公开(公告)号：US5828862A

公开(公告)日：1998-10-27

申请号：US855478

申请日：1997-05-13

申请人： Paripon Singkornrat ,  Don E. Basnett, Jr. ,  John Dorak ,  Glen E. Hamblin ,  Kha D. Nguyen ,  James T. Tsevdos ,  Donald J. Watzel

发明人： Paripon Singkornrat ,  Don E. Basnett, Jr. ,  John Dorak ,  Glen E. Hamblin ,  Kha D. Nguyen ,  James T. Tsevdos ,  Donald J. Watzel

IPC分类号： G06F19/00 ,  G11C16/10 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G11C7/00

CPC分类号： G11C16/102 ,  A63F2300/201 ,  A63F2300/206

摘要： A game programming system uses rewritable cartridges that are compatible with commercially available game systems to produce game cartridges at a point-of-sale location so that retailers only need to stock sufficient uniquely designed game blanks to meet consumer demand. A game programmer or programming device loads digital content from computer storage to a rewritable game cartridge incorporating reprogrammable flash memory. The system includes flash rewritable cartridge identification hardware that allows verification of the cartridge to identify it as proprietary to a particular manufacturer or authorized dealer. The system provides for game content to be erased from the cartridge and new game content to be programmed so that the cartridge can be reused time after time to house any number of programs. During a cartridge write operation, a game programmer interface accepts data stored in a personal computer (PC) and fills first in first out (FIFO) memory. A sequencer generates addresses, proper commands, control signals, and timing signals, and sends the game content from the FIFO memory to the game programmer which passes the information to the reprogrammable game cartridge. The sequencer enables the game programming system to write data to the reprogrammable game cartridge very rapidly. The game programmer provides an interface between the game program storage and reprogrammable game cartridge. The programmer may include multiple slots or sockets and accommodate cartridges from different manufacturers with different game formats.

摘要翻译： 游戏编程系统使用与可商购的游戏系统兼容的可重写盒，以便在销售点位置产生游戏盒，使得零售商仅需要存储足够的独特设计的游戏空白以满足消费者的需求。 游戏编程器或编程设备将数字内容从计算机存储器加载到包含可再编程闪存的可重写游戏盒。 该系统包括闪存可重写盒式磁带识别硬件，允许验证磁带将其识别为特定制造商或授权经销商的专有。 该系统提供要从盒中擦除的游戏内容和要编程的新游戏内容，使得盒可以随时重新使用以容纳任何数量的节目。 在墨盒写入操作期间，游戏程序器接口接受存储在个人计算机（PC）中的数据并首先填充（FIFO）存储器。 定序器产生地址，适当的命令，控制信号和定时信号，并将游戏内容从FIFO存储器发送给将信息传递给可再编程游戏卡的游戏程序员。 音序器使游戏编程系统能够非常快速地将数据写入可编程游戏卡。 游戏程序员提供游戏程序存储和可重新编程游戏卡之间的界面。 程序员可以包括多个插槽或插座，并且容纳来自不同制造商的具有不同游戏格式的盒。

公开(公告)号：US5734719A

公开(公告)日：1998-03-31

申请号：US763308

申请日：1996-12-10

申请人： James T. Tsevdos ,  Ross L. Cook ,  Nancy Lee Ring ,  Robert S. Barnhill ,  Glen E. Hamblin ,  Kenneth L. Milsted ,  Craig N. Kindell ,  Susan Elizabeth Waefler ,  Carlos Portela ,  Brent C. Anderson

发明人： James T. Tsevdos ,  Ross L. Cook ,  Nancy Lee Ring ,  Robert S. Barnhill ,  Glen E. Hamblin ,  Kenneth L. Milsted ,  Craig N. Kindell ,  Susan Elizabeth Waefler ,  Carlos Portela ,  Brent C. Anderson

IPC分类号： G06F13/00 ,  B65G61/00 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06Q20/12 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G07F7/00 ,  G07F17/16 ,  G11B27/00 ,  G11B27/031 ,  G11B27/34 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04Q3/00 ,  H04N7/167 ,  H04N7/00 ,  H04N7/12

CPC分类号： G11B27/34 ,  G06Q20/123 ,  G06Q20/20 ,  G06Q20/209 ,  G07F17/0014 ,  G07F17/16 ,  G11B27/002 ,  G11B27/031 ,  G11B2220/218 ,  G11B2220/2545 ,  G11B2220/41 ,  G11B2220/90

摘要： A digital data on-demand turnkey system at a customer premise wherein N number of sewers provide for 100% of content distribution of remotely stored digitized information, which information may be previewed in real-time, and product incorporating selected digitized information can be manufactured on-site and within a short response time to a customer's request at a point of sale location. In a retail environment customers, at a point-of-sale location are able to exhaustively search and preview the content database using graphics-based touch screens at consumer kiosks. Previews including audio and video segments are made available. Prompting screens allow customers to make purchasing decisions by stipulating content which is available from any number of categories of subject matter including music. The selected media for the manufacture and production of the digital data may be from a myriad of different selections and can include CD's, cassette tapes, CD ROM technology, reel-to-reel tapes, and video disks, as an example. A master server will be situated geographically so as to be accessible to chain and network subservers. Its geographic and networked location is dependent upon communication network systems and subsystem costs and availability in order to best serve a customer's premise, whether it be a retail store or similar point-of-sale or other end-user location. Security mechanisms that require centralized database authorizations prior to the transmission of content and/or the manufacture of any of the products is provided in addition.

摘要翻译： 在客户端的数字数据点播交钥匙系统，其中N个下水道提供远程存储的数字化信息的内容分发的100％，该信息可以被实时预览，并且可以制造并入所选择的数字化信息的产品 - 在一个销售点位置的客户要求的短的响应时间内。 在零售环境中，客户在销售点可以在消费者信息亭上使用基于图形的触摸屏，彻底搜索和预览内容数据库。 提供包括音频和视频片段的预览。 提示屏幕允许客户通过规定可从任何数量的主题类别（包括音乐）获得的内容来做出购买决定。 作为示例，用于制造和生产数字数据的所选介质可以来自各种不同的选择，并且可以包括CD，盒式磁带，CD ROM技术，卷到卷磁带和视频盘。 主服务器将位于地理位置，以便链接和网络子服务器可访问。 其地理位置和网络位置取决于通信网络系统和子系统成本和可用性，以便最佳地服务于客户的前提，无论是零售店还是类似销售点或其他最终用户位置。 另外还提​​供在传送内容和/或制造任何产品之前需要集中数据库授权的安全机制。

公开(公告)号：US5802274A

公开(公告)日：1998-09-01

申请号：US237741

申请日：1994-05-04

申请人： John Dorak ,  Ross L. Cook ,  George G. Gruse ,  Minhtam Nguyen ,  James T. Tsevdos ,  Susan Elizabeth Waefler

发明人： John Dorak ,  Ross L. Cook ,  George G. Gruse ,  Minhtam Nguyen ,  James T. Tsevdos ,  Susan Elizabeth Waefler

IPC分类号： A63F13/12 ,  G06F9/445 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F19/00 ,  G06F21/22 ,  G11C16/10

CPC分类号： A63F13/95 ,  A63F13/12 ,  G06F8/60 ,  G11C16/102 ,  A63F2300/206 ,  A63F2300/552

摘要： A game manufacturing process includes the steps of a customer's game selection being used to initiate the manufacturing process by scanning a bar code from an empty cartridge box to a selection slip. An appropriate cartridge is identified and erased. The manufacturing system then writes the game cartridge with the content data from a game storage computer and sends information to a printer for producing identification and instructional inserts for the game. The game computer has stored therein the game contents for all of the games. After a game-to-be-"burned" indicia is provided to the game storage computer, and a cartridge is installed, the sequence of loading the game and additional identifying information into a flash RAM contained in the cartridge is commenced. The manufacturing system functions so that if timely connections are not made between the game storage computer and a host computer, the game burner application time counter will not be reset by regularly transmitted and expected transactional data, and the system will only operate for a limited period of time and will then cease to function. The operator can request from the host computer a grace period to resume normal operation of the game burning application. This provides some minimum time between connections, but does not permit the game burner application to run without first transmitting sufficient support data to and from the host computer.

摘要翻译： 游戏制造过程包括以下步骤：客户的游戏选择用于通过将条形码从空的盒式磁带扫描到选择单来启动制造过程。 识别并擦除适当的墨盒。 然后，制造系统将来自游戏存储计算机的内容数据写入游戏盒，并向打印机发送信息，用于产生用于游戏的识别和说明插入。 游戏机在其中存储了用于所有游戏的游戏内容。 在将游戏存储计算机提供游戏“烧”标记之后，安装盒式磁带，开始将游戏装载的顺序和附加的识别信息放入盒中包含的闪存RAM中。 制造系统的功能是，如果游戏存储计算机和主机之间不及时进行连接，游戏机应用时间计数器将不会被定期发送和预期的事务数据重置，系统只能在有限的时间内运行 的时间，然后将停止运作。 运营商可以从主机请求宽限期，以恢复游戏烧录应用的正常运行。 这提供了连接之间的一些最短时间，但是不允许游戏烧录器应用程序在没有向主计算机发送足够的支持数据的情况下运行。

公开(公告)号：US5606666A

公开(公告)日：1997-02-25

申请号：US277394

申请日：1994-07-19

申请人： Carl H. Grant ,  Jace W. Krull ,  Charles E. Kuhlmann ,  Shahram Salamian ,  Eugene M. Thomas ,  James T. Tsevdos

发明人： Carl H. Grant ,  Jace W. Krull ,  Charles E. Kuhlmann ,  Shahram Salamian ,  Eugene M. Thomas ,  James T. Tsevdos

IPC分类号： G06F15/16 ,  G06F13/00 ,  G06F15/17 ,  G06F15/177 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L29/08

CPC分类号： G06F15/17 ,  H04L29/06 ,  H04L69/32

摘要： A computer system is provided in which asynchronously operating processing elements in the system are connected by means of an interconnection media so as to permit communication between an executing program on one of the processing elements with the memory on another processing element. Inter-processing communication logic located on each of the processing elements permits communication between executing programs on any one processing element. Inter-delivery support hardware is provided for interfacing between the interconnection media and the inter-processing communication logic. The inter-delivery support hardware operates asynchronously with respect to the executing programs on the processing elements for (i) enqueuing control elements obtained by a function on a first processing element from physical memory on the first processing element; (ii) temporarily storing the enqueued control elements in a first memory device associated with the first processing element; (iii) copying over the interconnection media via a copy transaction the temporarily stored control elements from the first memory device to a second memory device associated with a second processing element; and (iv) dequeuing the copied control elements from the second memory device to physical memory on the second processing element.

摘要翻译： 提供了一种计算机系统，其中系统中的异步操作处理元件通过互连介质连接，以便允许处理元件之一上的执行程序与另一个处理元件上的存储器之间进行通信。 位于每个处理元件上的处理间通信逻辑允许在任何一个处理元件上执行程序之间的通信。 交互支持硬件被提供用于在互连介质和处理间通信逻辑之间进行接口。 交付支持硬件相对于处理元件上的执行程序异步地操作，用于（i）通过第一处理元件上的物理存储器对通过第一处理元件的功能获得的控制元素进行排队; （ii）将入队控制元件临时存储在与第一处理元件相关联的第一存储器件中; （iii）通过复制事务将临时存储的控制元件从第一存储器设备复制到互连介质到与第二处理元件相关联的第二存储器设备; 以及（iv）将复制的控制元件从第二存储器装置出发到第二处理元件上的物理存储器。