1. A user authentication method of authenticating a user in an authentication server module installed in a server, said module using information specifically indicative of the user’s hardware platform and the user’s e-mail address, the user authentication method comprising the steps of:
Determining whether an authentication client module including a hardware identification symbol uniquely identifying the hardware is present on the user’hardware, said authentication client module reading said identification symbol and storing it in said user’s authentication platform;
if an authentication client module is not present, sending an authentication client module from the authentication server module to a user’s authentication platform for installation in said user’s authentication platform, said user’s authentication platform including a hardware having a hardware identification symbol that uniquely identifies said hardware and being readable by said authentication client module, said authentication client module reading said identification symbol;
said server obtaining the user’s e-mail address and said hardware identification symbol as the user’s ID from said authentication client module;
determining a user authentication by said authentication server module in said server according to whether or not the e-mail address and hardware identification symbol obtained from the authentication server module is identical to a user’s e-mail address and hardware identification symbol stored in an authentication database;
said authentication server module transmitting a confirmation e-mail to a user in the case that an e-mail address which is identical to the received e-mail address does not exist in the authentication database;
said server receiving from said user an identifier of the user’s e-mail address and the hardware identification symbol in response to said confirmation e-mail; and
said authentication server module recognizing the identifier of the e-mail as a response e-mail for the confirmation e-mail transmitted to the user, storing the hardware identification symbol in the authentication database, and performing user authentication registration, wherein the confirmation e-mail is made up of a message written in hypertext markup language (HTML):
activating said message and causing the e-mail address and the hardware identification symbol to be transmitted to the authentication server module.
2. The user authentication method of claim 1, wherein the confirmation e-mail is attached with an execution file, wherein when execution file is executed at the user’s authentication platform, the user’s e-mail address and the hardware identification symbol are transmitted to the authentication server.
3. The user authentication method of claim 1, wherein a user is associated with several user authentication platforms related to the same user e-mail address, further comprising storing authentication platform information for each said authentication platform in said authentication database and generating an authentication when the user’s e-mail is received from any one of said user’s authentication platforms.
4. The user authentication method of claim 1, wherein the hardware identification symbol is an inherent identification symbol which is permanently input for each hardware device when being manufactured by a hardware manufacturer in which the inherent identification symbol cannot be changed.
5. The user authentication method of claim 1, wherein the user’s authentication platform can transmit and receive e-mail via a network.
6. The user authentication method of claim 1 wherein the user is identified and authenticated only from the user’s email address and hardware identification symbol.
7. The method of claim 1 wherein said user authentication platform includes several hardware devices, each device having a unique hardware identification symbol, further comprising detecting said hardware identification symbols by said client authentication module, receiving an input command from the user designating one of said hardware identification symbols and storing said selected authentication symbol in said user platform.
8. A system comprising a server communicating with a user platform over a communication channel, wherein said user platform is controlled by a user who has an e-mail address and said platform including a hardware indicator indicative of the hardware of a device within the platform, and said server including a platform authentication module reading said hardware indicator; wherein said server is associated with a database including a stored e-mail address and a stored hardware indicator;
said server obtaining the user’s e-mail address and said hardware indicator from said user platform; and
determining user authentication by said authentication server module in said server by comparing the user e-mail address and hardware indicator with the stored e-mail address and stored hardware identification and providing an authentication signal when the comparison indicates a match;
wherein said user authentication platform includes several hardware devices, each device having a unique hardware indicator symbol, further comprising detecting said hardware identification symbols by said client authentication module, receiving an input command from the user designating one of said hardware indicator symbols and storing said selected authentication symbol in said user platform.
9. The system of claim 8 said server determining if said user platform includes said platform authentication module and if said platform authentication module is not found then said server downloading to said user platform said platform authentication module, said platform authentication model then obtaining said hardware indicator and storing said hardware identification on said platform.
10. The system of claim 8 wherein said server communicates with a plurality of user platforms, each user platform being associated with the same user and having the same user e-mail address.
11. The system of claim 10 wherein said database includes several stored hardware indicator sets, all indicator sets being associated with a single user e-mail address.
The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.
1-52. (canceled)
53. An apparatus for heating a thermoplastic material comprising ferromagnetic, hexagonal ferrite particles having the composition SrF, Mea-2W, Mea-2Y, and Mea-2Z, wherein 2W is BaO:2 MeaO:8Fe2O3, 2Y is 2(BaO: MeaO:Fe2O3), and 2Z is 3BaO:2MeaO:12Fe2O3, and wherein Mea is a divalent cation, or magnetically soft ferrite particles having the composition 1MebO:1Fe2O3, where MebO is a transition metal oxide, wherein the particles have a specific Curie temperature (Tc), and wherein the particles are in contact with the thermoplastic material; an inductor for heating the particles to their Curie temperature, and a power source connected to the inductor.
54. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the particles are from about 1 micron to about 840 microns.
55. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the particles are less than 1 micron.
56. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the power source provides an alternating field of from about 500 KHz to about 10 MHz to the inductor, and wherein the frequency of the field is selected to optimize the efficiency and rate of heating during the bonding or curing process.
57. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein Tc of the particles is less than the melting temperature of the thermoplastic material.
58. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein Tc of the particles is greater than the melting temperature of the thermoplastic material.
59. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein Mea comprises Mg, Co, Mn or Zn and Meb comprises Ni, Co, Mn, or Zn.
60. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the particles comprise SrF, Co-2Y, Mg-2Y, ZnCo-2Y, or ZnMg-2Y or combinations thereof, (Mn, ZnO)Fe2O3 or (Ni, ZnO)Fe2O3.
61. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the thermoplastic material comprises a shaped polymeric material.
62. The apparatus of claim 61, further comprising a layer of distinct material laminated to the shaped polymeric material.
63. The apparatus of claim 53, wherein the thermoplastic material comprises PEEK, PEKK, PEI, PPS, PSU, PET, polyester, PA, PP, PE, PU, PPO, PC or combinations thereof.
64. The apparatus of claim 61, wherein the polymeric material is shaped by extrusion or compression molding or by a film casting process.
65. The apparatus according to claim 53, wherein the ferromagnetic particles are embedded in the surface of the thermoplastic material.
66. The apparatus according to claim 53, wherein the ferromagnetic particles are dispersed throughout the thermoplastic material.
67. The apparatus according to claim 53, wherein the inductor operates at a power between 1500 W-2300 W.
68. The apparatus according to claim 53, wherein the inductor has a frequency of 88 kHz \u2212310 kHz.
69-110. (canceled)