Author: claimsbot

What is claimed is:

1. While there is information available about expenditure of a nation equivalent to its revenue, about disbursement of businesses equivalent to their sales as shown in their statement of accounts, and about annual spending of an individual equivalent to its annual income, a method of establishing a system of a secondary market for disbursement information characterized in that said information about national expenditure and other various spending represents information about expected purchase or purchase plan information; said purchase plan information is quantified; its value is computed by fixing a common currency unit like yen; said information is swapped to bonds or warrants, or swapped to securities; said information is sold, bought or brokered at a secondary market provided for information; said information is brokered at auction under appropriate conditions of the auction to facilitate its distribution; and the value of said information is increased by using said information for operation in said market for better returns.
2. While there is information available about expenditure of a nation equivalent to its revenue, about disbursement of businesses equivalent to their sales as shown in their statement of accounts, and about annual spending of an individual equivalent to its annual income, a method of establishing a system of a secondary market for disbursement information characterized in that said information about national expenditure and other various spending represents information about expected purchase or purchase plan information; said purchase plan information is quantified; its value is computed by fixing a common currency unit like yen; said information is swapped to bonds or warrants, or swapped to securities and sold, bought or brokered online through internet; said information is sold, bought, or brokered at auction under appropriate conditions of the auction to facilitate its distribution; and the value of said information is increased by using said information for operation in said market for better returns.
3. While there is information available about expenditure of a nation equivalent to its revenue, about disbursement of businesses equivalent to their sales as shown in their statement of accounts, and about annual spending of an individual equivalent to its annual income, a method of establishing a system of a secondary market for disbursement information characterized in that said information about national expenditure and other various spending represents information about expected purchase or purchase plan information; said purchase plan information is quantified; its value is computed by fixing a common currency unit like yen; said information is swapped to bonds or warrants, or swapped to securities; said information is entrusted with information distribution systems, and sold, bought, brokered or used for operation through said system; said information bears interest; a bidder at auction who made a successful bid on said information under appropriate conditions of the auction is liable for payment; and the value of said information is increased by using said information for operation in said market for better returns.

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 system comprising:
one or more self-service transactional devices (SSTDs), each of the one or more self-service transactional devices including a repository to hold cash; and
one or more hardware processors;
a SSTD management module configured to:
receive, using the one or more hardware processors, cash flow data associated with the one or more SSTDs;
receive cash holding cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs;
receive cash service cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs; and
calculate an optimal cash reset value and associated interval between service calls based on the cash flow data, the cash holding cost data, and the cash service cost data, the cash reset value being the amount of cash left in each of the one or more SSTDs after a service call.
2. The system of claim 1, wherein the cash flow data includes cash demand data over a predetermined period of time.
3. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing devices that do not accept cash deposits.
4. The system of claim 2, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing and cash depositing devices that both dispense cash and accept cash deposits, and wherein the cash flow data further includes cash receipt demand data over the predetermined period of time.
5. The system of claim 4, wherein the repository of each of the SSTDs separating cash to dispense from cash received from deposits, the cash received from deposits being unavailable to dispense, the cash from deposits considered in the cash holding cost data.
6. The system of claim 4, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing and cash depositing devices, cash received from deposits being available to dispense, wherein the cash flow data further includes cash receipt demand data over the predetermined period of time, and wherein the cash receipt demand data attenuates the cash demand data to the extent that the cash received replaces cash dispensed.
7. The system of claim 1, wherein the cash flow data includes data on each denomination of cash capable of being dispensed in the one or more SSTDs.
8. The system of claim 3, wherein the optimal cash reset value is equal
to
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(
2
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)
;
wherein K is a service call cost, D is cash demand, and H is holding cost expressed as a percentage of the cash in the repository of each of the one or more SSTDs;
wherein the associated interval between service calls is equal to
n
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Q
*

D
;
and
wherein Q* is the optimal cash reset value, and n the predetermined time expressed in subunits of the predetermined time.
9. The system of claim 1, wherein the one or more SSTDs are communicatively coupled to the SSTD management module and configured to report cash flow data in response to an event.
10. The system of claim 9, wherein the event is at least one of receiving a report request, arrival of a predetermined reporting period, the repository has filled, or the repository has emptied.
11. In a system having one or more self-service transactional devices (SSTDs) each including a repository to hold cash, a method comprising:
receiving, using one or more hardware processors, cash flow data associated with the one or more SSTDs;
receiving cash holding cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs;
receiving cash service cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs; and
calculating an optimal cash reset value and associated interval between service calls based on the cash flow data, the cash holding cost data, and the cash service cost data, the cash reset value being the amount of cash left in each of the one or more SSTDs after a service call.
12. The method of claim 11, wherein the cash flow data includes cash demand data over a predetermined period of time.
13. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing devices that do not accept cash deposits.
14. The method of claim 12, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing and cash depositing devices that both dispense cash and accept cash deposits, and wherein the cash flow data further includes cash receipt demand data over the predetermined period of time.
15. The method of claim 14, wherein the repository of each of the SSTDs separating cash to dispense from cash received from deposits, the cash received from deposits being unavailable to dispense, the cash from deposits considered in the cash holding cost data.
16. The method of claim 14, wherein the one or more SSTDs are cash dispensing and cash depositing devices, cash received from deposits being available to dispense, wherein the cash flow data further includes cash receipt demand data over the predetermined period of time, and wherein the cash receipt demand data attenuates the cash demand data to the extent that the cash received replaces cash dispensed.
17. The method of claim 11, wherein the cash flow data includes data on each denomination of cash capable of being dispensed in the one or more SSTDs.
18. The method of claim 13, wherein the optimal cash reset value is equal to
(
2
\ue89e
KD

H

)
;
wherein K is a service call cost, D is cash demand, and H is holding cost expressed as a percentage of the cash in the repository of each of the one or more SSTDs;
wherein the associated interval between service calls is equal to
n
\ue89e
Q
*

D
;
and
wherein Q* is the optimal cash reset value, and n the predetermined time expressed in subunits of the predetermined time.
19. The method of claim 11, wherein to receive cash flow data includes reporting, by each of the SSTDs, cash flow data in response to an event.
20. The method of claim 19, wherein the event is at least one of receiving a report request, arrival of a predetermined reporting period, the repository has filled, or the repository emptied.
21. A non-transitory computer readable medium containing instructions that, when executed by one or more hardware processors, cause a machine to perform a method, the method comprising:
receiving, using one or more hardware processors, cash flow data associated with one or more self-service transactional devices (SSTDs);
receiving cash holding cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs;
receiving cash service cost data associated with the one or more SSTDs; and
calculating an optimal cash reset value and associated interval between service calls based on the cash flow data, the cash holding cost data, and the cash service cost data, the cash reset value being the amount of cash left in each of the one or more SSTDs after a service call.

1. A method for poultry farm to do business comprising the steps of:
(A) placing clean litter on the floor of a poultry house;
(B) raising a first plurality of birds in the poultry house, during which the birds defecate on the litter, thereby soiling the litter;
(C) removing the first plurality of birds from the poultry house;
(D) removing substantially all of the soiled litter from the poultry house;
(E) processing the soiled litter on-site at the poultry farm by compressing the soiled litter and heating the soiled litter to at least a predetermined temperature;
(F) placing the processed litter on the floor of at least one poultry house on the poultry farm at a time when the processed litter is still warmer than the at least one poultry house; and
(G) introducing at least a second plurality of birds into the at least one poultry house no later than two days after the processed litter has been placed therein and thereafter raising the second plurality of birds in the at least one poultry house.
2. The method of doing business of claim 1 wherein step (E) comprises the step of running the soiled litter through a screw-type extruder.
3. The method of doing business of claim 1 wherein the predetermined temperature is sufficient to kill bacteria and insects in the animal waste.
4. The method of doing business of claim 1 wherein the predetermined temperature is 132\xb0 C.
5. The method of doing business of claim 1 wherein the predetermined temperature is 145\xb0 C.
6. The method of doing business of claim 1 wherein the predetermined temperature is 160\xb0 C.
7. A method for poultry farm to do business comprising the steps of:
(A) placing clean litter on the floor of a poultry house;
(B) raising a first plurality of birds in the poultry house, during which the birds defecate on the litter, thereby soiling the litter;
(C) removing the first plurality of birds from the poultry house;
(D) removing substantially all of the soiled litter from the poultry house;
(E) processing the soiled litter by heating the soiled litter to at least a predetermined temperature;
(F) placing the processed litter on the floor of at least one poultry house; and
(G) introducing at least a second plurality of birds in the at least one poultry house no later than two days after the processed litter has been placed therein and thereafter raising the second plurality of birds in the at least one poultry house.
8. The method of doing business of claim 7 wherein the step of processing the soiled litter further comprises the step of compressing the soiled litter.
9. The method of doing business of claim 8 wherein step (F) comprises the step of running the soiled litter through a screw-type extruder.

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. An optical module package that optically couples an optical device and an optical fiber, the optical module package comprising:
a first surface on which an optical plug that supports one end of the optical fiber is mounted, the first surface extending in the direction of an optical axis of the optical fiber;
a second surface disposed along the optical axis and facing the optical fiber, that intersects the first surface at an angle less than 90 degrees;
a reflection lens formed in the second surface;
an opening section that is located at a position opposing to the second surface, and between the reflection lens and the optical device such that an optical path is secured between the reflection lens and the optical device, and
a storage section for storing the optical device at a position corresponding to the opening section, and a storage section for storing an IC chip that is connected to the optical device at a back surface of the first surface.
2. An optical module package according to claim 1, being composed of resin.
3. An optical module package according to claim 2, wherein the resin includes filler.
4. An optical module package according to claim 1, wherein the reflection lens is composed of a concave section formed in the second surface.
5. An optical module package according to claim 4, wherein the concave section is composed of a paraboloid.
6. An optical module package according to claim 1, further comprising a storage section for storing the optical device at a position corresponding to the opening section.
7. An optical module comprising the optical module package recited in claim 1.
8. An optical module that is disposed on a substrate, the optical module comprising:
an optical plug that supports one end of an optical fiber;
a package including:
a first surface on which the optical plug is mounted, the first surface extending in the direction of an optical axis of the optical fiber;
a second surface disposed along the optical axis and facing the optical fiber, that intersects the first surface at an angle less than 90 degrees;
a reflection lens formed in the second surface; and
an opening section that is located at a position opposing to the second surface;

an optical device optically coupled to the second surface through the opening section;
an IC chip disposed at a back surface of the first surface; and
a ceramic package having a first storage section for storing the optical device and a second storage section for storing the IC chip, wherein the ceramic package is disposed with the first storage section corresponding to a back surface of the first surface, and the second storage section corresponding to the opening section.
9. An optical module according to claim 8, further comprising an optically transparent member that covers the second storage section.
10. An optical module according to claim 8, wherein the optical plug has a focusing lens on an optical path for optically coupling the optical device with an optical fiber, and the focusing lens is larger than a projection area of the reflection lens at a disposing plane where the focusing lens is disposed.