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20120064960 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR MANAGING PROBABILITY OF AN OUTCOME IN A RANDOM GENERATION EVENT - A lottery game system and methodology involves, for each play of the game, a player choosing a number of player indicia from a field of the indicia. A subset of the indicia is randomly generated, and the player's indicia is compared to the subset to determine a winning game play. The number of indicia in the subsets is varied between different game plays such that a blend of the winning probabilities for each subset for all of the game plays produces a desired overall winning probability. | 03-15-2012 |
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20100162119 | IMMERSIVE AUDIO COMMUNICATION - A method and system for using spatial audio in a virtual environment, which is capable of running on portable devices with limited processing power, and utilising low bandwidth communication connections. The system identifies a first avatar in the virtual environment; and determines if the avatar satisfies a reuse criterion, which will enable the system to reuse the audio information which has been generated for a second avatar in the virtual environment for the first avatar. | 06-24-2010 |
20130205046 | SYSTEM, METHOD AND SOFTWARE APPLICATION FOR THE DISSEMINATION OF DATA ACROSS A PLURALITY OF COMPUTING SYSTEMS - A method for transferring data between computing systems, comprising the steps of for a plurality of computing systems, dividing the plurality of computing systems into at least two virtual zones, and, for each of the plurality of computers within each virtual zone, utilising an algorithm to determine the manner in which the computers should be linked. | 08-08-2013 |
20140267564 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR MANAGING MULTIMEDIA DATA - A networking system and method is disclosed in this specification. The system hosts a virtual environment that is populated with avatars. Each avatar displays a video stream of a corresponding user and defines a virtual view point that represents the user's perspective of the virtual environment. The system implements a method that comprises monitoring movement of the avatars within the virtual environment and capturing a media stream from the virtual view point of each avatar as a corresponding user navigates the virtual environment. The captured video stream is relayed to a user's local client and displayed to the user. | 09-18-2014 |