An embedded user interface incorporated into a gaming device, the gaming device including a gaming presentation of a base game and a gaming processor for controlling the base game. The embedded user interface includes: a player tracking interface and an embedded processor. The player tracking interface includes (or is associated with) a display screen and enables display of a system game to a user, presentation of information to the user, and reception of information from the user. The embedded processor employs an internal operating system and communicates with the gaming processor, enables control of the system game, control of player tracking information, and control of non-gaming information. In one embodiment, the embedded user interface enables control of a system game of which at least a portion of the system game is presented physically external to the embedded user interface. In another embodiment, the embedded user interface enables control of a system gaming indicator that is physically external to the embedded user interface. In still another embodiment, communication between a game processor and an embedded user interface is only enabled through the gaming network and is not direct enabled via a direct connection.

Universal game monitoring unit and system

A method and apparatus for increasing the probability of successful data frame transmission from a transmitter to a receiver. When a data frame is generated by a processor (210), it is stored in a transmit queue (212) and a copy of the data frame is stored in a secondary queue (214). An elapsed time device (220) tracks the elapsed time that the data frame copy has been stored in the secondary queue (214). When no data frames are generated by the processor (210), data frame copies from the secondary queue (214) are placed into the transmit queue (212), thereby increasing the redundancy of transmitted data frames and thus the probability of successful transmission to the receiver.

Method and apparatus for efficient data transmission in a voice-over-data communication system

A method and Gigabit Ethernet communications adapter are provided for implementing communications in a communications network. A transmission queue is defined of data to be transmitted. A transmission rate is set for the transmission queue. Data to be transmitted are enqueued on the transmission queue. The transmission queue can be subdivided into multiple priority queues, for example, using time wheels, and a transmission rate is set for each transmission queue.

Communications methods and gigabit ethernet communications adapter providing quality of service and receiver connection speed differentiation

A method for transmitting and/or receiving wireless data and an apparatus therefor are provided. The method includes the steps of (a) when the length of a collection of data in an application layer is longer than the length of the payload of a protocol which the lower layer supports, dividing the collection of data into a plurality of protocol units, and transmitting the protocol units of data after adding at least one of the length information and location information of the data divided into the protocol units; and (b) determining whether or not a loss of data occurred, by referring to the information on the length and location of data divided into the protocol units in the step (a), and inserting blank data into the part corresponding to the lost data to re-form the entire collection of data.

Apparatus for transmitting/receiving wireless data and method thereof

Disclosed are dual mode I/O devices and methods for transmission of a short range radio link such as a Bluetooth link that is a bi-directional real-time audio communication signal that can be over a synchronous circuit-switched transport and an asynchronous packet-switched transport either sequentially or simultaneously. Also disclosed are dual mode wireless headset systems and methods of at least two dual mode I/O devices and more particularly including a wireless audio terminal and an audio gateway for transmission of a bi-directional real-time audio communication signal that can be over a synchronous circuit-switched (SCO) transport and an asynchronous packet-switched (ACL) transport either sequentially or simultaneously. Having both SCO and ACL modes available may allow the user to optimize voice quality or data throughput under different operating conditions. The user may benefit from better Bluetooth voice quality and may have the flexibility of using either mode depending upon the situation.

Methods and devices for dual mode bidirectional audio communication

An ADSL physical transmission layer (110) retrieves data to be transmitted from either a transmit data buffer (115), or a dummy cell buffer (130) in the case when no actual data is being transmitted to maintain a continuous data stream in an ADSL data link. The ADSL physical transmission layer (110) and an associated ATM protocol layer (120) are implemented as an interrupt service routine and delayed procedure call respectively in an ADSL software modem application. Because the ATM protocol layer (120) does not fill the transmit data buffer (115) with dummy cell data, it is simpler and faster. Moreover, latency is minimized, and overall system throughput enhanced since the maximum latency is independent of any operating system latency, and is no greater than the size of the cell stored in the dummy cell buffer (130). The invention has significant potential for performance and latency of computing systems pose engineering challenges in maintaining a continuous data link between a real time transceiver and a non-real time operating system.

System and method for reducing latency in software modem for high-speed synchronous transmission

An ADSL physical transmission layer retrieves data to be transmitted from either a transmit data buffer, or a dummy cell buffer in the case when no actual data is being transmitted to maintain a continuous data stream in an ADSL data link. The ADSL physical transmission layer and an associated ATM protocol layer are implemented as an interrupt service routine and delayed procedure call respectively in an ADSL software modem application. Because the ATM protocol layer does not fill the transmit data buffer with dummy cell data, it is simpler and faster. Moreover, latency is minimized, and overall system throughput enhanced since the maximum latency is independent of any operating system latency, and is no greater than the size of the cell stored in the dummy cell buffer. The invention has significant potential for beneficial use in an ADSL based software modem where wide variations in performance and latency of computing systems pose engineering challenges in maintaining a continous data link between a real time transceiver and a non-real time operating system.

Dean C. Wang

Papers

System and method for reducing latency in software modem for high-speed synchronous transmission

xDSL modem with asynchronous transfer mode (ATM) layer & latency reduction implemented in software