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Albert Parra, West Lafayette, IN US
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20150334422 | Improved Video Compression using Perceptual Modeling - Disclosed are techniques for video stream compression. A motion predicted frame and a current frame of video data are converted from a source color space to a perceptual color space. A delta (Δ) frame is calculated between the current frame and the motion predicted frame. Input color difference values between the current frame and the motion predicted frame are determined and mapped to a normalized output to create a tone mapped color difference image. The tone mapped color difference image and Δ frame are multiplied to obtain a weighted Δ frame. Δ loss is calculated as the difference between the weighted Δ frame and the Δ frame. A variance map of the motion predicted frame is multiplied by the Δ loss to obtain a Δ preservation map. The weighted Δ frame and Δ preservation map are summed to obtain a modified Δ frame which may be transformed, quantized and encoded. | 11-19-2015 |
Charles Parra, New York, NY US
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20090259551 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR INSERTING ADVERTISEMENTS FROM MULTIPLE AD SERVERS VIA A MASTER COMPONENT - A system and method for rendering content may include an ad insertion system and/or content provider that, responsive to a request for media content from a terminal, provides to the terminal the media content, a program module, and ad insertion instructions, the ad insertion instructions including at least one link to a respective ad content providing entity. The terminal may render the media content via a media content player running on the terminal. For each of a plurality of ad insertion points during the rendering of the media content, the terminal may execute the program module to access a link of the at least one link, and, responsive to receipt of response data that is returned in response to the link access, load a content fetching program referenced by the response data, the loaded content fetching program subsequently obtaining ad content for rendering at the terminal. | 10-15-2009 |
20090259552 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR PROVIDING ADVERTISEMENTS FROM MULTIPLE AD SERVERS USING A FAILOVER MECHANISM - A system and method for providing ad content may include a processor configured to, for rendering ad content during a rendering of a user-requested content: receive from a first provider a first link to a second provider; access the second provider via the first link; in response, obtain a program component from the second provider, the program component, when loaded, configured to access the second provider to obtain a portion of the ad content; and subsequently receive a second link from the first provider, and/or use a second link provided by the first provided, for obtaining additional ad content. The processor may receive a failover link together with the first link for use in case of a failure which may occur during an attempt to obtain ad content from the second provider. The failover link may link back to the first provider. | 10-15-2009 |
20110093783 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR LINKING MEDIA COMPONENTS - A system and method for linking media components may include a processor that executes a handshake protocol according to which a video component is rendered conditional upon receipt of notification of rendering of an associated media component. The system and method may additionally perform a keyword comparison algorithm to determine a relevancy between the video and other associated media component. | 04-21-2011 |
Darwin Parra, Austin, TX US
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20150230195 | Setting Voice and Data Priority Using a Registration Message - Concepts and technologies are disclosed herein for setting voice and data priority using a registration message. According to some embodiments, a processor that executes a voice and data priority application can determine a class of device associated with a communication device, a capability indicator that indicates if the communication device is capable of transmitting data communications and if the communication device is capable of transmitting voice communications, and a priority indicator that indicates if data communications are to be prioritized over voice communications for the communication device. The processor also can generate a voice and data priority indicator that indicates the class of device, the capability indicator, and the priority indicator, and save the voice and data priority indicator at a memory associated with the communication device. The communication device can be configured to generate a registration message that includes the voice and data indicator when registering with a network. | 08-13-2015 |
Darwin Parra, Pleasanton, CA US
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20130017804 | EFFICIENT PROCESSING OF RADIO RESOURCE REQUESTSAANM Jun; JerryAACI AustinAAST TXAACO USAAGP Jun; Jerry Austin TX USAANM Liu; HuitaoAACI AustinAAST TXAACO USAAGP Liu; Huitao Austin TX USAANM Parra; DarwinAACI PleasantonAAST CAAACO USAAGP Parra; Darwin Pleasanton CA USAANM Li; YunpengAACI AustinAAST TXAACO USAAGP Li; Yunpeng Austin TX US - A system for efficiently transmitting requests for data access from a wireless communications device to a radio access network. Requests for data access may be aggregated to more efficiently use radio resources. Aggregated requests may not be transmitted until a total number of requests or size of aggregated requests exceeds a threshold. Regardless of aggregation, requests may be stored until a timer expires, and then transmitted to the radio access network. Request priority, environmental data, and device data may be taken into account in determining when to transmit requests for data access. | 01-17-2013 |
Henry Parra, Hillsdale, NJ US
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20140115499 | SOCIAL NETWORKING SYSTEM AND METHOD - A social network is provided. The social network of the present invention may prompt a user to create a “moment”. The moment of the present invention may include at least a time and a location of a place that the user is currently located, was located in the past, or will be located in the future. The moment may be stored on a database. Multiple users may create accounts and create a plurality of moments. All of the moments of the users may be stored on the database. The present invention may include a search box so that third party users may search for other third party user's moments. A user may enter in search criteria and may be presented with a plurality of moments based on the inputted search criteria. | 04-24-2014 |
20150264006 | SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR LOCATION AND TIME BASED SOCIAL NETWORKING - The present application is directed to a system and method for creating on-line comments of a point of interest. The system and method creates a moment having a piece of digital content showing the point of interest, wherein the moment has a time stamp and a location stamp; and shares the moment with a predetermined group of members. The sharing of the moment is limited to members that meet the time stamp and the location stamp, and the system and method refuse accepting comments from members that do not meet the time stamp and location stamp. | 09-17-2015 |
Ivan Omar Parra, Mountain View, CA US
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20130185603 | FAULT TOLERANCE FOR COMPLEX DISTRIBUTED COMPUTING OPERATIONS - A method for enabling a distributed computing system to tolerate system faults during the execution of a client process. The method includes instantiating an execution environment relating to the client process; executing instructions within the execution environment, the instructions causing the execution environment to issue further instructions to the distributing computing system, the further instructions relating to actions to be performed with respect to data stored on the distributed computing system. An object interface proxy receives the further instructions and monitors the received to determine if the execution environment is in a desired save-state condition; and, if so, save a current state of the execution environment in a data store. | 07-18-2013 |
Jacqueline F. Parra, Glen Ellyn, IL US
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20110009188 | CONTROLLING WAGERING TRANSACTIONS FOR MULTI-PROVIDER GAME CONTENT - Described herein are processes and devices that control wagering transactions for multi-provider game content. One of the devices described is a wagering game system. The wagering game system can process a plurality of wagering games from multiple wagering game providers on a single wagering game machine during a single wagering game session. The system can communicate wagering transaction information for the plurality of wagering games between the wagering game machine and an account server. The wagering game system can synchronize a session funds balance on the wagering game machine with an account balance on the account server. The system can utilize different modes of synchronizing the account information for the multiple wagering games. | 01-13-2011 |
20110028203 | PRESENTING WAGERING GAME CONTENT IN MULTIPLE WINDOWS - Described herein are processes and devices that present wagering game content in multiple windows. One of the devices described is a wagering game system. The wagering game system can receive wagering game content and control information from more than one content provider. The wagering game system can present the content from the various content providers in one or more windows, such as by presenting content from one provider in a main window while presenting content from a second provider in one or more auxiliary windows. The wagering game system can also determine priority information for content displayed in the windows and control the appearance and actions of the windows, or content displayed within the windows, based on the priority information. | 02-03-2011 |
20110224002 | MANAGING GAMES IN WAGERING GAMING NETWORKS - Some embodiments of the inventive subject matter include one or more machine readable media including instructions which when executed by a machine cause the machine to perform operations comprising: loading, into a main memory of the machine, a wagering game software program configured to, upon execution, determine results for wagering games and to provide the results to remote wagering game terminals; executing the wagering game software program in the machine; deactivating the wagering game software program, wherein the deactivating includes, for each one of the wagering game terminals, determining that the one of the wagering game terminals has been idle for a specified time period; discontinuing determination of the results and provision of the results to the one of the wagering game terminals; and ceasing execution of the wagering game software. | 09-15-2011 |
20120315981 | SIMULTANEOUS GAME PLAY FOR WAGERING GAME SYSTEMS - A wagering game system and its operations are described herein. In some embodiments, the operations can include initiating a wagering game session for a player in a first wagering game machine of the wagering game system based on a wagering game system account associated with the player. The operations can also include identifying wagering game machines of the wagering game system that are idle and available for simultaneous game play. The operations can further include initiating a wagering game session for the player in a second wagering game machine of the wagering game system for simultaneous game play. The second wagering game machine may be selected from the wagering game machines that are idle and available for simultaneous game play. The operations can further include initiating simultaneous game play in the first and second wagering game machines based on the players wagering game system account. | 12-13-2012 |
20130244761 | PRESENTING WAGERING GAME CONTENT IN MULTIPLE WINDOWS - In some embodiments, a method including determining a first wagering game content and a second wagering game content, wherein the first wagering game content is related to a first wagering game, and wherein the second wagering game content is related to a second wagering game. The method can also include determining, based on priority rules, a first display priority for the first wagering game content, and a second display priority for the second wagering game content. The method can also include presenting, based on the first display priority, the first wagering game content. The method can also include presenting, based on the second display priority, the second wagering game content after the presenting of the first wagering game content, and detecting player inputs. The method can also include assigning priority values to the player inputs, and responding to the player inputs in an order related to the priority values. | 09-19-2013 |
20140106865 | Funding concurrent wagering games - Described herein are processes and devices that perform operations that, in some embodiments, include receiving a request for concurrent presentation of a first wagering game and a second wagering game via a display device of a wagering game machine. The first wagering game includes first content that originates from a first content source, and the second wagering game includes second content that originates from a second content source. The operations further include accessing funds associated with the first wagering game. The operations further include funding one or more wagers for the second wagering game using at least a portion of the accessed funds associated with the first wagering game. | 04-17-2014 |
20140364217 | GAME HISTORY FOR WAGERING GAMES USING HANDHELD DEVICES - A computerized method includes presenting a community game on a display device of a wagering game system that comprises a wagering game machine associated with a handheld device for use in conducting the community game, wherein the presenting of the community game comprises presenting movements of a game element in response to movements of the handheld device. The computerized method includes, at periodic time intervals during the community game, storing, in a memory device, data indicating a current position of the handheld device. | 12-11-2014 |
Jeremy Parra, Beaverton, OR US
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20100294951 | Sensitive gas-phase flourimeter at ambient pressure for nitrogen dioxide - An instrument detects an amount of a component of a sample gas by passing an excitation light through the sample gas at atmospheric pressure to produce fluorescence light from the component. The fluorescence light is discriminated using a sequence of multiple long pass interference filters to filter out the excitation light. The discriminated fluorescence light is then detected to produce a signal representative of the amount of the component in the sample gas. Preferably, the excitation light is continuously passed through the sample gas. In one embodiment, the gas flows through a cell having a parabolic reflector as an interior surface and a source of the excitation light at a focus of the parabolic reflector. In other embodiments, multiple components are detected in parallel using multiple sample cells and a fiber optic multiplexer to sequentially filter and detect the fluorescence light from each of the multiple sample cells. | 11-25-2010 |
Jim Parra, Reedley, CA US
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20100192984 | BIN WASHER DEVICE WITH ROTATING BIN HOLDER AND METHOD OF WASHING BINS - A bin washer device disposed along a conveyor that moves bins, includes a support and at least two bin holders, preferably three bin holders, rotatably supported on the support above the conveyor. Two left sprays are provided outside the path of the bin holders and at angles that are perpendicular to one another. Similarly, two right sprays are provided outside the path and at angles perpendicular to one another. The right sprays minor the left sprays whereby that all sides of a bin are washed. A method includes stopping rotation of the support, discharging a bin from a first bin holder and receiving a bin into the first bin holder. The support is then rotated and the bins in the bin holders are washed. The support is again stopped and a bin a discharged from a second bin holder, and a next bin is received in the second bin holder. The support is then rotated and the bins in the bin holders are washed. These steps are repeated for each bin holder and/or until all of the bins have been washed. | 08-05-2010 |
Jorge E. Parra, El Dorado Hills, CA US
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20150082002 | DYNAMIC HETEROGENEOUS HASHING FUNCTIONS IN RANGES OF SYSTEM MEMORY ADDRESSING SPACE - Dynamic heterogeneous hashing function technology for balancing memory requests between multiple memory channels is described. A processor includes functional units and multiple memory channels, and a memory controller unit (MCU) coupled between them. The MCU includes a dynamic heterogeneous hashing module (DHHM) that includes multiple specific-purpose hashing function blocks that define different interleaving sequences for memory requests to alternately access the multiple memory channels. The DHHM also includes a hashing-function selection block. The hashing-function selection block is operable to identify a requesting functional unit originating a current memory request and to select one of the specific-purpose hashing function blocks for the current memory request in view of the requesting functional unit. | 03-19-2015 |
20150178203 | OPTIMIZED WRITE ALLOCATION FOR TWO-LEVEL MEMORY - Systems and methods for write allocation by a two-level memory controller. An example processing system comprises: a processing core; a memory controller communicatively coupled to the processing core; and a system memory communicatively coupled to the memory controller, the system memory comprising a first level memory and a second level memory; wherein the memory controller is configured, responsive to determining that a memory block referenced by a memory write request is not present in the first level memory, to allocate a new first level memory block without retrieving the memory block referenced by the request from the second level memory, wherein the memory write request is represented by an overwrite type memory write request. | 06-25-2015 |
Lucas Parra, New York, NY US
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20110319975 | Methods for Reducing Discomfort During Electrostimulation, and Compositions and Apparatus Therefor - An electrode assembly for neuro-cranial stimulation includes an electrode, a conductive gel, and an adapter including an interior compartment for positioning the electrode relative to the adapter and for receiving and retaining the conductive gel. The conductive gel contacts the electrode along an electrode-gel interface. An orifice at one end of the interior compartment and adjacent to a positioning surface of the adapter for positioning the electrode assembly against a skin surface of a user enables the conductive gel is able to contact the skin surface of the user to define a gel-skin interface, such that a minimum distance between the electrode-gel interface and the gel-skin interface is maintained between 0.25 cm and 1.3 cm. An electrode assembly mounting apparatus is provided for adjustably positioning a plurality of electrode assemblies against target positions on the cranium. | 12-29-2011 |
Lucas Parra, Lawrenceville, NJ US
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20140303511 | SINGLE TRIAL DETECTION IN ENCEPHALOGRAPHY - An EEG cap ( | 10-09-2014 |
Lucas C Parra, Brooklyn, NY US
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20120209346 | TRANSCRANIAL STIMULATION - A method includes coupling electrodes to a patient's head and identifying whether any of the electrodes form a functional set, such that a desired therapeutic effect is achieved when the two or more electrodes deliver a total amount of current to the patient regardless of what portion of the total amount of current each respective electrode carries. One or more constant current sources are provided, each having a supply and return terminal, which supply and return equal amounts of current at any given time. The constant current source(s) are coupled to the electrodes in such a manner that each supply terminal and each return terminal is coupled to no more than the electrodes of a single one of the functional sets, if any, or to a single one of the electrodes not included in one of the functional sets. | 08-16-2012 |
20120245653 | NEUROCRANIAL ELECTROSTIMULATION MODELS, SYSTEMS, DEVICES AND METHODS - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for developing transcranial electrical stimulation protocols are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes the actions of accepting an image model of target tissue, obtaining a forward model having a first electrode configuration and first electrical stimulation parameters based on electrical stimulation of the target tissue, accepting electrode configuration changes or electrical stimulation parameter changes resulting in a second electrode configuration or second electrical stimulation parameters, determining an optimized tissue model using a least square methodology and based on the second electrode configuration or second electrical stimulation parameter changes, comparing the optimized tissue model with a desired outcome, and providing a confirmation of the optimized model with the desired outcome. | 09-27-2012 |
20120265261 | Neurocranial Electrostimulation Models, Systems, Devices, and Methods - Methods, systems, and apparatus, including computer programs encoded on a computer storage medium, for developing transcranial electrical stimulation protocols are disclosed. In one aspect, a method includes forming a first array of electrodes and optimizing a plurality of electrode parameters within the first array of electrodes to achieve a desired physiological response; identifying one or more electrodes within the optimized first array that have relatively low current compared to the remaining electrodes in the first array; removing the identified low current electrodes from the first array to form a second array of electrodes, wherein the number of electrodes in the second array is less than the number of electrodes in the first array and optimizing a plurality of electrode parameters with the second array of electrodes to achieve a desired physiological response. | 10-18-2012 |
Lucas C. Parra, New York, NY US
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20110040205 | Treatment for Alleviating Tinnitus and Hyperacusis with Auditory Stimulation by Compensating for Hearing Loss and Loss of Non-Linear Compressions - An auditory stimulation treatment for alleviating tinnitus and hyperacusis by compensating for hearing loss and loss of non-linear compression. Natural auditory signals are delivered correcting for hearing loss and compressive non-linearity, both determined at separate frequency bands for the individual subject. This differs from existing treatment in that synthetic “masking” signals are not delivered, but rather the natural auditory input to the subject is modified. Consequently, the method is more akin to a conventional hearing aid. In contrast to conventional hearing aids, however, perception thresholds are specifically corrected and non-linear compression is matched to the specific hearing deficit of the user. | 02-17-2011 |
Lucas Cristobal Parra, Brooklyn, NY US
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20150248615 | Predicting Response to Stimulus - A method of predicting response to a sensory stimulus includes, with a processor, automatically receiving behavioral data representing the response of a first population of subjects to a reference stimulus. Data representing the neurological responses of a second, different population of subjects to the reference sensory stimulus are received and processed to provide group-representative data indicating commonality between the neurological responses of at least two members of the second population. A mapping from the group-representative data to the received behavioral data is produced. Test data representing the neurological responses of a third population of subjects to a test sensory stimulus are received and processed to provide test group-representative data indicating commonality between the neurological responses to the test sensory stimulus of at least two members of the third population. The mapping is applied to the test group-representative data to provide predicted behavioral data. | 09-03-2015 |
Lucas Cristobal Parra, New York, NY US
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20090326404 | Single trial detection in encephalography - An EEG cap ( | 12-31-2009 |
20110144522 | Single Trial Detection in Encephalography - An EEG cap ( | 06-16-2011 |
Luis Parra, Sugar Land, TX US
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20130014939 | Electric Hydraulic Interface For A Modular Downhole Tool - A modular donwhole tool system with a single electric hydraulic drive assembly. The assembly includes an electric hydraulic interface for coupling to any of a variety of different modular donwhole tools. Such tools may include a plug setting actuator, sleeve shifting actuator, valve effecting actuator and a variety of other radially or axially driven hydraulically powered actuators. Indeed, a variety of different actuators may be combined within the same system, tailored based on given downhole application needs. Thus, a viable off-the-shelf modular based on-site assemblage may be available to an operator for running off of a single electric hydraulic drive assembly. | 01-17-2013 |
Maribel Parra, San Francisco, CA US
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20080200566 | Dephosphorylation of HDAC7 By Myosin Phosphatase - The present invention relates to screening methods that make use of a histone deacetylase interacting with a myosin phosphatase for the identification of novel therapeutics useful for inhibiting or inducing apoptosis and for the treatment of pathological conditions, such as smooth muscle cell disorder, cardiac hypertrophy or asthma. Also disclosed are methods for inhibiting or inducing apoptosis and for treatment of a pathological condition by administering to a mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that inhibits or increases the dephosphorylation of a histone deacetylase by a myosin phosphatase or inhibits or increases the binding of a histone deacetylase to a myosin phosphatase. | 08-21-2008 |
20150024955 | Methods of Identifying Modulators of Dephosphorylation of Histone Deacetylase - The present invention relates to screening methods that make use of a histone deacetylase interacting with a myosin phosphatase for the identification of novel therapeutics useful for inhibiting or inducing apoptosis and for the treatment of pathological conditions, such as smooth muscle cell disorder, cardiac hypertrophy or asthma. Also disclosed are methods for inhibiting or inducing apoptosis and for treatment of a pathological condition by administering to a mammal a therapeutically effective amount of a compound that inhibits or increases the dephosphorylation of a histone deacetylase by a myosin phosphatase or inhibits or increases the binding of a histone deacetylase to a myosin phosphatase. | 01-22-2015 |
Melissa Parra, Woodland Hills, CA US
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20140088942 | MOLECULAR GENETIC DIAGNOSTIC SYSTEM - A computer-implemented bioinformatics program annotates human genetic variants by integrating multiple sources of information. The program rapidly filters variants that are unlikely to play a role in the etiology of particular diseases. This filtering may be performed based on such annotations, on clinical profiles and family histories, and on analyses under various inheritance models, in order to classify human variants and identify mutations influencing patients' diseases. | 03-27-2014 |
Michael Parra, Somerset, NJ US
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20110095058 | CLOSURE FOR A CONTAINER - A closure for a container, and a container incorporating the same, that minimizes or eliminates leakage between the closure and the container holding the liquid. The closure provides a liquid sealing system that allows irregularly shaped closure tops to be used without sacrificing the effectiveness of the liquid seal. In one embodiment, the closure includes a plurality of struts disposed within an annular space that receives a neck portion of the container to create a seating plane that corresponds to a plane formed by the rim of the neck portion. | 04-28-2011 |
Roland Parra, Los Angeles, CA US
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20100128473 | Adjustable LED Light Fixture - Various embodiments of this invention disclose a quiet LED light fixture that adjusts between a neutral, flood and spot array configuration. | 05-27-2010 |
Sarah M. Parra, Bothell, WA US
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20090327225 | RELATIONSHIP SERIALIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ENTITIES - Systems and methods that enable relationship information to be carried along with the entity when serializing/deserializing entities among application tiers. A tracking component tracks information on relationships associated with an entity, and further enables users to perform subsequent change processing on the entity's relationship information. Accordingly, relationship information can be carried along with the entity such that database operation can be performed without requirement of additional information from the database (e.g., foreign key information that is part of associated graphs). | 12-31-2009 |
20150019534 | RELATIONSHIP SERIALIZATION AND RECONSTRUCTION FOR ENTITIES - Systems and methods that enable relationship information to be carried along with the entity when serializing/deserializing entities among application tiers. A tracking component tracks information on relationships associated with an entity, and further enables users to perform subsequent change processing on the entity's relationship information. Accordingly, relationship information can be carried along with the entity such that database operation can be performed without requirement of additional information from the database (e.g., foreign key information that is part of associated graphs). | 01-15-2015 |
William A. Parra, Fort Mill, SC US
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20110265170 | METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR ENABLING AUTHENTICATION OF ON-LINE COMMUNICATIONS - Method and apparatus for enabling authentication of on-line communications. In some embodiments, a message code is embedded in an e-mail, where the message code can be used by the recipient to verify the authenticity of the e-mail or of a Web site. In some embodiments, this code can be created for a particular e-mail message; in other embodiments, the code is created as a watermark for use by a customer or other a specific user or recipient. The message code is associated with both the e-mail message and the recipient. In the case of a message-specific code, a recipient can verify the e-mail message by inputting the code via a Web server to be looked up in the database. Provision is also made for including stenographic information in graphical or other codes as further authentication when accessing a Web site. | 10-27-2011 |