Patents Issued in July 4, 2017
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Patent number: 9697664Abstract: Electronic locking devices, systems, and methods may employ an accelerometer to detect an acceleration associated with displacement of a portion of an electronic locking device, for example, displacement of a housing that includes a display of the electronic locking device. Responsive to such an acceleration being detected, a message is transmitted to a device remote from the locking device. The message may include a photograph and or audio signal. Concurrently with the transmission of the message, a greeting may be played and/or displayed.Type: GrantFiled: June 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: DIGILOCK ASIA LIMITEDInventors: Gabriel Bestard Ribas, Steven Thomas Bakondi, Lloyd Seliber
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Patent number: 9697665Abstract: A coin dispensing device includes a plurality of coin tubes storing coins, a coin withdrawing and discharging part, a change part which locates a change lever at a dispensing preventing position, in which the coin withdrawing and discharging part is prevented from discharging coins, by energizing a change lever solenoid and locates the change lever at a dispensing allowing position, in which the coin withdrawing and discharging part is allowed to discharge the coins, by a biasing force of a return spring when the energizing of the change lever solenoid is stopped, and a keeping means which keeps a state of the change lever. The coin withdrawing and discharging part withdraws and discharges the coins when the keeping means keeps the state of the change lever and the energizing of the change lever solenoid is stopped.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NIPPON CONLUX CO., LTD.Inventors: Takahiro Hayashi, Masashi Kondo
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Patent number: 9697666Abstract: A method and system for auditing money items within a secure housing, the money items being collected from a multi-denomination money item storage unit and validated while being transported by a conveyor that deposits them back into the multi-denomination storage unit after they have been identified. The same process is done with the money items present in the at least one hopper.Type: GrantFiled: May 15, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Crane Payment Solutions LimitedInventors: Robert James Blythin, Andrew Barson, Wesley Perry
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Patent number: 9697667Abstract: A method and apparatus is provided for verifying the validity of ID cards. A card reading device reads an ID card and transmits a request to a database server. A database is queried and a reply is sent back to the card reading device indicating whether the ID is valid. If desired, the reply can include additional information, such as a description of the ID holder. The ID verification system can be used to help verify whether an ID belongs to the ID holder. The system can also log and timestamp events for future access.Type: GrantFiled: January 25, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Intellicheck Mobilisa, Inc.Inventor: Joseph J. Cipriano
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Patent number: 9697668Abstract: An automatically configurable smart card comprises—a generic data structure provided for containing smart card specific data, and—a smart card operating system being adapted to automatically detect the generic data structure and to migrate the generic data structure.Type: GrantFiled: February 14, 2007Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NXP B.V.Inventors: Christoph Tapler, Ernst Haselsteiner
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Patent number: 9697669Abstract: A removable, adjustable product magazine for use in an article dispensing system includes a central support member including a back wall connected to a base, first and second sidewalls, and a follower. The central support and the sidewalls cooperatively define a product compartment having a front opening. The sidewalls include fastener slots for connecting the follower to one of the sidewalls. Advancement of the follower adjusts the depth of the compartment. Each of the sidewalls has front, rear, and bottom flanges for retaining products within the magazine, connecting the sidewalls to the back wall and base. The base and backwall have fastener slots for adjustable connection of the sidewalls, thereby enabling adjustment of the width of the compartment. The sidewall front flanges terminate above the base to provide a product exit port. The back wall includes an ejector port for providing access to an ejector cylinder to expel product units.Type: GrantFiled: October 25, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Tension International, Inc.Inventor: Robert Terzini
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Patent number: 9697670Abstract: Provided is a prepayment-type watt-hour meter including: a code recognition that recognizes a code image in which information on prepayment of a charge-based amount of electric power that is to be consumed by a load is stored as coded, and that recognizes the information on the prepayment that is stored in the code image; and a control unit that measures an amount of electric power consumption by the load, and that calculates the electric bill for the measured amount of electric power, based on the information on the prepayment that is recognized by the code recognition unit.Type: GrantFiled: April 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: LSIS CO., LTD.Inventor: Gwon Hwan Hong
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Patent number: 9697671Abstract: Each player who is participating in the video poker tournament plays a designated group of video poker hands. The designated group of video poker hands comprises preselected starting hands so that each tournament participant plays the same starting hands. After the group of video poker hands has been completed, the player with the highest score or highest amount of accrued credits is awarded a prize. Besides awarding a prize to the player with the highest score, other lesser prizes could be awarded to other players who have high scores. Prizes could also be awarded to players who achieve a final score of at least a certain level.Type: GrantFiled: September 29, 2008Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: Ernest W Moody
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Patent number: 9697672Abstract: According to one aspect of the invention, a gaming system and method for providing passive participation in at least one wagering game are disclosed. Funds are received to obtain a period of eligibility for an award associated with the wagering game. An entertainment layer having a plurality of features is conducted in response to receiving the wager. A separate gaming layer includes the wagering game. A gaming machine having a display and a player input device is in communication with the entertainment layer and the gaming layer. At least one feature of the entertainment layer is conducted during the period of eligibility. The entertainment layer is operable in response to at least one input from the player input device. Information regarding the wagering game is presented on the gaming machine.Type: GrantFiled: July 19, 2007Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Alfred Thomas, Mark B. Gagner
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Patent number: 9697673Abstract: A method, system and computer program product for managing interruption and reconnection of a game session in a computer based gaming system having a computerized gaming machine devised for executing a game and being communicatively connected to a remote data storage, wherein: the execution of a game comprises at least one instance of determining a set of associated game session data; an identity code is reserved for identification of each execution instance of a game; each determined set of associated game session data is associated with said identity code and stored in the remote data storage; and if an interruption occurs in the execution of a game, then the identity code for the current game execution instance is associated with a status indicator indicating that said game execution has been interrupted.Type: GrantFiled: July 2, 2009Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventors: Henrik Kniberg, Ulf Abrink, Jens Nilsson, Peter Vincent, Thomas Rizos, Hakan Andersson
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Patent number: 9697674Abstract: Players may compete in a tournament that involves multiple different games.Type: GrantFiled: August 29, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventor: Matthew Morrissette
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Patent number: 9697675Abstract: A gaming machine has a touch screen interface, a memory to store predetermined rules, and a processor. The processor may display, on the touch screen interface, a virtual environment, a first virtual object and a second virtual object. The first virtual object and second virtual object may behave according to the predetermined rules within the virtual environment. The processor may also detect, via the touch screen interface, a series of player's touch inputs on the second virtual object to update a property of the second virtual object. The processor may then determine an interaction between the first virtual object and the second virtual object having the updated property, and based on the interaction, the processor may update the first virtual object and/or second virtual object within the virtual environment.Type: GrantFiled: April 3, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Atlas Gaming Technologies Pty Ltd.Inventor: Zenja Solaja
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Patent number: 9697676Abstract: Disclosed is a method of displaying augmented reality gaming information associated with a player card using mobile device in an augmented reality gaming system. In one embodiment, the method includes: enabling a user to view a live image of a player card through a display of a mobile device; acquiring player identification information from the player card; sending the player identification information via a network to a server; retrieving player specific information from the server using the mobile device; and displaying the player specific information in conjunction with the player card when viewing the player card through the display of the mobile device using augmented reality.Type: GrantFiled: August 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Murugeshun Arun Arumugam, Martin S. Lyons, Bryan M. Kelly, John Sommer
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Patent number: 9697677Abstract: Embodiments of the present invention are directed to gaming devices that provide audio-visual animated characters in response to game play. The character has a personality that may be encouraging, taunting or another quality. A plurality of expressions of the personality is presented, between one extreme and another, dependant upon the history of game outcomes.Type: GrantFiled: August 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Patent Investment & Licensing CompanyInventor: John F. Acres
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Patent number: 9697678Abstract: Provided is a gaming machine that is able to offer a variety of gaming patterns with avoidance of monotony during a free game that is a game played in a bonus game. A gaming machine, when a free game trigger is established, performs a control of shifting a game from a base game to a free game. In the free game, symbols are displayed in rotation and stopped in a symbol display region 4 in accordance with a result of a symbol lottery. In the display of the symbols in rotation, the symbols are scrolled in a direction reverse to a rotation direction employed in the base game.Type: GrantFiled: December 12, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignees: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATION, ARUZE GAMING AMERICA, INC.Inventors: Takehisa Itagaki, Yoichi Kato
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Patent number: 9697679Abstract: A gaming machine having a liftable monitor is provided, wherein the cabinet has a receiving space defined therein, and the cabinet is formed with at least one opening communicating with the receiving space; a display unit is mounted to the cabinet by a pivoting device for closing the opening. Each rotary shaft of the pivoting device respectively and pivotally connects to an interior of the cabinet and the display unit, and at least one supporting arm pivotally connects between the cabinet and the display unit, such that the display unit is movable supported and secured by the rotary shafts and the supporting arm to allow the display unit to be lifted and rotated relative to the cabinet for opening/closing the opening.Type: GrantFiled: December 11, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Entropy Precision System Inc.Inventors: Shih-An Ho, Yun-Kun Chen, Wei-Chu Chen, Cheng-Chi Yu
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Patent number: 9697680Abstract: Data can be received and can include a request to initiate a cooperative digital skills-based gaming competition and an identification of one or more additional players to invite to join a cooperative team. Data including an invitation to become members of the cooperative team can be transmitted using a transactional server and to clients associated with the additional players. An amount of funds for one or more of the members of the cooperative team to contribute to form a wager for the cooperative team can be determined. Data comprising a confirmation to initiate, which, when received by the game server, causes initiation of the cooperative digital skills-based gaming competition for the members of the cooperative team can be transmitted using the transactional server and to a game server. A prize can be caused to be distributed based on the outcome. Related apparatus, systems, techniques, and articles are also described.Type: GrantFiled: August 25, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Skillz Inc.Inventors: Andrew Paradise, Dennis Zografos
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Patent number: 9697681Abstract: A gaming system has a central authority connected to a plurality of gaming machines. Player activity is tracked at the gaming machines during regular gaming sessions and during virtual gaming sessions. Such data is transmitted to the central authority for providing player points in a player account file of a central database. Regular gaming sessions occur between player card insertion and player card removal. Virtual gaming sessions may occur prior to player card insertion as well as after player card insertion. For example, a coin-in event prior to player card insertion will establish a virtual session, and credits remaining on the credit meter at a card-out event will establish a virtual gaming session.Type: GrantFiled: June 28, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Keith Donald Kammler, J. Christopher McNamee, Alan Gael Sheldon, Robert L. O'Donnell
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Patent number: 9697682Abstract: A system for interactive gaming among a plurality of players includes a host computer system and a plurality of player terminals communicably coupled to the host computer system or gaming platform via a network. The plurality of player terminals may be located at a plurality of licensed gaming locations. The plurality of player terminals may be configured to engage the plurality of players in a common interactive game operated by the host computer system. The plurality of player terminals can include means for dispensing player winnings from the player terminal.Type: GrantFiled: February 17, 2017Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: AG 18, LLCInventors: Brian Frenkel, Jordan Simons
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Patent number: 9697683Abstract: Disclosed is a method and system for preventing replay attacks for mobile promotions associated with gaming devices. Upon the occurrence of a promotion winning event such as a designated outcome of a game played on the gaming device the user, via a software application accessible to their mobile device, forwards images of the event to a server over a network. The server determines entitlement to the promotion and analyzes data associated with the images and mobile device location and time to confirm that the event is new promotion winning event. Upon such confirmation an entitlement to the promotion is awarded to the user. The foregoing prevents unscrupulous users from logging multiple claims for the same promotion winning event.Type: GrantFiled: May 26, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Bally Gaming, Inc.Inventors: Martin S. Lyons, Bryan M. Kelly, John Sommer
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Patent number: 9697684Abstract: A method of gaming comprising: receiving an input indicative that a player accepts deferred payment in respect of at least one award awardable during play of a game; conducting the play to determine whether the at least one award is made; and providing an entitlement to the player to enable the player to obtain the award after a deferment period when the award is made to the player.Type: GrantFiled: March 14, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Paul Francis Jason Bramble
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Patent number: 9697685Abstract: The mobile device-enabled portable reward dispensing machine is a portable reward or gift-dispensing machine (i.e., hardware) controlled by two smart phone or tablet apps/software. The integrated system is designed to reward the players of a game with gifts awarded to that specific player as a result of their game play. A dispenser is loaded with reward gifts that are capable or being dispensed through a vending or exit port under control of the two apps. The dispenser includes a microcontroller unit integrated into the dispenser and two sensors. A first of the two sensors ensures the presence of gifts within the dispensing unit available for use, while the second sensor ensures that no reward gifts are stuck on the exit door or chute. The dispenser is Wi-Fi- or Bluetooth enabled, with direct connection to the two phone apps. The two apps work independently to assist in proper reward gift dispensing.Type: GrantFiled: September 7, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: Ahmad A. Al-Saleh
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Patent number: 9697686Abstract: Disclosed is a computer-implemented method for displaying the total count and value of casino chips stored by a casino dealer during dealing. The method comprises receiving transmissions representative of the reception of casino chips within a groove of a dealer tray, keeping count of the number of chips within the groove at any given time by keeping count of the number of transmissions received, aggregating the values of the individual chips within the groove at any given time and displaying the count and the aggregated value of the chips on a display panel located on the dealer tray.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: Nader Tafty
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Patent number: 9697687Abstract: A gaming system includes: a reader configured to read chip identification information which identifies a chip used in a casino; a writer configured to write validity information, betting information, and information about whether the chip is received from a cashier or from a dealer into chip information based on the chip identification information; and a determination unit configured to determine the validity, the betting state, and the source based on the chip information, wherein the writer is configured to update the validity information from invalid to valid when the chip is handed from the cashier or the dealer to a player and vice versa, to update the betting information as being betted when the chip is placed on a betting area and vice versa.Type: GrantFiled: August 18, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: UNIVERSAL ENTERTAINMENT CORPORATIONInventors: Toshimi Koyama, Jun Fujimoto, Nobuyuki Nonaka
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Patent number: 9697688Abstract: A method of processing a jackpot win in a gaming network comprising: providing a jackpot server: receiving jackpot claim data at the jackpot server; locking a jackpot record corresponding to the jackpot claim data; aggregating any outstanding jackpot contributions for the jackpot record from contributing parts of the gaming network to form a prize; and communicating prize data corresponding to the prize to a network destination identified by the jackpot claim data.Type: GrantFiled: April 24, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventors: Ulf Abrink, Sven Hakan Andersson
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Patent number: 9697689Abstract: There is disclosed a gaming machine having a plurality of jackpot prizes associated with it, a player's eligibility to win one of the plurality of jackpot prizes being dependent upon an amount wagered. In a one aspect there is provided a gaming machine having a game control means arranged to play a game, a bet selecting arrangement for selecting one of a number of predetermined amounts to wager on the outcome of the game, each of said predetermined amounts to wager having at least one dedicated jackpot prize associated with it, a first display means configured to display the outcome of said game, wherein in the event that a predetermined winning event occurs said game includes the award of at least one dedicated jackpot prize associated with a respective selected predetermined amount wagered on the game.Type: GrantFiled: October 28, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventors: Chi We Chim, William George Cormack
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Patent number: 9697690Abstract: There is described a gaming system including an award controller for allocating an award at a plurality of gaming machines. The award controller is arranged to allocate, in response to a win at a first gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines, an award to a player of at least one further gaming machine of the plurality of gaming machines based on a location of the at least one further gaming machine.Type: GrantFiled: August 16, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Aristocrat Technologies Australia Pty LimitedInventor: Thomas Samuel Barbalet
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Patent number: 9697691Abstract: A game play on an electronically based system utilizes symbol collection outcomes along paylines to determine winning events in a virtual game. Even when the symbols used in the virtual game comprise or consist of playing cards displaying conventional ranks, suits and symbols, winning outcomes are determined only by accumulation of sets of symbols, without regard to linear order (straights and straight flushes) and random symbols within a suit (flushes). Accumulated symbols in an at least five symbols display game event as pairs, trips (three-of-a-kind), two pairs, full houses (three of one symbol plus two of a different symbol), four-of-a-kind and five-of-a-kind are determined to be winning events, while a flush, straight and even straight flushes may be or are required to be ignored. Optional and even preferred additional events are used in a draw poker variant (with playing card symbols or non-playing card symbols are used in an accumulated symbol gaming event).Type: GrantFiled: September 18, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventors: Ray Smith, Amanda Tears Smith
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Patent number: 9697692Abstract: A gaming system includes a bonus server and an initial gaming machine having a processor. The bonus server is configured to transmit an initial token including a first parameter relating to the gaming system. The processor of the initial gaming machine is configured to receive the initial token. The processor is further configured to translate a plurality of parameters relating to the gaming system to a plurality of translated values. The plurality of parameters includes the first parameter. The processor is further configured to sum the plurality of translated values to an accumulated value. The processor is configured to receive a random number and determine a bonus game outcome based on a comparison of the random number and the accumulated value. The processor is further configured to transmit a quantity of scatter tokens to the bonus server, where the quantity is determined based on a value of the random number.Type: GrantFiled: March 10, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: ARISTOCRAT TECHNOLOGIES AUSTRALIA PTY LIMITEDInventor: Gary Frerking
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Patent number: 9697693Abstract: A gaming device that does not employ pay lines is provided, and has a playfield that is subdivided into a plurality of groups. The configuration of the groups could be done manually by the player, or at random, and changes for each game. At least one key group is used to define key symbols that must be repeated at other groups for a winning combination of symbols to occur.Type: GrantFiled: July 18, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: Nabil N Ghaly
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Patent number: 9697694Abstract: A gaming machine for providing a slot game to a player is described herein. The gaming machine includes a display device and a controller for displaying a game to a player. The controller is configured to randomly determine an outcome of the game and display the outcome on the display device, determine a first award as a function of the outcome, and determine a second award as a function of the first award. The first award includes a first number of free games and a first award multiplier. The second award includes a second number of free games and a second award multiplier. The controller allows the player to select one of the first award and the second award and responsively provides the selected one of the first award and the second award to the player.Type: GrantFiled: April 6, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: KONAMI GAMING, INC.Inventor: Majgan Beria
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Patent number: 9697695Abstract: A wagering system and method may include a processor that filters bet types available for placement of a bet by a user according to user-input betting criteria, and that presents the filtered bet types that satisfy the criteria in a user interface via which the user may place a bet of one of the presented bet types. The user may input particular criteria to customize the available results of the bet filter as desired. The system may output an identification of a surest bet. The system may provide a slider control for input of a desired payout amount or odds, or range thereof, as criteria according to which the system filters bet types.Type: GrantFiled: June 15, 2011Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Longitude LLCInventor: Scott Shechtman
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Patent number: 9697696Abstract: A group of associated gaming devices each having a lottery drawer including a database having a plurality of entries each entry containing one or more winning numbers associated with a predetermined time interval, and a pseudo random number generator for generating pseudo random numbers from a seed supplied by the database, and a clock for extracting the winning number or numbers from an entry of the database for the time interval indicated by the clock, and a comparator for at least one receiving of the extracted winning number or numbers and at least one number generated by the pseudo random generator, wherein the comparator is adapted for generating a win signal when the extracted winning number and the generated pseudo random number match; and wherein all of the associated gaming devices include identical databases having the plurality of entries and pseudo random number generators whereby win signals are generated simultaneously.Type: GrantFiled: September 13, 2012Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: NOVOMATIC AGInventors: Ron Watts, Andy Dinning
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Patent number: 9697697Abstract: “n” cards of a first hand may be dealt. None to all of the n cards may be discarded. When card(s) are discarded, card(s) may be drawn to complete the first hand to have n cards to form a final first hand. The final first hand may be duplicated to a second hand of n cards, or card(s) may be selected from the final first hand to duplicate to a second hand and additional card(s) drawn to have n cards. None to all of the n cards of the second hand may be discarded. When card(s) are discarded, card(s) may be drawn to complete the second hand to have n cards to form a final second hand. A determination of whether the final first and second hands are winning hands may be made.Type: GrantFiled: March 31, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: CFPH, LLCInventors: Quinton Singleton, Joshua Hanson
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Patent number: 9697698Abstract: An automatic banking machine operates responsive to data read from data bearing records corresponding to authorized user or financial account data. The machine includes a card reader for reading data from user cards. The automated banking machine causes financial transfers related to financial accounts that correspond to data read from user cards. The automated banking machine also includes devices that control the supply of power to included devices to avoid exceeding power supply capacity.Type: GrantFiled: December 20, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems division of Diebold, IncorporatedInventor: Songtao Ma
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Patent number: 9697699Abstract: An automated banking machine that includes a check acceptor that is operative to receive checks from authorized machine users. The check acceptor is operable to continuously move a received check along its transport path while simultaneously rotationally orienting the check into alignment with the transport path. A check determined not to have at least one property of an acceptable check is returned to the machine user. Acceptable checks are processed and stored in the machine.Type: GrantFiled: January 19, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Diebold Self-Service Systems Division of Diebold, IncorporatedInventors: H. Thomas Graef, William Beskitt
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Patent number: 9697700Abstract: A monitoring system includes at least one detector having a housing that carries at least one ambient condition sensor. Control circuits carried by the housing are coupled to the at least one ambient condition sensor. A separate audio input transducer carried by the housing is coupled to the control circuits, wherein the control circuits include signal processing circuits coupled to the separate audio input transducer. The signal processing circuits cancel predetermined audio received from the separate audio input transducer and output a processed speech signal that is coupled to speech recognition circuitry. The speech recognition circuitry recognizes selected speech to implement predetermined functions.Type: GrantFiled: November 20, 2013Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventors: Mark H. Schmidt, Tony T. Li
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Patent number: 9697701Abstract: A foot actuated doorbell button assembly can comprise a housing that contains a button as well as a pedal that can be stepped on to actuate the button. The housing can be configured to mount to a wall or to the ground so that the pedal is positioned at or near the ground where it can be easily stepped on. The housing can contain wired or wireless circuitry to allow the doorbell button assembly to be used with virtually any of the existing doorbell assemblies currently available.Type: GrantFiled: September 30, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Inventor: Tony Gomez
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Patent number: 9697702Abstract: A display device is provided, which includes a display configured to display a user interface (UI) screen, a status display which includes a plurality of light emitting elements arranged on an outline region of the display, and a controller configured to control a light emitting status of the plurality of light emitting elements so as to provide a light interaction in which the plurality of light emitting elements operate in a preset display pattern based on an interaction occurring on the UI screen.Type: GrantFiled: September 5, 2014Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: SAMSUNG ELECTRONICS CO., LTD.Inventors: Woo-seok Hwang, Ji-eun Kim, Jang-won Seo
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Patent number: 9697703Abstract: A capsule is provided that aligns with at least one light source. The capsule includes a rim having its opaqueness interrupted to as to form at least four transparent portions. The capsule is capable of being oriented according to at least two positions: a first position in which two of the at least four portions, simultaneously let through light coming from the at least one light source; and a second position in which the rim blocks light coming from the at least one light source.Type: GrantFiled: September 17, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: INGENICO GROUPInventors: Alain Soubirane, Richard Allirot
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Patent number: 9697704Abstract: A searchable binder which is operationally compatible with a binder management system having a cabinet with shelves for removable storage of the binder. Each binder has a body with front and rear covers and a spine. Inside the body is a binder mechanism for removably retaining sheet media. Each binder has a binder contact mechanism mounted to the spine at the upper end, a binder lock mechanism mounted to the spine at the lower end, a binder identification circuit electrically coupled to the binder contact mechanism and the binder lock mechanism, and a visible indicator. The binder contact mechanism has a contact element extending outwardly of the upper end of the spine and engaged with one of several first conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet. The binder lock mechanism has a lock bolt extending outwardly of the lower end of the spine with an end portion engaged with one of several grooved second conductive shelf elements of the binder cabinet to normally lock the binder in the cabinet.Type: GrantFiled: June 1, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: MICRODATA CORPORATIONInventors: Shengbo Zhu, Su Shiong Huang
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Patent number: 9697705Abstract: A tactile sensation providing apparatus includes a touch sensor 11, a tactile sensation providing unit 13 configured to vibrate a touch face of the touch sensor 11, a tactile sensation provision control unit 14 configured to control drive of the tactile sensation providing unit 13, and a main control unit 17 configured to control an operation of the tactile sensation provision control unit 14 based on an output of the touch sensor 11. The main control unit 17 determines whether an object is touching a predetermined area of the touch face based on the output of the touch sensor 11, and starts the operation of the tactile sensation provision control unit 14 when determining that the object is touching the predetermined area, or stops the operation of the tactile sensation provision control unit 14 when determining that the object is not touching the predetermined area.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: KYOCERA CorporationInventors: Kenji Kono, Megumi Kuwabara, Jun Takeda, Takashi Miyake, Takayuki Shinozaki
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Patent number: 9697706Abstract: Disclosed examples include methods and circuits to drive a haptic actuator, in which a single input signal from a host device has a first state representing a command to drive the actuator and a second state representing a command to stop the actuator. A control circuit provides a drive control signal to a driver circuit to drive the haptic actuator in response to the control signal transitioning to the first state, and to stop the haptic actuator in response to the control signal transitioning to the second state. A timer circuit places the circuit in a low power mode a predetermined time after the control signal transitions to the second state, or the control circuit places the circuit in the low power mode in response to a feedback signal indicating that the actuator has reached a stopped condition.Type: GrantFiled: December 1, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: TEXAS INSTRUMENTS INCORPORATEDInventors: Mandy Barsilai, David Hernandez, Mark Stephen Toth
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Patent number: 9697707Abstract: A glassbreak detector includes first and second different audio transducers. The first transducer is omnidirectional. The second transducer is highly directional. Control circuitry processes signals from both of the first and second transducers and determines if a glassbreakage profile is present.Type: GrantFiled: May 11, 2011Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: HONEYWELL INTERNATIONAL INC.Inventor: Richard Alan Smith
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Patent number: 9697708Abstract: Tracking device embodiments, comprising: portable housing with a locking mechanism; band latched about a wrist; tampering detection device to detect tampering with the band, comprising: power source; latch configured to latch one end of the band within the housing; a shape memory material component connected to the latch; an electrical circuit for controlling the power source to heat the shape memory material component to cause the shape memory material component to change from a first length/shape to a second length/shape during supply of power to perform a locking function; a timer; two-way network communication device; a tracking element; tampering signal generation circuit. In embodiments, a tamper resistant container cap, comprises: cap housing releasably lockable to an open end of a container and a locking mechanism using a shape memory material component.Type: GrantFiled: July 15, 2016Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Unlimited Liability, LLCInventors: Ronald S. Adrezin, Robert Dinan, Steven G. Legum, John Nordyke
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Patent number: 9697709Abstract: Apparatus and systems using merchandise activity sensors for increasing the awareness of interactivity with merchandise on retail store displays (shelves, peg hooks, merchandise pushers, and other Point of Purchase displays) in order to facilitate more effective customer service, reduce theft and to provide additional analysis data related to merchandise/shopper interaction.Type: GrantFiled: February 23, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Indyme Solutions, Inc.Inventors: Greg King, Derek Morikawa, Barry Baldwin, Bill Kepner, Steve Deal
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Patent number: 9697710Abstract: The present invention is a multi-modal security checkpoint. The security checkpoint can simultaneously scan for and identify hidden metallic (weapon and shrapnel), non-metallic (explosives and IED), and radioactive/nuclear threats. The security checkpoint can also perform long range facial recognition and detect suspected terrorists. The security checkpoint combines many threat detection technologies into one checkpoint that allows it to be robust and detect a large variety of threats including hidden weapons, explosives, dirty bombs, and other threats.Type: GrantFiled: December 9, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: APSTEC SYSTEMS USA LLCInventors: Andrey Kuznetsov, Valery Averyanov, Igor Gorshkov
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Patent number: 9697711Abstract: A system for tamper detection includes a security device and a data device. The security device has a first portion disposable on a first side of a separation boundary of a separable object, and a second portion disposable on a second side of the separation boundary. The security device further includes a first Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) circuit configured to provide a first return signal. The data device includes a microprocessor and system memory, an RFID reader and a radio antenna. The data device is configured to send and receive radio frequency signals with the first RFID circuit, and to recognize the first return signal as indicating an untampered condition of the separable object.Type: GrantFiled: March 19, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: THE BOEING COMPANYInventor: Darren C. McIntosh
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Patent number: 9697712Abstract: Security and/or automation systems, collectively referred to as automation systems, may allow a parent to leave their child at home and feel comfortable. The automation system may receive a notification that the parents are leaving. The parents may set a child alone state or a babysitter state. The system may use settings determined by the parents to track child parameters. Restricted areas may include a parents liquor cabinet, a parents bedroom, an office, and the like. The automation system may additionally track the comings and goings of a child to determine if the child is out past a curfew, when the child left, when the child arrived at home, and the like. Additionally, the parent away state may implement a lock down on any firearms or other potential hazards in a home.Type: GrantFiled: June 24, 2015Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Vivint, Inc.Inventors: Matthew J. Eyring, Jeremy B. Warren, James E. Nye
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Patent number: 9697713Abstract: According to one embodiment, a multi-sensing hazard detector for detecting potential dangers may include a back plate and a front casing that is coupled with the back plate to define a housing. A circuit board and a plurality of components may be positioned within the housing. The circuit board may be communicatively coupled with the components. The components may include, among other components, an alarm device, an occupancy sensor, and a smoke chamber. The alarm device may be activatable upon the detection of a potential hazard to warn an occupant of a potential danger, the occupancy sensor may be configured to detect the presence and/or movement of objects external to the hazard detector, and the smoke chamber may be configured to detect the presence of smoke to cause a triggering of the alarm device. The housing may comprise a volume of less than 1024 cubic centimeters.Type: GrantFiled: January 11, 2017Date of Patent: July 4, 2017Assignee: Google Inc.Inventors: Anthony Michael Fadell, Matthew Lee Rogers, Shigefumi Honjo, John Benjamin Filson, Eric B. Daniels, Fred Bould, Adam Mittleman, Andrew Goldenson