Registers inventions 07/06

20060163337 - Entering text into an electronic communications device: In entering text into an electronic device with a keypad having a number of keys, each key represents a plurality of characters. A character is entered by the corresponding key and selected among the plurality of characters by pressing the key a number of times corresponding to the character. To...

20060163340 - Blinded electronic medical records: A system for transferring and updating sensitive data including at least one consolidator including a plurality of sensitive data records, a transaction processor for processing a transfer of data from one or more of the sensitive data records; software executing on the transaction processor for receiving a data request from...

20060163339 - Image taking apparatus having an ic tag: A metallic sliding cover that covers an image taking lens system when an image taking apparatus is not in use is attached at the front side of the image taking apparatus, and an IC tag of a type that has an internal power supply and an IC tag of a...

20060163338 - Supply chain visibility solution architecture: A supply chain (or other process) visibility solution is disclosed that combines RFID technology with a data visibility architecture to provide real-time or near real-time supply chain information at various stages of the supply chain (or other process). The system uses a data gathering architecture which collects data from multiple...

20060163342 - Automated banking machine: An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20). Users of the machine deliver individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine through the opening. Stacks of sheets may include sheets such as notes, checks or other documents. Stacks input to the...

20060163341 - Internet funds transfer system using atm pickup: One method for transferring funds includes receiving at a web server computer a request to transfer funds from a sender to a receiver. The request includes information identifying the sender and a payment vehicle for providing funds to transfer. The payment vehicle is validated and a transaction identifier is generated...

20060163344 - Biometric delegation and authentication of financial transactions: A method and system that enables a customer to delegate or authorize another individual to perform a financial transaction is provided. This system uses a smart card and a biometric scanner or reader writer, or a biometric device without a smart card. The smart card holds personal and financial accounts...

20060163347 - Customer enrollment in a stored value card program: Customer enrollment in a stored value card program is provided. One embodiment is a method for enrolling a customer in a stored value card program. One such method comprises: generating a list of unaffiliated stored value card programs; and when enrolling a new customer in a new stored value card...

20060163346 - Method and server of providing lotto using bill and receipt of credit card or debit card: Disclosed herein is a method and a lotto supply server of providing lotto using a bill or a receipt of a credit or debit card, and utilizing the front and the back side of a receipt or a lotto as an advertising space, in which, a financial VAN company accumulates...

20060163343 - Virtual card service system and method: Disclosed are a system and method of providing a virtual card service. The virtual card service system includes a mobile communication terminal for transmitting an amount of withdrawal money and a withdrawing term for a virtual cash card to the virtual card service system, a virtual cash card system for...

20060163345 - Wireless payment methods and systems: A method for conducting a transaction is disclosed. The method includes using a first portable electronic device, and directly transmitting a request for payment to a second portable electronic device through a wireless link. Then, the second portable electronic device transmits an approval of the request for payment to the...

20060163348 - Remote controlled separable electronic price tag: An electronic price tag is composed of separable internal and display modules and is adapted for wireless adjustment. The ID module is mounted to the goods at, for example, a point of manufacture for the goods, and contains a transponder and CPU, a receiver/decoder module, for example a horn, mounted...

20060163349 - Wireless systems suitable for retail automation and promotion: Systems, apparatus and methods for retail automation and promotions are taught. Wireless tracking devices preferably include means for storing and wirelessly transmitting unique identification keys. One or more wireless access points receive the wireless signals from the wireless tracking devices. A controller or server communicates with the wireless access point(s)....

20060163350 - Managing rfid tags using an rfid-enabled cart: A portable Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) antenna for managing or otherwise processing RFID tagged items using a portable cart. The RFID cart comprises an onboard power source and an RFID antenna operable to communicate with an RFID tag at a distance greater than five feet and powered by the onboard...

20060163351 - Reader and/or writer for radio frequency id tag: An ID tag reader/writer for writing and reading data in and from one or more ID tags is provided. The ID tag reader/writer includes (a) one or more antennas configured to perform radio communications with the ID tags, (b) one or more analog frontend units, each unit being provided for...

20060163352 - Conveyer: A conveyer has a belt and an encoded surface that moves with the belt that can be re-encoded....

20060163353 - External adaptor for magnetic stripe card reader: An adaptor in accordance with the present invention allows a conventional magnetic stripe card POS reader to receive information from contact-based or wireless sources while maintaining the concurrent ability of the reader to interact with a magnetic stripe card. In accordance with one embodiment of the present invention, the adaptor...

20060163355 - Data reader and methods for imaging targets subject to specular reflection: A data reader such as for example an imaging reader with a CCD or CMOS imager or the like, having multiple images of a target item illuminated or acquired from different directions in which the image signals are combined into a complete image of the item or selected portions of...

20060163356 - Information reading apparatus with a screen for displaying stored symbol images: An information reading apparatus such as a handheld personal device comprises a memory having a plurality of cells arranged in a two-dimensional array of rows and columns. Each cell stores a symbol image to be displayed on a screen. When a matrix array of cells is displayed, a cursor key...

20060163354 - System and method of product identification, authentication and verification: An item identification and verification system embeds a secondary machine-detectable symbology within a primary machine-detectable symbology. The primary machine-detectable symbology includes a first decodable multi-dimensional structure and is permanently formed on an item of manufacture. A secondary machine-detectable symbology forms at least a discrete portion of the primary machine-detectable symbology....

20060163357 - Two-dimensional code having superior decoding property which is possible to control the level of error correcting codes, and method for encoding and decoding the same: Two-dimensional Code having superior decoding property which is possible to control the level of error correcting codes, and method for encoding and decoding the two-dimensional Code is provided. The two-dimensional code includes finding pattern area comprised finding patterns for discriminating the code area from whole image, timing pattern area comprised...

20060163359 - Compact laser aiming assembly for a firearm: A compact laser aiming assembly for a firearm. A laser module having a front and a back is adapted to be rotatably seated in a socket having a window therein. The front of the module has a bearing with a convex, curved front surface and a window therein, and the...

20060163358 - Intelligent identification of multimedia content for synchronization: An intelligent synchronization tool ensures access to desired content in a manner that automatically keeps the content current on the portable media device. A variation threshold or user-specified degree of content variation may be introduced among content downloaded to a user's mobile device to prevent the user from becoming bored....

20060163360 - Wireless terminal: A system is described for managing data and information in a healthcare environment, such as a hospital. A handheld code scanner reads codes and either accepts data, or performs instructions based on the read code. The code scanner wirelessly transmits the codes or data to a central server which acts...

20060163362 - Collectable stored value cards and debit cards: Disclosed is a collectable stored value card and a collectable debit card that has both a monetary value for what is stored on the card and an ephemeral value that is placed on the card by a collector. The collector may also place a monetary value of the ephemeral value...

20060163361 - Data carrier: A halftone image original is converted into a line screen halftone image including regularly spaced-apart screen lines 5 that are modulated in their width y in accordance with the tonal value to be represented. According to the invention, width y of screen lines 5 is modulated only on one side...

20060163363 - Information encoding on surfaces by varying spectral emissivity: A method for applying surface modifications in at least two patterns that differ in spectral emissivity by known amounts. The patterns form an information-encoding sequence of transitions of differential emissivity along a scan path over the patterns, that encodes a set of information. This information is decoded by a scanner...

20060163365 - Contactless ic card: This invention prevents delays that occur when a reader/writer identifies contactless IC cards when there is a plurality of contactless IC cards in the communication area of the reader/writer, or in other words, prevents collisions between initial responses when the contactless IC cards perform initial responses. The contactless IC card...

20060163364 - Ic chip, card and mobile terminal connected to the same: One IC chip capable of performing both the contact and contactless functions is disclosed. A card and mobile terminal device is disclosed for enabling the IC chip to function as a contact or contactless IC card. The IC chip comprises a CPU; a contact interface connected to the CPU, for...

20060163368 - Radio frequency identification tagging: A RFID tag or label comprises a RFID tag module (comprising an electronic identification circuit and a coupling means) and an antenna structure coupled to the coupling means. The RFID tag module is separate from, separable or arranged to be severable from, the antenna structure. The tag module can be...

20060163370 - Rfid system components implementing adjusted backscatter calculations and methods: RFID system components, such as readers and tags, communicate by a reader transmitting waveforms that encode a calibration symbol and a divide ratio. Tags include a processor to determine a backscatter link period result by dividing a count value representing the calibration symbol by the divide ratio and adding an...

20060163369 - Secure electronic entity for time certification: The invention concerns a secure electronic entity (11) containing a time measuring unit (18) and comprising a unit (21) for certifying an information concerning a date or a time interval, the certifying unit (21) receiving from the time measuring unit (18) data concerning the date or the time interval and...

20060163367 - Smart card of a combination type providing with a stable contactless communication apparatus: The present invention is to provide technology on a smart card of a combination type wherein the prior art milling process removed and a lamination process is used after connection between a chip on a COB and an antenna in order to improve physical reliability of a smart card of...

20060163366 - Tape manufacturing: A tape (T) to which a plurality of elements (C) are affixed by means of a glue in a solid state is manufactured in the following manner. In a gluing step, in which elements (C) are glue to a basic tape (T) by means of a glue in a liquid...

20060163371 - Safety marking: t

20060157551 - Digital photo managing apparatus and method, and computer recording medium storing program for executing the method: A digital photo managing apparatus and method, and a recording medium readable by computer. The digital photo managing apparatus includes: an attribute information generating unit which generates specified attribute information for given photo data; a storage unit which stores the attribute information and the given photo data by having the...

20060157550 - Obtaining user assistance: An apparatus, device, method, computer program product, and system that detects a first electronic device in a proximity to a second electronic device; and obtains an end user assistance corresponding to an at least substantially common aspect of the first electronic device and the second electronic device....

20060157549 - Smart cards for automated sample analysis devices: Cards having non-volatile memory, referred to as smart cards, are provided which are insertable into a slot of an automatic sample analysis device. Such smart cards may be of different types, including a quality control smart card, which stores quality control information for use by the device when analyzing quality...

20060157552 - Error detecting device, error detection method and control system: An error detecting device enables proper detection of an occurrence of a data error in a register. The error detecting device for detecting an occurrence of a data error in a register for holding input data with reception of a write permission comprises an operation circuit for performing a prescribed...

20060157553 - Accommodating multiple users of a secure credit card: A secure credit card provides for secure transactions by users other than a holder of the secure credit card by providing storage for additional personal identification numbers (PINs) for authorized users. Transactions for authorized users may be controlled in accordance with individual user profiles stored in the secure credit card...

20060157558 - Infoscan: This idea integrates the use of a secure computer program for the storage and retrieval of personal information. It consists of a portable system such as a small scanner with the capacity of reading a credit card sized object, which contains the information to be secure. This information carried in...

20060157557 - Method and apparatus for performing benefit transactions using a portable intergrated circuit device: A portable electronic data storage/processing device, e.g., smart card maintains an account including benefit packages. Each benefit package includes multiple items with associated quantity information. A smart card includes an account benefits interface and a retailer interface, each interface using different security measures. New benefit packages are added to the...

20060157554 - Stored-value card with game: A stored-value card including a housing, a game, and an object. The housing includes an account identifier adapted to link the stored-value card to a financial account or a financial record. The game is enclosed within the housing. The object is also enclosed within the housing and placed to selectively...

20060157556 - Stored-value card with light: A stored-value card includes a housing and a light circuit. The housing defines a first primary panel and a second primary panel spaced from the first primary panel. The first primary panel defines an account identifier signifying a financial account linked to the stored-value card. A side is defined between...

20060157555 - Stored-value card with sound and light: A stored-value card includes an electrical assembly, a housing, and decorative indicia. The electrical assembly stores an audio file and includes at least one light and a speaker. The housing generally encloses the electrical assembly and includes an account identifier and an activation area. The account identifier signifies a financial...

20060157559 - Systems and methods for document verification: A method for issuing a credential includes scanning in documents (e.g., breeder or ID documents) used to verify the applicant of the credential and creating data records including the image of the documents. As a means to reduce fraud, these data records are linked to the credential and to the...

20060157560 - Method and apparatus for purchasing and dispensing products: A system for purchasing a product that does not need to be physically present at a point-of-sale includes a point-of-sale device, a product-selection device, a data-analyzing device, an inventory-managing device, and a dispensing machine. The point-of-sale device includes apparatus for scanning or otherwise inputting a first product that is physically...

20060157561 - Radio frequency identifiers in game tickets: Game ticketing systems and methods provide for the use of radio frequency identifiers (RFIDs). Game tickets such as instant lottery tickets include a substrate having game data and a removable mask covering the game data. A transponder is coupled to the substrate where the transponder stores a ticket RFID that...

20060157563 - Smart card systems in connection with transportation services: A dual-interface (contact and contactless) “smart card” which supports (transportation-related) functions. The smart card acts as a user ID which tracks stored value, transit or taxicab fare, parking, car sharing or rental car membership/loyalty. The smart card tracks these functions for users as a means of saving money. The smart...

20060157562 - System and method for detecting persons or objects in definite areas provided each with at least an entrance: A system and a method are described for detection of individuals (8) or objects in a plurality of delimited spaces (10), each having at least one entrance (6). The detection system comprises LF transmission means (4, 4*, 5, 5*) located at the entrance, for transmitting a LF electromagnetic signal, HF...

20060157564 - Shopping list manager and marketing data collector: The present invention concerns a device that incorporates a scanner, a display system, a key pad and an output device for managing a shopping list of consumer goods to be purchased in the near future by the user. The device includes a microprocessor having a memory that stores a list...

20060157565 - Card reader: The objective of the invention is to provide a card reader that can prevent a function of performing a card process with respect to a magnetic card and a contact type IC card from becoming out-of-order temporarily and also can contribute to improvement in the speed of various processes including...

20060157566 - Contactless card reader: The present invention provides a contactless card reader (300) that prevents information stored in a contactless card from being illegally utilized, without imposing too many loads on a holder of the contactless card. The contactless card reader includes: a flat antenna for communicating with the contactless card; an angle sensor...

20060157568 - Reader / writer and method for manufacturing the same: A reader/writer includes a substrate, a communication control part on the substrate, a molded resin layer sealing the communication control part and an antenna connected to the communication control part. The antenna is provided on the molded resin layer....

20060157567 - Terminal with a touch panel display and touch panel display: The inventive terminal (200), that may be realised in various embodiments, e.g. as access control terminal, pay telephone, point of sales terminal, ticket vending machine or automatic teller machine, comprises a touch panel display (100) and means for contactless communication with an IC-card (10) that is used to perform transactions...

20060157569 - Lighting apparatus for mounting on hat brim: A flexible light assembly is provided. The flexible tight assembly is mountable with respect to the underside of the brim of the hat. The light assembly can be made of a flexible resilient material and be conformed to correspond to any configuration of brim. The light assembly 10 includes at...

20060157570 - Card armor: A backing to reinforce and protect a card. The backing can adhesively attach to a card, such as a credit card or a keycard. Thus, a hole can be punched through the card and through the backing, thus providing a more sturdy card which is less susceptible to breaking....

20060157572 - Ic card: An IC card has a card substrate having semiconductor integrated circuit chips mounted thereon and a plurality of connector terminals formed thereon. The connector terminals are exposed from a casing. The connector terminals are laid out in plural sequences in staggered form between sequences adjacent to one another forward and...

20060157573 - Ic card: An IC card has a card substrate having semiconductor integrated circuit chips mounted thereon and a plurality of connector terminals formed thereon. The connector terminals are exposed from a casing. The connector terminals are laid out in plural sequences in staggered form between sequences adjacent to one another forward and...

20060157571 - Installing a file system in a data carrier: A method for installing a file system (26) in a portable data carrier (10) comprises the steps of reading in specification data (SD) that at least partly describe the file system (26) at the semantic level, interpreting the read-in specification data (SD) by means of a processor core (12) of...

20060157574 - Printed data storage and retrieval: A method, apparatus and computer program for generating a barcode (200) representing one or more portions of data is disclosed. A block-based correlatable pattern of data is generated and the generated data patterns are arranged according to a predetermined arrangement. The one or more portions of data are interdispersed with...

20060151591 - Impedance matching apparatus: An impedance matching apparatus 3 calculates a forward wave voltage Vfo and a reflected wave voltage Vro at an output terminal 3b, based on a forward wave voltage Vfi and a reflected wave voltage Vri at an input terminal 3a, on information on variable values of variable capacitors VC1, VC2...

20060151592 - Linking articles to content via rfid: A method and system to link an article such as a publication to supplemental content through the use of an RFID tag embedded or attached to the article. Based on the electronic data within the RFID tag, a computer system or other network enabled device obtains specific and appropriate supplemental...

20060151593 - System and method for displaying received data using separate device: A method and apparatus for displaying received data using a separate device that makes a user's receiving terminal, that has received only a unique code of data, transmit the unique code to a separate display device connected to the Internet, and which makes the display device access a server, in...

20060151594 - Compound time recording device: A compound time recording device includes a time recorder, a recording card, a radio frequency identification attached to the recording card, a reader for detecting and receiving a signal carrying card-associated data from the radio frequency identification, and a transmission interface. The time recorder includes a printing device that makes...

20060151595 - Automated banking machine: An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (12) including an opening (20). Users of the machine deliver individual sheets and stacks of sheets to and from the machine through the opening. Stacks of sheets may include sheets such as notes, checks or other documents. Stacks input to the...

20060151596 - Cash dispensing automated banking machine with improved unauthorized observation prevention capabilities: An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (15). The automated banking machine (10) may include a concealment device (350) positioned on the fascia to limit the viewing of inputs made to a user input device such as a keypad (18)....

20060151597 - Cash dispensing automated banking machine with improved unauthorized observation prevention capabilities: An automated banking machine (10) includes a user interface (15). The automated banking machine (10) may include a concealment device (350) carried on the fascia to limit the viewing of inputs made to a user input device such as a keypad (18)....

20060151598 - Categorization based spending control: A categorization based spending control at the time of purchase is provided. An account holder may establish spending limits for categories of products and/or services, and establish filter limits based on merchant location, time, and day. The merchant may be associated with a spending category. The merchant point of sale...

20060151599 - Renewal method and renewal apparatus for an ic card having biometrics authentication functions: A renewal apparatus for an IC card, which utilizes biometrics information to perform individual authentication, prevents the divulgence of biometrics data during renewal, while rigorously confirming the identity of the individual. A control unit confirms the identity of the individual in biometrics authentication by the biometrics authentication functions of an...

20060151601 - Electronic shelf label systems and methods: This invention discloses an electronic shelf label including an LCD display, a housing including a protective at least partially transparent cover layer disposed over the LCD display and in spaced relationship thereto, and an at least partially transparent intermediate layer formed over the LCD display and substantially filling a space...

20060151600 - Shopping assisting card, card issuing system, card issuing method, card issuing program, and storage medium: A card issuing system that issues a shopping assisting card that provides support in purchasing an item includes a database that stores customer information including a language used by a customer as registered information, item information including items sold at a store as registered information, store information including an item...

20060151602 - Method and apparatus for ink-based electronic voting: The present invention is an ink-based electronic voting apparatus that generates a paper ballot for every voter. The voter marks a ballot with a probe as he/she would with a conventional ink-based system. In one embodiment, the paper ballot is situated underneath the surface of an input board electrically connected...

20060151603 - Printing device: A printing device has a print head which operates according to the inkjet principle and a control device which actuates the print head for producing a two-dimensional barcode. The barcode contains a matrix composed of a plurality of image fields. The barcode contains at least one first image field which...

20060151604 - Automated method of and system for dimensioning objects over a conveyor belt structure by applying contouring tracing, vertice detection, corner point detection, and corner point reduction methods to two-dimensional range data maps of the space above the: A fully automated package identification and measuring system, in which an omni-directional holographic scanning tunnel is used to read bar codes on packages entering the tunnel, while a package dimensioning subsystem is used to capture information about the package prior to entry into the tunnel. Mathematical models are created on...

20060151607 - Document scan system, document transfer system, document transfer method, and storage medium readable by a computer: A document scan system includes scanners, provided in a plurality of locations, that scan a document to generate and store an electronic document; information terminals, provided in the plurality of locations, that receive an input of a user identification information for identifying the user; a document access unit that, subsequent...

20060151605 - Label information storage: One of a first laser driver and a second laser driver for respectively driving a first laser light source and a second laser light source is selected according to a type of storage media constituting an object of processing, drive pulses are generated from that laser driver based on label...

20060151606 - Wireless substrate-like sensor: A wireless substrate-like sensor is provided to facilitate alignment and calibration of semiconductor processing systems. The wireless substrate-like sensor includes an optical image acquisition system that acquires one or more images of targets placed within the semiconductor processing system. Analysis of images of the targets obtained by the wireless substrate-like...

20060151608 - Targeting system for a portable image reader: A targeting system for a portable image reader, which advantageously combines a number of functions including alignment, aiming, framing and range finding and provides a wide imaging range with an optimal field of view, is described. The targeting system projects a predetermined pattern having two or more components onto the...

20060151609 - Device for reading a barcode: A device for scanning and/or recognizing one or more barcodes includes a laser light source for transmitting laser light; a rotatable polygonal mirror for reflecting the transmitted laser light; a number of fixedly disposed flat mirrors for reflecting laser light; a pick-up element for picking up laser light scattered by...

20060151610 - Optical pen having a light path coaxial with its pen tip: An optical pen comprising a shaft, a pen tip, a light source and an optical sensor. The shaft extends a predetermined length along an axial direction. The pen tip is arranged at one end of the shaft and situated in the same axial direction. The light source produces light that...

20060151611 - Device for locking a card in a card reader: A device is capable of locking or unlocking a card in a card reader. An actuator carries a drive bushing onto which one end of a coil spring is mounted such that the axis of the coil spring is approximately parallel to the rotation axis of the actuator. The opposite...

20060151612 - Monocoque lenticular plastic card and method of making same: A monocoque card for performing transactions is disclosed. The card comprises a substrate having a lenticular portion on a front side and a flat portion on a back side. The substrate has a thickness between 28 and 34 thousandths of an inch. Inks are applied on the flat portion on...

20060151619 - Information processing apparatus with contactless reader/writer, and coil antenna for magnetic coupling: An information processing apparatus (2) has a contactless reader/writer (90), which includes a coil antenna (110) having a plurality of turns for transmitting and/or receiving an RF modulated carrier signal, by magnetic coupling. The coil antenna (110) is coupled to a transceiver (92) and is disposed in a space within...

20060151613 - Memory devices: A passive memory device includes a plurality of resonant members, e.g. of a cantilever or bridge-type form, that may have different resonant frequencies and that may be held against vibrations by end or side tethers. Data may be recorded in the device by removing various of the tethers, so that,...

20060151617 - Memory unit with data transmit and receive capability: The present invention provides a memory unit having the capability of transmitting and receiving data to and from an external device. The memory unit includes a first memory configured such that data can be written to and erased from the first memory, a second memory, and a data transfer device...

20060151618 - Multi-chip devices, circuits, methods, and computer program products for reading programmed device information therein: A signature identification circuit of a semiconductor chip can include a resistor connected to a power supply voltage, a first fuse connected in series with the resistor, first, second, and third transistors connected in series with one another and with the first fuse, second, third, and fourth fuses connected in...

20060151614 - Multi-function card device: A multifunction card device has an external connection terminal, an interface controller, a memory, and the security controller connected to the interface controller and the external connection terminal. The interface controller has a plurality of interface control modes, and controls an external-interface action and a memory interface action by the...

20060151615 - Radio identifiable mark: A radio identifiable mark planted with induction coil and chip module electrically connected to each other; ID program or code being burnt in the chip module; the coil supplying RF signals and energy between the mark and a reader for data exchange; the mark being mounted to an object and...

20060151620 - Semiconductor devices and manufacturing method therefor and electric commerce method and transponder reader: A wireless IC tag is provided which includes a plate-shaped first conductor, a plate-shaped second conductor, and an IC chip which is sandwiched between the first conductor and the second conductor via a front surface and a rear surface of the IC chip. The IC chip includes a double voltage...

20060151616 - Thin film non volatile memory device scalable to small sizes: A thin film non volatile memory scalable to small sizes and its fabrication process are disclosed. The thin film memory comprises a thin film transistor control circuitry fabricated on a flexible substrate, together with an optoelectronic cross bar memory comprising a photoconducting material. The thin film non volatile memory can...

20060151621 - Coded pattern for an optical device and a prepared surface: Encoding data in a pattern of symbols on a surface. A processor separates an ordered sequence of digits representative of the encoded data into a plurality of sequential windows. Each of the sequential windows includes a partial sequence of the ordered sequence of digits. The processor further transforms the partial...

20060144920 - Identifiable reading tag, commercial system and portable device applying identifiable reading tag: A commercial system with identifiable reading tags to get useful data is provided. A participation entity, such as a business store, company, non-profit organization, or person, etc., applies registration to a system provider, or the system provider actively provides to create a plurality of identifiable reading tags with unified specification...

20060144919 - Pharmaceutical dispensing device and a method of using the same: A dispensing device for retaining a bar coded prescription label including a prescription label bar code and a bar coded container including a container bar code together wherein the container may contain a pharmaceutical associated with the bar codes of the prescription label and container. The device may comprise a...

20060144921 - Closed loop location detection system: A closed loop location detection system for use in monitoring simultaneously the presence or absence of objects in at least two locations, comprises at least one detectable element per location and adapted to be associated with a respective object to be monitored, and at least one detecting device adapted to...

20060144922 - Bill deposit and withdrawal apparatus: The present invention provides a bill deposit and withdrawal apparatus comprising a shutter for opening and closing a bill-receiving space; a first plate for forming a front wall of the bill-receiving space and guiding transfer of a bill input into the bill-receiving space; a second plate spaced apart by a...

20060144923 - Check accepting and cash dispensing automated banking machine system and method: An automated banking machine system and method includes ATMs which accept checks and dispense cash to users. The ATMs are operated to acquire image and magnetic data from deposited checks to determine the genuineness of checks and the authority of a user to receive cash for such checks. Cash may...

20060144924 - Negotiable instrument with fraud protection: A negotiable instrument with fraud and identity theft protection and method of use is provided. The method includes step accepting a negotiable instrument having a pre-printed bar code, reading the bar code on a negotiable instrument using a bar code scanner, and receiving from the writer a code presented to...

20060144928 - Data processing method, system and apparatus for processing a variety of demands from a service provider: An IC card issuer issues an IC card and requests a card memory area operator to lend part of a memory area of the IC card to another card memory area user. The card memory area operator provides a memory area division apparatus and various data to the memory area...

20060144927 - Identity verification systems and methods: Systems and methods are disclosed for verifying customer identifications. In one embodiment, the method comprises receiving, at a transaction gateway, a communication associated with a transaction initiated by a customer; determining the communication includes an identity verification request to verify encoded data obtained from an identification presented by the customer;...

20060144926 - Method and apparatus for providing multiple transaction cards in assembly: A transaction card assembly and method for forming a transaction card assembly. The transaction card assembly may include two or more transaction cards that are each useable with different issuers. A first transaction card may be useable only with a first issuer, and the second transaction card may be useable...

20060144925 - System for facilitating online electronic transactions: The invention provides systems and methods within existing business and technology infrastructures and processes for facilitating an electronic transaction including payment by an account issuer to a merchant for online purchases by a consumer. The invention uses a web services model including request and response messages to provide simplified authentication...

20060144929 - Updating system for electronic tickets: A method for issuing tickets proceeds by selecting an inactive ticket that includes an identifier. Payment is provided for the ticket, and the identifier and a payment amount is entered into a payment processing device. The identifier is transmitted to a host computer system having a record of the identifier...

20060144930 - Value holding system, value holding method, value holding program, and transaction system: A value holding system includes a receiving unit that receives an instruction to add or remove a value relating to a payment, a judging unit that judges whether the instruction is identical to a previously received instruction, and a rejecting unit that rejects the instruction when the judging unit judges...

20060144931 - Method and device to scan an object and perform selected functions related thereto: A device for communications may include a scanner to scan an object or code. The device for communications may also include a processor to perform a selected function related to the scanned object or....

20060144933 - Method to detect false purchases with a consumer service device: A method, system and computer program product for detecting false purchases is disclosed. The method includes detecting a motion across a product identifier in a self-service terminal and monitoring for a product identifier. In response to failing to detect the product identifier, an alert signal is transmitted....

20060144935 - Modular counter assembly: The present invention is a modular construction method for enclosures and counter assemblies. The counter assembly has a series of modules, which can be added or removed at will. The counter assembly comprises an innovative metal framework having modules connected by angled splices to enhance customization into variable shapes and...

20060144937 - On-line correction of check code line recognition in point-of-sale stations: Methods and systems are provided for check code line recognition at a point-of-sale terminal having OCR and MICR capabilities. Images of problematic characters are extracted and automatically transmitted to a remote location for on-line manual validation or data entry. Video coding of problematic characters is performed for the correction of...

20060144932 - Payment brand announcement at a wireless payment point of sale device: A point of sale device (102) establishes a short range secure radio link (105) with a wireless payment device (104) to complete a transaction. The point of sale device transmits the transaction information to the wireless payment device (304) so the a user of the wireless payment device can approve...

20060144936 - Shopping list generator: A stand-alone shopping list generator comprises a UPC scanner, a product database, a system controller, and a printer. The UPC scanner reads product identification codes encoded on UPC labels from exhausted products and sends the product identification codes to a system controller. The system controller retrieves product descriptions associated with...

20060144934 - Tamperproof point of sale transaction terminal: A point of sale transaction terminal that has a signature capture pad mounted within a platen that is recessed within the top surface of the terminal housing. A screen protector is mounted over the signature pad and is registered thereon so that the protector covers the signature pad. A bezel...

20060144939 - Method for automatic identification and data capture: A methodology for tracking objects includes receiving a multiplicity of objects to be tracked at a known location. Each multiplicity of objects has at least one imagable identifier affixed to it. The method also includes imaging the multiplicity of objects together at the known location to provide at least a...

20060144940 - Portable deployment kit: Systems and methods to provide multi-layer visibility of nested containers at a mobile checkpoint are disclosed. Thee systems include a portable deployment kit in communication with a nested container. The portable deployment kit can be contained in a durable carrying case having a total weight that is within military standards...

20060144938 - Wine data scanner, related database system and method of using same: A wine data scanner is used to read the bottler's optically-coded information on each wine bottle along with an optically-coded, unique identifier affixed by the wine owner. The scanned information is input to a computerized database, typically via removable magnetic media encoded in the scanner, where additional information such as...

20060144941 - System and method for optical medium label alignment: Multiple label writes to an optical medium label surface are aligned with each other by reference to a calibration band disposed on the label surface. On initial insertion of the optical medium into the optical drive, a label alignment module uses the optical head to detect the calibration band or,...

20060144942 - Drug delivery and monitoring system: A drug administration system includes a cradle attached about an intravenous injection port having a flange extending therefrom. The cradle supports first drug administration information in the nature of machine and human readable code, for example, barcode. A syringe including a needle includes a flange extending from the syringe. The...

20060144943 - Anti-collision coupling for contactless cards: Contactless cards and a corresponding anti-collision coupling method are provided, where the method includes requesting that the cards transmit their unique identifiers that each include a fixed number of bytes, receiving the unique identifiers simultaneously as byte-wise positive pulses, counting the received positive pulses, and determining that more than one...

20060144944 - Electro-optical reader with improved laser intensity modulation over extended working range: The combination of a rooftop optical element and a soft edge aperture stop, as well as the introduction of a negative spherical aberration in a positive focusing lens, improve working distance and depth of focus in both moving beam and imaging readers for electro-optically reading indicia such as bar code...

20060144945 - Methods and apparatus for information capture illumination: Methods and apparatus for illuminating objects comprising asymmetrically illuminating an object using an illumination medium on one side of an optical module of an information capturing module, capturing an electronic representation of the object and decoding the electronic representation of said object. In alternate embodiments, the scanner successively illuminates the...

20060144947 - Color bar code system: A color bar code system includes a camera reader to read at least one color bar code having a subset of N bar code colors, a color association unit and an identifier. The color association unit associates each point in a color space with one of the bar code colors....

20060144946 - System and method for utilizing a highly secure two-dimensional matrix code on a mobile communications display: A system and method for utilizing a highly secure two-dimensional matrix code on a mobile communications display includes a mobile communications device having a visible display, and a means for creating a highly secure two-dimensional matrix code representing selected data. Means are provided for selectively transmitting the highly secure two-dimensional...

20060144948 - Mems scanning mirror with distributed hinges and multiple support attachments: A MEMS scanning mirror device includes a scanning mirror, rotational comb teeth, stationary comb teeth, distributed serpentine springs, and anchors. The scanning mirror and the rotational comb teeth are driven by electrostatic force from stationary in-plane and/or out-of-plane teeth. The mirror is attached to the rotational comb structure by multiple...

20060144949 - Asymmetrical scanner: Methods and apparatus for direct part mark scanning where a scanner operator is provided with a scanner comprising a slanted front end. The slanted front comprises a window for a scan module, such as, for example a camera, and an illumination module. The slanted front guides a user to tilt...

20060144950 - Transceiver with image capture device: A communication terminal including a transceiver arranged to discontinuously transmit data from the terminal; an image sensor including a plurality of image-sensing regions, each image-sensing region being capable of being reset, and subsequently being read to provide data indicative of light incident on the image-sensing region since it was last...

20060144951 - Multi-use linkage device: A linkage device that can be connected with other linkage devices and to itself, the linkage device comprising a strip having a first end and a second end, a closure hub attached to the first end of the strip and having an opening to receive a second end and a...

20060144953 - Card case, ic card, and ic card unit: A card case, which encases an IC card having a functional section that contains a biometric information-acquiring portion for acquiring biometric information and carries out communication with an outer part of the card when the biometric information acquired at the biometric information-acquiring portion is authenticated and having a power section...

20060144952 - Portable data carrier with a display device: A card-shaped electronic data carrier, in particular chip card, has a card body (19) with a recess (21) located on a top side of the card (20), which accommodates a display (1). In a base surface (22) of the recess a reflection layer (23) is disposed. The recess (21) is...