Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to a tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims. A tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system allows a user of a near field device to wake up a computing platform from a deep sleep state using a bump/tap without having to move a mouse or enter a keyboard stroke.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to a tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims. A tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system allows a user of a near field device to wake up a computing platform from a deep sleep state using a bump/tap without having to move a mouse or enter a keyboard stroke.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to a tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims. A tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system allows a user of a near field device to wake up a computing platform from a deep sleep state using a bump/tap without having to move a mouse or enter a keyboard stroke.

Abstract: Methods and systems to interface between an intelligent vendor kiosk (e.g., a restaurant table), and a mobile user/customer device(s) based at least in part on near field communications, including targeting content (e.g., a menu and/or advertisements) based on context, determining context based on user/customer-selected personal profile attributes and/or customer-selected advertisements, and determining a group context for a group customers with an additive homomorphic voting protocol to preclude disclosure of the votes of each customer to other customers and to the kiosk.

Abstract: Described herein are techniques related to a tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope and meaning of the claims. A tap-to-wake and tap-to-login system allows a user of a near field device to wake up a computing platform from a deep sleep state using a bump/tap without having to move a mouse or enter a keyboard stroke.

Abstract: A message communications system including a plurality of point-of-sale terminals including human sensible message receiving functionality and human sensible message delivering functionality and a communications network communicating with the plurality of point-of-sale terminals and transmitting thereto human sensible messages.