Abstract: A portable device and accompanying software provides users with a digital audio workstation with integrated tools take in raw audio data from physical inputs and map the raw data to various virtual outputs. Raw audio data for recording (recording data) is cast in real-time to a remote server. Monitoring data is simultaneously sent to collaborating devices via P2P protocols. The bitrate of the data for P2P transmissions can be adjusted to allow remote multiple users recording simultaneously to hear monitoring data in synchronicity, regardless of the speed of their respective internet connections. Face-to-face collaboration may be facilitated through the streaming of video data as the monitoring data. The low-latency of the P2P monitoring transmissions frees up bandwidth for the real-time streaming of the recording data. Audio recordings are uploaded to a central server, where they may be available to authorized collaborators for editing.

Abstract: A gaming machine includes a player interface, a display system, and a control system. For a play of a base game, the control system holds configurable symbols in a persistent symbol display matrix, presents symbols in a base game display matrix, updates display positions of the persistent symbol display matrix that are without configurable symbols, and triggers a feature game based on configurable symbols in the base game display matrix. For each spin of a feature game, the control system holds configurable symbols in the base game display matrix and in the persistent symbol display matrix, selects replacement symbols for each display position in the base game display matrix and the persistent symbol display matrix that is without a held symbol, and presents a feature game award based on configurable symbols in the base game display matrix and the persistent symbol display matrix.

Abstract: A portable device and accompanying software provides users with a digital audio workstation with integrated tools take in raw audio data from physical inputs and map the raw data to various virtual outputs. Raw audio data for recording (recording data) is cast in real-time to a remote server. Monitoring data is simultaneously sent to collaborating devices via P2P protocols. The bitrate of the data for P2P transmissions can be adjusted to allow remote multiple users recording simultaneously to hear monitoring data in synchronicity, regardless of the speed of their respective internet connections. Face-to-face collaboration may be facilitated through the streaming of video data as the monitoring data. The low-latency of the P2P monitoring transmissions frees up bandwidth for the real-time streaming of the recording data. Audio recordings are uploaded to a central server, where they may be available to authorized collaborators for editing.

Abstract: A business method implemented in a computer system pairs individuals with venues presenting entertainment programming, by steps of (a) determining programming schedules for a plurality of venues, including at least approximate geographic locations for the venues, and storing the schedules associated with the locations in a data repository; and (b) presenting an interactive interface accessible to individuals on a network, whereby the individuals may input a location, and view programming schedules at venues at or near the input location.

Abstract: A service for pairing individuals with venues includes an internet-connected server, software executing from a data repository associated with the server, an interactive interface provided by the software, enabling individuals to input information and access services, and information stored in the data repository regarding at least identity of venues, being enterprises that retail to the public and also provide presentations of possible interest to the individuals. In one embodiment an individual accessing the service may input either a current or a future location and at least one interest in presentation content, and the service will render to the individual identity of venues proximate to locations entered by the individuals, and providing presentations coinciding with the interest input by the individual.

Abstract: A computational method that predicts chemical and electrostatic properties of residues in proteins and utilizes information contained in those predictions to identify various interaction sites is disclosed. The various interaction sites may include, for example, cofactor binding sites, ligand binding sites, catalytic (active) sites or recognition sites. The method of the invention identifies the ionizable residues in the protein with anomalous predicted titration behavior and searches for the clustering of those residues into putative interaction sites. Practicing the method of the invention requires only the structure of the subject protein (which may be deduced, a priori, from the amino acid sequence) and, thus, may be applied to proteins that bear no similarity in structure or sequence to any previously characterized protein.