Abstract: A versatile and highly reliable lottery communications system employs point-of-sale terminals that can be adapted to a plurality of network technologies and service providers. The point-of-sale terminals are provided with at least two network-agnostic connecting devices to enable fast configuration regardless of the intended deployment environment. The point-of-sale terminals can be adapted to connect with multiple wireless networks at the same time, multiple wireline networks at the same time, and/or at least one wireless network and at least one wireline network at the same time, with failover and fallback programming to ensure maximum uptime for lottery operators and retail distributors.

Abstract: A versatile and highly reliable lottery communications system employs point-of-sale terminals that can be adapted to a plurality of network technologies and service providers. The point-of-sale terminals are provided with at least two network-agnostic connecting devices to enable fast configuration regardless of the intended deployment environment. The point-of-sale terminals can be adapted to connect with multiple wireless networks at the same time, multiple wireline networks at the same time, and/or at least one wireless network and at least one wireline network at the same time, with failover and fallback programming to ensure maximum uptime for lottery operators and retail distributors.

Abstract: The invention is a method of survey wherein the preferred embodiment is by electronic computer systems, allowing the respondents to respond to surveys of prohibited stock, funds, outside employment, spouse's employment, honoraria, outside agreements, arrangements, gifts, travel, and reimbursement. Before the invention, respondents had to manually fill out disclosure forms by hand. If they made errors, a reviewer had to read over every filled out disclosure form, then send it back to employee and have them correct it. The respondent would have to fill the form out all over again and send it in again. The amount of hours of wasted time to do this is over thousands of hours.