A method for a cardholder to request fulfillment of an obligation associated with the card and for the issuer to acknowledge this obligation, which method allows a remote interaction of the parties and ensures their security. The issuer issues cards each of which has an identifier and the corresponding verifier, the latter being concealed by a masking device. A cardholder sends the identifier of t...

A valve assembly having an advantageous construction for directing fluid flow between a fluid source and a fluid actuating device in a transmission of a vehicle. The valve assembly includes a manual lever being actuated in response to a manual input from an operator. The manual lever is positionable in a plurality of positions corresponding to predetermined operating modes of the transmission. The...

Process for improving the Signal/Noise ratio in the preparation of vertical seismic profiles (VSP) which comprises: seismic and pilot signals (A); drilling parameters (B) relating to the signals (A); characterized in that: the signals (A) are partially or totally summed up by weight, on the basis of one or more drilling parameters (B), or relative combinations of the above parameters, so as to o...

Methods of forming niobium powders and other metal powders are described. The method involves milling the metal powders at elevated temperatures and in the presence of at least one liquid solvent. The methods of the present invention have the ability to reduce DC leakage and/or increase capacitance capabilities of metal powders when formed into capacitor anodes. The present invention further has t...

The invention relates to a method for preparing a laminate press plate. The method is performed by first coating a planar pressing surface with diborides selected from the group consisting of hafnium diboride, molybdenum diboride, tantalum diboride, titanium diboride, tungsten diboride, vanadium diboride, or zirconium diboride or mixtures thereof. The coated planar pressing surface is then polishe...

The invention introduces innovative elements to life-related annuities, and similar instruments (PI's) by transforming thereof from PI's issued permanently to a specific holder and priced according to a specific insured person, into PI issued initially to anonymous holders, without specific insured persons. Such PI's are convertible by any Holder, up to expiration date, to contracts similar to tho...

In a mobile communication network equipped with a wireless communication interface with a mobile communication terminal, when a need arises for disabling calling and card functions of a mobile communication terminal with a plurality of card information stored, there is provided a credit transaction system for permitting the process of disabling the calling and card functions of the mobile communic...

A mobile communication terminal (the mobile station 100), served in a mobile communication network for performing wireless communications, comprises a transmitter-receiver 110, a controller 120, a user interface 130, a data input/output terminal 140, a magnetic writer 150, and a magnetic stripe 160. Control programs stored in a program ROM 122 include a program for controlling the magnetic writer ...

A risk sharing method that can be beneficial to employees of start-up companies, allows the pooling of shares or options to pool members (4), even when there is restriction on security transfer. The risk sharing method includes pooling securities in a database (1), evaluating them, and providing participants with stakes in the pool's proceeds based on the evaluations. On the occurrence of an exit,...

Sanitary applicances with a casing, such as bath tubs, shower trays or washbasins, are glass fiber- and asbestos-free, and are further characterized in that the reinforcing material is 1.5 to 10 mm thick and consists of one or two layers. The one layer or the first layer of a multilayered reinforcement is obtained by hardening a first polylmerizable, cole-hardenable, reactive (meth)acrylate system...

A method and a system for administering digital collectible cards for mobile terminals. The method comprises storing a digital collectible card on a server, associating at the server the digital collectible card with information indicating the owner of the card, accessing the server with the wireless user terminal via wireless communication, supplying identification information about the user of t...

A method and system for collecting data on a user of communication device into a customer register. A product of a consumer carries out active marketing by transmitting a product code to its environment. The user of the communication device receives the product code when he retrieves the product data corresponding to the product code from a server or when he performs a purchase operation concernin...

A food product cartridge comprising a delivery and dosage member, said cartridge having a base part wherein an endless screw and a delivery opening are housed, characterized in that the endless screw is provided to operate a shutter for opening and closing the delivery opening.

The invention provides a method for removing code (applications and data) from read-only memory, and compacting the remaining code in memory either as an application is deleted or when there is not sufficient room to hold a new application. One or more "spare" memory segments are reserved for use during compaction. Where the code for removal shares a memory segment with other code that is not to b...

A system to detect epithelial dysplasia is disclosed by examining cells obtained by a non-lacerational trans-epithelial device. The system selects suspect cells based on abnormal morphology, cytometry and/or using molecular diagnostic techniques. In a preferred embodiment, the results of the computer analysis are displayed as a histogram and the images of the suspect cells are reviewed for DNA plo...

The present invention relates to novel agropolymers, which comprise a carbohydrate and/or silica matrix substantially devoid of proteins, tannins and polyphenols and which comprise metal binding reactive sites. A method of producing the agropolymers is also disclosed wherein the agropolymers are derived from plant materials such as seed coats, seed covers, husks, or hulls of various agricultural c...

The present invention relates to a denture adhesive composition comprising mixed salts of an alkyl vinyl ether-maleic acid copolymer wherein the mixed salt contains a cationic salt function comprising from about 5% to about 50% zinc cations; from 0% to about 2.5% of a cation selected from the group consisting of iron, boron, aluminum, vanadium, chromium, manganese, nickel, copper, yttrium, titaniu...

The invention includes a method and system for storing data in the form of non-overlapping volumetric holograms. The storage media is a light sensitive material in the shape of a disk with thickness D, while the individual holograms inside it are approximately cylinder-shaped with the minimum possible diameter. The signal light beam is modulated by data and focused by a lens or appropriate optical...

A method and apparatus for improving contact between a liquid and a reactant gas by moving the liquid in a serpentine path that moves horizontally and vertically through individual chambers or stations in an elongated tank or reactor and introducing a reactant gas into the liquid in one or more of the stations or chambers as the liquid moves through the tank or reactor.

The present invention relates to a method of purifying 1,3,5-triisopropylbenzene that comprises combining inpure 1,3,5-triisopropylbenzene with a sulfonating agent to form a reaction mixture, mixing the reaction mixture at a temperature in the range of about 0° C. to about 50° C., and collecting the purified 1,3,5-triisopropylbenzene.