Secure messaging systems and methods
View Patent ↗Key features of these methods, apparatus, and designs include (but are not limited to) innovations and implementations of futures securities; the notion of Type I, Type II, and Type III futures contracts custom tailored to specific clienteles; the notion of tickets and coupons as tradable futures contracts; the notion of bifurcation; the notion of redeemable bundles; and notion of realization of the futures market on the Internet; the apparatus of an Internet-based trading interface and engine; the notion of cookie-cutter futures electronic Internet-based futures markets for each security; the feature of maximal reliance on the Internet; and the business concept of “profitability without the need for high trading volume.”
1. A system comprising:
a kiosk having an interactive graphical touchscreen user interface having a processor and memory for a user to physically receive a pre-specified item of value from the kiosk, the interactive graphical touchscreen user interface communicatively coupled to an identification recognition sensor, token acceptance sensor, a password processing sensor and a belt;
the pre-specified item of value is provided as a regular recurring occurrence and at least one token has a time period from a sale thereof to an expiration thereof, which partially overlaps a time period from a sale of another token until the expiration of the another token, each of the tokens having different expiration dates and each of the tokens are for a separate pre-specified item of value;
the kiosk configured with the identification recognition sensor for recognizing the user, the kiosk configured to accept the at least one token with a token acceptance sensor for accepting the at least one token, and if the kiosk recognizes the user and accepts the at least one token and a correct password, the kiosk causing the user to physically receive the pre-specified item of value.
2. The system of claim 1 , wherein the identification recognition sensor is a biometric sensor.
3. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a fingerprint.
4. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a palm vein.
5. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a face.
6. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes DNA.
7. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a palm print.
8. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes hand geometry.
9. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes an iris.
10. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a retina.
11. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes an odor.
12. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a typing rhythm.
13. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a gait.
14. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a scent.
15. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a keystroke.
16. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a signature.
17. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor recognizes a voice.
18. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor employs a facial recognition system that matches a human face from a digital image.
19. The system of claim 2 , wherein the biometric sensor employs a facial recognition system that matches a human face from a video frame.
20. The system of claim 1 , wherein the communicatively coupling is by electricity, a network, or Bluetooth®.