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Improved capabilities are described for managing prior game play data for asynchronous computer game play, comprising: providing fast response searchable memory for storage of game play data having a data search and data retrieval speed that is substantially faster than a data search and data retrieval speed from a structured database; receiving game play data from a live participant; identifying a game attribute; providing a plurality of game play data buckets in the fast response searchable memory, forming a bucket attribute corresponding to each bucket; and storing the game play data in one of the buckets where the bucket attribute and the game attribute substantially match, such that, upon receipt of a gaming request that includes a desired attribute, the desired attribute can be used as a basis for identifying a bucket from the buckets in which to search for prior game data to be used to simulate an opponent.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for serving a computer game, comprising (a) receiving, at a server, a request from a client for prior game play data relating to another user's prior live game play; (b) retrieving the prior game play data and transmitting the prior game play data to the client; (c) causing the client to store the prior game play data such that the client can retrieve the prior game play data at a later time; and (d) presenting a multi-player game environment where a live gaming participant using the client can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent, the apparently live opponent's interaction being based on the prior game play data.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for serving a computer game, comprising: (a) providing two separate storage facilities accessible from a server, the first storage facility comprising fast response searchable memory for storage of recently produced game play data, and the second storage facility comprising a structured database for longer term storage of game play data, the first memory having a data search and data retrieval speed that is substantially faster than the second memory; (b) receiving, at the server, a game play request from a live gaming participant with a desired opponent attribute; (c) in response to the game play request, searching the first memory, based on the attribute, to identify prior game play data corresponding to an appropriate opponent; and (d) presenting a multi-player game environment where the live gaming participant can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a gaming method, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, from a live participant, a request for game play, the request including desired opponent information; (b) in response to the request, evaluating prior game play data associated with the live participant to assess the live participant's recent success in gaming, forming a satisfaction score; (c) in further response to the request, causing another user's prior game play data to be selected and retrieved based on the following (i) a substantial match with the desired opponent information; and (ii) a substantial match with the satisfaction score; and presenting a multi-player game environment where the live gaming participant can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent, the apparently live opponent's interaction being based on the other user's prior game play data.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a gaming method, comprising the steps of: (a) upon receiving a game initiation request from an initiating live participant, providing a computer generated multi-player game environment in which the initiating live participant can play a game and invite at least one additional participant to join the game; (b) in response to receiving a second participant invitation from the live participant, requesting a second live participant to join the game; and (c) following the second participant invitation, providing a wait period for receiving acceptance of a second live participant to join the game prior to starting the game, where if the second live player accepts within the wait period the two players play live, and if not, then a simulated live opponent is provided with inter-game interaction so that the opponent appears to be a live opponent.

A method and a system for maintaining consistency of replicated files distributed over a plurality of independent processing slave nodes part of an application tier of a multi-tier client / server data processing system are described. The replicated files are distributed from a master node of a master tier. Upon reception of an update request to update a master database a new version of a replicated file is first generated and stored in a shared file system. A notification of availability of the new version is forwarded to a synchronizing slave node and broadcasted to all slave nodes. Each slave node preloads the new version of the replicated file from the shared file system and acknowledges successful completion. Upon reception of all acknowledgments in the synchronization slave node a notification of preloading achievement is forwarded to the master server which updates the master database.

A floating-point fused multiply-add (FMA) unit embodied in an integrated circuit includes a multiplier circuit cascaded with an adder circuit to produce a result A*C+B. To decrease latency, the FMA includes accumulation bypass circuits forwarding an unrounded result of the adder to inputs of the close path and the far path circuits of the adder, and forwarding an exponent result in carry save format to an input of the exponent difference circuit. Also included in the FMA is a multiply-add bypass circuit forwarding the unrounded result to the inputs of the multiplier circuit. The adder circuit includes an exponent difference circuit implemented in parallel with the multiplier circuit; a close path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit; and a far path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for a gaming method, comprising the steps of: (a) receiving, from a live participant, a request for game play, the request including desired opponent information; (b) in response to the request, evaluating prior game play data associated with the live participant to assess the live participant's recent success in gaming, forming a satisfaction score; (c) in further response to the request, causing another user's prior game play data to be selected and retrieved based on the following (i) a substantial match with the desired opponent information; and (ii) a substantial match with the satisfaction score; and presenting a multi-player game environment where the live gaming participant can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent, the apparently live opponent's interaction being based on the other user's prior game play data.

An image processing apparatus for performing rendering processing of three-dimensional objects is provided. An object storage unit stores the three-dimensional data of the object and the array data of B-box which encloses the spatial region which the object occupies. A grouping unit reads in the B-box array from the object storage unit, does grouping of multiple B-boxes into groups based on the object characteristics and level of detail information. A rendering processing unit derives a brick in which there are B-boxes belonging to the same group and generates image data by doing rendering processing independently by brick to be stored in an image storage unit. A consolidation unit consolidates the image data per brick stored in the image storage unit and generates the final output image data to be displayed.

A method for the prevention of diseases caused by thrombus or embolus. The method is to separately administer 2-acetoxy-5-(α-cyclopropylcarbonyl-2-fluorobenzyl)-4,5,6,7-tetrahydrothieno[3,2-c]pyridine or a pharmaceutically acceptable salt thereof, and aspirin, in their pharmacologically effective amounts, to a warm-blooded animal.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for serving a computer game, comprising: (a) providing two separate storage facilities accessible from a server, the first storage facility comprising fast response searchable memory for storage of recently produced game play data, and the second storage facility comprising a structured database for longer term storage of game play data, the first memory having a data search and data retrieval speed that is substantially faster than the second memory; (b) receiving, at the server, a game play request from a live gaming participant with a desired opponent attribute; (c) in response to the game play request, searching the first memory, based on the attribute, to identify prior game play data corresponding to an appropriate opponent; and (d) presenting a multi-player game environment where the live gaming participant can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent.

An encoding method of screen frame and its application of electronic devices, which rapidly detect motion regions and motionless regions from lossless screen frames captured by software, and then encode the motion regions with lower image quality while encode motionless regions with higher quality to display higher quality images and smooth video at a receiving end in real-time. Furthermore, the above-mentioned encoding method is optimized for lossless screen frames which does not need complicated operations of video encoder of prior art, such as motion estimation, motion compensation, etc., so that the method can be implemented with minor system resources and lower latency delay.

The invention discloses new klebsiella pneumoniae phage vB_KpnM_Bp5. The klebsiella pneumoniae phage (klebsiella pneumoniae phage) phage ) vB_KpnM_Bp5 is preserved in the China Center for Type CultureCollection (CCTCC) on June 13, 2019, and the preservation number is CCTCC NO:M 2019452. The phage has better disinfecting and sterilizing effects on host multidrug resistant klebsiella pneumoniae separated from piggery sewage, also has good disinfecting and sterilizing effects on other two multidrug resistant klebsiella pneumoniae separated from hospitals, is wide in antimicrobial spectrum, and can be applied to preparation of medicines for preventing and treating multidrug resistant klebsiella pneumoniae.

In embodiments of the present invention improved capabilities are described for serving a computer game, comprising (a) receiving, at a server, a request from a client for prior game play data relating to another user's prior live game play; (b) retrieving the prior game play data and transmitting the prior game play data to the client; (c) causing the client to store the prior game play data such that the client can retrieve the prior game play data at a later time; and (d) presenting a multi-player game environment where a live gaming participant using the client can play against and have two-way interactions with an apparently live opponent, the apparently live opponent's interaction being based on the prior game play data.

An apparatus distributing multicast messages with a multicast address among the ports of a network device on the basis of, inter alia, virtual local area network (VLAN) associations among the ports. One or more VLANs within the network device are assigned to the multicast address. The apparatus comprises a lookup engine, a forwarding engine coupled to the lookup engine, and a plurality of translation engines. The lookup engine needs to map the multicast address to a unique index value assigned to the multicast address and a bit string representing the group of multicast destination ports only once. The forwarding engine distributes the multicast messages and the unique index value to the group of multicast destination ports of the network device in accordance with the bit string. The translation engines are associated with each port of the network device respectively. Each translation engine independently performs a VLAN identifier (VID) translation in parallel on each port of the network device from the unique index value, the destination port and a VID-select index.

Aspects of the invention are directed towards an apparatus and method for detecting conventional and exotic cadences in video sequences. The cadence detector includes a motion auto-correlation unit using the inter-frame / field motion information to detect the cadence and a motion cross-correlation unit using the inter-frame / field motion information and the detected cadence to determine the cadence phase. The cadence detector also may include a reset signal generator to generate a reset signal to control the motion auto-correlation unit and the motion cross-correlation unit. The exotic cadence detector is robust and may support many cadences with reduced cadence detection latency as compared to the prior art.

An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of stages serially interconnected as a pipeline to perform sequential processings on input operands. A shortening circuit associated with at least one stage of the pipeline recognizes when one or more of input operands for the stage has been predetermined as appropriate for shortening and execute the shortening when appropriate.

A floating-point fused multiply-add (FMA) unit embodied in an integrated circuit includes a multiplier circuit cascaded with an adder circuit to produce a result A*C+B. To decrease latency, the FMA includes accumulation bypass circuits forwarding an unrounded result of the adder to inputs of the close path and the far path circuits of the adder, and forwarding an exponent result in carry save format to an input of the exponent difference circuit. Also included in the FMA is a multiply-add bypass circuit forwarding the unrounded result to the inputs of the multiplier circuit. The adder circuit includes an exponent difference circuit implemented in parallel with the multiplier circuit; a close path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit; and a far path circuit implemented after the exponent difference circuit.

A method of exchanging data in a communications network is provided. A control channel channelization code is assigned for transmitting user specific data channel allocation information to a particular mobile station (MS). The data channel allocation information indicates which part of the transmission time interval (TTI) available for data can be used by that particular MS. The control channel channelization code is shared in a TDMA fashion between the MSs during the TTI in a proportion equal to that in which the data channel channelization code is shared between the MSs such that each MS is allocated a share of the control channel channelization code in that part of the TTI. The control channel channelization code is then transmitted in a part of the TTI corresponding to that in which the data channel channelization code is transmitted for a particular MS.

A data processing apparatus includes bus masters and a memory controller. Each bus master includes a data buffer, and issues a memory command to specify access to the memory and generates first priority information depending on a free space of the data buffer, wherein the first priority information is associated with the memory command and indicates a priority of the memory command. The memory controller determines a processing order of memory commands which are issued by the plurality of bus masters based on the first priority information corresponding to the memory commands, and executes the respective memory commands transferred from the plurality of bus masters in the processing order determined by the processing order determining unit.

A method and a system for maintaining consistency of replicated files distributed over a plurality of independent processing slave nodes part of an application tier of a multi-tier client / server data processing system are described. The replicated files are distributed from a master node of a master tier. Upon reception of an update request to update a master database a new version of a replicated file is first generated and stored in a shared file system. A notification of availability of the new version is forwarded to a synchronizing slave node and broadcasted to all slave nodes. Each slave node preloads the new version of the replicated file from the shared file system and acknowledges successful completion. Upon reception of all acknowledgments in the synchronization slave node a notification of preloading achievement is forwarded to the master server which updates the master database.

An electronic apparatus includes a plurality of stages serially interconnected as a pipeline to perform sequential processings on input operands. A shortening circuit associated with at least one stage of the pipeline recognizes when one or more of input operands for the stage has been predetermined as appropriate for shortening and execute the shortening when appropriate.

The invention provides a synovial sarcoma cell line hss-005R, which is preserved in the China Center for Type Culture Collection (CCTCC) with the preservation number of CCTCC NO. C201911. The invention further provides an offspring cell line of the synovial sarcoma cell line hss-005R. A new human synovial sarcoma cell line is established, which is stable in character and can be stably passed for multiple generations. Under the premise of retaining main clinical biological characteristics, the established human synovial sarcoma cell line has the characteristics of high tumor formation rate, short incubation period, good uniformity and the like, enriches a synovial sarcoma cell bank, and can successfully establish a synovial sarcoma animal model, wherein the established animal model can be used for fundamental research and drug screening, so as to provide powerful scientific research data for the research developed on the basis of Chinese population genetic background, and provide new test material for test on sensibility and tolerance of a clinical anti-cancer drug of a new drug preclinical study in vivo experiment.

A method of metamorphosing hypo eutectic aluminum-silicon alloy by using rear earth Erbelongs to the technical field of aluminum alloy casting. The method comprises the steps of after melting aluminum-silicon alloy, adding a refining agent to refine to degas, then adding Er element, standing and performing heat preservation at the temperature of 720 DEG C, and forming by casting at a certain temperature. The earth Er element has good metamorphism, the metamorphism incubation period thereof is short, and the incubation period effective time is long. In addition, Er has the effects of dehydrogenizing and degassing, and reducing oxide inclusion on aluminum alloy, improves the structure of the alloy, and improves the mechanical property of the alloy.

A method and apparatus for performing a sidelink (SL) transmission in a wireless communication system is provided. A user equipment (UE) transmits a contention based scheduling request (CB-SR) to an eNodeB (eNB) by using CB-SR resources to request SL transmission resources, and determines whether a SL grant for the SL transmission resources is received or not. If the UE does not receive the SL grant until a timer expires, the UE may transmit non-contention based SR to the eNB or autonomously select SL resources from resource pool to perform SL transmission.

The invention discloses a clostridium welchii bacteriophage as well as a bacteriophage composition and application thereof, the bacteriophage is a clostridium welchii bacteriophage PMQ06 and is preserved in China General Microbiological Culture Collection Center on May 15, 2020, and the preservation number is CGMCC No.19977. The bacteriophage has the advantages of high-efficiency bactericidal activity, wide lysis spectrum and high temperature stability, can be used as an active ingredient for preparing drugs for preventing and treating chicken clostridium welchii disease, environmental disinfectants, feed additives, bacteriostats and the like, can be widely applied to various links in the breeding process and the product processing and production process, and has broad market prospects. The pathogenicity clostridium welchii and even the drug-resistant clostridium welchii are rapidly, efficiently and safely killed, the mortality rate of morbidity chickens is effectively reduced, and thefeed additive has the advantages of being safe, free of residues and free of side effects.

The disclosure relates to a transmission device for transmitting a radio signal over a radio channel. The transmission device includes: a radio signal generator, configured to generate a radio signal in time-frequency domain; a channel state information (CSI) interface, configured to receive CSI of the radio channel; a pilot generator, configured to compose a pilot signal from at least one pre-defined pilot signal, wherein a number and a location of the at least one pre-defined pilot signal in the composed pilot signal is determined based on at least one of a latency requirement and / or the received CSI; a pilot insertion unit, configured to insert the composed pilot signal into the radio signal; and a transmission unit configured to transmit the radio signal comprising the inserted composed pilot signal. The disclosure further relates to a reception device for receiving a radio signal over a radio channel.

Provided is an image processing device for outputting a graphic image drawn into a frame memory after saving the image in a display memory. The image processing device is provided with a save processing section for saving frame data representing a predetermined image from a graphic memory in which the frame data is stored to a display memory, and an output interface for outputting the frame data saved in the display memory by transforming the frame data into a video output signal. The save processing section saves the frame data from the graphic memory to the display memory in equally divided units (partial data units). The partial data units of the frame data are outputted from the display memory.