Amusement devices: games – Including means for processing electronic data – Player-actuated control structure
Reexamination Certificate
2001-03-22
2008-12-09
Pezzuto, Robert E (Department: 3714)
Amusement devices: games
Including means for processing electronic data
Player-actuated control structure
C273S11800R, C273S11900R, C273S12100R, C340S008100, C340S008100
Reexamination Certificate
active
07462103
ABSTRACT:
A system controls access to plural devices with only four lines by grouping the devices in nodes, each node including a predetermined number of the devices and a local control circuit defining a shift register with positions respectively connected to the devices. The nodes are connected in series with a host controller, to form a system shift register. The nodes are serially addressed by a serial data message from a DATA OUT line of the host controller, which message includes M×N data bits followed by a strobe indicator, where N is the number of nodes and M is the number of devices at each node. All controllers are connected to a V+ line and a COMMON line and a RETURN line. The system register forms a fourth line, with one end connected to the host controller DATA OUT terminal and the other end connectable to the RETURN line.
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Gail Theodore
Mattice Harold
Wilder Richard
D'Agostino Paul A.
Gerstman George H.
IGT
Pezzuto Robert E
Seyfarth Shaw LLP
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