Telecommunications – Radiotelephone system – Security or fraud prevention
Reexamination Certificate
2003-09-30
2008-08-12
Eng, George (Department: 2617)
Telecommunications
Radiotelephone system
Security or fraud prevention
C340S005900, C705S016000, C705S021000, C705S065000
Reexamination Certificate
active
07412229
ABSTRACT:
The button apparatus is an apparatus provided for, for example, a vending machine and to be touched and pressed with the body of a user who wants to purchase a commodity from the vending machine. By pressing down the button apparatus, the user can purchase a required commodity from the vending machine. The button apparatus has a conductive pusher, an insulator, a switch, and a transceiver. A user wearing a wearable computer and a user's transceiver touches and presses down the pusher, to separately establish communication between the transceiver and the user's transceiver through the conductive pusher and the body of the user, as well as communication of providing a press signal.
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Minotani Tadashi
Ochiai Katsuyuki
Shinagawa Mitsuru
Togo Hiroyoshi
Eng George
Huynh Nam
Kilpatrick & Stockton LLP
Nippon Telephone and Telegraph Corporation
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