Abstract: A semiconductor device has a substrate with a contact pad. A first insulation layer is formed over the substrate and contact pad. A first under bump metallization (UBM) is formed over the first insulating layer and is electrically connected to the contact pad. A second insulation layer is formed over the first UBM. A second UBM is formed over the second insulation layer after the second insulation layer is cured. The second UBM is electrically connected to the first UBM. The second insulation layer is between and separates portions of the first and second UBMs. A photoresist layer with an opening over the contact pad is formed over the second UBM. A conductive bump material is deposited within the opening in the photoresist layer. The photoresist layer is removed and the conductive bump material is reflowed to form a spherical bump.

Abstract: A gaming system allows a game manager to manage and run a multiplayer game and adjudicate all player characters with the ability to control the game and game play for all players from a centralized command facility in real-time. Interactive cards can be used that relate to investigated objects. The cards include information relating to the usage of the discovered objects as well as provide a method whereby the cards can interact based on predetermined orientation(s). Furthermore, an object discovery and investigation methodology is outlined that provides characters with a roadmap for determining the consequences of interaction with an object.

Abstract: Systems and methods for in-context editing of web pages in which the production format of a web page is visible while the web page is being edited, and the editable image is not distorted by the editing tools. In one embodiment, a system includes a server computer, a client computer and a transmission channel coupled between them. The server computer receives a request for a web page from the client computer and responsively transmits a web page containing in-context editing tools to the client computer. The client computer operate alternately in a first mode in which the in-context editing tools are superimposed on a web page image, or a second mode in which the web page image is displayed, but the in-context editing tools are hidden. The tools overlay in the first mode does not alter the production format of the web page image as displayed in the second mode.

Abstract: A method and kit for training a participant in professional practice. The method may include video recording a first session of a master practitioner interacting with clients in a professional environment, video recording a second session of an interviewer viewing the first session and interacting with the master practitioner about what transpired in the first session, preparing a video segment comprising video footage from the video recording of the first session and the video recording of the second session, and providing the video segment to the participant. The kit may include a video segment, the video segment comprising video footage from the first video recording of the first session and the second video recording of the second session.

Abstract: An automated banking machine includes a card reader operative to read data from user cards and to use the data read by the card reader in operation of the machine. Status messages are received from automated banking machines operating in a network. The messages are received by an event management system operating at least one computer in operative connection with a data store. The data store includes information representative of the banking machines in the network, status messages generated by the banking machines and actions to be taken including entities to be notified of conditions which cause status messages to be sent by the various banking machines.

Abstract: A system operates to receive status messages from banking machines operating in a network. The messages are received by an event management system operating at least one computer. The computer is in operative connection with a data store. The data store includes information representative of the banking machines in the network, status messages generated by the banking machines and actions to be taken including entities to be notified of conditions which cause status messages to be sent by the various banking machines. A device status processing program in the computer resolves an action to be taken responsive to the status message. Responsive to the action resolved by the device status processing program the computer causes a notification message to be dispatched by a multimedia reporter to an entity who is to be notified of the condition at the banking machine which caused the status message.

Abstract: A method of testing operation of an automated banking machine system is provided. The method may comprise storing in a data store data representative of a simulated automated banking machine, at least one condition which occurs at the machine and at least one action to be carried out responsive to the condition. The method may further comprise inputting an input representing the condition at the machine and indicating through a display, responsive to the stored data, the at least one action being carried out responsive to simulating the condition at the machine. The method may also include carrying out the at least one action responsive to operation of the computer. The method may include simulating responsive to the input, that the machine has generated a message indicative of the condition. The method may include providing a further input which prevents performance of the carrying out step.

Abstract: A multiplication table teaching device having a body, the body having a front side and a back side, the front side having 55 multiplication problems located thereon and the back side having located thereon 55 answers corresponding to the multiplication problems located on the front side, the body having 55 body holes permitting the passage therethrough from the front side and the back side.

Abstract: Educational apparatus (10) is provided which includes a base member (11) having a plurality of compartments (14) and a plurality of guide channels (50) define therein. Each guide channel (50) interconnects at least two adjacent compartments (14) forming a selection arrangement (51). The apparatus (10) also includes a plurality of tokens (22) and each token (22) is associated with a selection arrangement (51) and locatable in a selected compartment (14) by a user in response to audible or visual observations by the user. The apparatus (10) also has marking means (24) for assessing in use the location of each token (22).

Abstract: An educational toy is disclosed which includes a sensor having an array of sensing points and a sensor sheet having a flexible face against which an object whose shape is to be recognized is placed, the object providing a change in electrical characteristics at points of the array which are contacted by the object, an output for detecting points whose electrical characteristics have been altered, a memory for comparing the relative positions of the points in such an array with information stored in memory to determine to which of the memorized set of objects the changed characteristics correspond and providing an output in a child recognizable manner associated with the shape placed on the sensor sheet.

Abstract: An educational device for teaching new readers to recognize characters (e.g., letters, numbers or words) may include a set of books, each having a single theme, and a tray having recesses for holding the books. Each book, and the corresponding recess in the tray, may have a shape related to the particular character that is its theme. By way of example, the set of books may include one book for each letter of the alphabet, one book for each number from one to ten or one book for each of various words that may form a sentence. The tray may take various shapes, including planar and hemispheric, with the recesses in an upward facing surface.

Abstract: A learning aid comprisinga. a disk having a plurality of sectors, each of the sectors having a descriptive matter section adjacent the periphery of the disk, the descriptive matter section occupying a portion of each of the sectors,b. a plurality of removable puzzle pieces for each of the sectors, each of the puzzle pieces being able to occupy a portion of its corresponding sector, each of the puzzle pieces being of a different shape from one another, each of the puzzle pieces having an identifying word, letter or number associated therewith which describes the descriptive matter. The learning aid is particularly useful is teaching young children how to read.

Abstract: A combination system such as may, for example, be embodied in a matching game or instructional device or in a set of locks and keys consists of a number of receivers and an associated number of plugs with both the receivers and the plugs having cooperable coding features coded according to unique rules, derivable from N-dimensional geometry, assuring a desired form of cooperation between a plug inserted in a receiver only when the code of such plug matches the code of the receiver.

Abstract: A base member has a plurality of upwardly facing openings for receiving arithmetic value blocks such as addition or subtraction blocks, a first upwardly facing end opening for receiving positive answer blocks and a second upwardly facing opposite end opening for receiving negative answer blocks. A summing rack including transverse gear teeth is slidably mounted in a longitudinal slot in the base member communicating with each of the recesses. One end of the summing rack has an encoded pattern of holes defining the numerical values of possible positive answers; and the other end of the summing rack has a similar series of holes defining the numerical values of possible negative answers. Each of the recesses which receives an arithmetic value block has a sector gear therein which engages the summing rack teeth and moves the rack a proportionate distance when an addition or subtraction block is inserted into the corresponding recess.

Abstract: A spelling machine includes a housing having a row of drums on a shaft and is provided with a series of evenly spaced letters on the drums viewable through a row of holes in the housing. A row of slides in the forward portion of the machine has lugs and stop members respectively on opposite end portions. A series of cards each having a different picture thereon is inserted into the machine. Each card is provided with a row of holes spaced predetermined distances from an edge of the card which is parallel to the shaft when the card is inserted in the machine. The holes respectively receive the lugs on the slides and are operable to move the slides and stops thereon toward the drums various distances corresponding to letters respectively on the drums when the drums are rotated from starting position in one direction.