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  • Gaming system having player-profile input feature for maintaining player anonymity
    Patent number: 7384338
    Abstract: A method of operating a wagering game includes conducting a wagering game at a gaming terminal, and receiving inputs from a player that relate to a profile of the player. The inputs exclude a player's true identity. The method includes comparing the player inputs with a plurality of player-profile data sets to match the player inputs with a particular player-profile data set. In response to this comparison yielding a matched player-profile data set, the method includes activating one or more personalized attributes at the gaming terminal associated with the matched player-profile data set. The method can be practiced within a gaming system comprising a database, a controller, and at least one gaming terminal. The database stores the player-profile data sets. Each data set is associated with and maintains anonymity of a respective player. An input device at the gaming terminal receives player-profile inputs for comparison to the player-profile data sets.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: December 22, 2003
    Date of Patent: June 10, 2008
    Assignee: WMS Gaming, Inc.
    Inventors: Wayne H. Rothschild, Richard T. Schwartz
  • Voice file management in portable digital audio recorder
    Patent number: 6671567
    Abstract: A portable digital voice recorder is interfaced for data communication with a personal computer. Voice data files are stored in the portable recorder together with header data which indicates the status of the voice data files. In response to a batch upload command, selected ones of the voice data files are uploaded to the personal computer, depending on the status of the voice data files as indicated by the status data. Graphical user interface software running in the PC causes the PC to display icons indicative of voice data files stored in the portable recorder. The header data in the portable recorder may be changed by operation of the PC's graphical user interface. For example, file designations indicated by header data in the portable recorder may be changed by editing corresponding fields displayed by the PC.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: November 12, 1998
    Date of Patent: December 30, 2003
    Assignee: Dictaphone Corporation
    Inventors: John J. Dwyer, David K. Godin, Richard S. Colon, Sr., Stephen Rothschild, John J. Pawlowski, John C. Vaughan
  • Computer architecture for an electronic device providing SLS access to MLS file system with trusted loading and protection of program execution memory
    Patent number: 8041947
    Abstract: System for providing a secure file service includes an MLS file service module (300) comprised of a cryptographic processor (302). The MLS file service module also includes an MLS file system (301) hosted by the cryptographic processor. A secure user processor (402) includes programming and communications hardware for requesting at least one classified file from the MLS file service module. The cryptographic processor includes cryptographic hardware and software to decrypt the classified file. The cryptographic processor is also performs an integrity check on the classified file. Once the file is decrypted and its integrity checked by the cryptographic processor, the MLS file service module serves the classified file to the secure user processor in decrypted form. If the classified file is an executable file, the method also includes selectively enabling a write function for program memory of the secure user processor.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 23, 2006
    Date of Patent: October 18, 2011
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Terence W. O'Brien, Richard Schmalbach, John Blessing, Jeffrey Murray
  • Prism pole with direct readout
    Patent number: 7788815
    Abstract: A prism pole has a tubular housing having an open top, a flange at the open top, a bottom portion for contacting ground soil, a height-adjustable rod insertable into the tubular housing with an outer diameter less than inner diameter of the tubular housing to provide a slidable friction fit therebetween for positioning the height-adjustable rod with respect to the tubular housing, a lip at the top of the rod, a laser sensor mounted on the tubular housing for emitting a laser toward the lip to measure distance between the laser sensor and the lip, an electronic control unit in electrical communication with the laser sensor for receiving height measurements and providing height reference data corresponding to the height measurements, an electronic display in electrical communication with the electronic control unit for receiving the height reference data and displaying the height reference data, an audio device in electrical communication with the electronic control unit for emitting an alarm in response to rec
    Type: Grant
    Filed: August 6, 2007
    Date of Patent: September 7, 2010
    Assignee: Wilkinson & Associates
    Inventors: Richard Yandrick, Edward Wilkinson, John Wilkinson
  • Computer architecture for a handheld electronic device with a shared human-machine interface
    Patent number: 7779252
    Abstract: Mobile PDA computer system (300) includes a secure user processor (302), a non-secure user processor (306), a cryptographic engine (304), and a shared human/machine interface (HMI) (308). The secure user processor (302) can be comprised of a first trusted microprocessor and a first trusted operating system executing on the first trusted microprocessor. The non-secure user processor (306) can be comprised of a second non-trusted microprocessor and a second non-trusted operating system executing on the second non-trusted microprocessor. A cryptographic engine (304) can be comprised of a third trusted cryptographic processor and a third trusted operating system executing on the third trusted cryptographic processor. The cryptographic engine can be configured for encrypting and decrypting data. A first data communication link (303) communicates data between the secure user processor and the cryptographic engine.
    Type: Grant
    Filed: March 21, 2006
    Date of Patent: August 17, 2010
    Assignee: Harris Corporation
    Inventors: Terence W. O'Brien, Richard Schmalbach, John Blessing, Bruce Borsa
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