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20100041458 | NOVEL GAMES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED GAME PLAY IN GAMES OF CHANCE AND GAMES OF SKILL - A variety of games and methods for enhancing game play are provided. In one aspect, a secondary or ancillary game is played in parallel with a first game, such as a lottery ball draw. Yet another game involves the selection of items which a player or participant believes had been selected by an audience as not being the most popular. In yet another aspect, an interstitial progressive sequencing of programming is provided, such as where a series of short segments are presented at differing times throughout an evening of prime time programming. Audience participation may be enhanced by permitting Internet access to the game system, and to permit remote users to play along as if they were in studio participants or part of the studio audience. | 02-18-2010 |
20120058807 | NOVEL GAMES, AND METHODS FOR IMPROVED GAME PLAY IN GAMES OF CHANCE AND GAMES OF SKILL - A variety of games and methods for enhancing game play are provided. In one aspect, a secondary or ancillary game is played in parallel with a first game, such as a lottery ball draw. Yet another embodiment of game play provides for the repurposing of an existing taped game show. The previously recorded game show would be segmented into subsets of issues, for example, presentation of questions or answers (as in the case of Jeopardy), those issues would be presented to one or more players, a response would be received from those players, and the answer would be compared to the correct answer. Scoring would then rank players relative to one another or to indicate the amount of the prize. | 03-08-2012 |
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20080306872 | INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method for controlling access to a medical record of a patient hosted by at least one medical record repository, comprising a plurality of sub-records, each sub-record having an associated different patient-controlled access control criteria, comprising: receiving, by an intermediary, a request for a medical record from a requester, said request comprising a medical record identifier, a requester identifier, requester authentication information, and patient-provided access control authorization; automatically processing, by the intermediary, the request for the medical record to authenticate the requester and determine sufficiency of the patient-provided access control authorization to meet the patient-controlled access control criteria for each respective sub-record encompassed by the request; and selectively communicating, from the intermediary to the at least one medical record repository, an identification of each sub-record for which access control criteria are determined to be sufficient for access by the requestor. An electronic payment authorization associated with the request may be generated, for compensation of at least one of the intermediary and a medical record repository. | 12-11-2008 |
20090287837 | INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data security apparatus and method for controlling access to records provided within automated electronic databases, each record having an associated set of access rules, comprising: receiving, by a security processor, a request for access to records associated with at least one of an entity, attribute, and datum from a requestor; determining a set of records associated with the requested entity, attribute, or datum, contained in the automated electronic databases; authorizing access to the records within the determined set of records based on compliance with the associated set of access rules; defining an economic compensation rule, satisfaction of which is required for qualification for access to the set of records; selectively permitting access to records in dependence on satisfaction of the compensation rule; communicating the access permissions to the host automated electronic databases; and logging the request for retrieval and a respective access of each record. | 11-19-2009 |
20100241595 | INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A security mediator, comprising an input configured to receive a user information request; an automated index, stored in a memory, configured to store information for determining which of a plurality of remote databases stores information responsive to the request; an automated security rule base, stored in a memory, containing rules applicable to information responsive to the request stored in the plurality of remote databases; a communication port configured to communicate to a plurality of remote databases which store information responsive to the request: security information, a query corresponding to the request and associated rules applicable to the information responsive to the request at the respective remote database; and at least one processor being configured to apply at least one security rule responsive to the query of the automated security rule base, and index information derived from a plurality of the remote databases, in a manner which permits application of the rules and which restricts insecure use of the index. | 09-23-2010 |
20130159021 | INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A method of controlling access to records stored within databases, each record having associated access rules, a location identifier, and a content identifier maintained in a centralized index, comprising: receiving a request, communicated from a requestor to a security processor, the request containing a specified content identifier; querying the centralized index to find entries corresponding to the specified content identifier; for each entry, applying the access rules for the record to determine whether the record is accessible; for each accessible record, automatically communicating from the security processor to the database storing the accessible record sufficient information to determine whether it is releasable per a set of native access rules of the database; logically associating the releasable accessible records into a linked set of releasable records; and communicating the linked set of releasable records to the requestor. | 06-20-2013 |
20140222684 | INFORMATION RECORD INFRASTRUCTURE, SYSTEM AND METHOD - A data security apparatus and method for controlling access to records provided within automated electronic databases, each record having an associated set of access rules, comprising: receiving, by a security processor, a request for access to records associated with at least one of an entity, attribute, and datum from a requestor; determining a set of records associated with the requested entity, attribute, or datum, contained in the automated electronic databases; authorizing access to the records within the determined set of records based on compliance with the associated set of access rules; defining an economic compensation rule, satisfaction of which is required for qualification for access to the set of records; selectively permitting access to records in dependence on satisfaction of the compensation rule; communicating the access permissions to the host automated electronic databases; and logging the request for retrieval and a respective access of each record. | 08-07-2014 |
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20100261224 | DISCOVERY AND VALIDATION OF CANCER BIOMARKERS USING A PROTEIN ANALYSIS METHODOLOGY TO ANALYZE SPECIMENS - Methods are provided for the analysis, including the serial analysis, of very small samples of tissue. The methods utilize a nanofluidic proteomic immunoassay (NIA) to quantify total and low-abundance protein isoforms in a small amount of lysate. NIA detection accurately measure oncoprotein expression and activation in limited clinical specimens, including isoforms that differ in post-translational modifications, such as phosphorylation, and the like. The NIA detection method combines isoelectric protein focusing and antibody detection in a nanofluidic system. | 10-14-2010 |
20130131491 | Tumor Response Prediction to Therapy - Tumor responses to a therapy can be predicted in a more objective and quantitative fashion allowing doctors to make earlier determinations of how well a tumor is responding to therapy. If a patient were not responding well, valuable time could be saved and the patient could be switched to a more efficacious therapy. Tumor response predictions to therapy are determined from a combination of (i) the tumor volumes over time, (ii) the cellular proliferation over time and (iii) the cellular apoptosis over time. | 05-23-2013 |
20140121130 | METHOD OF DETERMINING THE PROGNOSIS OF HEPATOCELLULAR CARCINOMAS USING A MULTIGENE SIGNATURE ASSOCIATED WITH METASTASIS - Expression of MYC alone, in a conditional transgenic mouse model of Twist1- and MYC-induced hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC), resulted in tumors that failed to metastasize, whereas Twist1 co-expression with MYC resulted in tumors associated with extra-hepatic metastases to the lymph nodes, spleen, peritoneum, and lungs. Twist1 also caused a marked increase in circulating tumor cells. Combined inactivation of Twist1 and MYC resulted in sustained regression of both primary and metastatic tumors as shown by gross and microscopic pathology, X-ray computed tomography and bioluminescence imaging, as well as the suppression of circulating tumor cells. Through genomic analysis a 20-gene signature comprising 17 up-regulated genes and 3 down-regulated genes has been identified that is highly predictive of metastasis and overall survival in human patients with HCC. Another aspect of the disclosure methods of determining the metastatic status of an hepatocellular carcinoma of a patient, comprising obtaining a first differential gene expression profile from a carcinoma sample from a subject having an hepatocellular carcinoma and creating a report summarizing the normalized data obtained by the first gene expression analysis and including a determination of the metastatic status of the hepatic carcinoma. | 05-01-2014 |