Abstract: A process to assemble an arrangement of a snack and a beverage container, along with promotional material, all mountable into a standard vending machine slot (use language of claim) within the product storage area previously occupied by a beverage container or a snack alone performed during the normal replenishment maintenance of the vending machine product storage area or off-the shelf also occuping the same space as a beverage container alone. Said assembly consisting of placing a snack product prepackaged to surround the top of a beverage container, engaging a retaining device capable of holding the snack in place during the dispensing of the combination yet allowing easy disassembly of the combination by the consumer after retrieval of the combination from the external area of a vending machine after the combination has been released from the product storage area upon payment of sufficient currency and selection of the product or purchased off-the shelf.

Abstract: A combination drink bottle, snack package and envelope provides a cylindrical bottle wall joined axially with a diminished diameter bottle neck, which terminates at a removable bottle cap. The sealed snack package contains a snack food adapted for being wrapped around or over the bottle neck for intimate abutnlent therewith. The envelope has a cylindrical envelope wall terminating with an aperture at one end thereof, the aperture adapted for accepting the bottle neck and for positioning an inner surface of the envelope wall intimately against the bottle wall for securement therewith, the envelope further enabled for pressing the snack package against the bottle neck, the envelop wall extending diametrically from the bottle wall no more than by the thickness of the envelope wall.

Abstract: The invention relates to a method for adapting uplink signaling during multicasting, according to which the user devices of a multicast group receive a multicast message from a network control unit via a radio channel (PMcCH) in a downlink connection. Said radio channel is adapted with respect to its power by transmitting information in an uplink connection via a corresponding radio channel (UL-DPCCH). According to the invention, said radio channel (UL-DPCCH) is power-controlled via at least one associated common radio channel (DL-PMcCH) that is associated with one or more of the user devices by transmitting corresponding information in the downlink direction from the network control unit to the user devices. Said information is then processed by the receiving user devices to adapt the power of the respective associated radio channels (UL-DPCCH) in the uplink direction.

Abstract: A method is provided for determining the position of at least one user device of a radio communications system. According to the method, in response to a request signal, one or more message signals is/are exchanged between the radio network controller that is allocated to the base station of the location radio cell of the respective user device to be located and at least one additional position calculation unit, in such that a positional calculation for the respective user device that is to be located can be carried out in the radio network.