Abstract: Novel microwave ovens and methods of using and manufacturing the same. Some microwave ovens include multiple doors and/or control keypads.

Abstract: A method of validating software including maintaining, in a trusted computing system, a copy of at least portions of data of the software, the software comprising data in an untrusted computing system. The method includes, with the trusted computing system, specifying selected data from data included in the copy as hash data, generating an executable file for generating a hash based on the specified hash data, executing the executable file to generate a check hash using the specified selected data from the copy as the hash data, and determining whether the software is valid based, at least in part, on a comparison of the check hash to an access hash generated by execution of the executable file by the untrusted computing system using the specified selected data from the untrusted computing system as the hash data.

Abstract: Novel microwave ovens and methods of using and manufacturing the same. Some microwave ovens include multiple doors and/or control keypads.

Abstract: A method of assessing a network uses a model (450) having nodes (100, 110) to represent parts of the network infrastructure and the application services, and having links to represent how the nodes influence each other. Dependencies or effects of the application services are found by determining paths through the nodes and links of the model (530). Such assessment can be useful for design, test, operations, and diagnosis, and for assessment of which parts of the infrastructure are critical to given services, or which services are dependent on, or could have an effect on a given part of the infrastructure. The dependencies or effects can encompass reachability information. The use of a model having links and nodes can enable more efficient processing, to enable larger or richer models. What changes in the dependencies or effects result from a given change in the network can be determined (830).

Abstract: A method of authorizing a computing entity comprises obtaining at the authorizing entity a delegation chain of intermediate elements through which an authorisable entity asserts authorization eligibility in the form of a sequence of locally assigned labels for the elements. The method further comparing the label sequence against a label sequence template.

Abstract: Advertising network system and method. A media network system and method is described. The media network system of the invention, identified herein as The Fast Twitch Media Network (“FTM”), provides a coordinated hub or network connecting artists, brands and audience aggregators. The interactive network system and method of the invention provides pay-per-performance compensation to independent artists that create brand-inspired user-generated media assets. The media assets are preferably short branded-entertainment videos delivered over the internet.

Abstract: A RFID antenna system for communicating with at least one transponder disposed on an object (e.g., product carrier, product, etc.) moveable along an interrogation path comprising at least one antenna panel that defines an antenna region, the antenna panel including at least one substantially continuous antenna loop for transmitting and receiving electromagnetic fields, the antenna panel being oriented such that the antenna panel intersects the interrogation path. The antenna panel can be substantially flexible or rigid.

Abstract: A high temperature RFID tag is described which has a survival temperature in the range of approximately −40° C. to 300° C. and an operating temperature in the range of approximately −20° C. to 200° C. In one embodiment of the invention, the RFID tag comprises a housing comprising a substantially flexible first thermally resistant material and having a base and a top, and a circuit board substrate comprising a substantially flexible second thermally resistant material which is encapsulated within the housing. In an additional embodiment of the invention, the high temperature RFID tag comprises a substrate assembly, the substrate assembly including a substrate having an integrated circuit disposed thereon, the substrate comprising a substantially flexible first thermally resistant material, and a high temperature encapsulant disposed on a first side of the substrate, the substrate assembly having a survival temperature in the range of −40° C. to 300° C.

Abstract: A multi-directional RFID read/write antenna unit is described which provides multi-directional RF communication to a source, such as a RF tag. The antenna comprises a plurality of coils adapted to transmit multi-directional RF signals to a RF tag and receive RF response signals from the RF tag. The RF antenna includes a switch for selecting at least one of the RF antenna coils for transmission of the RF signals and receipt of the RF response signals whereby the RF signals can be directed toward and received from a plurality of different directions from a fixed position.

Abstract: A high temperature RFID tag is described which has a survival temperature in the range of approximately -40.degree. C. to 300.degree. C. and an operating temperature of approximately -20.degree. C. to 200.degree. C. The RFID tag comprises a housing comprising a first thermally resistant material and having a base and a top, and a circuit board substrate comprising a second thermally resistant material which is encapsulated within the housing.

Abstract: An RFID antenna system is described comprising an elongated antenna disposed proximate an interrogation path for interrogating transponders moving along the interrogation path. The antenna is oriented such that the longitudinal axis of the antenna is substantially perpendicular to said interrogation path. The antenna provides an active RF interrogation zone that intersects at least 40% of the horizontal longitudinal plane of the interrogation path.