A system for delivering goods from a vendor to an intended recipient including a goods carrier to carry the goods from the vendor to the intended recipient, a call center, and a telecommunications system. The call center is adapted automatically to send a request signal to the intended recipient via the telecommunications system when an order for the goods is received by the vendor, and to receive...

A procedure for mobile electronic commerce, including the steps that a purchase code related to an object for selling by a seller (3), is registered and stored in a memory device (2) in a computer system (1) at a service provider in a mobile telecommunication system; information about the object is presented together with the purchase code in a general presentation device (11), for instance TV; an...

The invention utilizes a personalization system that uses rules to adjudicate and characterize a customer, or a customer's actions, and then to personalize a business function, such as a displayed page, based on the outcome of those rules. In one embodiment, the invention provides a system for web-based marketing and campaign management, that allows for personalizing the content or distribution of...

A computer-implemented method and computing system for the collaborative evaluation and management of the potential safety hazards attendant upon the use of one or more biological agents is disclosed.

A read-after-write system for optical recording systems includes a mirror used to direct read beams to a desired position on a recording medium relative to write beams impinging on the recording medium. The mirror may be adjustable to direct the read beams through a range of possible positions.

A server arrangement (8) connected to a network (1), comprising processing means (21) and memory means (18-22) connected to the processing means (21), the memory means (18-22) comprising a plurality of records (401), each record (401) being associated with a client and containing at least the following fields: a first data field (402) to identify the record (401); a second data field (410) represe...

The invention relates to a communication system or a method for wireless participation in a betting system, e.g. a lottery, football pools, horse-race betting, bingo or another betting or lottery system. The inventive communication system comprises a betting device (2), which receives and verifies the identification information of a player registered in the betting system, whereby said identificat...

The invention in particular relates to a method for confirmation of a transaction, such as, in particular, the cashless payment for an item or service (1) by the user of a transmission and receiving device, such as, in particular, a mobile radio terminal and/or organiser with a transaction partner (1) in particular, a service provider for carrying out said transactions. According to the invention,...

A method for online purchasing with high operating security, comprising the steps of: purchasing a card which bears a code and with which a PIN for enabling the card is associated; creating, by communicating the code and the PIN, a virtual account (3) which is univocally associated with the card; when the owner of the card wished to make a purchase online, entering the code of the card and the PIN...

A device for absorbing axial and radial short-circuit forces in a cable-wound inductor. A fixing member includes an inner envelope surface that surrounds the cable winding of the inductor.

Biaxially-oriented polyester film with a base layer (B) of at least 80% thermoplastic polyester and two outer layers (A) and (C), in which (A) has a very smooth surface with essentially no external particles and (C) contains external particles, the number of bumps per unit area of film surface being correlated with the height of the bumps by a special equation. Biaxially-oriented polyester film w...

Biaxially-oriented polyester film with a base layer (B) of thermoplastic polyester and outer layers (A) and (C), in which (A) has a very smooth surface with no external particles and is coated with an acrylic polymer (D), and (C) contains external particles, the number of bumps per unit area of surface being correlated with bump height by a special equation. Biaxially-oriented polyester film with...

Biaxially-oriented polyester film with a base layer (B) of thermoplastic polyester and outer layers (A) and (C), in which (A) has a very smooth surface with no external particles while (C) contains external particles (the number of bumps per unit surface area being correlated with bump height by a special equation) and is also coated with an acrylate polymer. Biaxially-oriented polyester film wit...

The rolling brake control method is used with an electronic braking control for maintaining a required pressure in the wheel brakes, for preventing motion of the vehicle, without the driver operating the brake pedal, until the gas pedal is moved from the idling position into a threshold position for releasing the rolling brake. A comfort release of the rolling brake is initiated until engagement o...

The invention relates to a control apparatus for controlling a transmission, comprising a transmission input shaft (205), a transmission output shaft (301) and means for transmitting torque from the transmission input shaft (205) to the transmission output shaft (301) by clawing before and after gear-changing and otherwise by friction, wherein when an output shaft torque of said transmission after...

The cost calculation method uses hierarchic networks, each having network levels, each containing network elements connected to other elements, with the hierarchic networks combined via a common network level. The value calculated in one network is dependent on a value provided by a different network, the data flow for the calculation effected via the network connections and the common network pla...

This method of evaluation provides means of accurately evaluating individuals and groups within an organization on the basis of numerical data and for thereby instituting genuine meritocracy within the organization. The activities of individuals and/or groups comprised of one or more individuals within the organization are quantified as billables or by applying tools of accounting and the individu...

In a token-management system, the current value of token credit allocated to a user by a token-issuer is stored in a memory in the form of a user account data. When the user wishes to spend token credit, the user sends the issuer an authorization to reimburse the appropriate amount of token credit to a redeemer who provides the user with goods or services. In response to a valid reimbursement auth...

The payment method allow a payment for goods or services to be transferred to the provider via a customer subscriber terminal (KEG), the payment request made by the provider upon reception of a goods or service request from the consumer, the provider and the customer associated with respective accounting systems (ZS2,ZS1) which communicate for transfer of a payment authorization before the payment...