Registers inventions 09/07

20070221722 - Information guide: A method and device for providing information for use in medical procedures such as rapid sequence intubation. The device may include a cover and a slide. The cover may include a listing of types of equipment and medications, whereas the slide may include equipment specifications and dosage information corresponding to... Agent: Clifford B. Vaterlaus Clayton, Howarth & Cannon, P.C.

20070221723 - Identification data decoder: The invention is a system component which may be installed in systems used to, in an automated fashion, acquire and process identification data from sources such as drivers licenses. The novel component is typically installed between the reader and the processing unit of such systems. Preferably the novel component replaces... Agent: Mark Rodgers

20070221724 - Access control apparatus, access control system, processor, access control method, memory access control apparatus, memory access control system, and memory access control method: An access control apparatus includes a writer syndrome generator that generates a writer syndrome of writer mask data to mask the parity-added data, the writer syndrome being associated with a writer access ID used when a writer that requests writing of the write data in the memory accesses the memory;... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070221725 - Reader/writer secure module access control method: A secure module holder is (SH) capable of preventing an unauthorized reading of information on a secure module (SM). The SH holds one or more SM. The SH controls non-contact communication with a reader/writer RW of the SM and includes non-contact communication section, contact communication section with the SM, access... Agent: Greenblum & Bernstein, P.L.C

20070221728 - Pos receipt bearing real-time time/geographic advertisement: An apparatus, method, system, and computer-program product for producing valuable POS indicia that provides value to both the customer and to the establishment. The apparatus includes a point-of-sale (POS) receipt including a first portion and a second portion, the first portion including a transaction memorialization information and the second portion... Agent: Patent Law Offices Of Michael E. Woods

20070221727 - System and method for determining product shelf life: A method of determining whether a product is within a useable shelf life includes obtaining a first set of data associated with the product, wherein the first set of data includes a first timestamp and a first assessed quality, obtaining a second set of data associated with the product, wherein... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070221726 - System and method for registration of an electronic device: A method for registering an electronic device includes receiving from a point-of-sale interface a transaction code and purchaser information associated with a purchase of an electronic device. While the transaction code is associated with the purchase of the electronic device, it does not uniquely identify the electronic device purchased. The... Agent: Scenera Research, LLC

20070221729 - Microwave readable dielectric barcode: Presented is a system and method for reading a microwave readable barcode formed from a pattern of dielectric material. The dielectric pattern creates a strong microwave contrast with the surrounding media selectively resonating with or scattering an interrogating microwave signal. Dielectric bars can be fabricated by inkjet printing, injection, spraying,... Agent: Wilson Sonsini Goodrich & Rosati

20070221730 - Rfid enabled cable tracking: A system for tracking cables is disclosed includes a cable socket and a radio frequency identification (RFID) tag placed near an end of at least one of the cables, where the end of the at least one cable is configured to be inserted into the cable socket. The system also... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070221732 - Method and apparatus for counterfeiting protection: The disclosure relates generally to methods and apparatus for protecting against counterfeit products and for methods and apparatus for providing counterfeiting protection for an object. In one embodiment, the method includes the steps of: (a) accessing an object including an identifying mark having a first portion and a second portion... Agent: Duane Morris LLP

20070221731 - Using markers to identify objects for visually-impaired people: According to various illustrative embodiments of the present invention, a reader capable of identifying at least one product by providing non-visual sensory information to a user, the reader comprising: a source which stimulates a response from a marker carried by the at least one product; a detector which detects the... Agent: Intellectual Property Section Law Department

20070221733 - Methods and apparatus for a scanner having a top plate assembly with weight measurement capabilities: Systems and techniques for a scanner having a top plate with an integrated scale. A scanner base mates with a scanner top plate assembly, with the top plate assembly including an integrated scale. The top plate assembly includes a scan window and a scale mechanism. The top plate rests on... Agent: Paul W. Martin

20070221734 - System and method for bar code detection: Described is a system and method for bar code detection. The method comprises generating a digitized bar pattern (DBP) including a series of elements corresponding to elements of a scanned bar code, and identifying a first set of margins around a first portion of the series of elements. When an... Agent: Fay Kaplun & Marcin, LLP

20070221735 - Optical reading device: An optical reading device is disclosed, in which the size and weight thereof are reduced, and the shock resistibility of the spindle motor thereof is improved. The optical reading device comprises a casing and an optical reader, wherein the optical reader thereof is received inside the casing. The optical reader... Agent: Bacon & Thomas, PLLC

20070221736 - Tamper-evident label: A tamper-evident label includes a label body having a bar code area, and having tamper indicating means located in at least a portion of the bar code area. The tamper indicating means preferably includes a part of the label body with weakening formed therein, and at least one substantially diamond-shaped... Agent: Mccormick, Paulding & Huber LLP

20070221738 - Method and device for producing rfid smart labels or smart label inlays: The invention concerns a method and a system for production of RFID smart labels or smart label inlays, in which a multiplicity or RFID straps (11) are connected in succession with a multiplicity of antennae (20), where in a first step the RFID straps (11) to be arranged on a... Agent: Needle & Rosenberg, P.C.

20070221737 - 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... Agent: Schwegman, Lundberg & Woessner, P.A.

20070215683 - Management and application of entitlements: A method and system for managing and applying entitlements is described herein. An identity integration server centrally manages data associated with entitlements for a plurality of identities. The integration server may select one of a plurality of workflows. One or more of a plurality of entitlements to be used in... Agent: Microsoft Corporation

20070215684 - Trading network resources: A Network Resource Trading Exchange which allows Access Gateway Operators (who are usually also Network User Device Users) to trade usage of Network Resources (e.g. Internet access) via their Access Gateway for usage of Network Resources via other Access Gateway Operators' Access Gateways. Owners of Internet-connected wireless Access Gateways are... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070215685 - System and method of product identification using a url: Systems and methods for product identification using a URL are disclosed here. One embodiment includes generating a plurality of uniform resource locators (URLs), each URL being unique for each item of a set of items, each URL to provide access to the product information associated with each item. Another embodiment... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070215690 - Accruing and/or providing digital currency for media consumption: Methods and apparatuses for automatically crediting a user account associated with a user by a certain number of digital tokens if the user account satisfies a condition upon querying the user account. Example conditions include the passage of a certain amount of time, the current date is a pre-determined date,... Agent: Schwabe, Williamson & Wyatt, P.C. Pacwest Center, Suite 1900

20070215689 - Money transfers using digital cash: Methods and systems are described for transferring funds from a sender to a recipient. Source funds are received from a sender. An amount of recipient funds is determined from a value of the source funds. A transfer identifier associated with the recipient funds is generated and provided to the sender.... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070215691 - Apparatus and methods for processing misread or miskeyed magnetic indicia: The present invention is directed to methods and apparatus for processing check data, such as data stored using magnetic indicia. In one embodiment, a check transaction processing system receives an indication that a first check transaction from a first payor failed to clear because at least a portion of first... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070215686 - Automated teller machine voice guidance system and method: There is provided an automated teller machine (ATM) voice guidance system and method that enables a visually and/or hearing impaired individual to conveniently and easily carry out financial transactions on an ATM to thereby conform to government regulations. The ATM voice guidance system provides simultaneous and synchronized audio instructions via... Agent: Fitzpatrick Cella (amex)

20070215692 - Check accepting and cash dispensing automated banking machine: 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... Agent: Ralph E. Jocke Walker & Jocke Lpa

20070215687 - M-commerce virtual cash system, method, and apparatus: A virtual cash system, method, and apparatus has an account record containing a record of money amounts associated with a wireless device and a transmitter for wirelessly transmitting to the wireless device predetermined information from the account record. Cash amounts can be spent from the account record directly from the... Agent: Qualcomm Incorporated

20070215688 - Method for generating customer secure card numbers: A method for providing secure transactions generates a Secure Card Number (“SCN”) for a first entity that is transferred with a first entity identifier to a second entity and then to a money source that verifies that the transaction is valid by use of the first entity identifier and the... Agent: Technology & Intellectual Property Strategies Group PC Dba Tips Group

20070215698 - Credit card security system and method: A transaction method, system and apparatus of the present invention employs two electromagnetically read cards. A first card is employed for accessing account data of a corresponding account. A second card effectively carries identity data of the owner/account holder of the first card. During a transaction, the two cards must... Agent: Hamilton, Brook, Smith & Reynolds, P.C.

20070215699 - Method and apparatus for customization and dispensing customized plastic cards: An apparatus and method for selecting and processing text or images and applying the text or images to a variety of plastic cards. This system allows a user to select or upload images, select or type text and apply the image to either a dispensed plastic card similar in size... Agent: Reed Smith, LLP

20070215697 - Techniques for transaction adjustment: Techniques are provided for transaction adjustment. A payment device, having an offline balance, is presented to an offline terminal in connection with a putative transaction. If an irregularity with the putative transaction is detected, the offline balance is adjusted responsive to the detection. In one aspect of the invention, such... Agent: Ryan, Mason & Lewis, LLP

20070215695 - Device and system for presenting and facilitating payment of a restaurant bill: A device, system and method are disclosed for presenting a bill to restaurant patrons, and facilitating the payment of the bill by the patrons. A basic embodiment of the device includes a computing system and a billfold for housing at least a portion of the computing system. The computing system... Agent: Merchant & Gould PC

20070215696 - Electronic voucher system and associated method: An electronic voucher system comprising: a voucher facilitator; at least one merchant; and at least one customer, where each merchant communicates details of themselves and at least one voucher to the voucher facilitator; the voucher facilitator allocates a unique identifier to the merchant and stores details of the at least... Agent: David A. Guerra International Patent Group, LLC

20070215693 - Method and apparatus to provide authentication using an authentication card: A method and apparatus to provide authentication. The method comprising sending a challenge to a user to be authenticated, the challenge including a reference on a card issued to the user and receiving a user-supplied value purported by the user to be associated with the reference on the card issued... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070215694 - Slide-out gift card: A stored value card device has a housing comprising an upper shell and a lower shell. The card device is dimensioned similar to typical credit cards and contains a circuitry for producing an audio/visual message in an inner space formed between the upper and lower shells, which are shaped like... Agent: Law Offices Of Clement Cheng

20070215700 - R.f.i.d. enabled storage bin and method for tracking inventory: A contents-aware storage bin includes a transportable bin unit adapted for placement within a storage bin rack. An RFID reader unit is in contact with the bin unit. An REID antenna is connected to the RFID reader unit and is in contact with the bin unit.... Agent: Siemens Corporation Intellectual Property Department

20070215701 - Information processing device that writes data to an attachable/detachable recording medium and control method thereof: To prevent original data as a write target data from being destructed in the case of writing the data to a recording medium. An information processing device that writes data to an attachable/detachable recording medium includes data segmenting unit segmenting the data, data writing unit writing the data segmented by... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070215702 - Tag access control system, tag access control method and tag access control program: A tag access control system capable of setting an appropriate parameter for controlling a reader/writer can be provided. The tag access control system includes a control portion that controls data communication between an IC tag and a reader/writer by sending a command to the reader/writer in accordance with a parameter... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070215704 - Image processing device: An image processing device includes an information extracting unit that extracts information from a physical mark attached to a scanned document, and a user identifying unit that identifies a user. The image processing device also includes a traceability-information generating unit that generates traceability information from the information extracted by the... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070215703 - Camera module and method of assembling same: An image capture device and method of assembling same is disclosed which provides an improved technique of mounting a CMOS detector and also isolates the optics for image capture from the optics for illumination, thereby simplifying the adjustment process. An exemplary arrangement using the camera module is also shown.... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070215706 - Digital image capture and processing system employing multi-layer software-based system architecture permitting modification and/or extension of system features and functions by way of third party code plug-ins: A digital image capture and processing system, and software development environment, that supports manufacturer-constrained system behavior modification and/or extension by end-users and third-parties through the development and installation/deployment of plug-in modules within the application layer of the system by persons other than the original system designers. By virtue of the... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., PC Soundview Plaza

20070215705 - Mailpiece automated quality control: An automated quality assurance system includes an imager that receives an item having a data area and provides an image of the data section; and an analyzer that obtains at least one parameter from the image related to the data area and determines whether the at least one parameter from... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070215707 - Barcode scanner with linear automatic gain control (agc), modulation transfer function detector, and selectable noise filter: According to embodiments of the present invention, a barcode scanner platform is provided in which the gain of an analog signal representative of a barcode is controlled using a control loop. In embodiments, an MTF detector generates a value (e.g., DC) representative of a low frequency portion (wide or out... Agent: Blakely Sokoloff Taylor & Zafman

20070215708 - Continuous virtual scan line pattern generation: Disclosed are embodiments of methods, systems, and apparatus for generating a continuous virtual scan line pattern from a raster line input. In certain preferred embodiments, a continuous, omni-directional virtual scan line pattern may be generated from a continuous, one-dimensional raster line input. In some embodiments, such a pattern may be... Agent: Datalogic - Stoel Rives LLP C/o Stoel Rives LLP

20070215711 - Printed sheet products with integral, removable, radio frequency identification elements: Each printed sheet product includes a core of flexible, microvoided polymer sheet material and a planar RFID assembly encoded with a unique electro/magnetic code permanently and integrally joined together with the core. The microvoided sheet material collapses around the core so the sheet product remains planar. Scoring defines one or... Agent: Akin Gump Strauss Hauer & Feld L.L.P.

20070215709 - Rfid sensor: An RFID-based sensor includes a plurality of discrete sensor elements. Each sensor element changes conductivity state based on exposure of the sensor to a physical condition. An RFID circuit coupled to the plurality of sensor elements transmits a code corresponding to the conductivity states of the of sensor elements. The... Agent: 3m Innovative Properties Company

20070215710 - Smartcard method and computer system: A method and computer system for determining the compatibility, for application to a smartcard, of smartcard personalization profiles, the respective smartcard personalization profiles describing respective file trees on the smartcard that are required by respective applications. The method involves determining if the sets of paths of the file trees described... Agent: Hewlett Packard Company

20070210147 - Pocket-size talking card or pamphlet device and packages containing the same: A talking card device includes a support member comprising a printed portion viewable by the consumer, an electronic storage element operatively engaged to the support member, wherein the electronic storage element is adapted to store an audio communication relating to the article of manufacture in an electronic form, and an... Agent: Allen R. Kipnes, Esq. Watov & Kipnes, P.C.

20070210149 - Cash deposit apparatus and method: A cash deposit apparatus has a first cash processing unit capable of performing a first cash deposit transaction involving receiving first cash from a user and processing the first cash so as to determine a value of the first cash, and a second cash processing unit capable of performing a... Agent: Womble Carlyle Sandridge & Rice, PLLC

20070210150 - Method and system for processing credit card payments: A system for processing credit card payments is provided. According to one aspect of the system, a client is able to submit payment transactions in different formats for processing. Depending on the submission format, the payment transaction can be processed by either a batch process or a right-time process. The... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070210151 - Point of sale devices for converting promissory transactions into debit transactions: Systems and methods are provided for using a point of sale device to obtain authorization from a customer to convert the customer's promissory transaction to a direct debit transaction. In an embodiment, the point-of-sale device prints an authorization form for the customer's signature.... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070210148 - Remote validation system useful for financial transactions: A financial services and transaction network including multiple networked validation stations and remote terminals allows users to access a number of financial services and transactions. A user visiting a remote terminal indicates a desired service or transaction. The user provides any currency or funding information needed for the selected service,... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070210152 - Method and system for linking additional value to a stored value or gift card: In a system that utilizes a stored value or gift card (SVGC), additional value is linked to the SVGC. This additional value may provide an added incentive for purchasing the SVGC. The additional value may be a product or service, for example. The additional value may be linked to certain... Agent: Marshall, Gerstein & Borun LLP

20070210153 - System for vending physical and information items: A vending machine handles a purchase transaction by receiving a payment, receiving a product selection from the customer, and dispensing the product indicated by the product selection. As part of the same transaction, the vending machine offers an information item such as an audio recording or a video recording. The... Agent: Walker Digital Management, LLC

20070210155 - Consumer interactive shopping system: The present invention relates generally to a consumer interactive shopping and marketing system. The system includes a portable data terminal for communicating information over a communication network. The present system has aspects that may be used within a shopping establishment or at a user's home.... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070210154 - Method and system for accounting item sold by weight: A system for accounting an item sold by weight according to the present invention detects the weight of the item sold by weight taken in a package, calculates the sales price for the item sold by weight taken in the package based on the detected weight, and writes information on... Agent: Westerman, Hattori, Daniels & Adrian, LLP

20070210156 - System and method for shipping freight: The present invention is directed to a system and method that helps a freight carrier to more efficiently determine if a shipment of freight has been classified with the correct freight classification. In one embodiment, the method includes the use of a handheld communication device that allows an operator of... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070210158 - Combined radio frequency identification and optical imaging module: An optical imager, a RFID reader, and a single host interface combined into a single module for use as a stand alone device or OEM product. The module includes a system microcontroller that interconnects an optical image microcontroller and a RFID microcontroller through the single interface to a host device,... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070210159 - Electrosurgical device having rfid and optical imaging capabilities: A medical device, such as an electrosurgical scalpel, having a base unit and one or more attachable implements for performing medical procedures. The device include a host controllable module for capturing images of the attachable implement, decoding information contained in the image, and reporting the results of the decoding to... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070210157 - Infusion pump having radiofrequency identification and optical imaging capabilities: An infusion pump including an optical imaging and an RFID reading module connected thereto through a host interface. The optical imaging and RFID module comprises a system microcontroller that interconnects an optical image capture subsystem and an RFID subsystem preferably routed through a single interface to the infusion pump. This... Agent: Bond, Schoeneck & King, PLLC

20070210160 - Printed interface with orientation target structure: A printed interface for user interaction with a computer system via a sensing device is provided. The interface comprises visible graphical information and coded data readable by the sensing device. The coded data comprises a plurality of substantially undifferentiated marks positioned relative to a predetermined pattern, with an orientation target... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070210161 - Multi card reader: The present invention is a card reader that can read cards wherein the information contained on the cards is in different formats. This eliminates the need for different card readers for each card having a different format for information storage thereon. The card reader also has a biometric identification input... Agent: Mchale & Slavin, P.A.

20070210162 - Data storage devices: A data storage device communicates wirelessly with a reader. The data storage device has a data store for storing data and a hidden PIN data store for storing identification data. A controller of the data store has the ability to write identification data to the hidden PIN data store. The... Agent: Finnegan, Henderson, Farabow, Garrett & Dunner LLP

20070210164 - Item labeling, inspection and verification system for use in manufacturing, packaging, product shipment-fulfillment, distribution, or on-site operations: An item contents verification system, and associated method, for use in an assembly line of carrier-totes (if used) each containing at least one of a plurality of items having a labeling. Also, a labeling for use with a computerized inspection apparatus for verification of items, and associated method. The system... Agent: Jean M. Macheledt

20070210163 - Touch sensor device: A touch sensor device includes a light guide plate for guiding light for backlighting; a touch sensor positioned on or underneath the light guide plate and formed with at least one electrode pattern on a surface thereof which faces the light guide plate; and at least one light source positioned... Agent: Cha & Reiter, LLC

20070210165 - Digital image capturing and processing system employing coplanar illumination and imaging stations which generate coplanar illumination and imaging planes only when and where an object is being moved within the 3d imaging volume: A digital image capturing and processing system comprising a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging stations for producing a plurality of coplanar linear illumination and imaging planes which intersect within a 3D imaging volume defined relative to an imaging window. Each station includes an array of planar illumination modules (PLIMs)... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20070210167 - Digital image capturing and processing system having a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems, each employing a dual-type coplanar linear illumination and imaging engine that supports image-processing based object motion and velocity de: A digital image capturing and processing system comprising a system housing having an imaging window, a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems disposed in the system housing. Each coplanar illuminating and linear imaging station includes a dual-type coplanar linear illumination and imaging engine that supports automatic image formation and... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C. Soundview Plaza

20070210166 - Omni-directional digital image capturing and processing system comprising coplanar illumination and imaging stations automatically detecting object motion and velocity and adjusting exposure and/or illumination control parameters therewithin: An omni-directional digital image capturing and processing system comprising a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging stations for producing a plurality of coplanar linear illumination and imaging planes which intersect within a 3D imaging volume. Each coplanar illumination and imaging station includes a linear image detection array, a linear illumination... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20070210168 - Omni-directional digital image capturing and processing system employing coplanar illumination and imaging stations in horizontal and vertical housing sections of the system: An omni-directional digital image capturing and processing system for use in a POS environment, comprising a system housing having a horizontal housing section and a vertical housing section. The horizontal housing section has a horizontal imaging window, and contains a first plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging stations, for generating... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20070210169 - System and method for voice/data messaging application: Described is an optical imaging system which a plurality of optical imaging devices coupled to one another via a communication network. Each of the optical imaging devices may include an apparatus for optically reading encoded data and storing the data in a data file, a voice recording apparatus for recording... Agent: Amin, Turocy & Calvin, LLP

20070210170 - Digital-imaging based code symbol reading system employing a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystems, global object motion detection subsystem for automatic detecting objects within its 3d imaging volume, and global control subsystem for: A digital image capturing and processing system comprising a plurality of coplanar illumination and imaging subsystem for producing a plurality of coplanar linear illumination and imaging planes which intersect within a 3D imaging volume defined relative to an imaging window. The system further includes a global object motion detection subsystem... Agent: Thomas J. Perkowski, Esq., P.C.

20070210171 - Privacy sack for purchasing items and system therefor: A privacy purchase sack adapted for permitting users to confidentially purchase items bearing a product identification code such as a UPC code. The privacy purchase sack includes a main body portion having a sack with a wall and at least one open end, the wall having at least one window... Agent: Christie, Parker & Hale, LLP

20070210172 - Portable cradle: Provided is a portable cradle for a portable terminal which includes a housing; a first cradle body rotatably connected to the housing by means of a first hinge so as to be received in the housing, or of which a portion is apart from the housing and inclined; and a... Agent: The Farrell Law Firm, P.C.

20070210174 - Method and apparatus for protocol selection on icc: The present invention provides a solution for supporting both the MMC and USB protocol modes to provide enhanced services and applications in a UICC. The UICC, methods and the terminal for dynamically selecting a protocol on the UICC card are disclosed. The invention provides that at least MMC and USB... Agent: Birch Stewart Kolasch & Birch

20070210175 - Semiconductor memory card: A semiconductor memory card that is connected to an external device for use, has a circuit board that has an input/output terminal to be connected to said external device for signal input/output, an internal terminal and a substrate wiring formed on the upper surface thereof and has a resin member... Agent: Oblon, Spivak, Mcclelland, Maier & Neustadt, P.C.

20070210173 - System, method and device to detect product tampering: Embodiments of the present invention disclose an efficient and inexpensive method for detecting tampered products utilizing current off the shelf components. Features of some embodiments provide for a RFID labeling system that uses multiple RFID components attached to a single product unit being embedded in the product's label and one... Agent: Arno T. Naeckel

20070210176 - Method of generating interface surface: A method of generating an interface surface is provided, in which machine-readable coded data is generated in a computer system in accordance with a layout and is printed onto a surface with a printer in communication with the computer system. The layout has at least order n rotational symmetry, where... Agent: Silverbrook Research Pty Ltd

20070205256 - Paper processing apparatus and header card used therefor: In a paper processing apparatus including a loading unit, pickup mechanism, color detection unit, pickup control unit, discrimination unit, collecting unit, and rejecting unit, partition cards having colored areas and medium are loaded into the loading unit.... Agent: Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman, LLP

20070205258 - System and method of product information coding and authentication: Systems and methods for product information coding and authentication for product tracking purposes are disclosed here. One embodiment includes generating a plurality of product codes, each product code being a unit level code that is unique for each item, maintaining product information associated with the plurality of product codes of... Agent: Greenberg Traurig, LLP (sv)IPDocketing

20070205257 - System for the automatic display of seating assignment information and method of use thereof: The present invention provides a novel system to automatically display the seating assignment of an attendee. The system comprises a processor in electronic communication with a database, an electronic reader and a display screen. The attendee wears a badge which comprises at least an computer readable portion itself comprising an... Agent: Brouillette & Partners

20070205264 - Check processing method, check processing program medium, and check processing apparatus: Check processing involves scanning a back of a check having no authorization data printed thereon, electronically generating authorization data indicating that processing a check payment has been completed, and generating an electronic merged image by electronically combining back image data captured during the scanning of the back of the check... Agent: Epson Research And Development Inc Intellectual Property Dept

20070205259 - Media cassette sensing system: The invention provides a sensing system for a self-service terminal and a media cassette for use in such a self-service terminal. The sensing system for a self-service terminal comprises an aerial comprising at least one receive circuit and a processor arranged in use to determine the position of a first... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070205260 - Media pick unit: A detachable media pick unit is provided for use in an Automated Teller Machine dispenser unit. The pick unit comprises pick components, a transport mechanism and at least one motor, which is arranged to drive at least one of the pick components and the transport mechanism. The pick unit is... Agent: Michael Chan Ncr Corporation

20070205261 - Method for automatic removal of text from a signature area: The present invention provides a method for processing a document involving the automatic removal of text from a predetermined area of a document, the method comprising inputting a bitmap containing the predetermined area of the document from which the text will be removed wherein the predetermined area contains handwritten strokes,... Agent: Sheppard, Mullin, Richter & Hampton LLP

20070205262 - Methods and systems for validating negotiable instruments: Methods and systems for validating a negotiable instrument. One method can include obtaining an electronic image of the negotiable instrument, electronically determining a first value and a second value of the negotiable instrument based on the electronic image, and automatically validating the negotiable instrument if the first value is substantially... Agent: Michael Best & Friedrich, LLP

20070205263 - System and method for replenishing a wireless terminal account: A system and method for replenishing a wireless terminal account of a customer of a telecommunication service provider. In one embodiment the method includes transmitting through a point-of-sale device a merchant identification, a customer mobile identification number and an amount to the telecommunication service provider. The method also includes validating... Agent: Withers & Keys For Bell South

20070205265 - Systems and methods for processing check identifiers using replacement symbols: An original check identifier in MICR format includes separator symbols that do not appear on a typical computer keyboard. When a user is entering a check identifier from a computer or a telephone, the user is instructed to replace the separator symbols with replacement symbols that appear on a typical... Agent: Knobbe Martens Olson & Bear LLP

20070205268 - Information distribution method: An information processing apparatus distributes service information related to an electronic transaction to a user who performs the electronic transaction. The information processing apparatus includes a storage unit that stores a service information group including the service information, transaction information relating to the electronic transaction, and user information relating to... Agent: Staas & Halsey LLP

20070205267 - Method and apparatus for promotion of transaction card: An envelope for carrying a transaction card is provided. A transaction card is a gift certificate or the like redeemable for additional goods from a retail store or the like. The envelope includes a planar surface having a first side and a second side. A slot is cut into the... Agent: Nikolai & Mersereau, P.A.

20070205266 - Method and system for reporting identity document usage: To more rapidly redress identity theft, reports are issued to a person detailing instances in which that person's driver's license, passport, or other government-issued identification documents are presented as a form of ID. These reports can be issued periodically (e.g., integrated with monthly reports aggregating bank and brokerage account information,... Agent: Digimarc Corporation

20070205269 - Method and system for the resale of prepaid cards and paper gift certificates: A method and system for the resale of prepaid cards and paper gift certificates, which includes as part of the resale process verification of the monetary value represented by such prepaid card or gift certificate.... Agent: Fulwider Patton LLP

20070205270 - System for personal authorization control for card transactions: An authorization system allows for cardholder-provided parameters to a personal authorization subsystem. The parameters can be selected by the cardholder to limit the authorizations that would otherwise be granted on the card. The parameters can indicate limits by frequency, dollar amount, merchant, geographic location, time of day, combinations thereof, or... Agent: Townsend And Townsend Crew LLP

20070205271 - Method and apparatus for automated teller machine transactions: The present invention provides a computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code to receive a request to withdraw money using a bank card. A determination is made as to whether a profile is present on the bank card. The money is dispensed using types of currency based on... Agent: Ibm Corp (ya) C/o Yee & Associates PC

20070205272 - Method of operating a terminal: A method of operating a terminal at an airport beyond security screening, the terminal having a housing, a display, a reader configured to read data from an information bearing medium comprising the steps of: reading a personal identification; performing at least one of the following functions: gate check-in; employee access... Agent: Hand Held Products, Inc.

20070205278 - Merchandise ordering system using a cell phone: A merchandise ordering system utilizing a cell phone for communicating order information and a Radio Frequency Identification (RFID) device for customer location and identification. Orders are placed using the cell phone prior to arrival at the retail establishment. RFID customer location information indicating proximity of the customer to the retail... Agent: James Richards

20070205277 - Self-checkout terminal: A self-checkout terminal is provided which includes a sensor for detecting whether or not a customer is in a position where operation of units of the self-checkout terminal by the customer is possible. When the sensor does not detect a customer, a whole guidance screen including a procedure summary of... Agent: Frishauf, Holtz, Goodman & Chick, PC

20070205276 - Visualization confirmation of price zoning display: A method and apparatus for iterative price zone analysis includes steps of generating auxiliary data for a geographic region that includes a plurality of retail locations, the regions being dividable into a plurality of geographic zones. The method and apparatus further includes modeling of sales information for the retail locations... Agent: Kenyon & Kenyon LLP

20070205274 - Customer retrievable electronic receipt: A method program and a computer readable medium facilitate generating of an electronic receipt of a sales transaction at a point of purchaser and transmitting the record in an electronic form to be retrieved by a buyer. The electronic receipt is a computer image representation of corresponding paper receipt of... Agent: Keaty Professional Law Corporation Thomas S. Keaty

20070205273 - High security wireless key for asynchronous delivery drop boxes: A wireless key (6), capable of transmitting an ultra-low frequency radio wave signal (5), is used to gain access to a secure receptacle (1), the wireless key (6) and receptacle (1) comprising a system to ensure the secure transfer or delivery of items between parties typically engaging in e-commerce. The... Agent: Oppedahl Patent Law Firm LLC - Vai

20070205275 - Portable point of sale systems and methods: End-to-end transaction processing systems and methods provide for calculating an amount of a transaction, capturing a presentation instrument information from a customer presentation instrument with a portable POS device, transmitting the presentation instrument information to a PC-based POS system, and transmitting the presentation instrument information, a sales information, and an... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070205279 - Integrated explosives detector and transit fare collection system and method: An integrated fare collection and security system is provided. The system include an apparatus for detecting trace amounts of explosives or other substances of interest as part of a ticket purchasing transaction. Signals then are generated to prevent suspects form entering the transit system.... Agent: Casella & Hespos

20070205280 - Defining, administering, and managing automatic identification information, such as bar codes: A method and system for collecting, storing, and processing automatic identification code information includes receiving automatic identification code information and parsing it based on stored definitions for automatic identification codes and/or automatic identification code standards. Various data configurations may be used to store definitions and to facilitate parsing of raw... Agent: Csa LLP

20070205282 - Card reader: A card reader which makes it possible to read card data from a non-contact IC card, discharge a foreign substance inserted from a card insertion slit, sufficiently ensure the degree of freedom in design, and sufficiently prevent the size of the apparatus main body from becoming large. A coil-shaped circuit... Agent: Mcdermott Will & Emery LLP

20070205281 - Electronic apparatus and storage medium reading out device housed in electronic apparatus: An electronic apparatus includes a wireless unit and a storage medium reading out device. The wireless unit for carrying out a wireless communication with an external apparatus is mounted in the storage medium reading out device which is housed in a housing portion of the storage medium reading out device.... Agent: Ditthavong Mori & Steiner, P.C.

20070205283 - Indicia reader with synchronized light source and associated methods and computer program product: The present invention provides systems, methods and computer program-product of obtaining information from radio frequency identification (RFID) transponder tags with a mobile device having a radio frequency (RF) transceiver incorporated therein. The mobile device uses one or more visible light sources that may illuminate the RFID transponder tag under consideration,... Agent: Alston & Bird LLP

20070205285 - Reflective encoder with interchangable lens on emitter-detector module: An encoder having a code strip and an emitter-detector module is disclosed. The code strip includes alternating reflective and opaque stripes. The emitter-detector module includes a housing, a lens insert, a light source and a photodetector. Light from the light source illuminates the code strip, and light reflected from the... Agent: Kathy Manke Avago Technologies Limited

20070205284 - System and method for identifying a spatial code: A system and method are provided for identifying a one- or multi-dimensional spatial code comprising a plurality of security tags with one or more characteristic emission profiles. The spatial codes are identified on the basis of the combined spatial and spectral information. The system for identifying such spatial codes is... Agent: Christopher P. Ricci Intellectual Property Section, Law Department

20070205286 - Portable multiple bar and other code display: A device that records, stores and displays UPC's and other codes that are ordinarily stored on various cards. Thus, the device eliminates the need to carry multiple cards incorporating bar codes. By recording the image of the code, storing the image and being able to retrieve the code later, one... Agent: Kremblas, Foster, Phillips & Pollick

20070205287 - Optical system for barcode scanner: An optical system used in a barcode scanner is disclosed to include a light source for emitting a dot-shaped light beam in a slanting angle, a standing cylindrical lens for expanding the dot-shaped light beam produced by the light source as a line-shaped light beam onto a barcode of a... Agent: Riotec Co., Ltd.

20070205288 - Hand held wireless reading viewer of invisible bar codes: Hand held wireless reading viewer for bar codes printed with fluorescing inks that are invisible to the human eye. The reading viewer comprises a portable housing with a window transparent to the excitation and emission wavelengths, an LED or laser diode illuminator module having optical filter and diffuser, an image... Agent: Vadim Laser

20070205289 - Cradle/polygon scanner: A dual mode cradle, base station having a re-charging mode and a transmitting mode for wireless communication with a remote device and recharging a handheld scanning device is provided. The dual mode cradle, base station includes a transmitting subunit for wirelessly transmitting data originating from the handheld scanning device to... Agent: Kaplan Gilman Gibson & Dernier L.L.P.

20070205290 - Presentation and transaction instruments with image display: The present invention generally relates to presentation and transaction cards with graphic image display, which may generally be dynamically modified or personalized following manufacture of the presentation or transaction card body. By way of example, the graphic images may be, e.g., digital image or photo files that may be electronically... Agent: Townsend And Townsend And Crew, LLP

20070205291 - Antenna apparatus: This invention provides an antenna apparatus (60) for use in a non-contact type IC card into and from which data can be written and read by electronic apparatuses having a communication function, by virtue of inductive coupling. The antenna apparatus comprises a loop coil (61) and a magnetic member (62).... Agent: Haverstock & Owens LLP