Author: claimsbot

1. A packaging system, comprising:
a container which delimits a container volume for holding at least one unit-measure of a selected commodity, and includes at least one access portion that can provide a selective closed arrangement and a selective open arrangement;
an electronic data mechanism, which is operatively connected to the container, and configured to electronically transpond data to a reader mechanism;
a deactivation mechanism, which is operatively connected to the container and electronic data mechanism, and is operatively configured to selectively disable the electronic data mechanism.
2. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the deactivation mechanism is configured to manually disable the electronic data mechanism.
3. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the electronic data mechanism is a RFID tag.
4. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one access portion includes an access flap.
5. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one access portion includes an access lid.
6. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the at least one access portion includes a screw-on, access lid.
7. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the electronic data mechanism is a RFID tag which includes a data memory portion and an antenna portion.
8. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein
the electronic data mechanism is a RFID tag, which includes a data memory portion operatively connected to an antenna portion;
the deactivation mechanism is configured to selectively disconnect the data memory portion from the antenna portion.
9. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, further including a reactivation mechanism which is configured to selectively re-enable the electronic data mechanism.
10. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, further including a reactivation mechanism which is configured to selectively re-enable the electronic data mechanism;
wherein
the electronic data mechanism includes a data memory portion operatively connected to an antenna portion;
the deactivation mechanism is configured to selectively disconnect the data memory portion from the antenna portion;
the reactivation mechanism is configured to selectively reconnect the data memory portion to the antenna portion in an operative configuration.
11. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, further including a reactivation mechanism which is configured to selectively re-enable the electronic data mechanism;
wherein
the electronic data mechanism is a RFID tag, which includes a data memory portion operatively connected to an antenna portion;
the deactivation mechanism is configured to selectively disconnect the data memory portion from the antenna portion;
the reactivation mechanism is configured to selectively reconnect the data memory portion to the antenna portion with an operative mechanical connection.
12. A packaging system as recited in claim 10, wherein the reader mechanism is operatively connected to a first counter which records a number of times that the deactivation mechanism is operated.
13. A packaging system as recited in claim 11, wherein reader mechanism is further, operatively connected to a timer which provides for a determination of a number of times that the deactivation mechanism is operated during a predetermined time period.
14. A packaging system as recited in claim 12, wherein the first counter is an electronic counter, and the timer is an electronic timer.
15. A packaging system as recited in claim 10, wherein the reader mechanism is operatively connected to a second counter which records a number of times that the reactivation mechanism is operated.
16. A packaging system as recited in claim 10, wherein the reader mechanism is operatively connected to a first counter which records a number of times that the deactivation mechanism is operated, and a second counter which records a number of times that the reactivation mechanism is operated.
17. A packaging system as recited in claim 10, wherein the data memory portion of the electronic data mechanism is operatively connected to the access portion of the container, and the antenna portion of the electronic data mechanism is operatively connected to a section of the container that is spaced from the access portion.
18. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, wherein the antenna portion of the electronic data mechanism is operatively connected to the access portion of the container, and the data memory portion of the electronic data mechanism is operatively connected to a section of the container that is spaced from the access portion.
19. A packaging system as recited in claim 1, further including a reactivation mechanism which is configured to selectively re-enable the electronic data mechanism;
wherein
the electronic data mechanism includes a data memory portion operatively connected to an antenna portion;
the deactivation mechanism is configured to manually disconnect the data memory portion from the antenna portion;
the reactivation mechanism is configured to manually reconnect the data memory portion to the antenna portion.
20. A packaging system as recited in claim 19, wherein
the reader mechanism is operatively connected to a first electronic counter which records a number of times that the deactivation mechanism is operated; and a second electronic timer which provides for a determination of a number of times that the reactivation mechanism is operated during a predetermined time period.

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 accessing in reading, programming, or erasing phases to a semiconductor-integrated non volatile memory device of the Flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture having at least one memory matrix organized in rows or word lines and columns or bit lines, and providing, for the memory, a plurality of additional address pins and providing both an access protocol of the asynchronous type and a protocol of the extended type, the method comprising:
addressing, directly and in parallel, a memory extended portion by loading an address register associated with said additional pins in two successive clock pulses.
2. The method of claim 1, comprising reading of a datum or of a group of cells at a speed dependant on the region wherein the cells are placed.
3. The method of claim 1 wherein a third multisequential access protocol is provided by means of a multiplexing operation.
4. The method of claim 3 wherein said third protocol provides the selection of a control pin of the memory device to force a latching operation of the memory addresses by means of output pins of the same device.
5. The method of claim 1 wherein loading an address register comprises loading of a page_buffer having identical size as those of a memory of the conventional NAND type.
6. The method of claim 3 wherein an additional parallel bus is provided referring to said additional address pins to allow a double parallel and multi-sequential addressing mode.
7. The method of claim 6 wherein the passage from a sequential or in parallel access mode is controlled by the logic value applied on a control pin.
8. The method of claim 6, comprising providing sixteen pins and sixteen additional buses.
9. The method of claim 1 wherein the reading speed is dependent on the signal from the page_buffer in the array and is fast if inside the read page_buffer, and will be slower if dependant on the selected region if outside.
10. The method of claim 1, comprising updating of an address vector in one of three modes: asynchronous, extended, or multi-sequential.
11. The method of claim 7 wherein an update of the less significant portion of the address vector occurs in the asynchronous mode as a result of the configuration of an additional bus simultaneously with the enable signal on said pin.
12. The method of claim 11 wherein asynchronous update can occur also in the form of a pulse on said pin at the beginning of each read cycle.
13. The method of claim 12 wherein said asynchronous update at the beginning of the reading cycle enables arranging on said additional parallel address bus the address configuration of another source of the system during a generic reading cycle.
14. The method of claim 7 wherein the update both of the less significant part and of the mean part of the address vector occurs in the extended mode as a result of the configuration of said additional bus simultaneously with the enable signal on said pin and with the activation of the writing command.
15. The method of claim 14 wherein in the extended mode the content of said additional parallel bus is the mean part of the address vector, and it is sampled on the rise edge of said writing control command.
16. The method of claim 15 wherein in the extended mode the update of the vector mean part is of the Synchronous type.
17. The method of claim 16 wherein in the extended mode the successive configuration of said additional parallel bus configures, in the asynchronous mode, the less significant part of the address vector.
18. The method of claim 7 wherein in the multi-sequential mode the content of said additional parallel bus contains the mean part of the address vector while the content of the original NAND IO bus completes the most significant part of the same address vector.
19. The method of claim 18 wherein said multi-sequential mode is activated as result of the configuration of said additional parallel bus, of said IO bus, as well as of the activation of said pin and of the simultaneous activation of a latching command on said corresponding pin and of the writing command.
20. The method of claim 19 wherein the content of the additional parallel bus and of the IO bus are sampled on the rising edge of said writing command.
21. The method of claim 19 wherein the simultaneous update of the mean part and of the most significant part of the address vector is of the synchronous type.
22. A method for accessing a semiconductor integrated non-volatile memory device of the flash EEPROM type with a NAND architecture having at least one memory matrix with a memory extended portion and a plurality of address pins associated therewith, the method comprising:
accessing the memory matrix utilizing an access protocol of the asynchronous type and using a protocol of the extended type to address, directly and in parallel, the memory extended portion by loading an address register associated with the address pins in two successive clock pulses.
23. The method of claim 22, comprising accessing the memory matrix with a multi-sequential access mode.
24. The method of claim 23 wherein the memory matrix is organized into at least first and second submatrices with bit lines coupled by a switch device between the first and second submatrices, and with the first submatrix having a faster speed of operation and higher capacity bit lines than the second submatrix, the method further comprising accessing code in the first submatrix and accessing data in the second submatrix.
25. The method of claim 24 wherein the switch device is placed in an OFF condition when accessing code in the first submatrix.

1. System comprising:
an optical element (102) for generating a periodic array of light spots (103) intended to be applied to an information carrier (101),
said information carrier (101) comprising a first periodic structure (108) being intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots (103) for generating a first moir\xe9 pattern, and a second periodic structure (109) being intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots (103) for generating a second moir\xe9 pattern, said second periodic structure (109) being placed perpendicularly to said first periodic structure (108),
first analysis means (118) for deriving from said first and second moir\xe9 patterns, the spatial position (x,y) between said periodic array of light spots (103) and said information carrier (101),
first actuation means (AC1-AC2) for adjusting the spatial position of said information carrier (101) with respect to said array of light spots (103), based on control signals (122) derived from said spatial position (x,y).
2. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information carrier also comprises a third periodic structure (112) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots (103) for generating a third moir\xe9 pattern, said third periodic structure (112) being placed parallel and opposite to said first periodic structure (108), said system also comprising
second analysis means (119) for deriving from said first and third moir\xe9 patterns, the angle value (\u03b8) between said periodic array of light spots (103) and said information carrier (101),
second actuation means (AC3-AC4-AC5) for adjusting the angular position of said information carrier (101) with respect to said array of light spots (103), based on control signals (123) derived from said angle value (\u03b8).
3. System as claimed in claim 1, wherein said information carrier also comprises a third periodic structure (112) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots (103) for generating a third moir\xe9 pattern, and a fourth periodic structure (114) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots (103) for generating a fourth moir\xe9 pattern, said third periodic structure (112) being placed parallel and opposite to said first periodic structure (108), and said fourth periodic structure (114) being placed parallel and opposite to said second periodic structure (109), said system also comprising:
second analysis means (119) for deriving from said first and third moir\xe9 patterns, and from said second and fourth moir\xe9 patterns, the angle value (\u03b8) between said periodic array of light spots (103) and said information carrier (101),
second actuation means (AC3-AC4-AC5) for adjusting the angular position of said information carrier (101) with respect to said array of light spots (103), based on control signals (123) derived from said angle value (\u03b8).
4. System as claimed in claim 2, also comprising:
third analysis means (120) for deriving a measure of the period(s) of said first, second, third or fourth periodic structure (108, 109, 112, 114), from the period (p) of said periodic array of light spots (103), said angle value (\u03b8), and the angle (\u03c6) between said first, second, third or fourth periodic structure (108, 109, 112, 114), and said first, second, third or fourth moir\xe9 pattern,
third actuation means (PF) for adjusting the period of said first, second, third or fourth periodic structure (108, 109, 112, 114), based on control signals (124) derived from the measure of said period(s).
5. System as claimed in claim 1, also comprising:
fourth analysis means (121) for deriving a contrast value of at least one of said first, second, third or fourth moir\xe9 pattern,
fourth actuation means (AC6) for adjusting the distance between said information carrier (101) and said array of light spots (103), based on control signals (125) derived from said contrast value.
6. Information carrier (101) intended to be read andor written by a periodic array of light spots, said information carrier (101) comprising:
a data area (105) defined by a set of elementary data areas,
a first periodic structure (108) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a first moir\xe9 pattern,
a second periodic structure (109) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a second moir\xe9 pattern, said second periodic structure (109) being arranged perpendicularly to said first periodic structure (108).
7. Information carrier as claimed in claim 6, wherein said first and second periodic structures (108, 109) are placed on the periphery of said data area (105), or arranged according to a cross inside said data area (105).
8. Information carrier (101) intended to be read andor written by a periodic array of light spots, said information carrier (101) comprising:
a data area (105) defined by a set of elementary data areas,
a first periodic structure (108) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a first moir\xe9 pattern, said first periodic structure (108) being placed on the periphery of said data area (105),
a second periodic structure (109) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a second moir\xe9 pattern, said second periodic structure (109) being placed on the periphery of said data area (105) and arranged perpendicularly to said first periodic structure (108),
a third periodic structure (112) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a third moir\xe9 pattern, said third periodic structure (112) being identical with said first periodic structure (108), placed on the periphery of said data area (105) and arranged parallel and opposite to said first periodic structure (108).
9. Information carrier as claimed in claim 8, further comprising a fourth periodic structure (114) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a fourth moir\xe9 pattern, said fourth periodic structure (114) being identical with said second periodic structure (109), placed on the periphery of said data area (105) and arranged parallel and opposite to said second periodic structure (109).
10. Information carrier (101) intended to be read andor written by a periodic array of light spots, said information carrier (101) comprising:
a data area (105) defined by a set of elementary data areas,
a two-dimensional periodic structure (TD) intended to interfere with said periodic array of light spots for generating a moir\xe9 pattern, said two-dimensional periodic structure (TD) being intermingled with said elementary data areas.
11. Information carrier as claimed in claim 10, wherein said two-dimensional periodic structure (TD) defines a grid.
12. Information carrier as claimed in claim 6, further comprising a transparent layer (PF) made of a polymer film, the size of said transparent layer (PF) being controllable by a voltage (V).
13. Apparatus for reading andor writing data on an information carrier, said apparatus comprising a system as claimed in claim 1.

The claims below are in addition to those above.
All refrences to claim(s) which appear below refer to the numbering after this setence.

What is claimed is:

1. A mobile communication system comprising:
a determination unit configured to determine as to layers of data to be transmitted by base stations to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base stations; and
a radio transmitter configured to transmit the data to the mobile stations according to a determination of the determination unit.
2. A radio network controller comprising:
a determination unit configured to determine as to layers of data to be transmitted by base stations to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base stations; and
a data transmitter configured to transmit the data to the base stations according to a determination of the determination unit.
3. The radio network controller of claim 2, wherein
the determination unit determines the layers from among the data being layered, and
the data transmitter transmits the data of the layers determined by the determination unit.
4. The radio network controller of claim 2, wherein
the determination unit determines layering methods for layering the data, further comprising:
a layered data converter configured to layer the data for the respective radio areas using the layering methods determined by the determination unit, wherein
the data transmitter transmits the data layered by the converter.
5. The radio network controller of claim 2, further comprising:
a resource information receiver configured to receive the area resource information from the base stations,
the determination unit determines based on the area resource information received by the resource information receiver.
6. A base station comprising:
a determination unit configured to determine as to layers of data to be transmitted to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base station; and
a radio transmitter configured to transmit the data to the mobile stations according to a determination of the determination unit.
7. The base station of claim 6, wherein
the determination unit determines the layers from among the data being layered, and
the radio transmitter transmits the data of the layers determined by the determination unit.
8. The base station of claim 6, wherein
the determination unit determines layering methods for layering the data, further comprising:
a layered data converter configured to layer the data for the respective radio areas using the layering methods determined by the determination unit, wherein
the radio transmitter transmits the data layered by the converter.
9. The base station of claim 6, further comprising:
a resource information collection unit configured to collect the area resource information, wherein
the determination unit determines based on the area resource information collected by the resource information collection unit.
10. A base station comprising:
a notification unit configured to notify a radio network controller of area resource information concerning radio resources for respective radio areas covered by the base station;
a data receiver configured to receive data being layered for the respective radio areas transmitted from the radio network controller based on the area resource information notified by the notification unit; and
a radio transmitter configured to transmit the data received by the data receiver to mobile stations for the respective radio areas.
11. The base station of claim 10, further comprising:
a resource information collection unit configured to collect the area resource information, wherein
the notification unit notifies of the area resource information collected by the resource information collection unit.
12. A communication method comprising:
determining as to layers of data to be transmitted by base stations to mobile stations for respective radio areas, based on area resource information concerning radio resources for the respective radio areas covered by the base stations; and
transmitting the data to the mobile stations according to a determination.