1. A breakout cable, comprising:
a polymer jacket; and
a plurality of micromodules enclosed within the jacket, each micromodule having a plurality of bend resistant optical fibers and a polymer sheath comprising polyvinyl chloride surrounding the bend resistant optical fibers, wherein each of the plurality of bend resistant optical fibers is a multimode optical fiber, comprising a glass cladding region surrounding and directly adjacent to a glass core region, wherein the core region is a graded-index glass core region, wherein the refractive index of the core region has a profile having a parabolic or substantially curved shape, wherein the cladding comprises a first annular portion having a lesser refractive index relative to a second annular portion of the cladding, wherein the first annular portion is interior to the second annular portion, and wherein the cladding is surrounded by a low modulus primary coating and a high modulus secondary coating, and
wherein when subjected to a corner bend load of six kilograms, delta attenuation at 850 nm in the cable due to the load is less than 0.4 dB.
2. The breakout cable of claim 1, wherein the core region of each of the optical fibers has a 50 micron diameter which provides an overfilled bandwidth of greater than 1.5 GHz-km.
3. The breakout cable of claim 2, wherein the core region contains substantially no fluorine.
4. The breakout cable of claim 1, further comprising an aramid strain-relief element adjacent to an interior of the polymer jacket.
5. The breakout cable of claim 1, wherein the polyvinyl chloride is a highly-filled polyvinyl chloride.
6. The breakout cable of claim 5, wherein the bend resistant optical fibers in the micromodules can be accessed by tearing the micromodule sheath with a user’s fingers.
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 method for controlling allocation and transfer of funds among a plurality of recipients, said method comprising the steps of:
receiving, at a web server, a plurality of registration information from a user;
storing, in one or more databases said registration information associated with said user, wherein each of said databases being communicatively linked to said web server;
assigning, to said user a primary account, and a plurality of sub-accounts communicatively linked with said primary account in a waterfall hierarchy;
receiving from said user, at least one recipient account information to be linked to each of said sub-accounts;
receiving from said user, a set of selectively repeating predefined rules corresponding to each of said sub-accounts, wherein said set of predefined rules including at least one of:
a funds allocation rule for allocating a portion of funds deposited in said primary account into each of said sub-accounts until the funds deposited in said primary account is fully allocated, and determining if allocated funds has hit the allocated target for each of said sub-accounts,
a payment transfer rule for transferring the allocated target funds in each of said sub-accounts to said recipient account based on at least one said determination, and a predetermined scheduled date, and
an authentication verification rule for verifying authentication of said user for selectively updating said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts.
2. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of receiving said registration information comprises receiving user identification information.
3. The method of claim 1 further comprising a step of assigning user authentication information to said user upon registration with said web server, wherein said user authentication information includes one or more of: a username, a password, and a PIN.
4. The method of claim 1, wherein said primary account being configured to receive funds from one or more payment sources comprises at least one of a prepaid card, a debit card, a credit card, and bank account.
5. The method of claim 1, wherein said recipient account information is related to one or more of: an individual, a business, and an organization.
6. The method of claim 1, wherein said primary account provided by the web server serves to automatically transfer funds into each of said sub accounts linked thereof based on said funds allocation rule.
7. The method of claim 1, wherein said determination if allocated funds has hit the allocated target for each of said sub-accounts either (i) terminate further allocation of funds in each of said sub-accounts or (ii) repeats said funds allocation rule each time a funds is deposited in said primary account.
8. The method of claim 1, wherein said funds allocation rule further enables a terminating sub-account of said plurality of sub-accounts to transfer funds into one or more higher priority sub-accounts to ensure each of higher priority sub-accounts hit the allocated target fund.
9. The method of claim 1, wherein said authentication verification rule when implemented performing following operations:
transmits a message comprising a randomly generated verification code to at least one of said registered user, and one or more users authorized to update said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts,
receives response to said message from said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules,
maps the responses received from each of said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules for compliance with the authentication verification rule, and
allows said registered users and said authorized users to update said set of predefined rules on determining compliance.
10. A method for distributing funds among a plurality of recipients, the method being carried out by a number of different entities, including a web server executing a web application configured thereon, one or more databases communicatively linked to said web server, a computing device for accessing said server presenting a plurality of visualizations for display on said computing device, with each of the entities communicating over a communication network, the method comprising the following steps:
receiving, at a web server, a plurality of registration information from a user;
storing, in one or more databases said registration information associated with said user, wherein each of said databases being communicatively linked to said web server;
assigning, to said user a primary account, and a plurality of sub-accounts communicatively linked with said primary account in a waterfall hierarchy;
receiving from said user, at least one recipient account information to be linked to each of said sub-accounts;
receiving from said user, a set of selectively repeating predefined rules corresponding to each of said sub-accounts, wherein said set of predefined rules comprising at least one of:
a funds allocation rule for allocating a portion of funds deposited in said primary account into each of said sub-accounts until the funds deposited in said primary account is fully allocated, and determining if allocated funds has hit the allocated target for each of said sub-accounts,
a payment transfer rule for transferring the allocated target funds in each of said sub-accounts to said recipient account based on at least one said determination, and a predetermined scheduled date, and
an authentication verification rule for verifying authentication of said user for selectively updating said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts.
11. The method of claim 10, wherein said step of receiving said registration information comprises the step of receiving user identification information.
12. The method of claim 10, wherein said primary account being configured to receive funds from one or more payment sources comprises at least one of a prepaid card, a debit card, a credit card, and a bank account.
13. The method of claim 10, wherein said primary account provided by said web server serve to automatically transfer funds into each of said sub accounts linked thereof based on said funds allocation rule.
14. The method of claim 10, wherein said determination, if allocated funds has hit the allocated target funds for each of said sub-accounts either (i) terminates further allocation of funds in each of said sub-accounts or (ii) repeats said funds allocation rule each time a funds is deposited in said primary account.
15. The method of claim 10, wherein said funds allocation rule further enables a terminating sub-account of said plurality of sub-accounts to transfer funds into one or more higher priority sub-accounts to ensure each of said higher priority sub-accounts hits the target allocated fund.
16. The method of claim 10, wherein said authentication verification rule, when implemented, performs the following operations: (i) transmitting a message comprising a randomly generated verification code to at least one of said registered user, and one or more users authorized to update said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts, (ii) receiving a response to said message from said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules, (iii) mapping the responses received from each of said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules for compliance with the authentication verification rule, and (iv) allowing said registered users and said authorized users to update said set of predefined rules on determining compliance.
17. A system, comprising:
a web server including a data processor, and a computer readable memory having computer readable instructions encoded therein that, when executed by said data processor, presents a plurality of visualizations for display on a computing device associated with a user;
one or more databases communicatively linked to said web server for storing a plurality of registration information received from said user;
wherein each of said visualizations depicting a method for distributing funds among a plurality of recipients, said method performing following operations:
assigning to said user, a primary account, and a plurality of sub-accounts communicatively linked with said primary account in a waterfall hierarchy,
receiving from said user, at least one recipient account information to be linked to each of said sub-accounts,
receiving from said user, a set of selectively repeating predefined rules corresponding to each of said sub-accounts, wherein said set of predefined rules includes at least one of:
a funds allocation rule for allocating a portion of funds deposited in said primary account into each of said sub-accounts until the funds deposited in said primary account are fully allocated, and determining if allocated funds has hit the allocated target for each of said sub-accounts,
a payment transfer rule for transferring the allocated target funds in each of said sub-accounts to said recipient account based on at least one said determination, and a predetermined scheduled date, and
an authentication verification rule for verifying authentication of said user for selectively updating said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts.
18. The system of claim 17, wherein said determination, if allocated funds has hit the target allocated for each of said sub-accounts, either (i) terminates further allocation of funds in each of said sub-accounts or (ii) repeats said funds allocation rule each time funds are deposited in said primary account.
19. The system of claim 17, wherein said funds allocation rule further enables a terminating sub-account of said plurality of sub-accounts to transfer funds into one or more higher priority sub-accounts to ensure each of higher priority sub-accounts hits the target allocated fund.
20. The system of claim 17, wherein said authentication verification rule when implemented performing following operations: (i) transmitting a message comprising a randomly generated verification code to at least one of said registered user, and one or more users authorized to update said set of predefined rules corresponding to each of the sub-accounts, (ii) receiving a response to said message from said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules, (iii) mapping the responses received from each of said registered users and said users authorized to update said set of predefined rules for compliance with the authentication verification rule, and (iv) allowing said registered users and said authorized users to update said set of predefined rules on determining compliance.