Abstract: Automatic transaction processing failover and reconciliation in a cloud-based environment includes monitoring the processing of transaction messages to identify exception events and determining whether to initiate a failover switch based upon the identified exception events. When a failover switch is initiated, the system identifies a target cloud-based system instance for the failover switch, changes a state of the affected cloud-based system instance to prevent the affected instance from receiving transaction messages, changes a state of the target instance to receive transaction messages intended for the affected instance, and performs a replication check between databases. The system reconciles transaction messages stored in the database of the cloud-based system instance to identify anomalies.

Abstract: A memory compaction process utilizes unused or reserved memory locations in an intermediate memory block to temporarily store data that has been read and/or corrected from a source memory block. As data may be read from the source memory block in different reading cycles, this process repeats until all of the data of the source memory block is ready to be written to a destination memory block. During a last or final reading cycle or phase, any data remaining in the source memory block is read from the source memory block and transferred to a destination memory block, along with the data that is stored in the reserved memory locations of the intermediate memory block.

Abstract: A four-port RF hybrid coupler includes a substrate having first and second primary traces and first and second coupled traces on a first surface thereof. The first coupled trace has: (i) a first end configured to provide a first degree of RF coupling to a first end of the first primary trace when the RF hybrid coupler is active, and (ii) a second end configured to provide a third degree of RF coupling to a second end of the second primary trace when the RF hybrid coupler is active. The second coupled trace has: (i) a first end configured to provide a fourth degree of RF coupling to the first end of the second primary trace when the RF hybrid coupler is active, and (ii) a second end configured to provide a second degree of RF coupling to the second end of the first primary trace when the RF hybrid coupler is active. First and second energy cancellation circuits are also provided.

Abstract: A gaming system comprises a plurality of gaming machines configured to conduct one or more games and a management computing device communicatively coupled to the gaming machines. The management computing device receives indication of a gaming session initiating at a first gaming machine of the gaming machines, identifies one or more gaming machines associated with the first gaming machine from the gaming machines, transmits a disable command to the one or more associated gaming machines that prevents the one or more gaming machines from initiating gaming sessions, and in response to determining that the gaming session at the first gaming machine has concluded, transmits an enable command to the one or more associated gaming machines that enables the one or more gaming machines to initiate gaming sessions.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a pileup file from a reference-based compression file. The method includes receiving a reference-based compression file comprising a plurality of pieces of read data that are compressed, partially decompressing the plurality of pieces of read data to acquire a differential string associated with the plurality of pieces of read data, and generating the pileup file by decoding the differential string based on a plurality of conversion rules.

Abstract: Provided are a method and apparatus for generating a pileup file from a reference-based compression file. The method includes receiving a reference-based compression file comprising a plurality of pieces of read data that are compressed, partially decompressing the plurality of pieces of read data to acquire a differential string associated with the plurality of pieces of read data, and generating the pileup file by decoding the differential string based on a plurality of conversion rules.