournament round has a single bracket and each subsequent tournament round has a winners bracket and a losers bracket corresponding to a bracket in the previous tournament round. The tournament format allows play... | 04/08/2008 |
| 7351150 | Fantasy sports live The purpose of this invention is to change and add to the way fantasy sports games are played by creating an online, virtual live interactive video game that uses fantasy sports statistics as its scoring database system and provides live worldwide communication and ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7338360 | Financial trading game A game, and more particularly to an electronic game that simulates trading securities on an exchange. The game is preferably played as a video gaming machine for gambling purposes. A computing device is provided having, among other things, a video screen display on ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7340763 | Internet browsing from a television A system for automatically using internet information which is contained within a commercial on an entertainment medium e.g. television. The system determines information indicative of the web address. This can be done automatically by optical character recognition ... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7338368 | Method, system, and program product for grouping game players by class Game play requests in a bingo gaming system are associated with different play characteristic classes and collected into different game play groups simultaneously according to play characteristic class. Once a sufficient number of game play requests are collected in... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7324663 | Flight parameter measurement system A portable flight parameter measurement system is a standalone smart camera which tracks the surface of an object in motion, e.g., a ball, and determines speed, trajectory, a spin axis, and a spin rate around that axis. The measurement system is particularly suited ... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7311606 | System and method for betting on a subset of participants in an event wherein betting parameters may change over time A method of managing bets is provided. The method includes identifying a set of participants in an event and receiving a group bet for the event. The group bet comprises a bet that one of an undefined subset of the set of participants will win the event. The undefin... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7312390 | Automatic music playing apparatus and computer program therefor An external storage device stores automatic music playing data files, each file including data of a progression of musical notes constituting a performance of a music piece, and registration data files, each file including data of a set of parameters to determine th... | 12/25/2007 |
| 7300353 | Game server, recording medium for storing game action control program and network game action control method for implementing multiple player team alteration A search processor associates identifying information regarding terminal devices and stores this in an information memory as a team, an information deletion processor transmits a member deletion request from one terminal device belonging to a team, to the other term... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7277671 | Wireless response system and method A wireless response system includes a base unit and a plurality of handheld response units communicating with the base unit over a wireless communication link. The base unit sends polling commands to the response units over the wireless communication. The response u... | 10/02/2007 |
| 7260833 | One-way network transmission interface unit A network isolation apparatus is provided that permits data to be sent to a remote computer or network without a return path so that the isolated sensitive network may not be compromised. The isolation device spoofs the network so that the network believes it has a ... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257542 | Secure on-line ticketing A method and apparatus for generating a Value Bearing Indicium (VBI) for on-line ticketing applications. A VBI may be generated by hashing user information to create a message digest that is used to create a digital signature. The digital signature is combined with ... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7252588 | Sport video game machine and play control method of sport video game A large “hit range in offense” is applied to a player character 41 on an offense side, and a small “hit range in defense” is applied to player characters 42 and 43 on a defense side. When a ball is free, a “normal hit range” is appli... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7254522 | Apparatus and method for determining a level of confidence in a risk assessment and/or determining a level of acceptability of an event occurring An apparatus (1) for assisting a user in determining a level of confidence in a risk assessment, the apparatus comprising: input means (3) for receiving at least one of a set of factors each of which can affect the level of confidence in the risk asses... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7251751 | Diagnostic mechanisms within multi processing systems Within a system-on-chip device 2 having multiple processing circuits 4, 6, 8, one processing circuit 4 may serve to perform diagnostic operations upon another processing circuit 8 by accessing diagnostic data relating to that other circui... | 07/31/2007 |
| 7243363 | Entertainment system, picture display apparatus, information processing apparatus and synchronization control method An entertainment system comprised of plural game playing machines interconnected over a communication channel in which the pictures generated and displayed in the game playing machines are synchronized with external synchronization signals. In performing real-time i... | 07/10/2007 |
| 7239269 | System and method for providing golf play information, portable terminal, and server used for the same A golf play information providing system includes a portable terminal and a server communicating with the terminal. A terminal receives an input of golf course information and customer information obtained based on position information from a GPS satellite, a GPS ps... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7231267 | Implementing production processes In the implementation of a production process, event data corresponding to a parent event that has triggered an executable business process that has failed is logged. The event data is displayed to a user. Responsive to input from the user, a child event based on th... | 06/12/2007 |
| RE39666 | Soft count tracking system Apparatus is disclosed systematically to extract data from operating machines of the type used in gaming establishments. Various data is required by management to maximize the operation and the profit potential of a given machine is compiled in the machine itself. T... | 05/29/2007 |
| 7222080 | Management of the flow of persons in relation to centers of crowd concentration A method and system for the loading of patrons at multiple attractions at an entertainment includes the first-in first-out line and a priority based line. A cellular telephone is used to obtain and claim priority status. In other forms different priorities are estab... | 05/22/2007 |
| 7219068 | Method and system for product optimization A method and computer-implemented system for optimizing a product. Based on the “voice of the customer”, aspects of the product that are critical to the customer satisfaction, and target values, therefore, are identified. Aspects are characterized in terms of th... | 05/15/2007 |
| 7207886 | Game system, game data exchange control method, game machine, and computer readable storage medium There is provided a game system which makes it possible to implement a transaction desired by a side which receives a game element. When delivering a game element from a user of a first game machine 1 to a user of a second game machine 1, transaction i... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7207902 | Method and apparatus for locating and recording the position of a golf ball during a golf game An apparatus for locating a golf ball during play of a golf game includes a golf ball having a passive transmitter and a mechanism for sensing environmental conditions positioned therein. The apparatus further includes a mechanism for determining and providing a loc... | 04/24/2007 |
