Abstract: A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The electronic document and the first hash sum thereof are displayed on the first monitor. The first hash sum is also displayed on the second monitor. After electronically capturing the handwritten signature, the signature data are encrypted using the first hash sum. A digital signature image is generated in the signature capture apparatus and the first hash sum is embedded therein. The embedded first hash sum is then extracted in the computer. If the extracted hash sum is identical to the first hash sum generated in the computer apparatus, the encrypted signature data and the signed document are stored.

Abstract: In an embodiment, a method comprises initiating a plurality of electronic funds transfer transactions using an automated clearing house (ACH) operator, wherein each of the transactions is associated with one of a plurality of financial institution routing numbers; receiving a negative return code for a particular transaction that is associated with a particular financial institution routing number; in response to receiving the negative return code for the particular transaction and the particular financial institution routing number, and without waiting for an end of a waiting time period specified in one or more financial regulations: marking, as accepted, all other transactions in the plurality that are associated with the same particular financial institution routing number; releasing the marked transactions.

Abstract: An electronic signature method uses a signature generation unit with a memory that is spatially separated from a data processing device. At least one biometric trait of a person who will electronically sign an electronic dataset is captured, and an electronic biometric dataset is generated based thereon. The biometric dataset is encrypted using a randomly generated value. Subsequently, the encrypted biometric dataset is transmitted to the data processing device, a first checksum is generated in the data processing device for the encrypted biometric dataset and the electronic dataset, and the first checksum is transmitted from the data processing device to the signature generation unit. The random value is encrypted using the first checksum, and the encryption result is further encrypted using the stored key. The result of this is then transmitted to the data processing device.

Abstract: A stylus barrel includes a barrel tip configured to input handwritten user data into or on an electronic input field. A chamber is defined within the stylus barrel and is configured to accommodate and retain a stylus that is also configured to input handwritten user data into or on an electronic input field. The stylus and/or the stylus barrel may include a fastener that detachably fastens the stylus within the chamber of the stylus barrel.

Abstract: A device configured to electronically capture a handwritten user input includes an input field asymmetrically disposed on a housing in order to provide a sufficient surface for resting a right-hand on the housing when a right-handed person makes an input on the input field. The device is rotatable by 180° and the input field is re-configurable, so that a left-handed person can comfortably make an input on the input field with the left-hand resting in a natural posture on the same hand-resting surface of the housing.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device and a method for blood treatment in a single-needle operating mode. The blood treatment device has an extracorporeal blood circuit comprising a blood supply line leading to the inlet of a blood treatment unit and a blood return line leading away from the outlet of the blood treatment unit. Blood collecting means, for example a blood collecting container, is provided in the blood return line, said means being connected to means for storing gas, for example an air reservoir, by a flow line. The flow connection comprises two line branches, one branch being used to transfer gas from the air reservoir into the blood collecting container and the other branch being used to transfer gas from the blood collecting container into the air reservoir. The connection branch for transferring gas from the air store into the blood collecting container contains means for compressing air, for example a compressor.

Abstract: The invention relates to an RFID reading apparatus arranged stationary at a conveyor device. The RFID information is read in that during a reading procedure a transponder signal is generated for which purpose an RFID information of a frequency in a base band is modulated by back-scatter modulation onto a carrier signal. In accordance with the invention the transmitter unit has two transmitting antennae spaced apart in the conveying direction with the transmitter signal of one transmission antenna representing the in-phase component of the quadrature amplitude modulated transmission signal and the transmitter signal of the other transmission antenna representing the quadrature component of the quadrature amplitude modulated transmission signal so that on transmission of the in-phase and quadrature components these are superimposed in a plane extending transverse to the conveyor device additively to the full quadrature amplitude modulated transmitter signal.

Abstract: The present invention relates to a device for combining at least two data signals having an input data rate into a single data stream having an output data rate being higher than the input data rate for transmission on a shared medium or vice versa, particularly, to a single SDH/SONET framer capable of handling a large range of SDH/SONET frames from STM-i to STM-j with an aggregated total capacity corresponding to an STM-j frame where i and j are integers in the range from 1 to 64 or higher according to the STM-N definition of the SDH/SONET standards. More over, the present invention can also be extended to work with STS-1 as lowest range. STS-1 exists in SONET only not SDH and corresponds to a data rate of 51.5 Mb/s a third of the 156 Mb/s of STM-1.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant chimeric proteins comprising a surfactant protein precursor N-terminally fused to a plasminogen activator or comprising a mature surfactant protein N-terminally or C-terminally fused to a plasminogen activator. The invention is also directed to the corresponding nucleic acid molecules encoding such fusion proteins as well as to a method for their production. The invention further refers to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a fusion protein and to pharmacological uses of an inventive fusion protein for the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory and interstitial lung diseases.

Abstract: An RFID reading apparatus (10) is provided for stationary mounting at a reading zone (18) of a conveyor (12) or of a reading portal (40) for reading out at least one RFID transponder (22) moved on the conveyor (12) or through the reading portal (40), having a receiver (32) and a plurality of antennas (24, 26) connected to the receiver (32) for receiving RFID signals from the RFID transponder (22) as well as having an evaluation unit (36) for reading out RFID information from the received RFID signals, wherein the RFID reading apparatus (10) includes a first housing (28) in which the receiver (32) and the evaluation unit (36) are accommodated. In this respect, one of the antennas is an internal antenna (24) which is mechanically fastened to the first housing (28) and another of the antennas (28) is an external antenna.

Abstract: Computers are caused to provide a hash table wherein each entry is associated with a binary key and indexed by a selected portion of a hash value of the associated key, and points to a data structure location for storing non-selected portions of, or the entire hash value of, the binary key, and action data corresponding to the value of the binary key. Content addressable memory entries store a binary key, or a value unique to it, and an association to a corresponding action. Pointers to the data structure use selected portions of binary key hash values as an index when not selected portions of hash values of other binary keys, and associations are established between CAM entry and associated data structure locations when selected portions of the hash values of the binary keys are the same as selected portions of hash values of one or more other binary keys.

Abstract: An electronic signature method uses a signature generation unit with a memory that is spatially separated from a data processing device. At least one biometric trait of a person who will electronically sign an electronic dataset is captured, and an electronic biometric dataset is generated based thereon. The biometric dataset is encrypted using a randomly generated value. Subsequently, the encrypted biometric data are transmitted to the data processing device, a first checksum is generated in the data processing device for the encrypted biometric data and the electronic dataset, and the first checksum is transmitted from the data processing device to the signature generation unit. The random value is encrypted using the first checksum, and the encryption result is further encrypted using the stored key. The result of this is then transmitted to the data processing device.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The electronic document and the first hash sum thereof are displayed on the first monitor. The first hash sum is also displayed on the second monitor. After electronically capturing the handwritten signature, the signature data and the first hash sum are encrypted in the signature capture apparatus and then transmitted to the computer. The encrypted signature data, the first hash sum and the signed document are stored on a computer-readable medium.

Abstract: A method and apparatus for encrypting an electronic document involves a computer having a first monitor and a signature capture apparatus configured to capture a handwritten signature on a second monitor. A hash sum of the electronic document generated in the computer is transmitted to the signature capture apparatus. The electronic document and the first hash sum thereof are displayed on the first monitor. The first hash sum is also displayed on the second monitor. After electronically capturing the handwritten signature, the signature data are encrypted using the first hash sum. A digital signature image is generated in the signature capture apparatus and the first hash sum is embedded therein. The embedded first hash sum is then extracted in the computer. If the extracted hash sum is identical to the first hash sum generated in the computer apparatus, the encrypted signature data and the signed document are stored.

Abstract: A method for safeguarding an electronic document includes inserting at least one digital signature image into the electronic document and generating a first check sum for the electronic document, with or without optionally-inserted biometric signature data, using a first hash function. A second check sum is then generated using a second hash function. The first check sum and the biometric data, if provided, are then symmetrically encrypted using a key that is the sum of the second check sum and a generated random value. The symmetrically-encrypted first check sum is attached to the document. The random value is then asymmetrically encrypted using a first public key of a first key pair and the asymmetrically-encrypted random value is added to the document.

Abstract: The invention relates to an optical range finder comprising a light transmitter for the transmission of measurement light into a monitored space, a light receiver for the reception of measurement light reflected or remitted by an object in the monitored space, and an evaluation circuit to determine the time of flight of the measurement light from the output signal and to determine the distance of the object therefrom. In accordance with the invention, a PIN diode circuit is provided between the light receiver and the evaluation circuit and is electrically connected to them, with the PIN diode circuit damping the current output signal of the light receiver. The invention furthermore relates to an optical range finding method which can be carried out with the optical range finder in accordance with the invention.

Abstract: The invention relates to a new, advantageous method for the preparation of dialkyl ?-fluoromalonates.

Abstract: A method for safeguarding an electronic document includes inserting at least one digital signature image into the electronic document and generating a first check sum for the electronic document, with or without optionally-inserted biometric signature data, using a first hash function. A second check sum is then generated using a second hash function. The first check sum and the biometric data, if provided, are then symmetrically encrypted using a key that is the sum of the second check sum and a generated random value. The symmetrically-encrypted first check sum is attached to the document. The random value is then asymmetrically encrypted using a first public key of a first key pair and the asymmetrically-encrypted random value is added to the document.

Abstract: The present invention relates to recombinant chimeric proteins comprising a surfactant protein precursor N-terminally fused to a plasminogen activator or comprising a mature surfactant protein N-terminally or C-terminally fused to a plasminogen activator. The invention is also directed to the corresponding nucleic acid molecules encoding such fusion proteins as well as to a method for their production. The invention further refers to a pharmaceutical composition comprising such a fusion protein and to pharmacological uses of an inventive fusion protein for the prevention and/or treatment of inflammatory and interstitial lung diseases.