Abstract: A computer-based method and system to enable managing access to payroll data for employees. The payroll data includes an employee-identifier for each of the employees, and data relating to periodic compensation payments made by the employer. The system stores the payroll data, receives employee user request for payroll information, selects payroll data for the employee based upon predetermined criteria, and displays payroll information for the employee based upon predetermined criteria, including whether the employee has enrolled in the employer's direct deposit payroll program, or whether the employee's request for payroll data is submitted within the employer's predetermined introductory period for the employee.

Abstract: An apparatus and method for reliable and jitter-free timing recovery in high speed modems which utilizes the correlations of the received data signal points and the demodulated baseband signal samples feeding into a fractionally-spaced adaptive equalizer. This correlation based approach bypasses calculation of the exact transmitter symbol rate as required in traditional timing recovery methods. Also, the receiver timing adjustments are done via the transformed domain by shifting the taps of the adaptive equalizer. No time domain signal sample interpolation is necessary, so that truly jitter-free timing recovery is realized.

Abstract: A multi-frequency receiver for detecting the presence of one or more of a plurality of m frequency tones in an incoming signal. A digital signal processor executes a fast algorithm for accurately calculating the spectral energies in a plurality of m frequency bands. Each frequency band is centered on one of the frequencies to be detected. The center frequencies of those bands are independent of the data length used. The calculated spectral energies are compared to a set of predefined thresholds. As a result, the presence of particular tones within the incoming signal are detected.