Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: An automated system uses a decisioning system to schedule service attendants to service events at patron locations. The decisioning system schedules the events for servicing using various factors to establish the priority of different events. Service attendants are paged by the system to inform them of a service to be provided.

Abstract: A casino management system and method generates bet guarantee coupons for individual patrons of a casino as a function on actual gaming losses during a selected time interval of gaming during the course of an entire trip to a casino spanning any number of days. The patron's individual gaming at various gaming machines is tracked as individual patron ratings, or periods of play, identifying the patron's wins, losses, and the casino's theoretical win. Patron ratings for each day of a trip are accumulated for each patron to form daily rating summaries. When a trip ends, trip rating summaries for the patron's wins, losses, and the casino's theoretical win are determined from the daily rating summaries. The various summaries are used to calculate a bet guarantee amount as the greater of the patron's actual losses during a specified time interval of play, a percentage of the patron's total trip loss, a percentage of the casino's theoretical win for the entire trip, or a fixed dollar amount.

Abstract: The invention is directed to a process for the preparation of concentrated solutions of fluorinated surfactants of the formula ##STR1## wherein R.sub.f is a perfluoroalkyl or perfluoroalkoxy-perfluoroalkyl group, R.sup.1 is a branched or straight chain alkylene, alkylenethioalkylene, alkyleneoxy-alkylene or alkyleneiminoalkylene group, X is oxygen or an amino group, Q is an organic group containing at least one amino group and y is zero or 1, said process comprising (a) reacting an aqueous solution of an amine with an anhydride previously dissolved in an anhydrous water miscible organic solvent, dissolved in an anhydrous water miscible organic solvent, and (b) reacting the intermediate obtained from the first reaction with an R.sub.f -thiol in the presence of a non-reactive water miscible thiol solvent.

Abstract: A seismic exploration system employs a seismic energy source, a plurality of seismic energy detectors, and a seismic recording system. The recording system employs amplifiers, a multiplexer, and an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog seismic reflection signals resulting from repetitive firings of the seismic energy source to a serial output of multiplexed digital samples. Each digital sample is applied to a shift register and shifted along the shift register a number of positions equal to the digital number that represents the amount of the amplification applied to the seismic reflection signal by an amplifier in the recording system. Each digital sample is then strobed out of the shift register to a utilization device and represents the amplitude of that portion of the seismic reflection signal represented by the digital sample and as originally received by the recording system from the seismic energy detectors.

Abstract: A seismic exploration system employs a seismic energy source, a plurality of seismic energy detectors, and a seismic recording system. The recording system employs amplifiers, a multiplexer, and an analog-to-digital converter for converting analog seismic reflection signals resulting from repetitive firings of the seismic energy source to a serial output of multiplexed digital samples. These digital samples are sequentially strobed into selected storage locations in core memory, such storage locations being selected such that the multiplexed samples are reoriented serially by channel in successive ones of the storage locations. The digital samples are next sequentially strobed out of core memory by such successive storage locations to produce prior to each firing of the seismic source a serial-by-trace record of the detected seismic reflection signals resulting from the previous firing of the seismic source.