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A credit card system is provided which has the added feature of providing additional limited-use credit card numbers and / or cards. These numbers and / or cards can be used for a single transaction, thereby reducing the potential for fraudulent reuse of these numbers and / or cards. The credit card system finds application to “card remote” transactions such as by phone or Internet. Additionally, when a single use credit card is used for “card present” transactions, so called “skimming” fraud is eliminated. Various other features enhance the credit card system which will allow secure trade without the use of elaborate encryption techniques.

A method and system is provided for tracking a user's interaction with a resource or resources supplied by a server computer. When a user requests a Web page from a server for viewing using a Web browser, the user is redirected to a tracking server. The tracking server sends the requested Web page, with an embedded script to the user's computer along with an application program that can record the user's interaction with the Web page. As the user interacts with the Web page, input made by the user, such as mouse movements, button clicks, typing, etc. is streamed back to the tracking server by the application program. The recorded session may be later retrieved from the tracking server for playback. Based on the user's input, the tracked resource may be modified, such as making it more user friendly or more easily navigable.

Tracking, presence verification, and locating features are incorporated into a security system that includes a user interface device with a display, keypad and associated transceiver. Wireless RF electronic tags are attached to different objects, e.g., an inanimate object, or a living being such as a child or pet. To verify the presence of an object associated with a tag, the user instructs the user interface device to transmit a wireless signal to the tag. The tag responds, when within range, by returning a wireless signal. In another aspect, a person is detected such as at the entry to a home, and a low-power transmitter at the entry sends a signal to the electronic tag. The electronic tag responds by transmitting data to the security system to cause it to take a desired action. The presence of a person, such as a child, in an unauthorized area can trigger an alarm.

An fluid sensor to activate and control various components of an inhalation device. The fluid sensor includes an acoustic element, such as a microphone, positioned within said inhalation device to detect fluid within the device and output signals representative of the frequency, direction and / or amplitude of the fluid. These signals control and activate an electrostatic plate and / or a high frequency vibrator.

A system and method is disclosed for enabling user friendly interaction with a camera system. Specifically, the inventive system and method has several aspects to improve the interaction with a camera system, including voice recognition, gaze tracking, touch sensitive inputs and others. The voice recognition unit is operable for, among other things, receiving multiple different voice commands, recognizing the vocal commands, associating the different voice commands to one camera command and controlling at least some aspect of the digital camera operation in response to these voice commands. The gaze tracking unit is operable for, among other things, determining the location on the viewfinder image that the user is gazing upon. One aspect of the touch sensitive inputs provides that the touch sensitive pad is mouse-like and is operable for, among other things, receiving user touch inputs to control at least some aspect of the camera operation. Another aspect of the disclosed invention provides for gesture recognition to be used to interface with and control the camera system.

The preferred embodiment of the invention contemplates a device configured to prepare and deploy a resilient sleeve on to a portion of body tissue. The device expands the resilient sleeve, uses a vacuum system to draw the body tissue in to the resilient sleeve, and releases the resilient sleeve from the expanded state so that it captures and constricts the body tissue.

The application concerns an injection device for apportioning set doses of a drug from a reservoir (40) to a subject. The injection device comprises a housing having an interior thread (101,112) formed as an outwardly pointing thread (101,112) carried on an upstanding tower centrally located in the pen shaped device. This outwardly pointing thread (101,112) forms a first thread connection with the interior thread of the rotatable scale drum (90). The injection device further comprises a driver (70) for moving the piston rod (120) forward when moved axially. The driver (70) operates the piston rod (120) through a second thread connection having a pitch different than the first thread connection.

A femoral compression device includes a pressure applying device for compressive bearing at a puncture site at a femoral artery of a patient and for applying pressure on the puncture site, a belt adapted to be fixed around the patient's body, and a base plate provided with first and second extensions, with the end of the first extension being closer to the pressure applying device than the end of the second extension and being provided with a fastener in the ends thereof for fastening of an end of the belt. The compression device also includes a support plate, which is attached to the second extension and which is adapted to bear against the patient's body, thereby compensating for the imbalance, which originates from the different extents of the two extensions, that otherwise would be present.

A method of providing a shared community experience in an electronic system. The method may include transporting signals associated with common content to a group of subscribers such that each member of the group receives the same content and establishing the shared community experience between members of the group by providing communications between on or more members of the group during playback of the content.

The present invention discloses the system design, module requirements, specifications and methods that comprise the core technology required to enable the development of a viable Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System. During a conversation utilizing said Multi-Lingual Auto-Translation Telephony System, each participant speaks only one language for the duration of the conversation, and there is no limit on the number of participants that may participate in said conversation, provided said number of participants is two or greater, nor is there any limit on the number of different languages that may be employed by said different participants during said conversation.

The invention provides an electro-therapeutic device for application on a human or animal body part, comprising electrodes (3), a measuring means connected thereto and arranged to measure a value of an electrical quantity, and a control unit (10) to process the measured values, wherein the control unit (10) further comprises pattern recognition means to determine a pattern in the measured values, for example by comparing with patterns stored in a memory unit (15). By means of the determined pattern, the device is able to know its position on the body, and to determine whether this position is suitable for a treatment, and to which electrodes a treatment signal must be supplied. The device is much easier to use since it does not require any user's knowledge about patterns, as this may be stored in the device itself.

An apparatus and method for providing a user interface through which a user may generate a conditional expression are provided. The user interface provides guidance to a user as to the proper parts of the conditional expression to include in the conditional expression as the user constructs the conditional expression. Thus, as the user completes parts of the conditional expression, the guidance that is offered is updated based on the current context of the conditional expression. This guidance may include listings of variables, attributes and / or functions that are most appropriate to be entered next in the conditional expression, help text, and the like.

A fuel cell for use with a combustion tool for delivery of a predetermined amount of fuel with each stem actuation is provided and includes a housing defining an open end enclosed by a closure. A main valve stem has an outlet, disposed in operational relationship to the open end and reciprocating relative to the housing at least between a closed position wherein the stem is relatively extended, and an open position wherein the stem is relatively retracted. A fuel metering valve is located within the housing, associated with the main valve stem, including a fuel metering chamber disposed in close proximity to the closure and configured so that when the stem is in the open position, only a measured amount of fuel is dispensed through the outlet. In a preferred embodiment, the fuel cell housing includes a separate fuel container, and the fuel metering valve includes a valve body having a second end opposite the fuel metering chamber located within the container.

An incremental syringe useful for multiple injections of medications like botulinum toxin is provided. The syringe includes detents on the syringe plunger which provide a tactile feeling, a discrete audible sound or “click,” or preferably both, for every unit of medication aspirated or injected to or from an individual syringe. Hence, there is no need to look at the syringe, or bring it to the eye level, during use thereof. In some embodiments, a second set of detents is included, and in some embodiments a third set of detents is included. Syringe plungers useful for combining with a syringe body to produce such an incremental syringe are also described.

A wearable timepiece having at least one rotateable elongated member, preferably a ring, under the dial, having a plurality of time zone indications thereon, wherein a controller controls the rotation of the at least one elongated member and causes an indicator to rotate in response to a selected time zone indication positioned in a viewing window in the dial, wherein the indicator points to indicia on the dial assembly that indicates to a user the time indicated by the selected time zone indication.

An audio speaker system employing mounted LED lights in the body as well as in associated portions of the speaker such as in the speaker grill or the like including optional operation of the lights by independent control as well as control by input and / or output from the mounting speaker or other speakers environmentally associated with the mounting speaker. A method for the use of these items is also provided.

The invention relates to a method for handwriting detection using a handwriting tool (2) being arranged for communicating with a further device (2) and comprising the following steps: recognizing characters using detection of movements carried out by means of said handwriting tool (2); determining the probability factor of at least one input character corresponding to a given character; and using said probability factor in a step for correction, completion and prediction of words being formed by said characters. The invention also relates to a device for such handwriting detection.

The present invention relates to a method for transmitting information to a subscriber in a telephone system in connection with call establishment. In order to achieve more efficient transmission of information between the parties participating in the call establishment, a message designated for a predetermined subscriber or a group of subscribers is stored in a memory means, whereby in connection with the call establishment another party to the call establishment is identified, the message designated for the identified party is retrieved from the memory means, and said message is sent to the identified party in connection with the call establishment.

A burner system for heating the material product, i.e., asphalt, includes a burner kettle designed with a thicker bottom heat transfer plate, added heat transfer oil (HTO) circulation pumps, a spiral circulation ring and heat restriction rings. The spiral circulation ring spirals up the burner kettle to move the HTO around the entire circumference of the burner kettle to eliminate hotspots. An HTO pump moves cooler oil from the top of the kettle directly across the hottest part of the bottom of the kettle, i.e., across the heat transfer plate. Keeping this zone cool will eliminate heat stress of the material. Heat restriction rings direct the heat back and forth throughout the burner kettle for increased efficiency.

The present invention is disclosed an electronic cigarette and an atomization control method thereof. The electronic cigarette comprises an atomization assembly, a battery assembly, a control module electrically connected to the power source in the battery assembly, a heating wire assembly in the atomization assembly, and an airflow sensor for transmitting a smoking signal to the control module when it is detected that a user is smoking. The present invention has the beneficial effects that the electronic cigarette is actuated after the airflow sensor is triggered when conductors arranged at different positions are in contact with the human skin, so as to reduce probability of false triggering of the electronic cigarette; and during use, this structure conforms to the users' habit of smoking by holding the battery assembly in their fingers and holding the suction nozzle in their mouths, which is convenient for the user and improves the user experience.

A method for sealing a hole in a bodily organ includes introducing a first member and a second member into the bodily organ, the first and second members being connected by an elongated member. The first and second members are retracted proximally until the first member abuts an inner surface of the bodily organ and the second member is retracted out of the hole in the bodily organ. Then, the second member is pushed distally into abutment with an outer surface of the bodily organ. A sealing device for sealing a puncture in tissue is also described.

A method of manipulating an object displayed on a touch screen of an interactive input system comprises contacting the displayed object to be manipulated with a pointer and moving the pointer on the touch surface thereby to manipulate the object. Pointer up events that occur during the pointer move resulting from inadvertent lost contact between the pointer and the touch surface are disregarded.

This invention relates to a system and to a method for submitting a message (MSG) to a telecommunications terminal (2) of an addressee, which message has been deposited by a caller in an inbox (12) of a messaging server (1) of the addressee. The method comprises the following successive steps: a step of sending a request to search for an illustration (8) from the voice messaging server (1) to a directory device (3), a step of sending said illustration (8) from the directory device (3) to the messaging server (1), a step of sending the deposited message (MSG) and said illustration (8) from the messaging server (1) to a multimedia messaging server centre (MMSC), and a step of sending a multimedia message (MMS) containing at least said deposited message (MSG) and said illustration (8) from the multimedia messaging server centre (MMSC) to the terminal (2).

The invention provides service search technology that is more user-friendly and that places less of a burden on the network. To accomplish this, services on a network are searched and the search results that are obtained are used to create a service list, which is saved (S701 through S703). The saved service list is read and displayed (S712). A user inputs an operation to indicate a service to be received (S704 through S706). The services that are included in the service list are changed according to this input operation (S709 through S711).