Abstract: Systems and methods for determination of an access path are disclosed. The access path may include any drivable route that is within a site, and is often, but not necessarily, exclusive of roads in a road network external to the site. In some cases, access paths may include a set of streets between two or more sites without necessarily including a drivable path within a site. Further, the systems and methods may calculate or determine minimum cost routes that include the access path. In some cases, the calculated route may be the minimum cost route that includes the access path, but not necessarily a minimum cost route to a site. In other words, in some cases, the selection of an access path serves as a constraint that supersedes the calculation of a minimum cost route.

Abstract: A vehicle speed limiting apparatus includes an opening detection unit to detect an opening of an accelerator pedal of the vehicle; an estimation unit to estimate whether the vehicle starts a lane change; and an ECU to implement an upper-limit setting unit to set an upper-limit speed of the vehicle, a vehicle speed control unit to control the traveling speed so as not to exceed the upper-limit speed even when the opening of the accelerator pedal becomes great enough to make the traveling speed exceed the upper-limit speed, and a permissible speed setting unit to set a permissible speed higher than the upper-limit speed. When the estimation unit estimates that the vehicle starts the lane change, the vehicle speed control unit permits the traveling speed to exceed the upper-limit speed, and controls the traveling speed so as not to exceed the permissible speed.

Abstract: A smart card personalization system maintains a database containing card issuer data format templates, card applications, card operating system commands, and personalization equipment specifications and provides a centralized interface of inputs and outputs to a card issuing process which dynamically adjusts to changes in the issuing process to easily permit a card issuer to change data formats, card applications, card operating systems and/or personalization equipment in a card issuing process. The system interfaces to any card issuer management system, manages the transfer of cardholder data and card applications to the particular personalization equipment used, and maintains statistics for real-time and off-line inquiries to support critical management and reporting functions. Furthermore, the system works with a variety of security methodologies to prevent fraud.

Abstract: A system and process linking an external computer with a system of a lending institution, a market information vendor or brokerage company, to provide for simultaneous tracking of one or more investments by a Plan to ensure each Plan's investment provides adequate collateral for the lender. Further, the system provides access to Plan component values via electronic means to the various parties of interest; the Plan participant, the Plan administrator, the Plan lender, and the Plan sponsor. Finally, the system creates forecasts of a Plan using assumptions to enable a reader of the illustration to understand the employee participant and employer sponsor benefits and costs of the program.

Abstract: An Internet Box Office (IBO) system and technique vends digital content via a computer network, such as the Internet. The IBO system comprises a viewing system that cooperates with a Digital Rights Management system and various deployment enhancements within the Internet to provide an infrastructure that facilitates access to digital content in a manner that comports with copyright law and the control of intellectual property by the copyright owner. The IBO system enables a content copyright owner to retain control of its intellectual property while allowing a consumer to have transparent access to the copyright-protected content via the network. To that end, the IBO system operates to download and stage the copyrighted digital content on the viewing system of a consumer.

Abstract: Method signatures included in an input program are detected. An access analyzer sequentially analyzes the method signatures and obtains a run-time access right list based on a rule. This rule specifies method signatures and the access rights which may possibly be included in the program so that the method signatures correspond to the access rights, respectively. A comparator compares the run-time access right list with the design-time access right list in width of restriction based on another rule. This rule specifies widths related to restrictions of the access rights which may possibly be included in the program.

Abstract: Methods and systems are disclosed for managing software licenses in a distributed computer network. The number of software licenses allocated to software users can be determined on a node-by-node basis in realtime with little or no additional processing overhead incurred by the network. Upon of the occurrence of a node failure, software licenses are efficiently reallocated to new users. In one implementation, users are periodically counted at each network node and transmitted to a master node with a sanity scan result message. A license allocation condition is periodically evaluated using the sum of the counts. If the condition is met, a license lockout can be performed upon the expiration of a grace period.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for determining if a query document matches one or more of a plurality of documents in a database. In a coarse matching stage, a compressed file or other query document is scanned to produce a bit profile. Global statistics such as line spacing and text height are calculated from the bit profile and used to narrow the field of documents to be searched in an image database. The bit profile is cross-correlated with bit profiles of documents in the search space to identify candidates for a detailed matching stage. If multiple candidates are generated in the coarse matching stage, a set of endpoint features is extracted from the query document for detailed matching in the detailed matching stage. Endpoint features contain sufficient information for various levels of processing, including page skew and orientation estimation.

Abstract: An integrated system for managing changes in regulatory and non-regulatory requirements for business activities at an industrial or commercial facility. Application of this system to environmental, health and safety activities, and to food, drug, cosmetic, and medical treatment and device activities, are discussed as examples.

Abstract: A system for providing the right to use and reproduce contents data involving so-called electronic money, whereby when compressed and/or encrypted contents data is reproduced, a security for electronic money or an electronic use right is checked, if the electronic money or the electronic use right is invalid as a result of the security check, the reproduction of the contents data is stopped, and if the electronic money or the electronic use right is valid as a result of the security check, the contents data is reproduced and the electronic money or the electronic use right is consumed.

Abstract: A contents distribution system uses a copyright rental use scheme in which the economical burden on the users at a time of utilizing contents can be reduced to a reasonable level, and appropriate fees can be collected for the copyrights of the contents created and provided at each stage by the raw material creators and the secondary product creators. In this system, the secondary product creator can create the secondary product contents by incorporating the raw material contents for free, and sell the secondary product contents. The end-user pays respective utilization fees to the secondary product creator and each raw material provider at a time of the purchasing the secondary product contents.

Abstract: A portfolio optimization process that diversifies model risk by favoring a more diversified portfolio over other portfolios with similar characteristics is provided. According to one aspect of the present invention, an intelligent search is performed for a diverse portfolio that meets a predetermined diversity budget. An initial portfolio is determined based upon an available set of financial products. The cost associated with more diversified portfolios compared to the initial portfolio is considered and one of the more diversified portfolios is selected that has an associated cost that is less than or equal to the predetermined diversity budget.

Abstract: A memory device with multiple clock domains. Separate clocks to different portions of the control circuitry create different clock domains. The different domains are sequentially turned on as needed to limit the power consumed. The turn on time of the domains is overlapped with the latency for the memory access to make the power control transparent to the user accessing the memory core. The memory device can dynamically switch between a fast and a slow clock depending upon the needed data bandwidth. The data bandwidth across the memory interface can be monitored by the memory controller, and when it drops below a certain threshold, a slower clock can be used. The clock speed can be dynamically increased as the bandwidth demand increases.

Abstract: A method and a device for carrying out electronic transactions. A sender produces, under his own full control, a transaction message in a smart card (1) and provides the message with his digital signature in the card for subsequent output and transmission.

Abstract: This invention improves upon existing pay-per-click arrangements periodically generating a code associated with the search-engine users. This code, preferably in the form of a serial number, is compared to the user of the website, such that by observing a metric like the number of clicks for a given period of time, be it a short time or a longer period, such as a day or a week, the system can automatically determine if certain clicks are illegitimate. This allows the pay-per-click company to more fairly invoice the merchants, thereby preventing fraudulent over use.

Abstract: An information processing apparatus for receiving data, such as content data. During the time the content data is being downloaded by a terminal over a communication network, the volume of downloaded data being displayed is made smaller than the actual volume of the content data. When the download processing has substantially come to a close, the data volume is displayed to be 80% on a display unit. The user is able to interrupt the processing partway until the data volume indicating the completion of the downloading is displayed to be 80% on the display unit. After the downloading has come to a close, the operation of an interrupt button or of a power supply button is inhibited to enable reliable billing processing.

Abstract: The electronic wallet system comprises a plurality of devices interconnected through a local network and capable of conducting electronic business transactions on an open network. Each device contains a smart card reader. A plurality of smart cards represent electronic purses able to contain electronic money. One of the devices contains an entity, the server, which contains a list of data entries, each entry corresponding to a purse liable to receive electronic money, contained in tokens, from other purses of the system. The tokens transferred between purses are stored temporally by the server. In order to improve the security of the transactions, the messages which are exchanged between the devices and/or the smart cards during token transfer operations are protected by secret keys which are only stored in the smart cards of the system.

Abstract: A method and system are provided for authenticating accounts on a remote server. A set of unique accounts is requested from an authentication database. After the set of accounts is requested, existing data associated with the set of accounts, such as a web site, may be deleted from the remote server. The accounts are then checked out of the authentication database by retrieving a credential associated with each account in the database. The accounts are logged into the remote server using the retrieved credentials and then logged out. After logging in, the accounts maybe authorized using an authorization database.

Abstract: An editor server in a server transmits a layout image to a user PC. An image editor in the user PC displays an editor window containing the layout image on a display. When the user enters a print start command through an input device, processing to check whether or not credit is granted to the user is performed between a Web browser in the user PC and a Web server of the server. If it is confirmed that credit is granted to the user, the editor server transmits a real image container to the image editor.

Abstract: Method and system for ordering a digital certificate by a user and for delivering the certificate to a certificate support device of the user. A placed order, in which personal data have been received from the user and the user has been authenticated by a registration unit, is stored in a responsible certification unit. A secret certificate PIN assigned to the order, which is otherwise known only to the certification unit, is transmitted to the user, and a certificate or a reference to a certificate is transmitted for storing to the certificate support device identified by a certificate support identification, if the certificate PIN and indications making it possible to determine the order are transmitted to the certification unit.