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Michihiro Sato

University System of Maryland

Sato, Michihiro

A Udaya Shankar

Ashok Kumar Agrawala

Ronald L Larsen

Douglas C Szajda

An issuing system for issuing unmodifiable and/or unforgeable hardcopy documents or securities includes a server and a plurality of issuing machines connected to the server via a network. Each of the issuing machines receives an ID recording medium provided by a potential purchaser, retrieves an identification recoded in the received ID recording medium, requests the potential purchaser to input request for a transaction of the security or fixed rate financing instrument, processes the requested transaction by retrieving information via a network from the server, and prints out on demand a hardcopy of the security or fixed rate financing instrument as purchased by the potential purchaser and a checksum thereon. A method for forming a new market with the issuing system.

Issuing machine and issuing system

An issuing system for issuing unmodifiable and/or unforgeable hardcopy documents or securities includes a server and a plurality of issuing machines connected to the server via a network. Each of the issuing machines receives an ID recording medium provided by a potential purchaser, retrieves an identification recorded in the received ID recording medium, requests the potential purchaser to input a request for a transaction of the security or financing instrument, processes the requested transaction, and prints out on demand a hardcopy of the security or financing instrument as purchased by the potential purchaser and a checksum thereon. A method for forming a new market with the issuing system embodies preparing the financing instrument, public-offering the financing instrument, delivering to the purchaser a financial disclosure, requesting the purchaser to acknowledge receipt and review of the financial disclosure, confirming acknowledgement of the financial disclosure from the purchaser; and processing the requested transaction by retrieving information via the network to the server.

Issuing machine and issuing system for public-offering a financing instrument on-line

An asset positioning method and system () rapidly and accurately determine the special location of wireless nodes distributed in three-dimensional space. Furthermore, as a by-product, every node also determines the relative offset and drift of every other node's clock, so that it is possible for all nodes to carry out a precise synchronized action (). The positioning and synchronization protocol has significant implications for a broad range of wireless networking infrastructure and applications. For instance, the rapid availability of accurate location information greatly simplifies and optimises the implementation of ad-hoc networks and sensor-based applications (). Additionally, the synchronized node operations facilitate the development of new applications, such as phase-locked arrays, in which several low power transmitters coordinate to form a powerful group transmitter. Since the positioning protocol yields rapid responses and positional accuracy in the range of a few centimeters, the positioning protocol permits mobile nodes to be tracked while they are moving.

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Silver Spring, MD, United States of America

A Udaya Shankar