Abstract: A method for the trading and accessing prepaid vouchers with time conditional value between a consumer and a vendor (primary market) and between consumers (secondary market). A host platform with interfaces for merchants and consumers that allow for the execution and trading of such contracts as well as for the associated functionality, including the presence of targeted marketing by vendors. Additionally, the consumer interface allows for the establishment of a customizable consumer profile which contains a budget (including gift or shopping preferences and a calendar of important dates), a linkage to a social network and an array of interface templates.

Abstract: A switch monitoring system including at least one bus having a plurality of switching ports, wherein a multiplicity of data portions travel over the bus, each of the data portions having at least one destination. The system also includes a plurality of workstations connected to the plurality of switching ports, and a data collection device operative to collect at least one of the data portions from the at least one bus which data portion is being transmitted along the at least one bus to at least one destination including at least one destination other than the data collection device.