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Date of Patent:
Nov. 05, 2002

Filed:

Mar. 23, 1998
Applicant:
Inventors:

Rinaldo Di Giorgio, Stony Brook, CA (US);

Theodore Goldstein, Boulder Creek, CA (US);

Diana Neiman, Los Altos, CA (US);

Michael Bender, Palo Alto, CA (US);

Assignee:

Sun Microsystems, Inc., Santa Clara, CA (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/760 ;
Abstract

An electronic vault includes an array of smart products for use in processing associated transactions. Because smart product transactions usually require that a value of currency always be stored on a particular smart product, the vault provides a collection of smart products storing digital currency values for use in processing a high volume of associated transactions.


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