Abstract: A system and method for electronically consenting to engage in sexual activity enables two people, the consenters, to use their mobile communication devices to generate and execute a sexual consent contract, and to withdraw consent. The system and method verifies that the consenters would like to engage in the sexual activity and are in proximal communication and cooperating with each other. A sexual consent contract is electronically generated, which includes a consent period during which the sexual activity may take place. The contract is electronically signed by the consenters and a fully executed sexual consent contract is stored. The parties may withdraw their consent for a limited period of time after the contract is electronically signed. A withdrawal of consent by one person alerts the other person. Upon withdrawal, both people can provide notes as to the nature of their encounter. Those notes are stored with the fully executed sexual consent contract.

Abstract: The preferred embodiments described herein provide a method and system for automatically directing data in a computer network based on traffic demands. In one preferred embodiment, traffic demands of a computer network are determined, and data is automatically directed in the computer network based on the determined traffic demands. Other preferred embodiments are provided, and any or all of the preferred embodiments described herein can be used alone or in combination with one another.

Abstract: A tunable digital oscillator circuit comprises a first dual-clock pulse generator, a second dual-clock pulse generator, a run controller, a stop controller and a decoder. The first and second dual-clock pulse generators are coupled in a cascaded manner with the output of the first dual-clock pulse generator provided as an input to the second dual-clock pulse generator. Each of the first and second dual-clock pulse generators is preferably tunable, in that, they can output one clock signal from a predetermined number of frequencies. The run controller is preferably coupled to receive a start signal and the output of the second dual-clock pulse generator. The run controller provides the input to begin and maintain the first and second dual-clock pulse generators in the state of generating a clock signal. The stop controller is coupled to receive a clock signal from the first dual-clock pulse generator, and a stop signal. The tunable digital oscillator circuit can start or stop the clock within two clock cycles.

Abstract: Remote telephone coder 10R and local telephone coder 10L provide coding and decoding for voice communication between remote telephone set 11R and local telephone set 11L through telephone line 12. An eavesdropper listening in on a listening device such as remote extension telephone 14R or local extension telephone 14L hears normal "in-the-clear" conversation (uncoded transmissions) when both of the telephone coders are in the normal mode. However, when both of telephone coders 10R and 10L are in the code mode, the extension eavesdropper using an extension telephone or other unauthorized listening device 14 (shown in phantom) hears only coded transmissions. Further, a remote eavesdropper on remote extension telephone set (main portion 17M with hand portion 17H) employing remote extension coder 16R is also excluded from the coded transmissions between remote telephone coder 10R and local telephone coder 10L.