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Aspects of the invention relate to a customer authentication system for authenticating a customer making a request related to a customer account. The customer authentication system may include multiple application level data receiving and processing mechanisms for receiving customer requests and collecting customer data. The customer authentication system may additionally include a central authentication system for receiving the customer requests and customer data from the multiple application level data receiving and processing mechanisms, the central authentication system determining, based on authentication policy, whether the collected customer data is sufficient to authenticate each customer in order to fulfill the customer request. The central authentication system may return its conclusions and instructions to the multiple application level data receiving and processing mechanisms. The customer authentication system may additionally include a fraud policy system for centrally managing authentication policy implemented by the central authentication system.

A demodulator used in a base band processor of the spread spectrum radio transceiver includes a demodulator circuit for spread spectrum phase shift keying (PSK) demodulating an information signal received from a radio circuit. The information signal includes data symbols formed from a plurality of high rate mode chips forming a spread spectrum information signal. At least one predetermined code function correlator is in line with a signal input for decoding the information signal according to a predetermined code. A carrier loop circuit allows phase and frequency tracking of the information signal and a chip decision circuit is operative with the carrier loop circuit for tracking high rate mode chips. A decision feedback equalizer formed from a feedback finite impulse response filter is operative with the chip decision circuit and the carrier loop circuit. It has a plurality of feedback taps. At least one feedback tap is selected for logical add / subtract operations to aid in canceling multipath signal echoes. A feed forward finite impulse response filter can also be positioned in line to the code function correlator and the signal input and has a plurality of feed forward taps that are selected for logical multiply operations to aid in reducing multipath signal echoes. A method aspect of the invention is also disclosed.

A method and system is disclosed that provides: (a) a theoretical framework for designing psychological research that uncovers individual decision-making networks, both in terms of sampling requirements and questioning methods, (b) an implementation interface to schedule and administer the appropriate question sequences between an interviewer and a given individual, in real-time, via a web-based system, and (c) a coding and analysis system to summarize and quantify the potential of alternative decision structures to be used to optimize the development of marketing and communication strategies.