Abstract: A system may include multiple EGMs arranged in banks, a wide area ball call server, a bonus mode server, a communications network, and a gaming network. The bonus mode server receives a communication from an EGM at a first bank of EGMs indicating that the EGM has entered a bonus mode according to a ball drop. The bonus mode is open to receiving additional players. The bonus mode server may also generate a control signal for another EGM to present an indication to other potential players that the shared bonus mode on the first EGM is open to receiving additional players for a limited amount of time. The bonus mode server provides the generated control signal to other EGM, determines that the other EGM has received a buy-in from a player, and incorporates the other EGM into the shared bonus mode. Various other computer-readable media and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A game system and method for allowing a player to view a complete list of all upcoming outcomes of a game in the order to be awarded, before spending consideration to play the game. A database associated with a game machine, wherein the database includes an outcome table stored thereon that has a finite predefined list of each and every game outcome for each game play of the one or more games playable on the game machine; the game outcome is the full game outcome, and the outcome table lists each and each and every outcome for all upcoming game plays of the game and in the order to be awarded by the game machine each and every outcome for all upcoming game plays of the game and in the order to be awarded by the game machine.

Abstract: A system may include multiple EGMs, a secure communications network, and a controller that receives a communication from one EGM indicating that the EGM has entered a shared bonus mode that is open to receiving other players to enhance a payout amount. The controller also presents an indication that the shared bonus mode is open to receiving additional players for a limited amount of time. The controller then transmits the generated control signal from the controller to the other EGM, so that it indicates to other players that the shared bonus mode is currently available. The controller further determines that the second EGM has received a buy-in from a player before the limited amount of time has expired and incorporates the other EGM into the shared bonus mode, so that players at both EGMs are eligible to win the payout amount. Various other computer-readable media and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A system may include multiple electronic gaming machines (EGMs), a secure communications network, an interactive display device, and a controller that is configured to: receive a communication from an EGM indicating its current game state, determine that the current game state indicates that the EGM has entered a shared bonus mode that is open to receiving further players to increase a payout amount of a prize offered in the shared bonus mode, generate a control signal for the interactive display device indicating that specific data are to be presented on the interactive display device to notify other potential players that the shared bonus mode on the EGM is open to receiving additional players, and provide the generated control signal to the interactive display device, so that the at least one interactive display device presents the data according to the control signal. Various other computer-readable media and methods are also disclosed.

Abstract: A stabilizer pad or crane mat comprising lifting components configured to cooperate with, guide into position, and securely hold a strap or rod used to lift or hoist the pad, and stacking components configured to cooperate with, guide into position, and securely hold an accompanying stabilizer pad when stacked together.

Abstract: The invention relates to creating unique identifiers for indexing, sorting, and searching on multiple-part alpha numeric information. The information can be in a database, spreadsheet, or printed on materials that need to be manually placed in order.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a computer-implemented method to generate a process mining repository for analyzing process data, wherein the process data is a multidimensional large-scale dataset which is extracted from at least one external computer system and transformed into a number of data models. The process mining repository represents a process workspace, in which the user may conduct process mining on a valid data model, i.e., explore process data, for instance, using a dynamic question and answer framework.

Abstract: Systems, apparatuses and methods may provide for technology that allocates a portion of operational power in a source device to an external sink device in response to a connection of the external sink device to the source device, detects a low power state with respect to the external sink device, and decreases the portion of operational power allocated to the external sink device in response to the low power state.

Abstract: A game system and method for allowing a player to view a complete list of all upcoming outcomes of a game in the order to be awarded, before spending consideration to play the game.

Abstract: In the present application, a system and method for storing and retrieving time-series data in a time-series database are disclosed. A data stream collected at a periodic collection time interval is stored. The stored data stream is indexed in an index, including by storing in the index a representative index entry corresponding to a plurality of data elements of the stored data stream collected during a period of time longer than the periodic collection time interval of the data stream.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for automatic magnetic separation of magnetized targets in a biological sample are herein disclosed, where they comprise a magnetic field shield/barrier controllably operable to control the magnetic field in terms of reaching and attracting the magnetized targets within the biological sample.

Abstract: Systems, devices and methods for automatic magnetic separation of magnetized targets in a biological sample are herein disclosed, where they comprise a magnetic field shield/barrier controllably operable to control the magnetic field in terms of reaching and attracting the magnetized targets within the biological sample.

Abstract: A method of matching features in first and second images captured from respective camera viewpoints related by an epipolar geometry. The coordinate system of the second image is transformed so as to map an epipolar line in the second image corresponding to a first feature in the first image, to be parallel to one of the coordinate axes of the coordinate system. The epipolar line defines a geometrically-constrained region in the second image in the transformed coordinate system corresponding to the first feature in the first image; measures of similarity between the first feature in the first image and features in the second image are determined; and a best match feature is identified from the measures of similarity between the first feature in the first image and the respective features in the second image.

Abstract: In the present application, a system and method for storing and retrieving time-series data in a time-series database are disclosed. A data stream collected at a periodic collection time interval is stored. The stored data stream is indexed in an index, including by storing in the index a representative index entry corresponding to a plurality of data elements of the stored data stream collected during a period of time longer than the periodic collection time interval of the data stream.

Abstract: A method of feature matching in images captured from camera viewpoints uses the epipolar geometry of the viewpoints to define a geometrically-constrained region in a second image corresponding to a first feature in a first image; comparing the local descriptor of the first feature with local descriptors of features in the second image to determine respective measures of similarity; identifying, from the features located in the geometrically-constrained region, (i) a geometric best match and (ii) a geometric next-best match to the first feature; identifying a global best match to the first feature; performing a first comparison of the measures of similarity for the geometric best match and the global best match; performing a second comparison of the measures of similarity for the geometric best match and the geometric next-best match; and, if thresholds are met, selecting the geometric best match feature in the second image.

Abstract: A disc brake assembly that includes first and second brake pads for contacting a rotor, a brake carrier for receiving at least the first brake pad, a brake caliper arranged to slide with respect to the brake carrier, and an actuating arrangement. The actuating arrangement is configured to selectively move the brake caliper and is electrically operated.

Abstract: The invention relates to creating unique identifiers for indexing, sorting, and searching on multiple-part alpha numeric information. The information can be in a database, spreadsheet, or printed on materials that need to be manually placed in order.

Abstract: An internal combustion rotary engine comprising a housing, at least one sun wheel centered about the central axis and positioned within one of at least one cylindrical compartment of the housing, and including a sun wheel circumference and at least one semicylindrical receptable defined along the sun wheel circumference, at least one lobe extending from an inner cylindrical surface of the compartment, and at least one planet wheel received in the at least one semicylindrical receptable of the sun wheel. The at least one planet wheel may be configured to engage the inner cylindrical surface of the cylindrical compartment and include at least one indentation configured to be received by the at least one lobe when the at least one planet wheel rotates along the inner cylindrical surface. Air intake and compression as well as combustion and exhaust may be performed within the same or different compartments of the at least one cylindrical compartment.

Abstract: A method for storing and retrieving time-series data in a time-series database is disclosed. A digest associated with a document is obtained. The document is indexed in a search index including a plurality of index entries, wherein the plurality of index entries includes a first index entry having a key based on the digest and a value associated with a storage location of the document, and wherein each of the plurality of index entries has a common fixed key size and a common fixed value size. A search query is received. Whether any entry in the search index matches the search query is determined, including by searching at least a portion of the plurality of index entries of the search index addressable using an offset based on the common fixed key size and the common fixed value size.

Abstract: In the present application, a system and method for storing and retrieving time-series data in a time-series database are disclosed. A data stream collected at a periodic collection time interval is stored. The stored data stream is indexed in an index, including by storing in the index a representative index entry corresponding to a plurality of data elements of the stored data stream collected during a period of time longer than the periodic collection time interval of the data stream.