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| 20080200251 | ZONE DEPENDENT PAYOUT PERCENTAGE - Various embodiments include game configurations that are specific to a location. | 08-21-2008 |
| 20080211180 | ROULETTE GAME - According to various embodiments, an apparatus may laser project a customized ordering of numbers onto a roulette wheel. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080214286 | Automatic Game Play - In various embodiments a gaming device may play games automatically without input from a player. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080214287 | GAME SIMULATION - In various embodiments, a player may play a simulation of a mobile gaming device over the Internet using a personal computer. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215382 | RECEIVING A REQUEST TO RESERVE A SERVICE - Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include comparing the particular time requested with a schedule associated with the restaurant. The schedule comprises a list of times that are available for reservation. The methods and system also include determining an availability of the request to reserve; and outputting an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215446 | SUBMITTING A REQUEST TO RESERVE A SERVICE - Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: selecting a restaurant from a plurality of restaurants; and transmitting a request to reserve a service that is provided by the restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include receiving an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080215447 | BIDDING FOR A REQUEST TO RESERVE A SERVICE - Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: determining that a service provided by a restaurant is available for bidding. The service is provided for a particular time and a particular date. The methods and system also include receiving a bid for the service provided by the restaurant, in which the bid is associated with a first amount; storing the bid with a plurality of other bids in a storage device; and comparing the bid with at least one other bid that is submitted for reserving the service. The at least one other bid is associated with a second amount. The methods and system also include determining that the first amount is greater than the second amount; and outputting an indicia that grants the request to reserve the service provided by the restaurant to a highest bidder, in which the first amount submitted by the highest bidder is greater than the second amount. | 09-04-2008 |
| 20080227532 | APPARATUS FOR PARI-MUTUEL RACING GAME WITH FINISH ORDER BETTING - In various embodiments, a device may test the health of race participants in order to ensure the fairness of a bet on an order of finish. | 09-18-2008 |
| 20080230991 | CARD GAME WITH FIXED RULES - Some embodiments include a game of poker in which player actions are fixed by game rules. | 09-25-2008 |
| 20080243668 | AUTHORIZATION CONTROL SYSTEM AND METHOD TO DETERMINE OPERATION OF A CONTROLLED DEVICE TO PERMIT AN INDIVIDUAL TO PERFORM AN ACTION - At least one price may be determined for an asset and a classification determined for the price in which the classification may include, for example, an indication of how reflective the determined price may be of a market value of the asset. | 10-02-2008 |
| 20080248849 | Sorting Games of Chance - In various embodiments a display may allow a secondary player to select a game of an appropriate primary player. | 10-09-2008 |
| 20090029766 | AMUSEMENT GAMING ACCESS AND AUTHORIZATION POINT - In various embodiments, an electrical interface allows a player at a casino to connect a personal computing device and to engage in licensed gaming activities using the personal computing device. | 01-29-2009 |
| 20090061974 | GAME WITH CHANCE ELEMENT AND STRATEGY COMPONENT THAT CAN BE COPIED - In various embodiments, a first player may follow the same pattern of betting used by a second player. | 03-05-2009 |
| 20090093290 | GAME WITH CHANCE ELEMENT OR EVENT SIMULATION - In various embodiments, a player may view a list of popular games. | 04-09-2009 |
| 20090104963 | LASER LOT GENERATOR - In various embodiments multiple numbers may be selected from a spinning roulette wheel. | 04-23-2009 |
| 20090204535 | LARGE BLOCK TRADING - Systems and methods for administering trade orders are described. An embodiment comprises receiving, from a first server operated by a first trader, a communication including a first trade order and one or more selection criteria, the first trade order including at least one of a specified instrument, a specified quantity, and a specified price; determining that a database of trade orders does not contain a trade order matching the first trade order; identifying a plurality of traders satisfying the selection criteria; sending, to a plurality of second servers, a query including at least one of the specified instrument, the specified quantity, and the specified price; receiving, from a one of the plurality of second servers operated on behalf of a second trader, a positive response to the query; and facilitating execution of a trade between the first trader and the second trader for the specified instrument at the specified price. | 08-13-2009 |
| 20090209312 | System and Method for Providing a Roulette Game Based on Multiple Financial Market Indicators - A system comprises a client operable to communicate a bet regarding a spin of a virtual roulette wheel. The system further comprises a controller communicably coupled to the client and operable to determine a result of the spin of the virtual roulette wheel, the result based at least in part upon one or more digits of at least one financial market indicator at a configurable point in time. The system is further operable to determine an outcome of the bet based at least in part on the determined result. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090209321 | System and Method for Providing a Baccarat Game Based on Multiple Financial Market Indicators - A system comprises a client operable to communicate a bet regarding a baccarat game. The system further comprises a controller communicably coupled to the client and operable to determine a result of the baccarat game, the result based at least in part upon one or more digits of at least one financial market indicator at a configurable point in time. The controller is further operable to determine an outcome of the bet based at least in part on the determined result. | 08-20-2009 |
| 20090239650 | GAME WITH CHANCE ELEMENT AND TAX INDICATOR - In various embodiments a player of a gaming device or mobile gaming device is presented with an indication of a payout amount less any taxes that would be owed for the payout. | 09-24-2009 |
| 20090276349 | ELECTRONIC SECURITIES MARKETPLACE HAVING INTEGRATION WITH ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - An electronic trading marketplace (ETM) communicates with interfacing modules interfacing directly with order management systems (OMS's) at trading institutions. The interfacing modules automatically transmit orders from the OMS databases to the ETM and update the OMS databases in response to orders executed at the ETM. Traders can communicate with the ETM to anonymously negotiate trades of securities. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20090276350 | ELECTRONIC SECURITIES MARKETPLACE HAVING INTEGRATION WITH ORDER MANAGEMENT SYSTEMS - An electronic trading marketplace (ETM) communicates with interfacing modules interfacing directly with order management systems (OMS's) at trading institutions. The interfacing modules automatically transmit orders from the OMS databases to the ETM and update the OMS databases in response to orders executed at the ETM. Traders can communicate with the ETM to anonymously negotiate trades of securities. | 11-05-2009 |
| 20100009741 | INFORMATION AGGREGATION GAMES - Games related to the aggregation of information are described. | 01-14-2010 |
| 20100048302 | GAME OF CHANCE PROCESSING APPARATUS - In various embodiments, players may compete with one another in a gaming context. | 02-25-2010 |
| 20100057626 | CANCELLATION TIMING IN AN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACE - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100057627 | NON-FIRM ORDERS IN ELECTRONIC MARKETPLACES - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 03-04-2010 |
| 20100076883 | GENERATING RISK POOLS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076884 | TRADING RELATED TO FUND COMPOSITIONS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100076896 | SUBSTITUTABILITY OF FINANCIAL INSTRUMENTS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 03-25-2010 |
| 20100082495 | TRADING SYSTEM ACCESSIBILITY - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100082500 | INTERACTION WITH TRADING SYSTEMS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described | 04-01-2010 |
| 20100099477 | CARD SELECTION - Example methods and devices are set forth for playing a game. In some embodiments, an inventory of game indicia is arranged in a random but established, serial order. In some embodiments, for each hand of play the player makes a wager and game indicia are displayed in order from the inventory to define a winning or losing outcome. In some embodiments, a display, as hands are played, displays the remaining constituency of the inventory and the player, before any game, can order re-shuffling and re-constitute of the inventory. Other embodiments are described. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100099478 | MULTI-STAGE CARD SELECT - Embodiments related to conducting a wagering game according to the rules of a base game includes defining a finite set of game indicia. In some embodiments the player plays multiple sequential game hand by placing a wager, receiving game indicia from the finite set cumulatively excluding any game indicia previously dealt, playing the game hand to completion, collecting the game indicia from the player and excluding the dealt game indicia from further play, and displaying at least the excluded game indicia or any winning combinations precluded by the excluded game indicia. In some embodiments the game hands continue in sequence until a restoration event, which may include a manually triggered restoration or an automatic restoration event, that restores the excluded game indicia. Other embodiments are also described. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100099481 | TWO STAGE CARD SELECT - A method and/or device is set forth for playing a game. In some embodiments, an inventory of data representing playing cards is arranged in a random but established, serial order. In some embodiments, for each hand of play the player makes a wager and cards are displayed, according to the rules of the game, in order from the inventory to define a winning or losing outcome. In some embodiments, a display, as hands are played, displays the remaining constituency of the inventory and the player, before any hand, can order re-shuffling and re-constitute of the inventory. In some embodiments, re-shuffling may be triggered by a card or hand count or certain pre-defined triggers. Other embodiments are described. | 04-22-2010 |
| 20100124967 | GAME OF CHANCE SYSTEMS AND METHODS - In various embodiments, players may compete in a gaming context. | 05-20-2010 |
| 20100137051 | APPARATUS FOR A CARD GAME WITH CERTAIN FIXED ACTIONS - Some embodiments include a card game in which a set of rules for the card game require a player of the game to perform an action in a particular set of circumstances. For example, in a poker game, rules of the poker game may require a human player to bet in a particular set of circumstances. | 06-03-2010 |
| 20100191637 | INTERPROGRAM COMMUNICATION USING MESSAGES RELATED TO GROUPS OF ORDERS - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100191638 | MULTICOMPUTER DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF DATA RELATED TO AUTOMATION OF TRADING - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 07-29-2010 |
| 20100203938 | Amusement Devices And Games Including Means For Processing Electronic Data Where Ultimate Outcome Of The Game Is Dependent On Relative Odds Of A Card Combination And/Or Where Chance Is A Factor: Wagering On Hands Of Cards - Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases such as long shot bias and favorite bias. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases relating to the Monty Hall paradox. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may include wagering on hands of cards, e.g., poker wagering games. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100203940 | Amusement Devices And Games Including Means For Processing Electronic Data Where Ultimate Outcome Of The Game Is Dependent On Relative Odds Of A Card Combination And/Or Where Chance Is A Factor: Expected Biases Such As Long Shot And Favorite Bias - Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases such as long shot bias and favorite bias. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases relating to the Monty Hall paradox. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may include wagering on hands of cards, e.g., poker wagering games. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100203953 | Amusement Devices And Games Including Means For Processing Electronic Data Where Ultimate Outcome Of The Game Is Dependent On Relative Odds Of A Card Combination And/Or Where Chance Is A Factor: The Monty Hall Paradox - Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases such as long shot bias and favorite bias. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may be formulated to exploit biases relating to the Monty Hall paradox. Games related to the provision of information are described. Games may include wagering on hands of cards, e.g., poker wagering games. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100205255 | MOBILE GAMING ALERT - Various embodiments of alerts on mobile devices are described. Other embodiments are described. | 08-12-2010 |
| 20100211431 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ADVERTISING ON A MOBILE GAMING DEVICE - In various embodiments, promotions are featured on mobile gaming devices. | 08-19-2010 |
| 20100268665 | CASH FLOW RATING SYSTEM - Methods and systems are provided herewith for rating a likelihood of payment of one or more cash flows. A computing device receives information about a debt instrument portfolio comprising one or more debt instruments, the information comprising a quantity and a price (e.g., a purchase price) associated with each of the one or more debt instruments. The computing device determines a current market price of each of the one or more debt instruments. The computing device determines a payment schedule for each of the one or more debt instruments, each payment schedule comprising one or more payments, each payment schedule correlating a series of payment amounts with respective scheduled times of payment. The computing device determines a probability of payment for the one or more payments for each of the one or more debt instruments. In some embodiments, the computing device may also determine an expected net present value of the one or more payments. The computing device may also determine a portfolio cash flow rating of the debt instrument portfolio based on one or more of: the quantity and purchase price associated with each of the one or more debt instruments; and the probability of payment for the one or more payments. The cash flow rating may also be determined based on a current market price of each of the one or more debt instruments, a net present expected value of the one or more payments in the payment schedule for each of the one or more debt instruments, and/or a credit rating of one or more issuers associated with the debt instruments. The computing device outputs the portfolio cash flow rating to an output device. | 10-21-2010 |
| 20100304850 | GAME ACCESS DEVICE WITH TIME VARYING SIGNAL - Systems and methods for controlling access to wireless gaming devices and networks are provided. For example, access is controlled through one or more levels of security checks, such as a hard security check instead of or in addition to a soft security check. In a hard security check, the user employs an apparatus such as a card or other physical token that can be used to access the wireless gaming device. Such an apparatus may communicate information that identifies the user to the device or may simply be used to produce a signal without which the device is locked to users. The apparatus may further emit a time varying signal to enhance security. | 12-02-2010 |
| 20100311488 | AMUSEMENT DEVICE INCLUDING MEANS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC DATA IN PLAY OF A GAME IN WHICH AN OUTCOME IS DEPENDANT UPON CARD VALUES - Various card devices and methods involving card devices are described. Other embodiments are also described. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100311493 | INTERPROCESS COMMUNICATION REGARDING MOVEMENT OF GAME DEVICES - Various card devices and methods involving card devices are described. Other embodiments are also described. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100311494 | AMUSEMENT DEVICE INCLUDING MEANS FOR PROCESSING ELECTRONIC DATA IN PLAY OF A GAME OF CHANCE - Various card devices and methods involving card devices are described. Other embodiments are also described. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100311502 | ELECTRICAL TRANSMISSION AMONG INTERCONNECTED GAMING SYSTEMS - Various card devices and methods involving card devices are described. Other embodiments are also described. | 12-09-2010 |
| 20100332368 | MULTICOMPUTER DISTRIBUTED PROCESSING OF DATA REGARDING TRADING OPPORTUNITIES - A trading platform and trading method that allows access to additional pools of liquidity is described. Other embodiments are also described. | 12-30-2010 |
| 20110006477 | AMUSEMENT DEVICE FOR A GAME OF CHANCE INVOLVING ONE OR MORE ROLLING INDICATORS ON A ROTATING ELEMENT WITH POSITION INDICATORS - Embodiments of various games are described. One example embodiment includes a plurality of wheels on which players may place a bet. A different number of wheels may be used from game to game. | 01-13-2011 |
| 20110022494 | EXCHANGE FOR FRACTIONAL INTERESTS AND USAGE RIGHTS IN A COLLECTION OF ASSETS - Methods and systems are provided herewith for exchanging and rating works of art. A value for each of a plurality of portfolios of art owned by a plurality of participants is determined Ownership interests in the plurality of portfolios of art are pooled in a legal ownership entity. For each participant, an initial participant value is determined based on the determined value of each portfolio of art owned by the respective participant. A respective quantity of shares of the legal ownership entity for each respective participant is determined based on the participant value determined for the participant. An indicia of the respective quantity of shares is transmitted to each respective participant. Participants may buy and sell usage and ownership interests in the portfolios of art. Participants may also redeem their shares for cash or other value. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110022542 | METHOD AND RELATED APPARATUS FOR EXCHANGING FRACTIONAL INTERESTS IN A COLLECTION OF ASSETS - Methods and systems are provided herewith for exchanging and rating works of art. A value for each of a plurality of portfolios of art owned by a plurality of participants is determined Each portfolio of art comprises one or more works of art. Ownership interests of the plurality of portfolios of art are pooled in a legal ownership entity having an initial total number of shares. For each participant, an initial participant value is determined based on the determined value of each portfolio of art owned by the respective participant. A respective quantity of shares of the legal ownership entity to each respective participant is determined based on the participant value determined for the participant. An indicia of the respective quantity of shares is transmitted to each respective participant. In various embodiments, participants may buy and sell usage and ownership interests in the portfolios of art. | 01-27-2011 |
| 20110029335 | RECEIVING A REQUEST TO RESERVE A SERVICE - Methods and corresponding system are provided herewith that, in at least one embodiment, include the act or acts of: receiving a request to reserve a service that is provided by a restaurant. The request to reserve is for a particular time and a particular date and the service comprises at least one of: (i) preparing a consumable good that is consumed at the restaurant's location; (ii) preparing a consumable good that is received at the restaurant's location; or (iii) preparing a consumable good that is delivered to a location external to the restaurant's location. The methods and system also include comparing the particular time requested with a schedule associated with the restaurant. The schedule comprises a list of times that are available for reservation. The methods and system also include determining an availability of the request to reserve; and outputting an indicia that the request to reserve the service has been accepted or denied. | 02-03-2011 |
| 20110084450 | CARD GAME WITH FIXED RULES - Some embodiments include a game of poker in which player actions are fixed by game rules. | 04-14-2011 |
