An authentication system including an active smart-key (20) for automatically cross verifying all partners involved in communicating or transacting online, using any Internet enable device (15) or system. This invention enables users to communicate and transact from any Internet enabled device, in a secure and easy to use way, without transferring any personal details between the user and the merc...

In a system wherein, a point value is set as a consideration for a service to be offered, a point value to be received as a consideration when a service is given is informed to a service user who desires to receive the service and when the service has been offered, the service provider receives the point value from the service user as the consideration of the service offering, thereby, a service p...

A method and system for providing a temporary credit card number on the internet wherein a temporary credit card number is given so as to protect a user of a credit card from an exposure of a credit card number. In the method, a server for providing a temporary credit card number issues a temporary credit card number to a buyer possessing a credit card. The internet cite or the store gets a confir...

Disclosed is a settlement system and method using cyber money. When a settlement request and corresponding money are input by a user terminal, settlement states are determined acording to loan limits assigned to the user's account, and when a request for expanding the loan limits is provided by the user terminal in the case the settlement money is greater than the loan limits, the loan limits assi...

A customer interaction station includes a number of displays (22, 24A, 24B) each capable of outputting audio and visual stimuli to a potential customer. The customer interaction station includes a high bandwidth connection (100) to a remote location where sales agents are located. Further, the customer interaction station includes a customer interface complete with multiple inputs (32, 34, 36) by ...

A computer based virtual reality trading system for trading financial products such as commodities and stocks uses a server based system for generating a virtual trading floor to simulate an exchange. Traders use local PC's to direct their individual avatars interactively on the virtual trading floor, using hand and voice signals similar to a non-virtual exchange. This allows an exchange to be de-...

A computer system and a computer implemented method for processing and display of variables in a user generated network diagram representing a balanced system, wherein the variables represent stocks and flows of resources and key ratios being ratios of linear combinations of flows and/or stocks of resources. A user interface is used for graphically creating a balanced system in the form of a netwo...

A method, in which the Internet and a mobile communication network are connected to each other, for securing users using the Internet and transmitting advertisements through a mobile communication network, is provided. The advertising service method using a mobile communication terminal includes the steps of (a) receiving information on a member including the telephone number of the mobile communi...

A hydrodynamic brake for a vehicle having a stator and a rotor, which each comprise an annular recess and a plurality of vanes which are provided in the respective recess. The rotor rotates in a rotation direction such that a relatively high pressure is created on a first side of the respective vanes of the stator and a relatively low pressure on a second side of each vane of the stator. This pres...

Price label system comprising a price label system server connected to transceivers adapted to communicate price label information to price labels using a communication protocol. A predetermined number of transceivers defines a sub-cell and each sub-cell is associated with a communication profile that defines communication protocols to be used when communicating with the price labels in that sub-c...

Methods for enhancing adhesion between at least two surfaces, preferably of at least two different materials, using a powdered surface preparation composition.

A computer system for providing an integrated representation of transport service levels for routes in a transport system comprising a multiplicity of connectable stations is disclosed. The computer system comprises a processing unit, an interface unit for communication with said processing unit and a memory unit. The system is configured to store in the memory unit a short term schedule of inivid...

A resin laminate 1 comprising a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer (TPO) layer 10, a primer layer 30 superposed on the TPO layer 10, and a polyurethane layer 20 superposed on the primer layer, wherein the primer layer is made from a thermoplastic polyolefin elastomer containing an adhesion improver, and the adhesion improver comprises a compound having a functional group containing active hydrogen...

A commodity sale system, accepting an order for a commodity corresponding to a customer's purchasing request over a network and directly sending the ordered commodity to the customer, includes an order information acquisition unit for acquiring from the network the order information prepared based on the commodity purchasing request, accepted from the customer, and a commodity sending command unit...

An advertising tool as an alternative to a conventional advertising form of printed matters is provided, which is capable of providing the advertising content in digital form, thereby requiring no manual hands in changing advertising contents, permitting timely attractive advertisements to be offered to the public. Specifically numerous displays 10 are placed in different places where a lot of peo...

The present invention relates to an advertising apparatus and method. In this advertising method, advertising materials stored in a server are delivered to a set top box which outputs advertising contents, if requested, contained in the received advertising materials to a viewer through a displaying machine such as a television set. After outputting, the set top box checks whether or not a viewer ...

A price label system includes a price label system server adapted to communicate with a price controlling application (PCA) server communicating price label information to price labels (PLs), wherein the characteristics of a price label depend on price label types, price label layout scripts and price label models. The system includes a price label product, being a representation of a physical pri...

The present invention provides a method, system, and apparatus for exchanging electronic business information over an open network between a first Enterprise Resource Planning (ERP) system and a second ERP system. The present invention receives electronic business information, typically in the form of an electronic business document, from the first ERP system and transmits the electronic business ...

Systems and methods for implementing contact management and campaign management by users with respect to contact groups. A data interface module is provided which includes a scheduler module, an info sheet module, a database maintenance module, and a search module. The present invention also provides an address bundling module, hierarchical information structure, an advanced messaging module, a wo...

The invention relates to cosmetic compositions comprising a combination of non-emulsifying and emulsifying crosslinked siloxane elastomers.