Patentability Legislation Benchmarking Test Suite

1. utilising the first type of runlength code (R) for coding a runlength of the most frequently occurring value followed by the next most frequently occurring value;
2. utilising the second type of runlength code (R') for coding a runlength of the most frequently occurring value followed by any value other than the next most frequently occurring value; and
3. when the second type of runlength code is used, following the runlength code value by a code value indicative of the amplitude of said other value.

• at least one buyer computer for operation by a user desiring to buy a product;
• at least one merchant computer; and
• at least one payment computer;
• the buyer computer, the merchant computer, and the payment computer being interconnected by a computer network;
• the buyer computer being programmed to receive a user request for purchasing a product, and to cause a payment message to be sent to the payment computer that comprises a product identifier identifying the product;
• the payment computer being programmed to receive the payment message, to cause an access message to be created that comprises the product identifier and an access message authenticator based on a cyptographic key, and to cause the access message to be sent to the merchant computer;
• and the merchant computer being programmed to receive the access message, to verify the access message authenticator to ensure that the access message authenticator was created using said cyptographic key, and to cause the product to be sent to the user desiring to buy the product.

• N samples of the acoustic signal are converted into M spectral coefficients;
• said M spectral coefficients are subjected to quantisation at a first level;
• after coding by means of an entropic encoder the number of bits required to represent all the quantized spectral coefficients is checked;
• when the required number of bits does not correspond to a specified number of bits quantization and coding are repeated in subsequent steps, each at a modified quantization level, until the number of bits required for representation reaches the specified number of bits, and
• additionally to the data bits the required quantization level is transmitted and/or stored.

• receiving means for receiving transmitted information, the information being coded or incomplete and in a non-usable form;
• a recording medium, decoding information needed to demodulate the received information being prerecorded on said recording medium, said recording medium comprising a first area in which the received information is to be written and a second area in which the decoding information is pre-recorded;
• writing means for writing the information received by said receiving means in the first area of said recording medium;
• reading means for reading out the decoding information from said recording medium; and
• demodulating means for converting the information received by said receiving means and written in said first area of said recording medium to a usable form using the decoding information read out by said reading means;

wherein the charge for use of the information is defined in units corresponding to the decoding information being prerecorded on said recording medium

1. establishing the second area on the computer display in which the group of multiple sets of information is displayed, the second area having a size which is less than the entire area of the computer display, the second area displaying a first of the multiple sets of information;
2. providing within the second area a plurality of selection indicators, each one associated with a corresponding one of the multiple selecting a second of the multiple sets of information for display within the second area by activating a selection indicator associated with a second of the multiple sets of information, whereby the second of the multiple sets of information is substituted for the first of the multiple sets of information within the area of the display; and
3. combining the additional set of information, displayed in the first area of the display into the group of multiple sets of information so that the additional set of information may be selected using its selection indicator in the same manner as the other sets of information in the group.