Patent Application Number: 2008225074
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Prior Art Detail
Summary / Description
| Summary / Description | The services received by a process from a time-sharing operating system can be characterized by a resource count ∑ wiRij where Rij is the number of units of service received by process j from resource i and wi is the cost per unit of the service. Each class of users can be characterized by a policy function. Priority changes dynamically as a function of the difference between the service promised to the user by the policy function and the service he actually receives. |
Basic Information
| Type of Prior Art | Print Publication |
| Publication Title * | Communications of the ACM, Volume 14 , Issue 2 (February 1971) Pages: 74 - 78 |
| Author | Bernstein, A and Sharp, J |
| ISBN | ISSN:0001-0782 |
| Page Range | 74-78 |
| Medium | Journal article |
| Publication Date * | February 1, 1971 |
| URL | http://portal.acm.org/citation.... |
Notes / To Do
| Notes | Charging algorithms for time-shared / distributed systems services have been described for 40 years or so. It is hard to see how this application provides any specific, unique addition to the already well described processes. |
Excerpt
Excerpt This early paper descibes the methods for charging for computer usage that became the base for most charging concepts to date. The current application is hardly even a refinement of this early work, set out in the public literature of the time. |
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A system for providing a royalty calculation, the system comprising: one or more electronic gaming machines configured to receive gaming software from a communications link; a first server configured to provide said gaming software to said one or more electronic gaming machines over a first communications link; a second server configured to provide said gaming software to said first server over a second communications link; and a royalty calculator configured to calculate a royalty for use of said gaming software at said one or more electronic gaming machines.
| Relevance | The early published research work in this area defines the base for charging for software usage and computer usage. The current application does not provide any unique or even distinct variation on this early work. |
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