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A system and method for securely transmitting information over a communications network comprises receiving a message notification that a recipient has a message on a recipient's client device from a processor based server upon receipt of the message from a sender's client device. The message from the sender's client device is stored in a storage device by the server. The recipient accesses the server to view the message using the recipient's client device. The message is rendered and displayed on the screen by the recipient's client device in accordance with a display method selected by the sender of the message to present only a portion of the message at any given time to the recipient. The prevents the message from being recorded or captured.

Electronic cards include a package having vertical and horizontal dimensions of a standard credit card, and including first and second opposing faces. A flat panel display extends over the first face. A dynamic magnetic encoder is provided on the second face. A user input device also is provided on the package. A processor is provided in the package that is configured to display a substantially full size image of a credit card on the flat panel display, and to control the dynamic magnetic encoder to provide magnetic stripe information for the credit card, in response to user selection of the credit card via the user input device. Accordingly, the look (image) of a credit card can be emulated, as well as the magnetic stripe information that would be provided by the credit card, in response to user selection of the credit card.

A system and method for smart, persistent cache management of received content within a terminal. Received content is tagged with cache directive allowing cache control to determine which of cache storage locations to use for storage of content. Cache control detects the number of instances that received content correlates to a newer version of purged content and provides the ability to re-classify cache persistence directive based upon the number of instances.

Methods for preventing ad stripping from ad-supported digital content include removing part of the content, and using a digital rights management (DRM) proxy server to provide links to any removed content part and to ads to be inserted in the content to a player who plays the content with the ads. The DRM proxy server ensures that the player cannot distinguish between removed content parts and the ads. A system enabling the method includes in addition to the DRM server and player an encoder used to remove at least one part from the content, encode the remaining content and the removed part and supplying links to each removed part to the DRM proxy server. The system further includes an ad server used to provide links to ads to the DRM proxy server.

A method of inspecting Web elements for real-time classification and detection of Web elements spoofing attempts, according to which trustworthy Web locations are identified for generating a database of safe zones. For each inspected element, it is checked whether or not its top frame URL is included in the database, and if it is included, the element is classified as suspected in Web elements location spoofing attempt.

A digital camera system including a first video capture unit for capturing a first digital video sequence of a scene and a second video capture unit that simultaneously captures a second digital video sequence that includes the photographer. A data processor automatically analyzes first digital video sequence to determine a low-interest spatial image region. A facial video sequence including the photographer's face is extracted from the second digital video sequence, and inserted into the low-interest spatial image region in the first digital video sequence to form the composite video sequence.

In an optical disc having an RFID tag, disc control information needed for control of reproduction of the content recorded in the disc body of the optical disc is stored in the RFID tag. Thereby, even if the content recorded in the disc body is illegally copied in some way, common optical disc apparatus incapable of reading RFID tags cannot read and copy the disc control information stored in the RFID tag. Accordingly, unauthorized copying of the content recorded on the optical disc can be reliably prevented without the use of special cryptographic technology.

Electronic cards include a package having vertical and horizontal dimensions of a standard credit card, and including first and second opposing faces. A flat panel display extends over the first face. A dynamic magnetic encoder is provided on the second face. A user input device also is provided on the package. A processor is provided in the package that is configured to display a substantially full size image of a credit card on the flat panel display, and to control the dynamic magnetic encoder to provide magnetic stripe information for the credit card, in response to user selection of the credit card via the user input device. Accordingly, the look (image) of a credit card can be emulated, as well as the magnetic stripe information that would be provided by the credit card, in response to user selection of the credit card.

To address the scarcity of radio frequency (RF) spectrum, the disclosed systems offer unique ways to mitigate interference between television broadcasters (including their direct audience and viewers served via cable television) and other concurrent users of the RF spectrum, e.g. for one-way or two-way wireless communication. A preferred embodiment makes use of the “framing” characteristics of the “letterbox” video display format. RF emissions of the simultaneous RF spectrum user are keyed “on” only or substantially only during the time intervals when the blanking intervals and / or letterbox-border video lines are being scanned on the display, i.e. when the potentially affected (interfered with) television display is in the letterbox-frame-scanning portions of each video field. The concurrent uses may support services for voice (including telephony, music etc.), data (including Internet, intranet, etc.); image or control; fixed, portable, mobile or nomadic; narrowband, broadband or ultra-wideband; radiodetermination, diathermy, etc. Additionally, the concurrent user's emitted power and receiver sensitivity is continuously adjusted according to the broadcast television signal.

The invention relates to a method, a system, an electronic device and a computer program for providing at least one content stream to an electronic device applying Digital Rights Management (DRM). In the method a master integrity key is obtained in a streaming node. An encrypted master integrity key is obtained in an electronic device. The encrypted master integrity key is decrypted in the electronic device. At least one session integrity key is formed in the streaming node and in the electronic device using at least the master integrity key and the integrity of at least one content stream is protected between the streaming node and the electronic device using the at least one session integrity key.

An apparatus for preparing and vending beverages based on selections input by consumers is provided, including one or more sources of roasted coffee beans; one or more sources of teas; one or more sources of cocoa; at least one grinder for preparing ground coffee from said roasted coffee beans; one or more sources of flavoring ingredients; a source of water; one or more sources of fresh dairy products; and a mechanism for preparing the beverage. Also provided is a method for preparing a beverage according to selections entered by a consumer, including receiving beverage selections entered by a consumer; collecting payment for the beverage based on the beverage selections entered; retrieving preset standards for proper preparation of the beverage based on the beverage selections; displaying the beverage preparation process and the freshness of ingredients used to prepare the beverage; preparing the beverage in accordance with the preset standards; monitoring the preparation of the beverage for compliance with the preset standards; and providing the beverage to the consumer.

Medical devices for implantation in a body vessel are provided. A medical device can be configured as a drainage stent adapted for placement in a bodily passageway. The drainage stent preferably includes a drainage lumen extending longitudinally through the drainage stent, and a sleeve defining a collapsible lumen in fluid flow communication with the drainage lumen. The sleeve may function as a one-way valve and preferably includes a biodeposition-reducing bioactive agent, such as an antibiotic or antimicrobial agent. The medical device may be configured as a biliary or pancreatic stent.

A copyright-managed environment is provided in which encrypted content and a license for decrypting the content are handled separately. Each client registered in the environment uses content legitimately. After the content acquired by a client A of a user is stored into a client B of the same user, the client B may receive a new license for the same content from a license server. This allows the content to be shared between the clients A and B while the copyright of the content is protected. The inventive environment allows the user having acquired a license to use the corresponding content on a plurality of apparatuses in his or her possession while illegal content uses are forestalled.

An imaging unit takes an image and converts the image into a video signal. A display unit displays the image carried the by the video signal. An average luminance calculating unit calculates average luminance of the image per first predetermined period. A detecting unit calculates a ratio of maximum to minimum average luminance of the average luminance over a second predetermined period that is an integer multiple of the first predetermined period and determines whether the ratio is equal to or higher than a predetermined value. The detecting unit determines that the image taken by the imaging unit is an image of a movie projected onto a screen when it is determined that the ratio is equal to or higher than the predetermined value. A warning unit sends a warning signal to the display unit when the detecting unit determines that the image taken by the imaging unit is the image of the movie. The display unit then displays an warning message carried by the warning signal with the image.

An information recording / playback device stores beforehand, on a recording medium, secret information in which a writing / reading method thereof cannot be analyzed and which can be read only by a special reading method. The secret information is applied to a key for content encryption or decryption when performing recording or playback of contents on the recording medium, such as music data and image data. The secret information is, for example, a stamper ID. By using the stamper ID as secret information, and a master key and a media key which are distributed in a tree-structure key-distribution system, a content-cryptosystem key is generated. Accordingly, each content is allowed to be used in only an appropriate device in which the special reading method for the secret information can be executed and to which the key is distributed by the tree-structure key-distribution system.

A peer node according to the present invention relates to a peer node for constructing a peer-to-peer (P2P) network allowing P2P type communication. The peer node includes a unit dividing a share target file for information sharing through the P2P network into a plurality of divided files in a form where contents of each divided file makes no sense by itself; a unit distributing and arranging the plurality of divided files to and in a plurality of peer nodes including the own peer node and at least one other peer node constituting the P2P network; and a unit moving each of the divided files of distribution and arrangement between the plurality of peer nodes at a certain period of time.

According to example configurations as described herein, an on-line conference management application receives an indication of multiple participants that attend an on-line collaboration meeting. The conference management system stores identities of content shared amongst the multiple participants during the on-line collaboration meeting. Based on identities of the multiple participants and shared content, the conference management system generates an access policy. Subsequent to termination of the on-line collaboration meeting, the conference management system utilizes the access policy to prevent unauthorized access to the shared content. For example, the conference management system can receive a request from a user to access the shared content. The management system checks to determine whether the user was a participant at the on-line collaboration meeting. Responsive to detecting that the user attended the on-line collaboration meeting as specified by the access policy, the management system can provide access to the particular document to the user.

A double chamber aerosol container capable of filling contents in the container has a container cap that constitutes a liquid container with an inner sack to be temporarily fitted to a bead portion of an outer container while the inner sack is placed within the outer container. When the inner sack is placed with the outer container, the lower end of the inner sack is not in contact with the bottom of the interior of the outer container. The propellant is filled in the outer container upon forming a filling gap between the container cap and the bead portion, and then the container cap is surely clinched to the bead portion of the outer container.

The construct described herein allows opposing tissues to form adhesions with either side of the construct, as part of the natural healing process. The construct however is multi-layered, wherein the space between the layers provides the protection from unwanted adhesions forming between and bonding separate tissues. In one embodiment, this space between layers of the construct may be developed spontaneously, that is the multiple layers are released by design after a finite time and the opposing tissues are free to move independent of each other, free of adhesions.

A data distribution system has a portable user terminal, which sends a portable terminal ID or memory card ID and electronic money are sent to a store-based terminal (10) and receives data content, a store-based terminal (11), which receives the portable terminal ID or memory card ID and electronic money from the portable user terminal (10), and which sends these to a billing center (12), along with a content ID and a store-based terminal ID, a billing center (12) that receives the content ID, the portable terminal ID or memory card ID, the store-based terminal ID, and the electronic money from the store-based terminal (11), and a content center (13), which receives the content ID, the portable terminal ID or memory card ID, and the store-based terminal ID, and which distributes data content, via the store-based terminal (11), to the portable terminal (10).

Some embodiments provide instantaneous and non-blocking content purging across storage servers of a distributed platform. When a server receives a purge operation, it extracts an identifier from the purge operation. The server then generates a content purge pattern from the identifier and injects the pattern to its configuration. Instantaneous purging is then realized as the server averts access to any cached content identified by the pattern. The purging also occurs in a non-blocking fashion as the physical purge of the content occurs in-line with the server's cache miss operation. The content purge pattern causes the server to respond to a subsequently received content request with a cache miss, whereby the server retrieves the requested content from an origin source, serves the retrieved content to the requesting user, and replaces a previously cached copy of the content that is to be purged with the newly retrieved copy.

A multi-screen display device of the present invention includes a master liquid crystal display device and one or more slave liquid crystal display devices which are mutually communicable with each other. Each of the liquid crystal display devices includes an LCD panel, a brightness sensor, brightness adjustment value adjustment means, and backlight control means. The brightness sensor is provided on a rear face side of the LCD panel, and detects the brightness of a backlight. The brightness adjustment value adjustment means adjusts a brightness adjustment value based on a result of comparison between a brightness measured by the brightness sensor and target brightness. The backlight control means adjusts the brightness of the LCD panel by controlling a time period for lighting the backlight based on the brightness adjustment value. The master liquid crystal display device further has target brightness adjustment means for receiving the brightness adjustment values from the slave liquid crystal display devices and adjusting the target brightness based on the brightness adjustment values of all of said liquid crystal display devices including the master liquid crystal display device itself.

An information processing apparatus includes a content usage control information analyzer configured to read content usage control information recorded on an information recording medium and to perform content usage processing according to the content usage control information. The content usage control information analyzer determines whether the usage of content corresponding to the content usage control information is allowed based on a value of a flag included in the content usage control information and device information whether the information processing apparatus is an extended device having an extended function or a basic device without an extended function.

A method and apparatus for acquiring and removing information regarding a digital rights object are provided. The method for acquiring removing information regarding a digital rights object includes receiving a request for data on a rights object from a device, processing the data on the rights object in response to the request, and providing the processed data to the device. The method of removing a digital rights object includes selecting information regarding a rights object to be removed, encrypting the selected information regarding the rights object using a common encryption key, embedding the encrypted information regarding the rights object into a signal to be transmitted to a portable storage device, and transmitting the signal to the portable storage device. A device requests information regarding a rights object from a portable storage device, receives the information regarding the rights object from the portable storage device, and removes an unnecessary rights object.

A toner supply apparatus includes a first toner container; a first feeding member for feeding toner in the first toner container; a second toner container for receiving the toner from the first toner container; a second feeding member for feeding toner in the second toner container; a third toner container, detachably mountable relative to a main assembly of the toner supply apparatus, for receiving in the toner from the second toner container; wherein when the toner is supplied into the third toner container, the first feeding member is driven in accordance with a toner supply amount, and the second feeding member is substantially continuously driven irrespective of the toner supply amount.

An application, media drive, and media are configured so as to cooperate with one another to provide secure access and copying of protected content on the media. The application cooperates with the media drive to identify the media as a cooperating component, and in the process, also identifies the media drive as a cooperating component. The media includes information facilitating such identifying activity, such as a fingerprint indicating the copy protection method used to protect the content. Also included on the media is a guard module that authenticates the application as a cooperating component, establishes secure channels respectively with the application and the media drive for communicating secret information, installs licenses included on the media, and only allows access to the protected content if the media is an original copy. The application then manages usage and / or copying of the protected content according to the installed licenses.

A computer network having a requesting node and a providing node permits data transfer therebetween when permitted by an authorizing node. Reports generated in response to authorizations and reports generated in response to data transfers are reconciled at a reconciliation node to improve the accuracy of payments collected and paid for use of the data. Such payments include copyright royalties for audio, video, and other works recorded in digital format.

An elongate blank for forming a tubular carton includes panels arranged in a row along the length of the blank. The panels are hingedly connected one to another in series. Each panel has a pair of opposed free end edges disposed generally along the length of the blank. Each panel is formed along either free end edge thereof with a cutout so that the blank is provided along either longitudinal edge thereof with a plurality of tabs each interposed between adjacent cutouts. The cutouts are dimensioned and configured such that the tabs have an identical size and configuration and are complementary to at least some of the cutouts.

A semiconductor storage device connected to the host system through the general purpose interface, including a semiconductor storage media module (1) and a controller module (2), in which the controller module (2) consists of a general purpose interface control module (21), a microprocessor and control module (22). Various device class protocols can be realized at the interface application level of the semiconductor storage device, which makes it possible to simulate and realize the storage functions of various storage disks. One or a plurality of storage spaces are opened up in the semiconductor storage media and one or a plurality of storage disks are supported by the same device; furthermore, the device supports hot plug and play and it is removable.