USRE44323E1 - Method and system for playing games on a network - Google Patents
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- the present invention is related to a method and apparatus for automating the playing games such as blackjack in, e.g., a game tournament context so that they can be played continuously and asynchronously by a potentially large plurality of players substantially, and wherein information related to goods and services for sale can be exchanged between players and sponsors of advertisements presented during the playing of a game.
- a data processing system that provided a large number of players with the ability to substantially asynchronously play casino-style games on the Internet for prizes at a reduced risk or at substantially no risk, wherein the data processing system coordinated the presentation of products and/or services from sponsors of the games so that there is a coordinated, interactive exchange of information between players and sponsors regarding advertisements, samples, prizes and questionnaires related to sponsor products and/or services.
- the card game of blackjack is a game of chance played between a designated player known as a “dealer” and one or more other players. Basically, each player plays against the dealer in the sense that each player attempts to achieve a collection or hand of cards having a total score for the hand closer to the value 21 than the score of the hand of the dealer. However, if a player's card hand goes over 21, the player may lose any wagers bet on the hand regardless of the value of the card hand of the dealer.
- blackjack is typically played with one or more standard playing card decks wherein each card has a value.
- each of the face cards has the value of 10
- non-face card has a value identical to the numerical value as indicated on the card, except for aces. That is, for aces a value may be assigned of either 1 or 11, depending on which value a player deems most beneficial to his/her hand.
- each player initially is provided with two cards and the dealer also receives two cards.
- the dealer's cards is dealt with the value of the card showing whereas the other card is dealt with the value of the card hidden.
- variations on when the dealer receives his/her cards may depend on the blackjack gaming rules where blackjack is being played but, in any case, one of the dealer's cards must be face-up before the players exercise various wagering options beyond an initial ante.
- the player may request one or more additional cards in an attempt to get: (a) a value for a card hand that will be greater than the hand the dealer will have, and (b) a value for the card hand that is less than or equal to 21. Further, a player may under certain circumstances, as will be described below, simultaneously play more than one hand of cards against the dealer's cards. However, in requesting such additional cards, a player runs the risk of “busting” each hand played wherein the player loses his/her wager(s) on a card hand by adding cards to the hand until a value exceeding 21 occurs. Further note that such busting of a hand occurs regardless of whether or not the dealer has a card hand value of less than or equal to 21.
- the dealer After each player has ceased to request further cards (i.e., each player “stands” on his cards), the dealer either takes one or more further cards (i.e., “hits”) according to predetermined blackjack rules as established, for example, by the gaming establishment where the blackjack game is being conducted. In general, the dealer must take additional cards if his/her current card count total is less than 17 and the dealer must decline further cards if the dealer's hand has a value of 17 or more. However, there are various rules regarding whether a dealer may stand or hit when the card count total is a “soft 17.” That is, one of the dealer's cards is an ace (and therefore may have a value of 1 or 11) and one of the values for the dealer's hand is 17. For example, the dealer may be required to take a hit on a soft 17.
- the final numerical value of the dealer's hand is then compared to the final numerical value of each of the player's hand(s) to determine the winning and losing wagers. Note that if the dealer's hand exceeds the value of 21, then any player that has not busted wins the wagers for their hand(s) regardless of the hand's total value. Alternatively, if the dealer's card hand is less or equal to 21, then it is compared with each of the player's card hand(s) and in each comparison the card hand with the closest total value to 21 without exceeding 21 wins. Of course, ties are possible. In such cases (called a “push”), the player's wager(s) on his/her card hand are returned.
- a first such option is known as “doubling down” wherein if the player's first two cards have a value within a predetermined range (e.g., 10 or 11), then the player may double his or her wager and once dealt a single additional card, the total of the three card hand becomes the value for the player's hand.
- another option is that of “splitting pairs” wherein if the player's first two cards are identical with the exception of suit (i.e., a pair), then the pair may be split so that two card hands are created with one card of the pair in each hand.
- the player must wager on each of the hands at least the initial wagering or ante amount.
- a second card and any subsequent successive cards are dealt to each of the separate hands as the player requests and the results of both hands are compared to the dealer's hand, assuming neither the dealer nor either of the player's two hands busts.
- a player may request “insurance” under the circumstances where the dealer's single face-up card is an ace. In this circumstance, the player is betting that the dealer has blackjack (i.e., a card value total of 21). If the dealer does not have blackjack, then the insurance bet is forfeited and the player plays his/her blackjack hand as if the insurance bet were never made. Note that the player can typically wager an insurance bet of one-half of the amount of his/her initial blackjack wager or ante and if the dealer has blackjack, then the dealer (or the gaming establishment) pays the player double or triple his/her insurance bet.
- options for splitting pairs and doubling down may interact with one another according to certain pre-established gaming establishment rules wherein, for example, a player may double down on one or more of his/her split hands.
- blackjack tournaments having tournament entrants that compete against each other for tournament prizes.
- each entrant has a fixed initial number of points that can be wagered in a pre-established number of tournament blackjack games to be played. Accordingly, the player having the highest number of points at the end of the tournament wins the tournament.
- rules may vary on when a player may split pairs repeatedly during the same blackjack game.
- double down rules may vary so that, for example, after a splitting of pairs, a player may be allowed to double down on any two cards or, alternatively, an additional wager of less than the initial wager may be acceptable when a player requests to double down.
- the present invention is a computerized interactive advertising system (i.e., method and apparatus) for exchanging information regarding goods and/or services between a first population of users (hereinafter also known as “players” or “users”) and a second population of users (hereinafter also known as “sponsors” or “advertisers”).
- the sponsors or advertisers may present information related to goods and/or services to the players using the present invention and the players may view this information while, for example, interacting with the present invention for playing a game such as blackjack, craps, roulette, poker, pai gow or the like.
- a player may also interact with the present invention so that the player has the capability for responding to sponsor or advertiser presented questionnaires, as well as for purchasing or viewing sponsor goods and/or services.
- the present invention provides an information exchange service within a gaming context for enticing players to view and/or interact with sponsor presentations such as interactive advertisements.
- each player or user is presented with advertisements for products and/or services, wherein it is believed the player will be receptive to the advertisement. That is, the present invention selectively presents advertisements to each player, according to stored characteristics and preferences of the player that the present invention has determined from, for example, player supplied personal information, player responses to questions, and/or analysis of player interactions such as player requests for additional information related an advertisement.
- a selective presentation of advertisements allows a sponsor or advertiser to provide information related to relatively extensive or expensive promotionals (e.g., demonstrations, samples, discounts, trial subscriptions, prizes, bonuses) to players most likely to subsequently purchase the advertised product or service.
- advertising or advertising presentation
- advertising is understood to include not only product or service presentations that are merely informational, but also more interactive advertising presentations such as promotionals wherein discounts, free samples or a trial usage may be offered.
- each player may interact with and play a game at a time and pace (i.e., tempo) substantially of the player's choosing.
- a time and pace i.e., tempo
- the player is not bound by a required order or sequence of play involving other players, even though the player may be in competition with other players.
- a player may cease play for an extended time while in the midst of a game and subsequently continue the game at the point where the player ceased to play.
- players may interact with the present invention at their leisure.
- a gaming web site may be provided wherein players may access the interactive gaming capabilities of the present invention and substantially simultaneously also be presented with sponsor or advertiser provided information related to goods and/or services of the sponsor or advertiser (those two terms being used substantially interchangeably to denote e.g., those who provide advertising to users and/or subsidize game playing, product promotionals or network access).
- the sponsor provided information may include, for example, hypertext links (also denoted hyperlinks) that allow players to activate, for example, network transfers for obtaining additional information regarding a sponsor's goods and/or services regardless of the status of any game in which a player may be currently involved at the gaming web site.
- hypertext links also denoted hyperlinks
- a player is able to commence play of a game at substantially any time the player accesses the present invention. That is, it is not necessary for any previous game being played by other players to be completed for the player to commence play.
- games provided by the present invention may be continuously and asynchronously commenced or entered by players.
- each player provides personal information about him/herself both for gaming identification and for use as selection criteria by sponsors or advertisers for presenting particular presentations.
- registering can be performed via the Internet prior to play of any games at a gaming/advertising web site.
- players may be required to provide the present invention with information about themselves such as name, address, E-mail address, age, sex, and/or other player characteristics deemed pertinent to one or more sponsors or advertisers.
- the present invention provides a sponsor or advertiser with the capability to target its presentations substantially only to players or users having selected characteristics as, for example, determined from player information provided when registering with a network site for the present invention.
- a gaming/advertising web site for the present invention may partition the population of players into competitive groups wherein each group includes the players for a distinct tournament.
- the present invention may determine a competitive group according to criteria such as: (a) the game(s) to be played in the tournament; (b) a skill level for the players (e.g., as determined by play in a previous tournament(s)); (c) particular player characteristics such as age, area of residence, home ownership, etc.; (d) particular player lifestyle traits such as traits exhibited by exercise enthusiasts or cruise ship enthusiasts; and (e) particular player preferences such as preferences related to jewelry, personal care products or particular sports.
- criteria such as: (a) the game(s) to be played in the tournament; (b) a skill level for the players (e.g., as determined by play in a previous tournament(s)); (c) particular player characteristics such as age, area of residence, home ownership, etc.; (d) particular player lifestyle traits such as traits exhibited by exercise enthusiasts or cruise ship enthusiasts; and (e) particular player preferences such as preferences related to jewelry, personal care products or particular sports.
- a gaming establishment e.g., casino
- a blackjack game controller for the present invention communicates with blackjack players at Internet client nodes via a web site from which the blackjack game controller is accessed.
- blackjack players may play blackjack in the privacy of their own homes and at their leisure since the present invention does not require that a particular tempo of a blackjack game be maintained.
- the present invention utilizes novel varieties in such games, as blackjack, that make the games more enjoyable for users.
- this module can play blackjack with a plurality of players concurrently such that each player appears to be playing exclusively with the dealer module (e.g., “head-to-head”).
- each blackjack game is played asynchronously from other concurrent blackjack games with the dealer module.
- the dealer module may play a different dealer card hand with each player.
- the initial one (or two) cards (or card representations) dealt to the dealer for each game are unlikely to be the same for any two blackjack games being played with the dealer module; i.e., the probability of any two concurrently played blackjack games being identical is substantially equal to chance. Accordingly, this variation is particularly worthwhile when players are playing remotely through a network such as the Internet.
- the dealer module and each player concurrently playing blackjack with the dealer module may be provided with cards (or card representations) from the beginning of an identical sequence of card representations.
- each concurrently playing player receives an identical initial card hand and the dealer is also dealt an identical initial card hand. Subsequently, the card hands within each concurrent game will vary only if players request further cards differently.
- this variation of blackjack is particularly useful in tournament blackjack played within the confines of a casino, wherein the play of each player in the tournament is synchronized to start and stop within a predetermined interval.
- this variation of blackjack is enjoyed by tournament players in that the tournament players may consider it a better or fairer way for demonstrating blackjack playing skill.
- FIG. 1 is a block diagram of an embodiment of the present invention wherein this embodiment may be used within a blackjack gaming establishment such as a casino;
- FIG. 2 provides a representation of the gaming stations 18 of FIG, 1 wherein these gaming stations are used in gaming establishments for playing blackjack;
- FIG. 3 is a block diagram of an alternative embodiment of the present invention wherein the present invention is used to play blackjack on the Internet;
- FIGS. 4A-4E represent a flowchart for the processing performed by the blackjack game controller 14 when processing blackjack requests from players in either of the embodiments of FIG. 1 or FIG. 3 ;
- FIG. 5 provides a simple example of the operation of the present invention for playing a novel variation of blackjack wherein four blackjack games are shown being played asynchronously with the blackjack game controller;
- FIGS. 6A and 6B are a block diagram of an Internet embodiment of the present invention.
- FIG. 7 is a diagram illustrating how a user navigates through web pages of the World Wide Web for accessing the game/advertisement web site 308 ( FIG. 6 ) functionality;
- FIGS. 8A and 8B are an alternative embodiment of the game/advertisement web site 308 .
- FIG. 1 a block diagram is presented of a first embodiment of an electronic system 10 for the present invention for playing blackjack, wherein data flows are represented by solid arrows and control flows are represented by dashed arrows.
- the embodiment of FIG. 1 presents an architecture for the present invention for use on, for example, a local network within a casino, wherein low cost gaming stations may be utilized.
- the blackjack gaming system 10 includes a blackjack game controller 14 electronically connected to one or more potentially remote gaming stations 18 so that for each gaming station a player may play blackjack.
- each gaming station 18 provides a blackjack player with an electronic representation of a blackjack game wherein it may appear that the player (i.e., user) at the gaming station 18 is the only player playing against the dealer (i.e., “head-to-head” against the blackjack game controller 14 ).
- each gaming station 18 includes a display for displaying both the dealer's cards and the player's cards.
- Each gaming station 18 also includes player interaction capabilities for requesting additional cards, activating various blackjack player options at appropriate times, and potentially increasing various wagers at predetermined phases of a blackjack game.
- each gaming station 18 when in operation, may request a security code be provided by a player for identifying himself/herself or, alternatively, the gaming station may request the player to insert an electronic card (not shown) into the gaming station 18 so that information electronically encoded upon the card is read at the gaming station and transferred to the blackjack controller 14 .
- a gaming station interface 22 is provided for interfacing with each of the gaming stations 18 .
- the gaming station interface 22 buffers data signals between the other components included within the blackjack game controller 14 and the gaming stations 18 .
- the gaming station interface 22 may have speed matching buffers in order to adjust for differences in speed between the blackjack game controller 14 and the gaming stations 18 .
- a blackjack driver 26 exchanges data with the gaming station interface 22 .
- the blackjack driver 26 substantially coordinates the operation of the blackjack game controller 14 .
- the following capabilities are substantially provided by the blackjack driver 26 :
- the blackjack driver 26 communicates with a blackjack player registration and playing status database 28 .
- the database system 28 maintains in persistent storage information regarding each blackjack player. In particular, the database system 28 maintains:
- the blackjack driver 26 communicates with a wager accounting module 30 wherein the wager accounting module provides the following capabilities:
- the blackjack driver 26 also communicates with a blackjack player evaluator 34 .
- the blackjack player evaluator 34 receives, from each player (via instantiations of blackjack gaming data objects from the blackjack driver 26 ), all blackjack player requests except the data from each player indicating an amount to be wagered.
- the blackjack player evaluator 34 receives, from each player (via instantiations of blackjack gaming data objects from the blackjack driver 26 ), all blackjack player requests except the data from each player indicating an amount to be wagered.
- the blackjack player evaluator 34 is supplied with data corresponding to blackjack card representations from a card generator module 38 .
- the card generator module 38 generates, for example, an ordered collection or sequence of substantially random card representations and each such card representation is provided to the blackjack player evaluator 34 , wherein the blackjack player evaluator responds to each player's valid hit request by outputting the most recent card representation received from the card generator module 38 . That is, each player at a gaming station 18 receives a card representation according to when the player's request is received by the blackjack player evaluator 34 .
- the card generator module 38 also supplies the same card representations as supplied to the blackjack player evaluator 34 to a house blackjack playing module 42 , wherein this latter module plays the dealer's hand in each blackjack game.
- the house blackjack playing module 42 enforces the blackjack gaming rules on behalf of the gaming establishment. In particular, this module determines when and how insurance bets can be made related to the dealer's cards.
- the house blackjack playing module 42 outputs, when required to provide the dealer's hand with another card representation at a gaming station 18 , the most recent card representation received from the card generator module 38 .
- the house blackjack playing module 42 provides control information to the blackjack driver 26 , particularly regarding activation of the blackjack insurance option. This information, in turn, is conveyed to the blackjack player evaluator 34 so that this latter evaluator may activate the insurance option for each player at an active gaming station 18 .
- a blackjack hand evaluator 46 is also in communication with the blackjack driver 26 .
- the blackjack hand evaluator 46 evaluates each player's hand(s) in comparison to the dealer's blackjack hand for determining the win/loss/tie for each player's hand.
- the dealer's hand and the one or more hands played by each player at a gaming station 18 is supplied to the blackjack hand evaluator 46 .
- this evaluator outputs win/loss/tie results to the gaming stations 18 via the blackjack driver 26 and the gaming station interface 22 .
- the blackjack hand evaluator 46 also outputs win/loss/tie results along with the identity of the player playing each hand to the wager accounting module 30 so that wager credits and debits for each player's account may be updated according to the last or most recent blackjack game results.
- each gaming station 18 may include a player identification card reader 216 so that a blackjack player may identify him/herself at a gaming station 18 by swiping a magnetic identification portion of a player identification card (not shown) through the card slot 221 thereby allowing the card reader 216 to transmit the player's encoded identification upon his/her card to the blackjack game controller 14 .
- gaming station 18 may not have a card reader 216 .
- a blackjack player may be required to register either manually or automatically at a site remote from the gaming station 18 , or, alternatively personal identification numbers may be provided to players for identifying themselves via the player input area 204 wherein, for example, a numeric digit provided in the lower bottom portion of some of the touch-sensitive areas may be used by the player to input a personal identification number.
- the arrangement of the touch-sensitive portions of the player input area 204 and the format of the display area 208 may have other arrangements and still be within the scope of the present invention.
- an activate/enter next game button 220 is provided. This button is used to initially activate the gaming station 18 so that a “request to play” signal is transmitted to the blackjack driver 26 . That is, assuming a player activates this button at a gaming station 18 , the blackjack driver 26 responds by requesting that the player input his/her identification via, for example, placing an identification card in the card reader 216 and/or a personal identification number via the player input area 204 . Additionally, note that the button 220 may be pressed at the end of a blackjack game for indicating that the player wishes to play another blackjack game.
- the player when consecutive games are played by a player, the player need only press the button 220 to commence a new game. That is, the player's identification need not be entered for each consecutive game played (assuming the button 220 is activated within a predetermined time after the last game has terminated).
- the player input area 204 also includes a quit button 224 that a player may press to explicitly indicate the player's desire to terminate any further gaming at the gaming station 18 .
- buttons 228 through 248 provide the player with the capabilities to request the following blackjack gaming requests:
- buttons 252 through 264 are activated so that the player may input various betting amounts.
- buttons 252 through 264 provide the player with the option to bet $5.00 (button 252 ), $25.00 (button 256 ), $100.00 (button 260 ) and $500.00 (button 264 ).
- a sequence of the buttons 252 through 264 may be pressed for obtaining a bet not provided by a single button. For example, to bet $130.00, the player presses consecutively each of the buttons 252 , 256 and 260 (in any order) exactly once.
- the player input area 204 also includes various confirm and cancel buttons 268 through 276 .
- the accept button 268 allows the user to accept a last input. For example, it is an aspect in the present embodiment of the invention that after each user input, the input is accepted either by the player explicitly pressing the accept button 268 or by allowing a predetermined amount of time to expire after the last player input.
- the “CANCEL BET” button 272 allows the user to cancel an immediately preceding bet that was input. However, note that if a time limit is exceeded for placing a bet due to, for example, the player pressing the “CANCEL” button 272 , then any minimum bet required will be automatically wagered on the player's behalf by the wager accounting module 30 .
- the “CANCEL LAST” button 276 may be used by the player to cancel the immediately preceding wager of one of the dollar amount buttons 252 through 264 .
- the player may press the button 276 for canceling the $500.00 bet associated with button 264 and subsequently the player presses the button 256 to obtain the desired bet of $125.00.
- pressing the “CANCEL LAST” button twice in succession also cancels the entire bet.
- a “SPEED OF PLAY” button 280 may be optionally provided on the player input area 204 . This button allows the player to specify to the blackjack driver 26 , for example, the predetermined amount of time after a player input to wait before each subsequent input is automatically accepted.
- the “SPEED OF PLAY” button 280 includes active areas at each end of the button, wherein if the user presses the “slower” end of the button 280 , then the predetermined time(s) for automatically accepting a player input is lengthened. Alternatively, if the player presses the “faster” end of the button 280 , then the predetermined default acceptance time(s) becomes shorter.
- the player input area 204 includes a “HELP” button 284 for allowing the player to request assistance from, for example, the personnel of the gaming establishment providing the gaming station 18 .
- the screen display provided here is but one of a number of contemplated screen layouts for the present invention.
- the screen layout illustrated in display area 208 is a representative layout for use in playing tournament blackjack.
- the display 208 is in color so that, for example, diamonds and hearts are in red and spades and clubs are in black, and various fields of the display area 208 may be highlighted for focusing a player's attention on the portion of the display providing information most relevant to the player's currently permissible options.
- the house hand area 288 (a) for providing a representation of the cards that have been dealt to the house; (b) for providing a status of the house hand (i.e. one of: “STND” for standing, “BUSTED”, when the value of the house hand exceeds 21 , and “CONTINUING” when the house may take additional hits. That is, this field provides an annotation “house hand” followed by a representation for at least one card that has been dealt to the house; i.e., an ace of hearts.
- the player's hand area 292 of the display area 208 there are five columns providing information related to each blackjack hand the player is currently playing in the blackjack game. The columns provide the following information:
- the player information area 296 wherein additional blackjack gaming information relating to the player is displayed.
- labeled line 300 displays the most recent bet amount that the player has requested along with a tag indicating the status (e.g., “ACCEPT/CANCEL”) of the most recent bet.
- the status may be: (a) “ACCEPTED” for explicitly or implicitly indicating the acceptance of a displayed wager (via the player pressing the accept button 268 or by default due to a time limit expiring); (b) “CANCELLED” for explicitly indicating the cancellation of the last entered wager (via the player pressing either of the cancel buttons 272 or 276 ); (c) “REJECTED”, this status being displayed due to the wager accounting module 30 rejecting the player's most recent bet; and (d) “ACCEPT/CANCEL” for indicating that the present invention is waiting a predetermined amount of time for the player to explicitly accept or cancel the most recent bet.
- ACCEPTED for explicitly or implicitly indicating the acceptance of a displayed wager (via the player pressing the accept button 268 or by default due to a time limit expiring)
- CANCELLED for explicitly indicating the cancellation of the last entered wager (via the player pressing either of the cancel buttons 272 or 276 )
- REJECTED this status being displayed due to the wager accounting module 30 rejecting the
- the player has indicated a most recent bet of $30.00 and the blackjack driver 26 has output a status of “ACCEPT/CANCEL” as in (d) above.
- the blackjack hand(s) to which this most recent bet applies may be designated in any of a number of ways such as, for example, highlighting the row(s) in the player hand area 292 of the blackjack hand(s) to which the most recent bet of line 300 applies.
- an indicator such as arrows 302 may be used as in FIG. 2 to indicate to the player that the most recent bet is to be applied to both the upper and lower blackjack hand(s).
- line 304 displays the annotation “INSURANCE BET:” together with any insurance amount that has been bet by the player. Accordingly, the dollar amount on line 304 and the notation at the right end of the line pertain, respectively, to the amount that has been bet as insurance, and the status of this bet (i.e., one of “ACCEPTED”, “CANCELLED”, “REJECTED” or “ACCEPT/CANCEL” as in line 300 ).
- line 312 of the player information area 296 the total amount of funds available by the player for betting is displayed.
- line 312 of FIG. 2 indicates that the player has a total amount for betting of $1,000.00. Note that the wager accounting module 30 maintains this total amount available for betting and updates it after each blackjack game.
- the lower three lines 320 , 324 and 328 of the player information area 296 provide blackjack player information that is particularly useful when playing in a blackjack tournament. Thus, the information in these three lines may not be displayed when the present invention is used by players not in a tournament.
- line 320 two fields are provided for displaying playing time information. The leftmost field, annotated by the label “ELAPSED PLAYING TIME:”, displays the total amount of time the player has played blackjack (which in this case is 45 minutes). Alternatively, the rightmost field, annotated by the label “REMAINING PLAYING TIME:”, displays the time remaining in the tournament.
- the leftmost field having an annotation of “GAMES PLAYED:” displays to the player the number of blackjack games he/she has completed within a tournament. Note that in some blackjack tournaments each player is required to complete a certain predetermined number of games within a predetermined allotted time period. For example, a blackjack tournament may require each player to play 50 games within a predetermined interval (such as four days).
- the rightmost field of line 328 having the annotation “GAME NUMBER:”, displays to the player the total number of tournament games that have been completed thus far in the tournament. Accordingly, using at least the leftmost annotated field in line 328 and “REMAINING PLAYING TIME:” annotated field of line 320 , the player is able to determine the number of remaining games in the tournament that he/she must play.
- blackjack game values are contemplated by the present invention.
- a field providing the number of games remaining that a player must play in the tournament may be added (or substituted for) in addition to the current values in the player information area 296 .
- blackjack house rules are displayed.
- the house rules displayed in area 336 allow variations upon the typical blackjack rules that a player is likely to assume if not presented with information to the contrary. Note that by providing these additional rules on the display of gaming stations 18 , successive blackjack games may be provided with different house blackjack rules thereby creating an increased interest in each game by the players and requiring additional blackjack playing skills from the players.
- three house rules are provided in the present display area 336 . That is, (a) insurance for the present blackjack game pays 3 to 1 odds (instead of the typical 2 to 1 odds); (b) the player may double down after splitting only once; and (c) the minimum bet is $25.00 for the current game.
- the display 208 includes a player identification area 342 for identifying the player currently playing blackjack at the gaming station 18 .
- the present player area 342 includes a field having the current player's name (e.g., I. B. SMITH).
- I. B. SMITH the current player's name
- other fields identifying the player are also contemplated by the present invention including, for example, a player identification number such as the number that may be encoded upon a player identification card used in conjunction with the card reader 216 for identifying the player.
- FIG. 3 presents a second embodiment of the blackjack gaming system of the present invention.
- the blackjack game controller 14 is substantially the same as described hereinabove. However, this controller 14 is now accessible through an Internet web site 308 so that blackjack players at Internet client nodes 318 can play blackjack on the blackjack game controller 14 via the Internet 324 (or more particularly, via the World Wide Web).
- the web site 308 includes an Internet interface 332 for receiving and supplying communications between the Internet 324 and the remainder of the web site 308 .
- the Internet interface 332 communicates with World Wide Web server 340 : (a) for validating and/or initiating registration of web site users (e.g., blackjack players) at web site 308 ; and (b) for interpreting Internet requests for routing and/or activating web site 308 modules that can fulfill such requests.
- the World Wide Web server 340 may access the database system 28 for determining the registration identity of, for example, a blackjack player.
- the World Wide Web server 340 activates instantiations of modules known as common gateway interface (CGI) scripts, each CGI script 348 instantiation (or, for simplicity, each such instantiation also being referred to as a CGI script 348 ) being: (a) for interpreting and processing Internet requests according to the semantics of a web site 308 application associated with the CGI script; and (b) for constructing Internet responses from output from the associated application.
- CGI common gateway interface
- each CGI script 348 invokes the blackjack game controller 14 to process a single Internet blackjack request from an Internet client node 318 where a player is playing blackjack, and subsequently the CGI script 348 constructs an appropriate Internet response from the output received from the blackjack game controller 14 .
- the embodiment of the blackjack game controller 14 of FIG. 3 is substantially identical to that of FIG. 1 , a description of its internal structure is not repeated here. However, it is worthwhile to note that the embodiment of FIG. 3 is particularly appropriate when the blackjack game controller 14 executes on a different or remote processor from that of, for instance, the processor performing the CGI script(s) 348 . Further, note that if the blackjack game controller 14 executes on the same processor as the other web site 308 modules of FIG. 3 , then the communication interface 22 may be unnecessary, and additionally, much of the functionality of the other components of the blackjack game controller 14 may be incorporated into one or more CGI scripts 348 . Thus, for example, the blackjack player evaluator 34 functionality may be incorporated into one CGI script 348 while house blackjack playing module 42 functionality may be incorporated into another CGI script.
- gaming stations 18 of FIGS. 1 and 2 there are also noteworthy distinctions between the gaming stations 18 of FIGS. 1 and 2 and the Internet client nodes 318 of FIG. 3 as well as distinctions in blackjack play interactions. For example, the following distinctions may be provided:
- FIGS. 4A-4E a flowchart is presented of the high level steps performed by the blackjack game controller 14 when processing player requests in either of the embodiments of FIG. 1 or 3 for playing a novel blackjack variation wherein new eligible card representations are generated periodically regardless of whether they are dealt in a blackjack game or not and wherein the blackjack players may play the game asynchronously from one another.
- the blackjack game controller 14 is initialized so that it may process blackjack player requests and output appropriate responses to each player's request.
- the card generator module 38 commences to output at regular intervals (e.g., less than two seconds such as every 0.5 seconds) random card representations to both the blackjack player evaluator 34 and the house blackjack playing module 42 .
- the card generator module 38 continuously and regularly outputs card representations. Concomitantly with the actions in step 416 , the remaining steps of FIGS. 4A-4E are performed.
- the controller 14 waits for a (next) blackjack player input, such inputs being, for example, requests to enter a new blackjack tournament, requests to commence a new blackjack game within a tournament, requests to process a blackjack game play request, a request for information regarding the players account, and a request for help information (such as how to play blackjack).
- step 430 Upon receiving a blackjack player request, in step 430 the communication interface 22 queues the request and subsequently transmits the request to the blackjack driver 26 .
- step 436 a determination is made as to whether the player's request is related to a current blackjack game and/or current blackjack tournament. If not, then step 448 is encountered wherein an additional determination is made as to whether the player's request is to enter a new blackjack tournament. If so, then in step 454 the blackjack driver 26 determines a blackjack tournament and enters the player into the tournament. Note that in providing this function, the blackjack player 26 communicates with the wager accounting module 30 to confirm that the player is eligible to enter a new tournament.
- the blackjack driver 26 supplies the wager accounting module 30 with at least the player's identification and a specification of the tournament in which the player may be entered.
- the tournament selection may be provided by the player in some embodiments of the present invention.
- the blackjack driver 26 may select a tournament for the player using tournament information stored in the database system 28 .
- the wager accounting module 30 responds with a confirmation that the player may be entered into the selected tournament
- the blackjack driver 26 creates a confirmation record identifying the blackjack tournament in which the player is entered.
- the blackjack driver 26 outputs information in the confirmation record to the player at his/her Internet client node 318 (gaming station 18 ).
- step 462 the output of step 462 (and all subsequent such outputs to a blackjack player) are output from the blackjack driver 26 to the communication interface 22 for queuing until the output can be transmitted to the CGI script 348 that initiated the player request to which this output is a response. Subsequently, the output is transmitted to the World Wide Web server 340 and to the Internet interface 332 for transmitting on the Internet 324 and thereby being routed to the Internet client node 318 where the player is playing blackjack.
- step 466 the blackjack driver 26 enters, into the database system 28 , information indicating the blackjack tournament in which the player has been entered. Note that the information entered here into the database system 28 is subsequently accessible both by the blackjack driver 26 and the wager accounting module 30 for determining the tournament(s) in which the player has been entered. Following this step, since the player's request has been processed, the flow of control loops back to step 424 to wait for the next player input from a player at an Internet client node 318 or alternatively a gaming station 18 .
- step 470 is encountered to process any miscellaneous blackjack player requests not related to a current blackjack game and/or blackjack tournament. For example, a player may request accounting information related to his/her blackjack gaming account. Assuming such requests are processed and responded to in this step, the flow of control again returns to step 424 to wait for a next player input.
- step 476 is encountered wherein the blackjack driver 426 uses the player's identification (ID) provided with the request for retrieving any status information from the database system 28 regarding any current blackjack game and/or blackjack tournament in which the player may be currently involved.
- ID player's identification
- step 480 a determination is made as to whether the player request is to commence a new blackjack game in a current tournament. If so, then in step 484 the blackjack driver 26 requests confirmation from the wager accounting module 30 that the player can commence with a new blackjack game in the current tournament. That is, the wager accounting module 30 determines whether the player has sufficient tournament credits to continue in the tournament.
- step 488 the blackjack driver 26 determines whether a confirmation has been received from the wager accounting module 30 . If no such confirmation is provided, then in step 492 , the blackjack driver 26 outputs a message to the player at his/her Internet client node 318 (gaming station 18 ) indicating that no further blackjack games in the current tournament may be played by the player.
- step 494 the blackjack driver 26 creates a blackjack game record for fulfilling the player's request.
- the blackjack driver 26 communicates with the wager accounting module 30 to both debit the player's account for any initial ante corresponding to commencing the new blackjack game and also to output to the blackjack driver 26 data of this transaction for subsequently outputting to the player.
- step 496 the blackjack driver 26 requests the blackjack player evaluator 34 to provide an initial blackjack game configuration for the new blackjack game.
- step 500 the blackjack player evaluator 34 responds with an initial blackjack game configuration, wherein this configuration includes the initial card representation for the player's hand (as shown, for example, in area 292 of FIG. 2 ).
- this initial card representation is the most recent card representation provided to the blackjack player evaluator 34 by the card generator module 38 .
- step 500 may be performed for each of the requests before the dealer module 38 outputs a new random card representation to the blackjack player evaluator 34 . Consequently, in such a case both players will be presented with an identical initial card representation for the player's hand.
- the blackjack driver 26 stores information regarding the identity and initial configuration of the new blackjack game for the player in the database system 28 .
- a blackjack game identifier for the new game is stored and associated with the identity of the blackjack player and the tournament to which the game is associated.
- the blackjack driver 26 stores information regarding the new blackjack game for the player in the database system 28 .
- the following information is stored regarding the initial configuration of the new blackjack game: the player's identity, the identity of the tournament for which the new game corresponds, and identifier identifying the new game, and an initial configuration for the new blackjack game including card representations and any initial required bets.
- the blackjack driver 26 and the wager accounting module 30 update information in the database system 28 as the game configuration changes due to interactions between the player and the blackjack game controller 14 .
- each request from a player for continuing the game with a next play need not provide the entire game configuration to the blackjack game controller 14 . Instead, only sufficient information is required in the request for the blackjack driver 26 and/or the wager accounting module 30 to retrieve information related to the blackjack game configuration corresponding to the player's request.
- the blackjack driver 26 outputs an initial blackjack game configuration for the new game to the player at his/her Internet client node 318 (gaming station 18 ). Subsequently, the flow of control once again returns to step 424 to await a next player input to the controller 14 .
- step 520 is encountered wherein a determination is made as to whether the player request is related to a play in a currently active blackjack game. If not, then in step 524 the blackjack game controller 14 processes miscellaneous requests such as, for example, a request for special blackjack rules relating to a current game and/or tournament, the number of players remaining in the current tournament, the player's ranking in the current tournament, and the prizes for winners of the current tournament. Subsequently, assuming such miscellaneous requests are responded to, in step 524 , the flow of control for the present flowchart returns to 424 to await a next player input.
- miscellaneous requests such as, for example, a request for special blackjack rules relating to a current game and/or tournament, the number of players remaining in the current tournament, the player's ranking in the current tournament, and the prizes for winners of the current tournament.
- step 528 a further determination is made as to whether the player request is for a new card representation. If so, then in step 532 , a determination is made as to whether the card request is for the house or for the player. If the card request is from the house, then in step 536 the blackjack driver 26 communicates with the house blackjack playing module 42 for obtaining a new blackjack game configuration for the current blackjack game, wherein the new game configuration includes the most recently output card representation from the card generator module 38 as the next card representation in the house hand for the blackjack game from which the current player's request came. Subsequently, in step 542 the house blackjack playing module 42 outputs blackjack game configuration information indicating the new house hand card representation and any player response(s) that the player may exercise in responding to the new blackjack game configuration.
- the blackjack driver 26 Upon receiving the house blackjack playing module 42 output, in step 546 , the blackjack driver 26 determines whether there is a further player response in the present game by invoking one or both of the blackjack player evaluator 34 and the blackjack hand evaluator 46 . If there are additional possible player responses, then in step 550 the blackjack driver 26 outputs a blackjack game configuration to the player at his/her Internet client node 318 (gaming station 18 ) so that the player may exercise one of his/her available game options. Subsequently, having processed the player's request the flow of control again loops back to step 424 to await a next player input.
- step 546 the blackjack driver 26 determines that there are no further possible player responses, then the current blackjack game is complete and the blackjack driver 26 in step 556 activates the blackjack hand evaluator 46 for evaluating the blackjack game hands so that the blackjack hand evaluator can activate the wager accounting module 30 to update the player's account (according to the results of the blackjack game) in the database system 28 .
- step 560 the wager accounting module 30 outputs to the blackjack driver 26 updated accounting information to be provided to the player.
- step 564 the blackjack driver 26 outputs the results of the blackjack game and the players updated account information to the player.
- the blackjack driver 26 updates the database system 28 regarding the completion of the present blackjack game as well as any further status information related to the player and the tournament to which the present blackjack game is associated. Subsequently, having processed the player's request, the flow of control again loops back to step 424 to await a next player input.
- step 568 the blackjack driver 26 activates the blackjack player evaluator 34 for obtaining a new blackjack game configuration for the current blackjack game, wherein the new game configuration includes the most recently output card representation from the card generator module 38 as the next card representation for the player's hand(s).
- step 572 the blackjack player evaluator 34 determines the next blackjack play options the player may exercise for the present game and then outputs the new blackjack configuration with these options to the blackjack driver 26 .
- the steps 546 and subsequent steps are performed as described above.
- step 576 is encountered wherein the blackjack game controller 14 processes other blackjack player game requests such as requests for additional bets, cancellations of bets, a request to stand on a particular player hand, a request to split a pair of card representations, or a request for insurance.
- the blackjack driver 26 subsequently outputs a new blackjack game configuration to the player according to the processing performed in step 576 .
- the blackjack driver 26 updates the database system 28 with information relating to the new blackjack game configuration so that it may be retrieved upon a subsequent player request relating to the present game.
- the flow of control for the present flowchart loops back to step 424 to again wait for another player input.
- FIG. 5 presents a simple example of the operation of the present invention for playing blackjack wherein four blackjack games are shown being played asynchronously with the blackjack game controller 14 .
- the row of numbers 604 across the top of the figure represents a sequence of values of successive card representations output by the card generator module 38 . That is, in a first time interval a card representation having a value of three is output, in a second time interval a card representation having a value of five is output, in a third time interval a card representation having a value of seven is output and so on across the row.
- each blackjack game row 606 represents a series of events that occur in each blackjack game 610 through 626 over the course of time corresponding to the series of card values 604 .
- the numerical entries within each blackjack game row 606 correspond to the values of the player and house card hands as additional cards are added to the player and house hands of each blackjack game. For example, referring to blackjack game row 610 , assuming this blackjack game commences with the player's hand obtaining the card representation for the leftmost card value of the sequence 604 (i.e. the value three), the player's hand has a corresponding value of three. Subsequently, if the house blackjack playing module 42 is activated for this game to output (i.e.
- card representations generated by the card generator module 38 are only incorporated into a particular blackjack game when a request for such a card representation is made during the time the card representation is the most recent output from the card generator module 38 .
- one or more card representations output by the card generator module 38 during a blackjack game may not be used in the game. More precisely, it is typical (although not shown in the example of FIG. 5 ) that substantially any length or subsequence of consecutive card representations output by the card generator module 38 may be ignored within a given blackjack game due to time delays occurring in the game. Thus, in some circumstances such delays could be as long as a number of days if the player, for example, did not request another hit during such a time interval.
- Blackjack game rows 606 for blackjack games 614 through 626 may be interpreted similarly to the description above for blackjack game 610 . Note however that each of these games commence at a different time interval in that each game commences with a different card representation taken as the first hit for the player's hand. That is, the first card representation dealt in each of the blackjack games 610 through 626 is different and further each of the card representations requested corresponding to values of the sequence 604 is different for each blackjack game. Therefore, substantially every blackjack game, even if played concurrently with other blackjack games, will have unique player hands and house hands.
- blackjack players may substantially determine the timing for substantially all hits in a blackjack game (for both the player hand and the house hand) and thereby reduce any suspicions that the card representations are being manipulated.
- the players may request the sequence of card representations that were generated during the course of a game.
- this step may simply activate the card generator module 38 so that it generates a substantially random card representation on demand whenever a request for a new card representation is made (e.g., steps 536 and 568 ).
- each player plays each play of a blackjack game synchronously as blackjack is typically played with a human dealer in casinos.
- each player is provided with the identical card representations for their initial cards.
- each player hand and the house (i.e., dealer) hand varies between players only when players play their blackjack hands differently. That is, for each synchronously played blackjack game among a plurality of players, the same sequence of card representations is available to each player and the house blackjack playing module 42 so that, for example, the dealt card representations in each game between one of the players and the house blackjack playing module are identical for players playing the same sequence of plays throughout the game.
- the card generator module 38 may be necessary for the card generator module 38 to maintain a predetermined sequence (or ordered collection) of card representations throughout the game so that players playing differently may be dealt an appropriately sequenced card representation. Moreover, it may also be necessary for the house blackjack dealer playing module 42 to provide sufficient control information to the card generator module 38 so that the card generator module can respond with the appropriate card representation from the predetermined sequence.
- FIGS. 6A and 6B Another embodiment of the present invention is presented in FIGS. 6A and 6B , wherein this embodiment is enhanced for presenting sponsor or advertiser product and/or service advertising to qualified players that adequately match a predetermined player profile such as a demographic profile of a particular group of players.
- a game/advertisement controller 604 for providing substantially the same functionality as the blackjack game controller 14 ( FIG. 3 ) except that games other than blackjack may also be played (such as poker, craps, pai gow and roulette).
- the game/advertisement controller 604 also performs functions related to matching particular advertising with the users (i.e., players) playing the various games provided by the game/advertisement web site 308 , wherein each user communicates with the web site 308 on a corresponding Internet client node 318 (alternatively interactive cable television node). That is, the present FIGS. 6A and 6B present the high level modules for matching players having desired user characteristics (e.g., profiles) with advertising from sponsors or advertisers requesting players with such user characteristics. In particular, only the players with such desired profiles qualify for receiving a particular advertisement and/or promotional (i.e., advertising) from a particular sponsor or advertiser. Accordingly, it is an aspect of the present invention that various criteria may be used to make such a determination as to which players (or, more generally, users) receive which advertising. For example, one or more of the following attributes may be used in matching users with advertising presentations:
- data (or user information items) on each user is maintained in the form of a user profile in the user (player) database 28 which is an enhanced version of the blackjack player registration and playing status database 28 of FIG. 3 .
- the user profiles are populated with such user related information as in (8.1) through (8.11). This information is obtained when users register at the web site 308 when users respond to explicit questions subsequently asked of them, or by monitoring the network activities of users.
- user profiles may vary in length, depending on the amount of information obtained on each user.
- different types of information may be obtained for different types of users. For example, for users having assets of more than one million dollars, these users may be requested to enter their favorite vacation destination location since this may be important for certain advertisers.
- each user profile has a variable length section for storing user information items not uniform across all users.
- each user information item stored in the variable length section may be considered as a pair, wherein the first component of each pair indicates or references a question, user attribute, or user classification to which the second component provides an answer or value related to the first component.
- an information item may provide the pair: (4, “Madrid”), wherein “4” identifies the attribute: “favorite vacation destination location,” and “Madrid” is the value for this attribute, as one skilled in the art will understand.
- data related to the advertisers or sponsors may reside in a different database, the advertiser database 612 .
- this database stores demographic profiles which, in one embodiment, have a data structure substantially identical to the user profile data structure.
- demographic profiles may have a variable length section for specifying requested values for user information items that may be provided in (potentially only a relatively small number of) user profiles.
- a demographic profile includes a reference to the advertiser's or sponsor's identity, a reference to the advertising to be presented and a variable length section of demographic item pairs, wherein the first component of each pair has the same interpretation as the first component of a user information item pair and the second component of the pair specifies a desired value or range of values that the advertiser or sponsor prefers.
- each demographic item pair may have additional information associated with it such as a perceived importance of the demographic item pair to the advertiser or sponsor.
- additional information may be in the form of a normalized scalar value wherein a value of one indicates that the demographic item pair is of highest importance whereas a value of zero indicates that the demographic item is substantially irrelevant to the advertiser or sponsor.
- the users' demographic profiles are used to match (i.e., select) one or more corresponding advertising presentations with a particular target group of users that, presumably, are likely to purchase the product and/or service portrayed in such advertising presentations.
- advertisers and/or sponsors may provide to these users specifically targeted advertising having relatively expensive promotionals such as product or service discounts, free samples, or a trial usage.
- the user profiles stored in the user database 28 are compared with the demographic profiles by the advertising selection engine 618 .
- the advertising selection engine 618 there are numerous techniques for performing such a comparison for selecting a group of users.
- a precise match may be required between each demographic item pair and a corresponding user information item pair so that the second component of the user information item pair is (within) a desired range as specified in the corresponding demographic item pair.
- various weighting statistical techniques may be used for determining a “similarity” measurement when not all demographic pairs are required to precisely match a demographic profile.
- the similarity measurement may be provided by a statistical analysis module that determines the users that most closely match the corresponding demographic profile for an advertising presentation.
- the similarity measurement between the user's profile and a corresponding demographic profile may be required to be above a predetermined threshold.
- the advertising selection engine 618 may perform the matching of users with advertising presentations as a background or non-real time process so that, for example, for each user profile in the user database 28 , there is a related table identifying the advertising presentations that are candidates for presentation to the corresponding user when, for instance, this user communicates with the game/advertisement web site 308 .
- the advertising selection engine 618 may, for a particular demographic profile, periodically re-evaluate user profiles in the user database 28 for reselecting the group of users to which an advertising presentation is to be presented.
- users previously selected may be requalified or disqualified and users previously disqualified may be now qualified for selection due to, for example, an enhanced user profile.
- the present invention may commence or cease transmitting a category of advertising to a user whose user profile is enhanced with additional information. For example, if a user indicates that he/she is currently considering the purchase of a new car, then adverting for purchasing a car may be transmitted to the user. Alternatively, once the present invention is notified that, for example, a car has been purchased or that no further car advertising is are desired, then a further enhancement of the user's profile may be performed so that no further advertising from the category of car advertising is transmitted to the user.
- the present invention provides for flexibly creating, deleting and modifying categories of advertisements by providing techniques for linking demographic item pairs that are similarly related to a category record or object.
- advertising categories may be provided by the present invention: sports categories (e.g., baseball, soccer, hockey, etc.), food related categories (e.g., restaurants, grocery stores, food items), exercise related advertising (e.g., bicycles, in-line skates, skiing), insurance related advertising (e.g., auto insurance, life insurance), political related advertising (e.g., for or against a particular political candidate), and geographical related advertising (e.g., for users living in a particular area such as the Denver metropolitan area).
- the advertising selection engine 618 supplies the selected advertising presentations to the HTML display engine 622 for translating this data so that it may subsequently be included in an HTML output to the user by the common gateway interface 348 .
- the selected advertisement data is joined in the HTML display engine 622 (at least in one operation of the present invention) with a token 628 representing, for example, a gaming card (for a current user game) that has been issued by the token generator (module) 38 , this generator being an enhanced version of the card generator module 38 of FIG. 3 .
- the generated token is supplied initially to the game play engine 632 for processing user gaming requests according to the rules of the game being played. That is, the game play engine 632 determines, for each available game: (a) how each token may be “played”; (b) who receives the token, for example, the user or the house playing module 42 ; and (c) the result of playing the token.
- the token generator 38 generates tokens on request by, for example, the house playing module 42 and/or the player options evaluators 34 , wherein the tokens generated are appropriate to the game being played.
- the token generator 38 may generate random tokens and the game play engine 632 transforms the tokens into appropriate randomized values for the games offered, as one skilled in the art will appreciate.
- other embodiments for supplying randomized tokens to a plurality of different games are within the scope of the present invention.
- the game play engine 632 contacts the player database 28 to maintain the status of the user in relation to the particular game being played as well as the user's relationship to all of the other users (if, for example, the user is involved in a tournament offered at the game/advertisement web site 308 ).
- its internal modules provide a similar architecture and functionality to the correspondingly labeled modules of FIG. 3 , albeit additionally, for games other than blackjack (e.g., “head-to-head” poker, craps, roulette, and pai gow).
- the common gateway interface or CGI scripts 348 transfer data between the HTML display engine 622 and the World Wide Web server 340 which, as one skilled in the art will understand, may be a plurality of high level executable programs as discussed in the description of CGI scripts 348 for FIG. 3 .
- the World Wide Web server 340 transfers the data to the Internet TCP/IP stack 332 that interfaces with the Internet 324 for transferring the data to an intended Internet client node 318 having an appropriate World Wide Web browser 640 .
- the present embodiment maintains information on the status of games being played and user responses to advertising in the user database 28 .
- additional advertiser specific information e.g., desired demographic profiles, advertisements, promotionals, and information related to user responses
- the demographic profiles in the advertiser database 612 may include schemas or templates having fields for designating one or more of the attributes (8.1) through (8.11).
- the databases 28 and 612 may maintain records of various types of pertinent statistics such as: (a) the advertising presentations presented to each user; (b) the time, date and number of presentations of a particular advertising presentation; and (c) the detected user responses to the advertising.
- this information may provide advertisers or sponsors with enhanced feedback as to the efficacy of their products, services and presentations thereof.
- an advertiser may be able to query the user and advertiser databases 28 and 612 to obtain such feedback as:
- FIG. 7 a diagram is presented providing one embodiment of the access routes or paths users navigate in accessing the features of the game/advertisement web site 308 .
- a user upon initiating Internet contact with the game/advertisement web site 308 , a user is first presented with the opening page 700 identifying the web site 308 . Subsequently, the user can access the benefits and registration pages 704 for viewing general information related to web site 308 and also for registering at the web site (as is discussed in further detail below). Alternatively, the user may access one or more “Lobby” pages 708 to view the gaming and information exchange capabilities as, for example, provided by advertisers.
- the user may proceed from the LOBBY 708 to the game page 710 , wherein a game 726 or game rules 730 can be selected for playing, via the introduction to game pages 728 .
- the user may instead access one or more index pages 714 having, for example, listings of organizations to which the user may be allowed to access depending on the affiliations of the user (e.g., a member of a particular membership discount store chain).
- index page(s) 714 substantially any user may access an advertisement or promotional provided by an advertiser on an advertiser page(s) 722 .
- information related to certain promotionals provided by advertisers or sponsors are restricted.
- such promotionals may be only presented to users having a demographic profile that has been determined by the present invention to be sufficiently compatible with a desired user profile for the advertiser or sponsor to warrant providing such a promotional.
- the present invention provides access to certain advertiser promotionals only to “qualified” users who are, for example, considered likely subsequent purchasers of the advertiser's products and/or services.
- promotionals may also be presented to users who express an interest in a particular product or service advertised. For example, users who (a) request additional or supplemental information related to an advertised item, or (b) provide a favorable response to such advertising (by, for instance, indicating a preference for an advertised item), or (c) respond to a questionnaire related to personal information or marketing survey information may also be provided with information regarding promotionals.
- advertisers or sponsors may offer relatively substantial or expensive promotionals via the present invention to such users as well.
- the present invention may also utilize such demographic profiles to prohibit a user not sufficiently matching such a demographic profile from gaining access to a corresponding promotional. Accordingly, in one embodiment of the present invention, when the user accesses an advertiser page 722 , the user's profile (in the user database 28 ) is compared with the demographic profiles in the advertiser data base 612 for determining any promotionals that can be presented to the user.
- the user may be provided with the ability to link into various web sites or web site pages. That is, the user may be provided with the ability to link into another web site or web page at any time a link is made available (typically a hypertext link).
- similar links may be accessible by users while playing a game 726 .
- these links may generally hyperlink the user to an advertiser page 722 within the game/advertisement web site 308 so that the user may be exposed to further information and/or presented with promotional options for an advertised item. For instance, certain advertising hyperlinks may be integrated into the presentation of plays of a game 726 .
- an aspect of the present invention is to repeatedly integrate different advertising presentations (and any related hyperlinks) into the play of a game 726 , a user may repeatedly be enticed to seek out additional information about different products or services by activating the related hyperlinks.
- the present invention is able to provide feedback to an advertiser as to, for example, the number of times the advertising presentation is accessed by users for such additional information about products or services.
- advertisements presented via advertiser pages 722 or as part of a game play presentation
- a user may be given the opportunity to provide positive and negative opinions or responses on, for example, various advertisements, promotionals and other related matters by expressing such responses upon accessing advertisement related information.
- test marketing in that statistically representative groups of users may be selected for determining:
- input response data may be transmitted to the game/advertisement web site 308 and retained for subsequent statistical evaluation.
- resulting aggregate statistics can be made available to, for example, advertisers or sponsors, thereby preserving the privacy of the users.
- statistics may be made available for:
- the game/advertisement web site 308 coordinates with a third party Internet access service provider 810 (or interactive cable television provider) for providing Internet 324 (cable television) access to users on a reduced cost or free basis once a user has registered with the web server 340 (cable television provider). That is, the game/advertisement web site 308 contacts the user's Internet service provider and arranges to subsidize the user's Internet service charges in return for the gaming advertisement web site 308 being able to repeatedly download to the user's Internet client node 318 (or alternatively, interactive cable television node), unrequested information such as advertising for presentation to the user.
- a third party Internet access service provider 810 or interactive cable television provider
- the game/advertisement web site 308 contacts the user's Internet service provider and arranges to subsidize the user's Internet service charges in return for the gaming advertisement web site 308 being able to repeatedly download to the user's Internet client node 318 (or alternatively, interactive cable television node), unrequested information
- a prospective user of the present invention can sign up or register with the game/advertisement web site 308 for reduced Internet service fees by dialing into an Internet service provider 810 with normal serial dialing and after gaining Internet access, subsequently log on to the web site 308 as a user identified by the generic user identifier “NEW.”
- Each user identified by “NEW” is forced into a connection with an enrollment or registration program so he/she can provide information requested by the present invention that can subsequently be used in determining which advertising to present to this user according to, for example, advertiser preferences.
- the present embodiment of the invention downloads, for example, an ad viewer program 812 and a communications daemon (e.g., ad receiver daemon 806 ) to the user's Internet client node 318 , wherein this daemon allows the game/advertisement web site 308 to download to the user's Internet client node 318 unrequested information such as advertising repeatedly.
- ad viewer program 812 e.g., ad receiver daemon 806
- this daemon allows the game/advertisement web site 308 to download to the user's Internet client node 318 unrequested information such as advertising repeatedly.
- the daemon 806 the user may access not only the gaming and advertisement services of the web site 308 , but also access substantially the entire Internet through the web site 308 at a reduced cost.
- the end user processor 318 connects with the Internet service provider 810 , the game/advertisement web site 308 is alerted by the Internet service provider 810 and the DISPLAY ENGINE 622 starts up the downloaded daemon 806 via Internet communications with the user's Internet client node 318 . Subsequently, the DISPLAY ENGINE 622 periodically sends selected advertising to the daemon 806 . Accordingly, the daemon 806 utilizes the ad viewer program 812 to coordinate the display of the advertising presentation.
- the game/advertisement web site 308 may include or be related to a dedicated Internet service provider 806 so that when a user registers with the present invention, the user is provided with a new Internet access code for the dedicated Internet service provider 806 and the user's Internet access fees may be subsidized.
- the game/advertisement controller 604 is notified whenever each subsidized user connects to the Internet or disconnects from the Internet. Additionally, certain reliability features are included in the daemon 806 and ad view program 812 for assuring that advertising is indeed presented to the user. For example, there may be periodic transmissions from each subsidized user's Internet client node 318 to the web site 308 verifying that both the daemon 806 and the ad view program 812 are active.
- the daemon 806 transfers the advertising to the ad viewer program 812 which, in turn, converts the transmitted information to a displayable format and forces the display of the user's Internet client node 318 to present the advertising unobscured to the user.
- the DISPLAY ENGINE 622 may transmit a message to an Internet Service Provider 806 indicating that no further Internet access will be subsidized due to a predetermined number of advertising presentation display failures.
- game tournaments may be provided, wherein the players of such a tournament play instances of a game on a communications network such as the Internet, a cable network, an interactive television network, or an intranet (such as in a casino).
- a communications network such as the Internet, a cable network, an interactive television network, or an intranet (such as in a casino).
- Such game tournaments provide for the playing of a plurality of instances of a game by each of a plurality of players.
- a tournament is a multi-level structure, wherein at a first level players are grouped within the tournament into groups and the players within a group compete against one another when playing one or more instances of the game.
- winning players from a lower level are partitioned into one or more groups such that for each of these new groups, the players within the group compete against one another by playing instances of the game, or, alternatively, by playing instances of a modified version wherein one or more rules of the game are changed (such as described hereinabove when discussing blackjack).
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- (1.1) identifies each player requesting to play blackjack at one of the
gaming stations 18; - (1.2) creates internal data structures for communication with other modules of the
blackjack game controller 14 regarding each blackjack game being played; in particular, blackjack gaming data objects or records are (re) instantiated with each player request, such data objects providing sufficient information for theblackjack game controller 14 to properly respond to each received player request; - (1.3) determines the output of the
blackjack game controller 14 to each of theactive gaming stations 18; - (1.4) distributes blackjack gaming data between other modules of the
blackjack game controller 14; and - (1.5) provides card representations to
gaming stations 18.
- (2.1) information identifying each player; e.g., a unique player identification code;
- (2.2) information regarding, for example, each blackjack player's financial status; in particular, a credit limit and a current amount of funds (either to be paid or received from the player);
- (2.3) for each person registered to play blackjack, information regarding the status or context of any game the player is presently playing; that is, sufficient information is stored so that the
blackjack game controller 14 can retrieve this information and continue a blackjack game in response to receiving a player's request; - (2.4) for each person registered to play blackjack, information regarding any blackjack tournament that the player is playing; in particular, since such a tournament typically requires a tournament player to complete a specified number of blackjack games in a predetermined amount of time and/or to complete a specified number of blackjack games out of a total number of blackjack games, the following types of information maybe stored: (a) information relating to the number of blackjack games completed by the player; (b) information related to the time and/or the number of games remaining in the tournament; and (c) information related to the amount of funds or points in the player's account for the tournament.
- (3.1) determines various wagering limit parameters for the next one or more blackjack games to be played (e.g., the wagering limit per game and the total wagering limit per player); and
- (3.2) performs wagering accounting for each player's wins and losses.
Thus, thewager accounting module 30 is instrumental in initializing a new blackjack game in that this module receives and maintains financial information related to each currently active player at agaming station 18. Thus, thewager accounting module 30 has a communication data channel with the blackjack player registration and playingstatus database 28 so that thewager accounting module 30 may retrieve information for determining whether the player has, for example, sufficient financial resources to cover potential wagering losses. Of course, to provide waging evaluation information toother controller 14 modules, thewager accounting module 30 receives identifying information from each such module requesting an evaluation.
- (4.1) determines each player's options during blackjack games; and
- (4.2) responds to player requests for hits or to, for example, split pairs.
Thus, theblackjack player evaluator 34 enforces the gaming establishment rules related to player options during a blackjack game. Note, however, that in responding to certain player requests, theblackjack player evaluator 34 communicates with thewager accounting module 30 to confirm that a proper wager accompanies the requested option and that the wager is acceptable to thewager accounting module 30.
- (5.1) The “HIT”
button 228 allows the player to request another card to be dealt to him/her. - (5.2) The “STND”
button 232 allows the player to stand on a current blackjack hand. - (5.3) The “DBL”
button 236 allows the player to double down under appropriate circumstances as determined by theblackjack player evaluator 34. - (5.4) The “SPLIT”
button 240 allows the player to split the player's first two cards into two separate blackjack hands when these first two cards are identical. - (5.5) The “INS”
button 244 allows the player to request insurance under the circumstances where the dealer's single face-up card is an ace. - (5.6) The “BET”
button 248 allows the player to request that a bet or wager be entered during a blackjack game.
- (6.1) The “PLAYER HAND(S)” column provides, in each row of this column, a different blackjack hand that is being played simultaneously by the player in the current blackjack game. Thus, two blackjack hands are presently represented as being played simultaneously by the player on the
display area 208. That is, an upper or first hand having a three of spades, king of hearts, and a five of spades, and, a lower or second blackjack hand having a three of clubs and an eight of diamonds. (Note, when a player chooses to double down, card representations in common between two blackjack hands may be displayed in a row between the remaining card representations for both hands. Alternatively, card representations in common between blackjack hands may be duplicated in the blackjack hands to which the common cards representations apply.) - (6.2) A “STATUS” column for indicating the current status of each blackjack hand the player is playing. That is, for the first or upper hand that the player currently is playing the status is “STND” thereby indicating that the player has elected to stand on this hand. Alternatively, for the second or lower hand a status of “PICK OPTION” is provided thereby indicating that it is the player's turn to pick a blackjack playing option for this hand. Note that there are at least three possible values for the status field of each blackjack hand being played. That is, in addition to the two represented in
FIG. 2 , a “BUSTED” status value is output for indicating that the value of the related blackjack hand has exceeded 21. - (6.3) The “OPTIONS” column provides, for each blackjack hand being played, an indication of the permissible blackjack plays that the player currently may select from for the related blackjack hand in the same row. Thus, for the first hand illustrated in
area 292, there are no options remaining for the player to play related to this hand. However, on the second hand, four permissible player inputs are displayed as options to the player. That is, the player may stand on the related hand (STND) by pressingbutton 232, the player may request a hit (HIT) by pressingbutton 228, the player may double down (DBL) by pressingbutton 236 and the player may bet an additional wager by pressingbutton 248 and subsequently putting a betamount using buttons 252 through 264. - (6.4) The “LAST BET” column displays to the player his/her last but for each blackjack hand the player is currently playing. In particular, for both the upper and lower hands shown in
area 292, the player's last bet was $50.00. - (6.5) The “TOTAL BET” column displays to the player the total bet the player has wagered on the blackjack hand to which it relates. For example, in
FIG. 2 , in both the upper and lower player's blackjack hands displayed, the player has bet a total of $200.00.
- (7.1) Due to the potentially lengthy delays that occur on the Internet, the embodiment of
FIG. 3 does not provide for automatic acceptance of a blackjack play (e.g., acceptance of an input bet or a default to a minimum ante) due to a time period expiring. Thus, the speed of play is determined by the responsiveness of each player and the responsiveness of the Internet. - (7.2) Players may play blackjack in tournaments against one another on the Internet wherein, for each tournament entered by a player, he/she receives, without cost, a predetermined number of points to use for playing in the tournament. Note that prizes may be awarded to tournament winners as incentive to play in such blackjack tournaments. Further note that the time period to complete a tournament may be substantially more lengthy than the time periods for typical blackjack tournament play. For example, a tournament may extend for 90 days since players can play at their leisure.
- (7.3) The input keys of
gaming station 18 ofFIG. 1 may be also presented on the display screens ofInternet client nodes 318 wherein the input buttons ofgaming station 18 now become active buttons on a blackjack web page generated by theweb site 308 and presented to a player at anInternet client node 318. However, note that at least the speed ofplay key 280 is not necessary, as mentioned in reference to the embodiment ofFIGS. 1 and 2 since the speed of play is of diminished importance. - (7.4) There may be other types of information output to an
Internet client node 318 in addition to the information displayed inFIG. 3 . In particular, advertising information may be provided with eachweb site 308 response to a player regarding, for example, blackjack tournament sponsors and prizes.
- (8.1) age,
- (8.2) sex,
- (8.3) financial status,
- (8.4) location or residence,
- (8.5) education,
- (8.6) marital status,
- (8.7) amount of recreational time,
- (8.8) personal tastes and/or habits (e.g., smoker/non-smoker, preferences for sports, movies, liquor, foods, clothes, vacations, cars, etc.),
- (8.9) size of household,
- (8.10) number of children, and
- (8.11) categorizations of users according to network interactions such as the type of web sites accessed, the type of advertising for which the user seeks additional information, the risk tolerance in playing games such as blackjack.
- (9.1) who has seen a particular advertisement;
- (9.2) when it was seen;
- (9.3) the number of times the advertisement was accessed:
- (a) by any particular user;
- (b) by all users; and
- (9.4) the number of favorable and/or unfavorable responses.
- (10.1) the efficacy or appeal of one advertisement in comparison to another advertisement for a particular advertised item;
- (10.2) the profile of the users that are responsive to a particular advertising presentation; and/or
- (10.3) whether a particular group of users, for example, having similar user profiles favorably respond to a particular advertising presentation. For example, the present invention may determine such a response: (a) by detecting an activation of a hyperlink, (b) by detecting a response to questions presented, and/or (c) by determining the length of time the advertising presentation is displayed or visible.
- (11.1) providing information about, for example, the efficacy of certain advertising presentations (e.g., the number of positive responses to such presentations and/or the number of advertised items sold directly through the advertisements at the game/advertisement web site 308);
- (11.2) providing information related to the number and profile of users accessing certain advertising presentations;
- (11.3) determining measurements related to the number of different (groups of) users to which an advertising presentation has been presented;
- (11.4) determining the total number of presentations of a particular advertisement;
- (11.5) determining the cost of advertising presentations to the advertisers and billing the advertisers for such costs according to, for example, at least one of: (a) the number of users to which an advertisement is presented, (b) the number of promotionals requested or (c) the number of network user communications (i.e., hits) with the
web site 308; - (11.6) determining if an advertising presentation should be discontinued because the advertiser's cost limits have been reached, such limits being, for example, related to a total number of presentations of an advertising presentation. Note that, in one embodiment, it is an aspect of the present invention to charge an advertiser for each presentation to a user; or
- (11.7) determining which of an advertising presentation and a different second advertising presentation (from the same advertiser) is most effective when both are provided to various selected (groups of) users, so that the advertiser or sponsor may then have a basis for choosing the most appropriate of the two advertising presentations in future advertising.
- (12.1) providing “real time” game rankings of users (players) involved in a gaming tournament provided by the game/
advertisement web site 308. Note that such rankings may be provided to a user so that he/she may know his/her standing and the number of players remaining in the tournament; and - (12.2) providing a “style of personality” of the game playing users so that, for example, a risk tolerance of such users may be estimated and used to determine if a particular user might be interested in a particular product or service. Thus, such “style of personality” statistics for a user may be stored in the user's profile. For example, the information captured here may include: average size of wager, average size of wager in comparison to the total amount that could be wagered, length of time playing in a single session, the ratio of the number of wagers on high risk plays presented, and the skill of the player.
- (13.1) the user may be provided with free access or reduced cost access to other areas of the
Internet 324 upon viewing the presentations of certain organizations and/or advertisers. Note that the ability to reduce the cost of accessing the Internet may act as a vehicle for attracting various users; - (13.2) the
index page 714 gives a user the opportunity to access a particular organization (e.g., organizations 718) that the user may belong to or any particular advertiser (e.g., advertisers 722) without going through any games although the user may be required to go through the “LOBBY” page(s) 708 and thereby be exposed to advertising and/or the opportunity to join a game; - (13.3) a user may also be able to go from an
initial organization page 718 to an introductory game page 728 (e.g., for a game 726) but, unless authorized, may not be provided with further access to the organization's web pages or the game; - (13.4) while playing a
game 726, the user has the ability to access further information related to an advertisement or promotional being presented; - (13.5) during the playing of a game 726 (e.g., blackjack), the user may be allowed to review and/or stepwise replay a previous portion of a
game 726 during a current gaming session; - (13.6) when in a
particular organization page 718, the user may be required to return to theindex page 714 before linking into anadvertiser 722 unless a direct link has been provided for some reason on the particular organization web page. Moreover, the user may access thegame page 710 from theindex page 714 and vice versa; - (13.7) a user may either go directly into playing a particular game 726 (as authorized) or to a
rules section 730 for reviewing the rules for thecorresponding game 726. Note that a user may always access therules section 730 during thecorresponding game 726; - (13.8) there is a help feature for providing information such as:
- a) how to do some particular action or the reason for some action or the reason an action is blocked. For example, the reason for an inability to access a certain web page, the reason for an inability to make a particular game play, such as a bet, stand or hit in the game of blackjack and/or the reason for a particular result of a certain bet, hit, stand or other user play in a game such as blackjack;
- b) for contacting a gaming referee for resolving gaming conflicts. Such a referee will be available to resolve any dispute. Note that the user can notify the management operating the present invention of a problem via, for example, notification forms displayed when a notification button is activated.
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- 1. The participants usually register by identifying themselves in such fashion so that they may be recognized by those managing the tournament and/or the other participants as participating members of the tournament.
- a. The participants need not register by responding to all identification questions at one time that may be provided, but instead may respond to a few questions submitted at various times while the tournament is in progress.
- 2. Keeping score is performed by using a numeric indication, tokens, chips, or another indication of the number of credits acquired by each participant in the tournament.
- 3. There are game rules set forth by which the participants acquire or lose their credits for each game involved in the tournament.
- a. An objective by which a participant wins a tournament depends upon the participants acquiring or losing their credits within the rules of each tournament.
- i. The participants usually have the ability to access their scores and determine their ranking in the round or tournament they are in.
- ii. The participants may be placed into various groups wherein they operate under different rules from the other participants depending upon the group to which they were assigned.
- b. Dice, cards or other objects may be used during the game to determine the winner(s).
- c. The methods by which the tournament is operated may include a plurality of rounds in which the participants are divided into groups and the participants in each round compete against other participants in the round to determine the winner of the round.
- i. A winner(s) is similarly chosen from each round until a winner(s) is determined to be the winner(s) of the tournament.
- ii. The rounds may vary in number and size, but usually, although not necessarily, each round consists of fewer participants since only the winner(s) of each round advance into the next and final rounds.
- (1) There may be situations in which the rules may allow one or more persons who have not participated in an earlier round to be placed into an advanced round.
- d. The participants may or may not be questioned about their personal preferences, beliefs or attitude during the tournament, which responses may be placed into a data base for further questions or qualify them to be involved in other rounds or other aspects of the tournament. Note this aspect of the invention is similar to previous embodiments of the invention described hereinabove regarding advertising during the playing of a game.
- e. The tournament may or may not include a “sudden death” or special round containing special rules for winning that differ from the rules for the tournament leading up to the special round.
- f. The game rules may allow additional participants to enter the tournament after many of the other participants have qualified to be placed into an advance round by obtaining a special score that may be related to the scores of those who did advance or by complying and satisfying any other such special rules that may allow a participant to qualify to play in a tournament that is in progress and in which most or many of the other participants are playing in an advanced round of the tournament.
- g. The rules may provide for a tournament within a tournament in which special rules may qualify the participants to play in and/or win a tournament which relates in some fashion to the participants and rules of another tournament that is already in progress.
- i. The rules may provide for a tournament within a tournament within a tournament in the same fashion as set forth above.
- ii. The participants may be designated as a part of a particular group wherein the success of one of the participants determines the success of the other participants in the group.
- iii. The participants may or may not have the ability to delete themselves or to be deleted and moved from one such group to another group within the tournament(s).
- a. An objective by which a participant wins a tournament depends upon the participants acquiring or losing their credits within the rules of each tournament.
- 1. The participants usually register by identifying themselves in such fashion so that they may be recognized by those managing the tournament and/or the other participants as participating members of the tournament.
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"New custom file capability for Nexis" May 1, 1985, Dialog Accession No. 0017314 in Dialog® File 621. |
"New Newsletter: Tradewinds—Trade magazine coverage of the Net", Tradewinds, Kenneth Liss (Editor), vol. 1, No. 2, Nov. 1994, 9 pages. |
"New Site Design & Features"; http://www.igl.net/wwwstaff/messages/66.shtml, 4 pgs., (printed on Mar. 2, 2005). |
"New subject group files, pricing for Nexis®" May 1, 1985, Dialog Accession No. 00117288 in Dialog® File 621. |
"News Alert to Introduce Real-Time Electronic Clipping Service"; Information Today; Jun. 1, 1995, 12(6); p. 14; Dialog File 233: Microcomputer Abstracts; 0387603. |
"News Alert to Introduce Real-Time" Information Today, v.12 n.6 p. 14(1), Jun. 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00078844 in Dialog® File 256. |
"News for Nerds. Stuff that Matters"; Slashdot; 1997-2002, pp. 1-115. |
"Newsday direct available to Prodigy subscribers at no additional fee" Business Wire Oct. 26, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00543429 in Dialog® File 621. |
"NewsHound Sniffs Out Stories"; Open Systems Today; Nov. 28, 1994; No. 164; pg. 36. |
"Newsnet and American Business Information present business America—online" News Release Mar. 18, 1993, Dialog Accession No. 00350155 in Dialog® File 621. |
"NewsNet Newly Enhanced NewsFlash"; Information Today; Apr. 1, 1990, 7(4); p. 4, Dialog File 233: Microcomputer Abstracts; 0254449. |
"Newsnet to convert online system to PLS search software" PR Newswire Nov. 15, 1994, Dialog Accession No. 00502206 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Newsnet unveils major new enhancements" PR Newswire May 3, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00516785 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Nexis® adds radio transcripts of Dougherty Daily ad broadcasts" Mar. 11, 1986, Dialog Accession No. 00126985 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Online clipping services deliver" PC Today, v.9 n.3 p. 20(4), Mar. 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00075350 in Dialog® File 256. |
"Online Interactive's FreeShop Online achieves one million electronic orders . . . ," Business Wire, Feb. 7, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00575091, in Dialog® File 621. |
"On-line software maps DB2 direction" News Release Mar. 27, 1991, Dialog Accession No. 00294253 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Online—Time, Inc." Report On Electronic Commerce; Nov. 12, 1996; 3(23). |
"PAPA 5"; Feb. 1995; Feb. 1, 1995; http://www.ece.umd.edu/˜dstewart/pinball/PAPA5/guide.txt. |
"PAPA 6, 1998 World Pinball Championships"; Feb. 1998; http://www.glue.umd.edu/˜dstewart/pinball/PAPA 6/. |
"Patent Office May Hinder Hopping of Bunny Across Computerscreens"; Washington Times; 1997; 2 pgs. |
"PED Delivers Personalized Newspapers To Users Desktops"; IAC News; 1997; 2 pgs. |
"PED Software Introduced Journalist, Software That Allows Users to Retrieve and Print Data From the Prodigy Online Service"; Newsbytes News Network; Apr. 5, 1994; Dialog 01014310. |
"Personalized Marketing and Selling on the Internet Unleashed by BroadVision; One-To-One Application System Helps Marketers Build Long-Term Relationships Through Personalized Content, Services and Promotions," Business Wire, Jan. 22, 1996, 3 pages. |
"San Jose Mercury News Now Publishing on the World Wide Web", All Mega News, Jan. 18, 1995, 2 pages. |
"Search Services & Gateways"; Database Searcher, Jun. 1, 1991, 7(5); pp. 31-33; Dialog File 233: MicroComputer Abstracts; 0242553. |
"Sky Computers chosen as compute processor for Broadcast Data Systems, Inc." News Release Aug. 24, 1992, Dialog Accession No. 00335658 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Starfish Software announces corporate 10-user oaks . . . now available in new money-saving 10-packs" Business Wire Feb. 6, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00574412 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Starfish Software announces corporate 10-user paks . . . now available in new money-saving 10-packs" Business Wire Feb. 6, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00574412 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Starfish Software first to leverage Sun's Java . . . Sun's HotJava and Netscape's Navigator 2.0 . . ." Business Wire Nov. 13, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00545472 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Starfish Software Inc. introduces "EarthTime"; . . . for online preview and download" Business Wire Jan. 22, 1996, Dialog No. 01338030 in Dialog® File 621, (full text) pp. 1-4. |
"Starfish Software Inc. introduces "EarthTime"; . . . for online preview and download" Business Wire Jan. 23, 1996, Dialog No. 01338428 in Dialog® File 621, (full text) pp. 1-4. |
"Starfish Software Inc. introduces"EarthTime"; . . . for online preview and download" Business Wire Jan. 23, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00569318 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Starfish Software ships Earthtime 2.0; The essential world clock . . . as a Netscape Navigator 2.0 plug-in," Business Wire, Mar. 12, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00589215, in Dialog® File 621. |
"Sun-Sentinel Launches Interactive Real Estate Service on the Internet," PR Newswire, Apr. 11, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00600800 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Targeting Consumer Influentials", The Public Pulse, Doc. Page Identifier(s): PRGY 1245-1248, Mar. 1988, 4 pages. |
"Tektronix brings embedded-software engineers more tools for decreasing time to market" News Release Apr. 7, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00516600 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Telebase launches electronic clipping services". PR Newswire May 7, 1991, Dialog Accession No. 00295190 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Telecommunications information from Phillips Publishing available online through Newsnet" Jun. 12, 1985, Dialog Accession No. 00117476 in Dialog® File 621. |
"The History of the Mech warrior 2: Registry"; http://www.mechreg.com/history.htm, 2 pgs., (printed on Mar. 2, 2005). |
"The Mech Warrior: Registry, Level 2 Ladder, Top 25"; http://www.mechreg.com/ladder2.htm, 2 pgs., (printed on Mar. 2, 2005). |
"The Prodigy Approach To The Mass Market", The Seelinger Letter, Doc. Page Identifier(s): PRGY 1562-1574, Aug. 25, 1988. |
"The world's most useful online business library adds full-text archives of The New York Times" Business Wire Oct. 31, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00543679 in Dialog® File 621. |
"Time Warner's Pathfinder, Compuserve Inc. and Open Market Inc. Announce a Breakthrough for the Internet," PR Newswire, Apr. 11, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00601438 in Dialog® File 621. |
"TMS and Mercury mail to develop personalized internet e-mail products" PR Newswire Jun. 14, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00628917 in Dialog® File 621. |
"UCA&L announces new Internet division . . . to help clients reach, communicate with, and market to customers online," Business Wire, Mar. 5, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00586617, in Dialog® File 621. |
"UK: Home Computer From Your Own Correspondent"; Reuters Info Svcs.; 1996; 2 pgs. |
"Virtual Dorm tops [sic] into real life of students; fully wired dorm suite puts students' live on the Web for all to see," PR Newswire, Oct. 31, 1995, Dialog Accession No. 00543165, in Dialog® File 61. |
"Virus fears stalk companies" USA Today, Doc. Page Identifier(s): PRGY 1560-1561, Nov. 10, 1988. |
"Washington, DC History"; Last modified Mar. 12, 2003; Copyright 1995-2005 Hagen Software; 5 pages. |
"Web-Based Search Services," Online & CDRom Review, 1995, vol. 19, No. 4, pp. 223-227. |
"ZD Net celebrates first year of web advertising program as top-grossing content provider with 63 April advertisers," PR Newswire, Apr. 15, 1996, Dialog Accession No. 00602035, in Dialog® File 621. |
24/7 Media Prospectus, Aug. 13, 1998, pp. 1-43. |
Abate; "Advertising Sponsorship Is Growing on the Internet"; Bacon's; Jul. 1, 1995, News clipping. |
Abate; "Major Deal To Map Internet Future"; San Francisco Examiner; Dec. 12, 1996; 1 pg. |
Abrahams, memo subject "Filter and Memory Problems", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0783-0785, May 26, 1987. |
Abstracts from files in info-mac/comm/inet/web Aug. 18, 1996, pp. 1-45. |
Adams, "Benificial Innovation's Response to Electronic Arts' and Pogo Corporation's First Set of Interrogatories", Case No. CV 05-5803 JFW (JWJx), Nov. 2005, 37 pages. |
ADMedium Newsletter, Dec. 1, 1996, pp. 1-19. |
Advertising brochure for "Trak-21", by Digital Biometics, Inc., Gaming Division, 5600 Rowland road, Minnetonka, MN 55343. |
Advertising page for "tracker-Plus TP-700 Player Tracking Equioment for Table Games", by Open Technologies, 6520 Platt Ave., Suite 672, West Hills, CA 91307. |
Advertising pages (15-16 and Order Form) for QQP games, in eStrategy Plus, believed to be from 1994. |
Affidavit Of Michael D. Dahlin Regarding Claim Construction of U.S. Patent Nos. 6,183,366 and 6,712,702, dated Sep. 25, 2009, 125 pages. |
Ahn "Help getting res-rsa working with server . . ." available at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.netrek/browse—frm/thread/4da4c5af59745a61/fde76eab98a25b8a, dated Nov. 15, 1994, 3 pages. |
Ahn "Re: www.netrek.org—no longer the game?", available at http://groups.google.com/group/rec.games.netrek/msg/ee9a7af9f7a39305, Oct. 23, 1998, 2 pages. |
Alsop; "PointCast and Its Wannabes"; Fortune; Nov. 25, 1996; 2 pgs. |
Amended Answer and Affirmative Defenses of Defendant E'Baums World, Inc. to Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, Case No. 2:07-CV-263, on Oct. 9, 2007. |
Amparano et al., "Phone Firms Battle Cable-TV Operators Over Providing Fiber-Optic Home Links", The Wall Street Journal, Doc. Page Identifier(s): PRGY 1575-1576, Sep. 9, 1988. |
Andrews, "Uses Grow for Video Alterations", The New York Times, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2632-2633, Dec. 15, 1988. |
Andrews; "User Friendly: PointCast's 'Push' Method Could Be The Next Wave"; Personal Technology; Dec. 1, 1996; 1 pg. |
ANSI/IEEE Standard 802.1G, 1998 Edition, p. 4. |
Answer and Affirmative Defenses of Defendant Blockdot, Inc. To Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, Case No. 2:07-CV-263, on Jul. 25, 2007. |
Answer and Affirmative Defenses of Defendant E'Baums World, Inc. to Plaintiff's First Amended Complaint filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, Case No. 2:07-CV-263, on Aug. 13, 2007. |
Answer and Affirmative Defenses of Defendant E'Baums World, Inc. to Plaintiff's Second Amended Complaint filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, Case No. 2:07-CV-263, on Sep. 26, 2007. |
Answer and Counterclaims of The New York Times Company to the Second Amended Complaint of Beneficial Innovations, Inc. filed in United States District Court, Eastern District of Texas Marshall Division, Case No. 2:07-CV-263, on Sep. 28, 2007. |
Appleman, "APPL Core", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0863-0899, Mar. 18, 1988. |
Appleman, memo subject: "A Discussion of the State of the Trintex", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0786-0791, May 28, 1987. |
Appleman, memo subject: "Issues and Actions", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0781-0782, Jan. 21, 1987. |
Arcadehistory, [Video Game] Lunar Lander © Atari, Inc. [Sunnyvale, CA, USA] (1979), Description, Last Edition Apr. 4, 2008, 8 pages. |
Ashkennas et al., memo subject: "Producer System", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0382-0394, Sep. 17, 1986. |
Ashkennas, et al., memo subject: "Producer System Interim Plan", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0440-0478, Sep. 17, 1986. |
Ashkennas, et al., memo subject: "Producer Systems/Applications Development Interim Transition Plan", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0479-0502, Aug. 21, 1986. |
Ashkennas, memo subject "Producer 2 Batch Code", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0402-0431, May 15, 1986. |
Ashkennas, memo subject: "Interface Task Force Minutes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0399-0401, May 29, 1986. |
Ashkennas, memo subject: "Interface Task Force Minutes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0432-0435, Jun. 2, 1986. |
Askey; "News You've Asked To Use"; Mediaweek; Jun. 12, 1995; 5(24); pg. 20. |
Aumente "The New Wave Of Computer Information Services", Washington Journalism Review, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1555-1558, Nov. 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject "Quick Quotes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1937-1941, Mar. 30, 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "API Planning Session", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1965-1980, Aug. 26, 1987. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "API Planning Session", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1981-1985, Aug. 27, 1987. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "API Support Group Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1955-1964, Apr. 7, 1987. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Current Stocks", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1946-1952 Mar. 30, 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Delivery Plan Highlights", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2119-2120, Jan. 17, 1985. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Notes on Dow Jones", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1953 Mar. 15, 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "PCS2—Network Simulator", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1936, Mar. 29, 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Prod. System-Host Design", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2328-2349, Jan. 12, 1987. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Quick Quotes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1942-1945, Mar. 22, 1988. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Trintex Launch Level", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2121-2150, Jan. 27, 1986. |
Author unknown , memo subject: "Trintex Launch Lever", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2153-2312, Jan. 27, 1986. |
Author unknown ,"Charts", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1633-1637, Apr. 4, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Appl. Dev. Reference Manual", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2745-3027, Dec. 2, 1987 to Mar. 28, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Banking from signup to sign on", Sunday Capital, Annapolis, Mo, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2624, Nov. 20, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Bell Atlantic, IBM Get Directory System Pact for New Zealand", Wall Street Journal, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2627, Dec. 15, 1988. |
Author unknown, "BellSouth A New Service for Cable TV", The Wall Street Journal, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2664, Dec. 7, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Chart", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0957, Apr. 12, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Consolidated Functional Requirements", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2402-2459, Apr. 5, 1985. |
Author unknown, "CPEP looking to Prodigy for the Latest Informaiton", Science Museum of Connecticut, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2616, Nov./Dec. 1988. |
Author unknown, "Dialogue with Hewitt", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1988, Nov. 1985. |
Author unknown, "Discussion Draft/Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2098-2099, May 29, 1986. |
Author unknown, "EPAPO Project Status Update", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2528-2530, May 18, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Fewer Tots Expected by the Year 2000", Wall Street Journal, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2627, Dec. 15, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Groceries Delivered by Computer", The Alpharetta Revue, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2664, Dec. 1, 1988. |
Author unknown, "GTE Corp. Makes Waves in Videotext Market", Gallagher Report, NY, NY, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2624, Nov. 21, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Industry firms join computer listing service", Photo Marketing, Jackson, MI, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2663, Nov. 1988. |
Author unknown, "Look/Zip Design Considerations", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1647-1654, Feb. 3, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Membership Marketing Agenda", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1468-1516, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0956, Mar. 29, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0958-0960, Mar. 29, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0967-0968, Apr. 4, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1660-1662, Feb. 10, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Out of Plan in Order of Priority", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1748, Oct. 7, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Prodigy Advertisement", Women's Wear Daily, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2661-2662, Dec. 5, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Prodigy making another attempt at videotext services", Knight-Ridder Newspaper Service, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2619-2620, Nov. 20, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Prodigy Services Company", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2531-2567, Jun. 15, 1989. |
Author unknown, "Prodigy", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2672-2744, Jan. 1988. |
Author unknown, "Producer A Object ID Assignment", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2396-2401, Apr. 8, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Product Design Panels", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2087-2097, Jun. 16, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Reception System Functional Objectives", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0240-0310, Jan. 15, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Reception System", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1442-1466, Jun. 18, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Reception Systems Functional Specifications", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0311-0356, Feb. 20, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0961, Apr. 2, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0962, Apr. 3, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0963, Apr. 8, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0964-0966, Apr. 3, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0969, Apr. 8, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Task Force Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0970, Apr. 3, 1985. |
Author unknown, "The CPC Newsletter", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2634-2641, Dec. 1988. |
Author unknown, "TPW System overview", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2391-2395, Feb. 19, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Trintex Architecture" , Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0971-0975, Mar. 31, 1985. |
Author unknown, "Trintex Assist.", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1844-1851, Apr. 27, 1987. |
Author unknown, "Trintex Assistant Status", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1718-1727, Jan. 13, 1987. |
Author unknown, "TTX Assistant", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1747, Oct. 10, 1987. |
Author unknown, "U.S. computer firms counting on Europe", USA Today, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2660, Dec. 9, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Vanguard draws investors", USA Today, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2648, Dec. 6, 1988. |
Author unknown, "Viewpath Programs(Driver 5)", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1754, Jul. 16, 1986. |
Author unknown, "Who's Who in Video Banking Nationwide", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2670, Dec. 7, 1988. |
Author unknown, API Support Group Weekly Bulletin, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1954, Apr. 10, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject "Trintex Application Model Dev. Proposal", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0655-0690, Aug. 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "API Planning Session", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0793-0800, Aug. 27, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "APi Planning Session", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2047-2048, Mar. 19, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1077-1078, Mar. 19, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1080-1081, Mar. 19, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1083, Mar. 19, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1087, Mar. 15, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1088, Mar. 14, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch Overview Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1098, Mar. 14, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Arch. Group Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1096-1097, Mar. 20, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Browse-D7.Hold.Tbolo", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1794, Jun. 5, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Business System Interface Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0991, Mar. 15, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Driver 1", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0852, Jun. 30, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "External Provider Environment", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2527, May 1988. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Founding and Charter Member Satisfaction Survey", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1171-1211, Sep. 1988. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Guide", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1852-1893, Feb. 19, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "High Level Function Placement", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1040-1047, Mar. 26, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "High Level Function Placement", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1069-1076, Mar. 26, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Initial Product Req.", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0848-0849, Jan. 8, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Keywords Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1049-1052, Mar. 22, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Meeting Today", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1082, Mar. 25, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Object for TTS—MNU01", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1101, Feb. 17, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "ParmScript Specification", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2472-2480, May 1, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Producer Object assembly", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2350-2380, Jan. 29, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Producer System Data Flow", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2492, Jan. 27, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Producer Tools", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0436-0437: Sep. 22, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Producer Workstation", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2381-2390, Feb. 17, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Publishing—Early Launch Work Plan", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0733-0739, Nov. 20, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "QC Requirements (Linkage)", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2463-2471, Mar. 6, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Qualitative Analysis: Prodigy Interactive Personal Service: "The Market" Focus Groups", Elrick and Lavidge, inc., Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1220-1241, Oct. 1988. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Question and Answer Models", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0691-0709, Nov. 1, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Quick Quotes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1935 Mar. 22, 1988. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Reception Subsystems Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1039, Apr. 2, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Reception Subsystems Notes", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1048, Apr. 2, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Reception System Issues", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0745-0779, Aug. 8, 1986. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Strategy Conference", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1212-1217, 1993. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "The Trintex Producer Workstation", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2514-2516, Jan. 21, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "TPF2 Functions", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0992-1000, Mar. 26, 1985. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "TPW—Producer A", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2460-2462, Mar. 4, 1987. |
Author Unknown, memo subject: "Trintex Assistant Capabilities", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1709-1711, Aug. 15, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Trintex Code Promotion", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1792-1793, Apr. 15, 1987. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Trintex External Provider Activities", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2520-2526, Feb. 8, 1988. |
Author unknown, memo subject: "Trintex System Architecture", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0823-0847, May 15, 1985. |
Bailey, "Sears Offers Added Credit To Boost Holiday Volume", The Wall Street Journal, Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 2667, Dec. 7, 1988. |
Bailey, Steve et al., "A Cautionary Tale in the News", Boston Globe, Aug. 13, 1996, p. D1. |
Bank; "Inverted Web: How Net is Becoming More Like Television To Draw Advertisers"; Wall Street Journal; Dec. 13, 1996; 3 pgs. |
Bank; "Microsoft Picks On-Line News From PointCast"; Wall Street Journal; Dec. 12, 1996; 1 pg. |
Barmash "No Major Cuts Expected In Advertising by Sears", New York Times, Doc. Page Identifier(s): PRGY 1559, Nov. 10, 1988. |
Barna, Ed., "Make Money on the Internet, Maybe", Vermont Business Magazine, vol. 24, No. 7, Jul., 1996, p. 50. |
Barrie et al.; "The World Wide Web As An Instructional Tool"; Science; Oct. 18, 1996; 274; pp. 371-372. |
Basch; "Interchange Online Network-The Elements for Its Success Are Already in Place"; Link-Up; May 1, 1995, 12(3), pp. 8-9; Dialog File 233: Microcomputer Abstracts; 0385575. |
Bates; "Electronic Clipping Service. A New Life for SDIs"; Online, Jul. 3, 1994, 18(4); pp. 43-47, 49-5; Dialog File 202: Information Science Abs.; 00184574. |
Beall, memo subject: "Trintex Assist", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 1898-1899 Feb. 2, 1987. |
Beattie, memo subject "PODB Definitions", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0358-0381, Sep. 26, 1986. |
Bell; "NETstuff: Free Personalized Internet news"; PointCast; Feb. 14, 1996; http://www.monitor.ca/monitor/issues/vol3iss7/netstuff.html; 1 p. |
Bell; The Electronic Scholar's Assistant; Computer in Libraries; Oct. 1990; pp. 15-16; Dialog File 61:LISA; 02087937. |
Bellar et al., memo subject: "TPF Driver System", Doc. Page Identifier(s):PRGY 0814-0822, Apr. 12, 1985. |
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