Gaming machine providing redeemable music awards

SYSTEM AND/OR METHOD FOR INTERACTIVE MERCHANDISING OF DIGITAL CONTENT

AUTOMATED BUSINESS SYSTEM AND METHOD OF VENDING AND RETURNING A CONSUMER PRODUCT

Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions

Using a memory device in a kiosk

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium

Methods and systems for providing products, such as digital content including games, ring tones, and/or graphics; and services, such as computer network service including internet service

Media property monetization apparatus and method

Intelligent digital audiovisual reproduction system

Information recording apparatus, control program and recording medium

Method and system for internet access

System and method for revenue sharing for multimedia sharing in social network

Data distributing-machine with controled atmosphere

Signal processing apparatus and control method thereof

System for conducting commercial transactions

Advertising content tracking for an entertainment device

Documents, articles and authentication of documents and articles

Method and apparatus for providing prepaid music card for deciphering recorded broadcast audio signals

Distribution of selected digitally-encoded content to a storage device, user device, or other distribution target with concurrent rendering of selected content

ELECTRONIC LIFESTYLE INTEGRATION APPARATUS AND METHOD OF ESTABLISHMENT

System for delivering video on hard medium along with one or more items or vouchers to remote address

A SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR THE PROVISION OF AUDIO AND/OR VISUAL SERVICES

Parental control graphical user interface

Embedding hidden auxiliary code signals in media

Methods and apparatus to process media

Communication apparatus, communication system, communication method and recording medium

Interactive display system with indicia reader

Multi-format, all media, creation method, event marketing software

Media services with access control

Broadcast system, broadcast time selling machine, censor server device and broadcast time selling machine control program

Vending machine having promotional features

Broadcast receiving apparatus

Portable terminal device

Communication apparatus and method providing robust service in the presence of deteriorated radio conditions

System and method for managing online record store

Rolling stock advertising method

Imaging system and system control method

Sales apparatus, sales method and program

System and method for a peer to peer exchange of consumer information

Delivering and licensing wager gaming content

System and method for offline vending of a media product

Information processing apparatus, information processing method, program recording medium, and data recording medium

Audiovisual distribution system for playing an audiovisual piece among a plurality of audiovisual devices connected to a central server through a network

System and method for communicating vending information

System and method for communicating vending information

Apparatus and method for producing electronic media on demand

System and method for regulating vendible media products

System and method for vending vendible media products

System and method for managing vending inventory

Creating publications using gaming-based media content

Information processing system, information processing apparatus and method, program, and recording medium

System and method for selling a rental media product

Methods and systems for inserting watermarks in digital signals

Dynamic authentication of mark use

System for data collection and distribution

Time-triggered communication system and method for the synchronized start of a dual-channel network

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VENDING MACHINE OFFERS

Method and apparatus for managing vending machine offers

METHOD AND APPARATUS FOR MANAGING VENDING MACHINE OFFERS

System and method for providing calibration/verification services at a CATV service organization site on a prepaid basis

Internet-based method of and system for enabling communication of consumer product information between manufacturers and consumers in a stream of commerce, using manufacturer created and managed data links

Wireless terminal device, wireless communication method, and computer program

Internet-based system for managing and delivering consumer product information at points along the world wide web using consumer product information (CPI) requesting and graphical user interface (GUI) displaying subsystems driven by server-side components and managed by consumer product manufacturers and/or authorized parties

Method and system for data transfer between interactive public terminals and personal terminals

Method and apparatus for marketing simultaneously multiple products on vending machine

System providing direct internet access in public or semi-public places

Power and telecommunications access vending machine

Methods and devices responsive to ambient audio

Authentication of identification documents

Video composition apparatus, video composition method and video composition program

Methods and apparatus for optimizing digital asset distribution

Interactive electronic dispaly, methods and apparatus for targeted propagation of sign content, systems for capturing and sending photographs and video, as a means of integrated customer service, information capture and marketing

Intelligent manager for automatically handling and managing media

Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor

Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor

Information processor, file server, accounting control system, accounting control method, and recording medium recording a program therefor

Method and apparatus for after-market vending of feature-provisioning software to third party mobile wireless communication devices

Internet linking from audio and image content

Device delivering a service using an associated portable memory, and relaying means for allowing activation of an application of the portable memory of the first device by a second device

Data storage and access systems

Systems and methods for providing a vendor control interface for an imaging device

Video recorder unit and method of operation therefor

Data distribution system and data selling apparatus therefor, data retrieving apparatus, duplicated data detecting system, and data reproduction apparatus

Process for ordering a selection in advance, digital system and jukebox for embodiment of the process

On demand advertising

Content creation, distribution, interaction, and monitoring system

Entertainment kiosk

Hiding and detecting messages in media signals

System and method for dispensing digital information from an automated transaction machine

Digital information library and delivery system

Resolving station for system for permitting access to media selections

Modular liquid cooling of electronic assemblies

Consumer information kiosk

Transaction method involving transfer of electronic files

Steganographic encoding and decoding of auxiliary codes in media signals

System for controlling the distribution and use of rendered digital works through watermarking

Tourist information guiding apparatus

Retail point of sale (RPOS) apparatus for internet merchandising

On-site point-of-sale billing system which manages public use of wired or wireless access network

Multi-media remote data access terminals and system

Automatic authorization of programmatic transactions

Method for transmission of data telegrams in a switched cyclical communication system

Self-service terminal

System for providing secure access

Display apparatus and control method thereof

MUSIC IDENTIFICATION SYSTEM

Color selection and coordination system

Nutritional informative vending machine providing a remote nutrition informing system

Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data

Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data

Associating media through encoding

System and method for finding and serving consumer product related information to consumers using internet-based information servers and clients

System and method for dispensing consumer products

Processing auxiliary data of video sequences

Method and apparatus for on-demand multimedia rental and sales services

MVC-003U method and system for multiple read/write heads for transferring date to/from a storage medium

Method for the distribution of audio-visual information and a system for the distribution of audio-visual information

User agent for facilitating transactions in networks

Article dispensing system and method for same

Method and system for efficiently billing on-demand service exploitation in computer networks

Stand-alone system for storing books in electronic memory

System for managing a plurality of computer jukeboxes

Advertisement distribution method and advertisement distribution system

Software code for permitting a user to access broadcast media

Interactive vending system(s) featuring product customization, multimedia, education and entertainment, with business opportunities, models, and methods

Automated transaction machine

Communication through a financial services network

Communication through a financial services network

Encryption apparatus, program for use therewith, and method for use therewith

Recall device

Method and apparatus for establishing usage rights for digital content to be created in the future

Financial transaction system with integrated electronic messaging, control of marketing data, and user defined charges for receiving messages

Content distribution systems and methods

System for controlling and enforcing playback restrictions for a media file by splitting the media file into usable and unusable portions for playback

Method and apparatus for distribution of digitised information

Trading system and method for digital commodity

Automatic multimedia recording and reproduction system

Method and apparatus for conducting electronic commerce transactions using electronic tokens

Method and apparatus for accessing electronic data via a familiar printed medium

Multimedia terminal for product ordering

Method and apparatus for vending magic, pranks, and gags

Display system for vending machine

Interactive networked product container

Printing media and methods employing digital watermarking

Product search locator

Direct electronic business transaction

Systems and methods for the selection and purchase of digital assets

Internet-based brand management and marketing communication instrumentation network for deploying, installing and remotely programming brand-building server-side driven multi-mode virtual kiosks on the World Wide Web (WWW), and methods of brand marketing communication between brand marketers and consumers using the same

Internet service charging method

Payment system

Media information distribution and recording system, and apparatus and program-recorded medium for the system

System and method for rights offering and granting using shared state variables

Integrated recruiting system and method

Event photo retrieval system and method

System for distributing and selecting audio and video information and method implemented by said system

Method and system for providing personalized online services and advertisements in public spaces

Printer driver separately applying watermark and information

System for vending physical and information items

Distributed color coordination system

System and method for finding product and service related information on the internet

Color selection and coordination kiosk and system

Embedding hidden auxiliary code signals in media

Vending machine

System and method for content vending

Road-vehicle communication system, and roadside apparatus, mobile apparatus which are used for the same

Digital data vending system and method of selling digital data files

Service provision support system, bundle management terminal, terminal program, bundle data structure, service provision support method, and bundle generation method

Self-service machine for the production of disks with digital recordings

Embedding information in a digital image digitized from a developed photographic film

Payment method for in-flight entertainment device rentals having self-contained audio-visual presentations

Method and apparatus for temporary ownership of digital items in a network data processing system

Network apparatus and method for preview of music products and compilation of market data

Digital content kiosk and associated methods for delivering selected digital content to a user

Information providing apparatus, system, method, and program for the same, and recording medium with the program recorded therein

Methods and apparatus to produce security documents

Paper products and physical objects as means to access and control a computer or to navigate over or act as a portal on a network

Internet-based brand management and marketing communication instrumentation network for deploying, installing and remotely programming brand-building server-side driven multi-mode virtual Kiosks on the World Wide Web (WWW), and methods of brand marketing communication between brand marketers and consumers using the same

Internet-based product brand marketing communication network configured to allow members of a product brand management team to communicate directly with consumers browsing HTML-encoded pages at an electronic commerce (EC) enabled web-site along the fabric of the world wide web (WWW), using programable multi-mode virtual kiosks (MMVKS) driven by server-side components and managed by product brand management team members

Method and system for purchasing personal recording media

Sensor-enabled vending machine

Automated business system and method of vending and returning a consumer product