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Methods and apparatus for policing flow in a data network by determining a measure of greediness of a flow through a node, comparing said measure of greediness with a measure indicative of acceptable greediness dependent on the expected greediness of a compliant flow experiencing substantially similar path conditions, and designating the flow for possible sanction in the event that the greediness is not in accordance with said acceptable greediness. Such methods and apparatus allow for the policing of a data network wherein one or more fields in a data packet that carry information relating to a characterisation of an end-to-end path and/or a downstream path of said data packet are used in order to police said data network.

A system and method for buying tickets for games or lotteries in which a seller receives predicted game or lottery outcome data communicated from a buyer over a communication path. The seller generates a printed ticket based on the received outcome data and the seller transfers the printed ticket to a custodian that holds the printed ticket on behalf of the buyer. The custodian transmits data relating to the printed ticket to the buyer over the communication path and notifies the buyer if the printed ticket corresponds to an actual game or lottery outcome.

The present approach provides methods and processes for comprehensive management of the Mission Critical Ecosystem. Mission critical information management includes information from an entity's facilities, especially the critical facilities. The methods and processes disclosed herein allow for assessing and managing dependencies between assets, which may provide valuable insight into, for example, risk relationships for planned and unplanned events, and mitigation planning and management for incidents.

A practice mode can be inserted into an RPG program without giving the player a sense of boredom. Because the distinction between the practice mode and the game is eliminated, the player is not given the sense that the progress of the game is being interrupted and the problem of the player losing interest can be resolved. Also, because of the construction of a new training system wherein training for special moves, that are difficult to remember, is easily stored on the screen, the player can focus on the progress of the game and can have increased interest in the game.

The present invention is a system and method for management of consumer services such as health care services which combines new financial structure for health insurance and health benefit plan, payment methods, health plan design, benefit development algorithms, unique procurement methods for health care benefits with and without application to an individual consumer's personal state of health, and is integrated with financial services and asset management products, and benefits for an individual consumer's future medical and/or retirement savings, for healthcare needs. The method and system employs a combination of the defined benefit and defined contribution approaches which combination is referred to herein as “defined-care.” Defined-care model or the healthcare asset management model has two primary components, one which is referred to herein as a “health management and retirement account”, and the other of which is an infrastructure “connected portal” that interfaces through a technology platform with the health management and retirement accounts and the account holders. The foundation of this infrastructure according to the present invention is a technology platform across which a variety of processes are implemented. In the technology platform for the infrastructure of the present invention, the conventional processes and the new processes are integrated, thereby allowing a change to one process to be adopted by or otherwise accommodated by the other processes.

To prevent conflicts of interest, an information management system is used to make sure two or more groups are kept apart so that information does not circulate freely between these groups. The system has policies to implement an “ethical wall” to separate users or groups of users. The user or groups of user may be organized in any arbitrary way, and may be in the same organization or different organizations. The two groups (or two or more users) will not be able to access information belonging to the other, and users in one group may not be able to pass information to the other group. The system may manage access to documents, e-mail, files, and other forms of information.

A system and method for decoding a low-density parity-check (LDPC) codeword. The method includes updating a portion of a plurality of variable nodes and performing a partial parity check based on the updated variable nodes. Based on the result of the partial parity check and an iteration condition, a determination is made as to whether to report a decoding result. The method further includes updating a plurality of check nodes and a parity check may be performed. Based on the parity check, a determination as to whether to report a decoding result is made. The iteration number may then be checked for a match with an iteration condition to determine whether to report a decoding result.

A network game is continued in simulated fashion when a fault occurs in a communication circuit. A CPU 261 of a control section of an arcade's server device is provided with: an abnormality monitoring section 261b that detects a disconnected circuit that is incapable of communication in the communication circuits whose communication is necessary for progress of the game, a simulated signal generating section 261d that generates simulated operation signals that simulate the necessary operation signals required for progress of the game for each client terminal device that is connected through the disconnected circuit, and a simulated signal provision section 261e that provides the simulated signals that are thus generated to the other client terminal devices, respectively.

The invention discloses a decoration loan lifecycle management method and device. The method comprises the steps that decoration contract information associated with the user information is acquired, and the loan quota is determined according to the decoration contract information; when a payment request is received and the payment request satisfies a preset condition, the decoration expense is paid to an account corresponding to a decoration service provider within the loan quota according to the payment request, wherein the payment request is the decoration expense of at least one decoration stage in a decoration process; when a decoration end message is received, the total amount of the paid decoration expense is calculated according to the decoration expense; and a repayment plan is generated according to the total amount of the decoration expense. According to the invention, a fixed sum is for a fixed purpose; the user is effectively prevented from defrauding a financial institution of loan; only when the decoration is finished, the repayment plan is generated according to the total amount of the decoration expense; the user does not need to pay the interest of all decoration expenses from the start of decoration; and the capital cost of the user is reduced.

Player character related information stored in a player character related information memory changes in accordance with progress of a video game. Initial area information stored in an initial area information memory indicates an initial state of each of a plurality of areas on which a player character can move. Latest area information stored in a latest area information memory indicates a progress status of the video game in the same area as the area indicated by the initial area information, and is updated in accordance with progress of the video game in the area. It is determined whether to use the initial area information or latest area information in response to an operation of the player. The player character related information is updated in accordance with control content using the latest area information in a case where it is determined to use the latest area information.

In a game device, a receiver receives operation input from a player. A determiner, for each of a plurality of game tasks that are stored in a memory and that indicates a time and a type of operation that the player is to perform, determines a degree of matching between the time and the type of operation indicated by the game task and a time and a type of operation that is received from the player. A candidate acquirer acquires a plurality of candidates for a new game task that indicates a time and a type of operation that do not overlap with the stored game tasks. A task setter, based on a distribution of the degree of matching, sets one or more candidates from among the plurality of candidates as the new game task. A task adder stores and adds the set game task candidate in the memory.

A code attribution control system includes unique codes. Each of the codes is arranged or marked openly accessible legible or scannable on a sales item. One or more of the sales item is openly and freely displayed and for sale within a physical border of in a physical shop. The item initially is allocated a status code attribute as “not sold” in said attribution control system. For a consumer to establish ownership or indication of ownership of the item, the consumer scans and registers the code outside the border of the shop, whereby the status code attribute is changed to “sold” in the attribution control system, after which owner restricted services related to the item will be made available to the consumer.

A game system includes a plurality of gaming machines and a server. Each of the gaming machines executes a game independently. When the server receives bet information, the server carries out a lottery for winning a progressive prize as to the gaming machine which transmitted the bet information. If any of the gaming machines wins any progressive prize, the server makes the gaming machine that has won the progressive prize to execute an effect for announcing winning of the prize. Meanwhile, the server makes the gaming machines other than the gaming machine that has won the progressive prize to conduct an effect for indicating losing of the prize.