High Tide Associates, Inc.

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Maxtor Corporation

John Masles

William Richard Akin

Albert L Hartman

Benjamin Huang

Joe Tomasic

Brooks R Leman

Todd Peter Carpenter

Christopher Montgomery Carpenter

Wendy Lorimer

Chris Paul Dudte

A power source that is powered by a user to generate electrical energy includes a generator assembly and a fluid source. The generator assembly includes a rotor, a stator, and a fluid driven motor that is coupled to the rotor. Movement of the rotor relative to the stator results in the generation of electrical energy. The fluid source is manually powered by the user to direct pressurized fluid to the fluid driven motor to move the rotor relative to the stator. The fluid source can include a first fluid pump that is powered by the user to generate the pressurized fluid and a second fluid pump that is powered by the user to generate the pressurized fluid. One or both of the fluid pumps can include a fluid bellows that is powered by the user to generate the pressurized fluid. Alternatively, one or both of the fluid pumps can include a cylinder and a piston that is moved within the cylinder by the user to generate the pressurized fluid.

Electrical power source

A portable power source () includes a housing (), a stator component (), a rotor component (), a crank assembly (), and a control system (). The stator component () is secured to the housing (), the rotor component () rotates relative to the stator component () and the crank assembly () is coupled to the rotor component (). The crank assembly () is rotated by the user relative to the housing (). As provided herein, rotation of the crank assembly () by the user results in rotation of the rotor component () relative to the stator component (). In one embodiment, the control system () controls the amount of torque required to rotate the crank assembly (). For example, the amount of torque required to rotate the crank assembly () is varied according to the rotational position of the crank assembly (). In one embodiment, the crank assembly () includes a one-way drive mechanism assembly () that allows for unidirection rotation of the rotor component () and pedals (A) (B) that move up and down.

Mobile electrical power source

An extremely secure method for keying source contents to a source storage medium provided to prevent use of unauthorized copies at minimal cost. The host processor combines a unique, immutable and verifiable physical attribute of a hard disk drive, i.e., the drive's defect list, with the content to be secured to write a corresponding fingerprinted encrypted content on a source medium. When a local processor wants to use the sanctioned source content, the fingerprinted content is read from a local storage medium. The local processor then decrypts and separates the defect list out of the source content and reads the local storage medium defect list. If the decrypted defect list matches the local storage medium defect list, then the local processor recognizes the local sanctioned medium and continues processing the source contents. Otherwise, a non-matching defect list indicates an unauthorized copy from the source to the local storage medium.

Extremely secure method for keying stored contents to a specific storage device

A portable power source () includes a housing (), a stator component (), a rotor component (), a crank assembly (), and a control system (). The stator component () is secured to the housing (), the rotor component () rotates relative to the stator component () and the crank assembly () is coupled to the rotor component (). The crank assembly () is rotated by the user relative to the housing (). As provided herein, rotation of the crank assembly () by the user results in rotation of the rotor component () relative to the stator component (). In one embodiment, the control system () controls the amount of torque required to rotate the crank assembly (). For example, the amount of torque required to rotate the crank assembly () is varied according to the rotational position of the crank assembly (). In one embodiment, the crank assembly () includes a one-way drive mechanism assembly () that allows for unidirection rotation of the rotor component () and pedals (A)(B) that move up and down.

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

John Masles