Abstract: The application describes a gaming system including a gaming machine comprising a player registration module for receiving a registration request from a plurality of players, a wagering module to receive a wager from each of the plurality of players, a gaming module to randomly or pseudo randomly to select at least one of the players as a winner, and a display generating module for generating a display to be displayed to each of the players, the display including a spinning wheel with a number of slots, and a memory for storing player identifications, wagered amounts and selected winning player(s). In some examples, each slot on the spinning wheel includes a player identification, and the display generating module generates a display in which the spinning wheel spins and a first selection token moves into a slot displaying the player identification of the selected winning player(s).

Abstract: A method and system for providing real-time financial goal monitoring and analysis whereby a given user defines budgetary and/or financial goals for one or more financial categories for a given period of time. A merchant/category database is created that associates one or more merchants with potential financial categories and when the given user accesses a given user interface of a website associated with a given merchant, Uniform Resource Locator (URL) data for the website being accessed is obtained and used to identify the given merchant associated with the given website.

Abstract: A method and system for displaying to a user the effect of a hypothetical purchase on the user's budgetary goals whereby a given product and/or service being considered for purchase and/or the cost of the given product and/or service being considered is identified and a product/service category database is searched to find a financial category associated with the given product and/or service.

Abstract: A method for managing excess inventory includes receiving a physical shipment of goods and submitting a description and expiration date of each inventory item in the physical shipment of goods to an inventory management application. The inventory management application tracks number of units of each inventory item at the merchant. The method further includes, at a predefined timeframe prior to the expiration date, receiving a notification when a forecast of the number of unit of an inventory item remaining in the inventory at the expiration date is greater than a pre-defined threshold, selecting a buyer network of a plurality of buyer networks for selling the inventory item to generate a selected buyer network, and selling the inventory item via the selected buyer network.

Abstract: A device for screening vehicle windows has drive, a carrier turnable by the drive about a turning axis, and a plurality of elongated screening elements which are turnable by the carrier between a closed position in which all the elongated screening elements are coextensive with one another and an open position in which the elongated screening elements are displaced relative one another to form a fan-like screen, the carrier having at least one pin which is spaced from the turning axis, the elongated screening elements having at least one substantially arcuate slot formed around the turning axis so that the pin can extend through all the slots of the elongated screening elements, the slots of the elongated screening elements having different arcuate length so that in the open position the screening elements are located at different angles from the closed position.

Abstract: A device for screening a vehicle window, has a plurally of strip-shaped elongated elements together forming a screening element and having two opposite ends, the strip-shaped elements being connected with one another in a region of one of their ends and pivotal relative to one another from an inoperative position in which the opposite ends are located near one another and the strip-shaped elements are coextensive to one another and extend substantially horizontally, and an operative position in which the opposite ends of the strip-shaped elements are spaced from one another circumferentially the screening element forms a segment arranged to be located near a vehicle window so as to screen the latter, and an electric motor for moving the strip-shaped elements between the inoperative and the operative positions.