1. A combination suitcase and baby carrier comprising:
a housing having a top, a bottom, a front, a rear, and two spaced apart ends,
an elongated handle slidably mounted to said housing and movable between a storage position in which at least most of said handle is contained in said housing and an extended position in which said handle extends outwardly from one end of said housing,
with said handle in said extended position said handle being pivotal between a first position in which said handle lies in a plane generally parallel to a plane of said housing bottom and a second position in which said handle lies in a plane oblique to said plane of said housing bottom,
a rear wheel support bracket pivotally mounted to said housing adjacent said one end, at least one rear wheel attached to said rear wheel support bracket, said rear wheel support bracket being movable between a collapsed position in which said at least one rear wheel is contained in said housing and an operational position in which said at least one rear wheel protrudes outwardly from said housing bottom,
at least one front wheel attached to an elongated front wheel bracket, said front wheel bracket having one end pivotally secured to said housing adjacent the other end of the housing, said at least one front wheel rotatably mounted to the other end of said front wheel bracket, said at least one front wheel protruding outwardly from said housing bottom, and
a seat back selectively attachable to said handle,
wherein said at least one front wheel and said front wheel bracket are pivotally mounted to said housing between a collapsed position in which at least a portion of said at least one front wheel is contained in said housing and an extended position in which said at least one front wheel extends outwardly from said housing bottom,
an elongated actuator having one end secured to said rear wheel bracket and an actuator pin secured to the other end of said actuator, said actuator pin slidably abutting against an inclined surface on said front wheel bracket so that as said handle is pivoted to said second position, said actuator retracts said actuator pin toward said rear of said housing so that the actuator pin slides along said inclined surface of said front wheel bracket and pivots said front wheel bracket and said front wheel from said collapsed position to said extended position.
2. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 and comprising a latch mechanism which selectively locks said rear wheel support plate in said extended position.
3. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 wherein said handle comprises a pair of spaced apart and parallel rails joined together at one end by a crossbar.
4. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 wherein said rear wheel support bracket is pivotal about an axis parallel to a plane of said housing bottom.
5. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 wherein said housing is generally rectangular in shape.
6. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 wherein said housing includes a compartment for the storage of personal items.
7. The combination suitcase and baby carrier as defined in claim 1 wherein a portion of said housing top forms said seat back.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1. A remote control device having individualized access control, comprising:
an interface for accepting input from a user and forwarding a signal corresponding the to the input from the user to a conditional access device;
a biometric scanner, coupled to the remote device, for reading a biometric characteristic of a user; and
a processor, coupled to the interface, for generating a signal associated with the reading of the biometric characteristic of the user that is transmitted to the conditional access device for analysis to determine a function corresponding to the input form the user to execute.
2. The remote control device of claim 1 further comprising persistent memory, coupled to the biometric scanner, the memory storing biometric characteristic of a plurality of users.
3. The remote control device of claim 1, wherein the processor generates a signal based on an analysis of the reading received from the biometric scanner and the input from the user.
4. The device of claim 1, wherein the biometric scanner is a capacitive finger print scanner.
5. The device of claim 1, wherein the biometric scanner is an optical retina scanner.
6. The device of claim 1, wherein the biometric scanner is a voice print scanner.
7. A method for providing individualized access control for a user, comprising:
receiving, from a user of a remote control device, an input command via a user input interface of the remote control device;
gathering biometric characteristics of the user using a biometric data retrieval module on the remote control device;
providing the input command and the biometric characteristic of the user from the remote control device to a conditional access device;
analyzing the biometric characteristic of the user with reference to biometric characteristics stored in memory at the conditional access device;
determining whether to authenticate the user based on the analysis of the biometric characteristics of the user; and
executing, by the conditional access device, a process in accordance with the input data received from the remote control device when the user of the remote control device is authenticated.
8. The method of claim 7, wherein the executing the process comprises changing a channel.
9. The method of claim 7, wherein the executing the process comprises engaging in a dialog with the user regarding a purchase of items.
10. The method of claim 7, wherein the executing the process comprises engaging in a dialog with the user regarding a purchase of a subscription packages from a content provider.
11. The method of claim 7 further comprising prohibiting the performance of the process when the user is not authenticated.
12. The method of claim 7, wherein the gathering biometric characteristics of the user comprises scanning a finger print of the user.
13. The method of claim 7, wherein the gathering biometric characteristics of the user comprises optically scanning a retina of the user.
14. The method of claim 7, wherein the gathering biometric characteristics of the user comprises scanning a voice print of the user.
15. A computer readable medium including executable instructions which, when executed by a processor, provides individualized access control for a user, by:
receiving, from a user of a remote control device, an input command via a user input interface of the remote control device;
gathering biometric characteristics of the user using a biometric data retrieval module on the remote control device;
providing the input command and the biometric characteristic of the user from the remote control device to a conditional access device;
analyzing the biometric characteristic of the user with reference to biometric characteristics stored in memory at the conditional access device;
determining whether to authenticate the user based on the analysis of the biometric characteristics of the user; and
executing, by the conditional access device, a process in accordance with the input data received from the remote control device when the user of the remote control device is authenticated.
16. The method of claim 15, wherein the executing the process comprises changing a channel.
17. The method of claim 15, wherein the executing the process comprises engaging in a dialog with the user regarding a purchase of items.
18. The method of claim 15, wherein the executing the process comprises engaging in a dialog with the user regarding a purchase of a subscription packages from a content provider.
19. The method of claim 15 further comprising prohibiting the performance of the process when the user is not authenticated.
20. The method of claim 15, wherein the gathering biometric characteristics of the user comprises at least one selected from the group consisting of scanning a finger print of the user, optically scanning a retina of the user and scanning a voice print of the user.