James T Tsevdos

58288627, Oct 27, 1998

May 13, 1997

8/855478

Paripon Singkornrat - Boca Raton FL
Don E. Basnett - Pompano Beach FL
John Dorak - Boca Raton FL
Glen E. Hamblin - Boca Raton FL
Kha D. Nguyen - Boca Raton FL
James T. Tsevdos - Fort Lauderdale FL
Donald J. Watzel - Coral Springs FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300
G11C 700

395442

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.

57347190, Mar 31, 1998

Dec 10, 1996

8/763308

James T. Tsevdos - Fort Lauderdale FL
Ross L. Cook - Boynton Beach FL
Nancy Lee Ring - Boca Raton FL
Robert S. Barnhill - Boca Raton FL
Glen E. Hamblin - Boca Raton FL
Kenneth L. Milsted - Boynton Beach FL
Craig N. Kindell - Delray Beach FL
Susan Elizabeth Waefler - Delray Beach FL
Carlos Portela - Pompano Beach FL
Brent C. Anderson - Dallas TX

International Business Systems, Incorporated - Armonk NY

H04N 7167
H04N 700
H04N 712

380 5

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.

58022740, Sep 1, 1998

May 4, 1994

8/237741

John Dorak - Boca Raton FL
Ross L. Cook - Boynton Beach FL
George G. Gruse - Deerfield Beach FL
Minhtam Nguyen - Delray Beach FL
James T. Tsevdos - Fort Lauderdale FL
Susan Elizabeth Waefler - Delray Beach FL

International Business Machines Corporation - Armonk NY

G06F 1300

395186

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.