Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: Disclosed are systems and methods for session management. The disclosed system allows for seamless merging and splitting of network sessions in a multiplayer network gaming environment. Seamless session management allows dynamic movement of players in a virtual world during gameplay without unnecessary loading and/or stalling. As the players in the virtual world move around, the management of active game sessions can be improved to effect a more realistic perceived population.

Abstract: A series type hybrid electric vehicle that controls an internal combustion engine, generator, and electric motor for reducing the load applied to the internal combustion engine when the internal combustion engine is restarted, lowers the thermal stresses to the internal combustion engine when the engine is turned off and is able to remove excess fuel when turning off the internal combustion engine.

Abstract: A membrane keyboard blockout apparatus for a keyboard having an array of a plurality of flexible key members in respective ones of a plurality of apertures arranged in a grid forming the keyboard includes a cover plate dimensioned to span a flexible key member and to provide a tight fit within an aperture defining a key member. The cover plate has a thickness providing a substantially inflexible configuration in response to normal operator manipulation and a plurality of corner support pedestals contacting respective corners of the flexible key member when the cover plate is inserted in a key member aperture. Thus, the pedestals provide a support between the cover plate and the flexible key member at the edges of the key member to preclude, in combination with the inflexible structural characteristic of the cover, an actuation of the flexible key member under the cover.

Abstract: A cold junction compensation apparatus utilizes a block of thermally conductive material, such as copper, having a mounting flange extending radially outwardly which is attached to a terminal strip by a machine screw to maintain the screw temperature substantially at the temperature of the block of thermally conductive material. The temperature of the block is sensed by means of a temperature sensor inserted into a hole extending through the block. The sensor is supported on a printed circuit board and is inserted through the hole in the block during assembly of an apparatus using the cold junction temperature compensation. The block is covered by an exterior insulating sleeve to prevent electrical shorts and rapid temperature changes in the block.

Abstract: A rotary valve has a valve body with a pair of fluid ports providing fluid exits on a face of the valve body. The fluid ports are connected to corresponding fluid channels in the valve body extending between the fluid ports and fluid inlet connections to the valve body. A fluid control plate is positioned in contact with the face of the valve body and extends across the fluid ports. The control plate has a fluid channel therein which is dimensioned to extend between the fluid ports in one position of the valve plate. The valve plate is axially mounted on an output shaft of a drive motor which is connected to the valve plate by a coupling shaft. The face of the valve body and the contacting face of the valve plates are ground precisely flat and after hard anodizing are coated with a low friction coating such as molydisulphide. The motor is arranged to urge the valve plate parallel to and against the face of the valve body by the weight of the motor and the connecting elements between the motor and the valve.