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1. GSMA_153_WP510_001: Mobile NFC Services DRAFT – 0.8 11th January 2007 Security Classification Category (see next page) Restricted Members Restricted Associate Members Unrestricted Public Release X
Mobile NFC Services Restricted Information Access to and distribution of this document is restricted to the persons listed under the heading Security Classification Category. This document is confidential to the Association and is subject to copyright protection. This document is to be used only for the purposes for which it has been supplied and information contained in it must not be disclosed or in any other way made available, in whole or in part, to persons other than those listed under Security Classification Category without the prior written approval of the Association. The GSM Association ("Association") makes no representation, warranty or undertaking (express or implied) with respect to and does not accept any responsibility for, and hereby disclaims liability for the accuracy or completeness or timeliness of the information contained in this document. The information contained in this document may be subject to change without prior notice. Copyright Notice Copyright © 2007 GSM Association GSM and the GSM logo are the registered property of the GSM Association. Document History Version Date Brief Description 0.1 21-Nov-2006 First draft for review 0.2 23-Nov-2006 Incorporating NFC project team review comments 0.3 06-Dec-2006 Incorporating further NFC project team review comments Incorporating review comments received from Vodafone and 0.4 11-Dec-2006 Bouygues Telecom 0.5 15-Dec-2006 Incorporating review in conf call of 15th December Incorporating review comments during the Face-to-Face meeting 0.6 03-Jan-2007 in Dusseldorf 0.7 08-Jan-2007 Updated to include comments during conference call 0.8 11-Jan-2007 Finalised document at NFC Workshop #3 in London. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 2/17
Mobile NFC Services TABLE OF CONTENTS 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY............................................................................................................... 4 2 INTRODUCTION ............................................................................................................................ 6 3 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT ................................................................................................ 6 4 THE CUSTOMER VISION FOR MOBILE NFC........................................................................... 7 5 PROJECT DEFINITION ................................................................................................................ 8 5.1 GSMA ...................................................................................................................................... 8 5.2 STAKEHOLDERS ........................................................................................................................ 8 5.3 APPROACH................................................................................................................................ 8 5.4 DELIVERABLES.......................................................................................................................... 8 6 NFC ECOSYSTEM KEY FINDINGS ...........................................................................................10 6.1 MOBILE NFC ECOSYSTEM ENTITIES .......................................................................................10 6.2 KEY FINDING #1: THE ROLE OF THE TRUSTED SERVICE MANAGER ........................................11 6.3 KEY FINDING #2: THE UICC AS THE MOST APPROPRIATE NFC SECURE ELEMENT (SE) FOR THE MOBILE PHONE ............................................................................................................................13 6.4 KEY FINDING #3: INTER-OPERABILITY, BACKWARDS COMPATIBILITY AND STANDARDISATION ARE ESSENTIAL....................................................................................................................................15 7 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS..........................................................................................16 7.1 NEXT STEPS ............................................................................................................................16 8 ACRONYMS ..................................................................................................................................17 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 3/17
Mobile NFC Services 1 EXECUTIVE SUMMARY "Contactless technology" is a term defined by the Smart Card industry. It applies to short- distance communications between two devices that are not physically connected. This permits a range of contactless services to be developed. Many different variations of "Contactless technology" exist today. Of most interest to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) is Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. NFC is designed to operate over very short distances, typically less than 4 cm and provides a fast, simple and secure means for the user to experience a range of new contactless services with their mobile phone. Mobile NFC is a combination of Contactless services with mobile telephony based on NFC technology. Several customer trials have confirmed that the mobile phone is the preferred form factor for contactless services. The demand for this new range of contactless services is applicable across all user and market segments. Furthermore, customers want to keep the same ease of use, "look & feel", security and confidence as experienced with existing mobile services Nineteen of the largest MNOs have been working together, in a GSM Association (GSMA) initiative, to develop a common vision on Mobile NFC services, promoting the development of a stable and efficient ecosystem and to prevent market fragmentation. In this GSMA initiative, MNOs have analysed several key mobile NFC services and performed use case analyses, ecosystem analyses and have derived key business requirements that need to be factored in to the emerging standards, currently under development by various Standardisation Bodies, including the European Telecommunications Standards Institute-Smart Card Platform (ETSI-SCP) and the NFC Forum. The key findings are as follows: 1. Mobile NFC will be successful provided that the mobile NFC ecosystem: A. Is steady, providing value for all entities within it B. Is efficient, by introducing a new role of the Trusted Service Manager 2 MNOs promote and recommend the UICC as the most appropriate NFC Secure Element (SE) in mobile phones, offering many unique advantages for the customer, including: universal deployment, portability, remote management, standards based solution and a long operational lifecycle. 3 Inter-operability, backwards compatibility and hence standardisation are essential to provide convenient and cost-effective mobile NFC services. The purpose of this document is to provide input to the various entities involved in the NFC ecosystem, such as: Service Providers, Trusted Service Managers, handset manufacturers, chipset manufacturers, UICC makers, contactless reader manufacturers and standardisation bodies, including fora such as ETSI-SCP and the NFC Forum. MNOs are an integral part in the realisation of mobile NFC services on a global scale. Cooperation between MNOs and all other ecosystem entities (e.g. Service Providers, Trusted Services Managers and manufacturers etc) will be essential for the success of mobile NFC. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 4/17
Mobile NFC Services Next Steps in this initiative are: 1. Validate key findings with industry players (starting Q1 2007) 2. Deliver a Mobile NFC Technical Guidelines White Paper (Q2 2007) 3. Liaison with Standardisation Bodies and Industry fora (starting Q1 2007) 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 5/17
Mobile NFC Services 2 INTRODUCTION "Contactless technology" is the term applied to short-distance communications between two devices that are not physically connected. Such devices can communicate peer-to-peer or on a client-server basis and typically embody a smart card (chip with processing capability) and short- range radio frequency technology. Several varieties of "Contactless technology" exist today. Of most interest to Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) and to third party Service Providers is Near Field Communication (NFC) technology. NFC is designed to operate over very short distances, typically less than 4 cm and is foreseen as a strong enabler to meet new customer needs and drive value added business models. NFC provides an intuitive and easy method for users to access services, as demonstrated by the rapid deployment of contactless public transport systems globally with many users. NFC has also been identified as a key sector for payment solutions with Amex, Mastercard and Visa actively driving forward contactless payment. Mobile NFC is defined as the combination of contactless services with mobile telephony, based on NFC technology. The mobile phone with a hardware-based secure identity token (the UICC) can provide the ideal environment for NFC applications. The UICC can replace the physical card thus optimising costs for the Service Provider, and offering users a more convenient service. Strategy Analytics forecasts that mobile phone based contactless payments will facilitate over $36 billion of worldwide consumer spending by 2011. 3 PURPOSE OF THE DOCUMENT Nineteen of the worlds largest MNOs, have been working together, in a GSMA initiative, to create and define a global approach to enable NFC services on mobile phones. This initiative will serve to answer key customer requirements for new NFC services on mobile phones. Furthermore, it aims to provide a common MNO viewpoint, which is key to enable the development of a new market and to prevent market fragmentation. The purpose of this document is to: • Share the MNO view on the mobile NFC market opportunities and the requirements, which need to be fulfilled to make it a success on a global scale. • Provide mobile NFC business requirements from a customer viewpoint. • Define the mobile NFC ecosystem and the potential roles of the different entities. • Promote the development of mobile NFC technology that supports interoperability via standardisation. This document is intended to provide input to the various entities involved in the NFC ecosystem, such as: Service Providers, Trusted Service Managers, handset manufacturers, chipset manufacturers, SIM makers, contactless reader manufacturers and standardisation bodies, including fora such as ETSI-SCP and the NFC Forum. MNOs understand the need for cooperation with the above entities in order to enable mobile NFC services to become a business reality on a global scale. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 6/17
Mobile NFC Services 4 THE CUSTOMER VISION FOR MOBILE NFC Customer feedback from usage of contactless services in Japan and trials and surveys conducted throughout the world show that there is a strong desire for mobile users to enhance the capabilities of their mobile phone to perform more than just voice/multi-media communication. Several trials throughout Europe show early signs of success and rapid customer take-up, for example: • Germany (Frankfurt/Hanau) – Including: Vodafone, Rhein-Main-Verkehrsverbund (RMV), Nokia and Philips Semiconductors – public transport ticketing trial - end 2005 to end 2006 • France (Caen) – Including: Orange, Cofinoga, Vinci and Fly Tag - M-Payment, car park subscription and tag reading services trial - From Q3 2005 to Q2 2006 • France (Paris) – Including: Bouygues Telecom, RATP, NEC, Inside Contactless, Gemalto – public transport ticketing trial Q3 2006 to Q1 2007 • Netherlands (Kerkrade) – Including: KPN, Roda JC – stadium access/ticketing mobile payment trial – Q3-2005 to Q1 2006 • Netherlands (Amsterdam) – Including: KPN, JCB, Nokia – mobile payment trial – Q4 2006 to Q1 2007 • Finland (Tampere) – Including: TeliaSonera, City of Tampere, Nokia – public transportation ticketing trial – Q2-Q3 2006. These trials have concluded that there is great demand and anticipation of the customer to receive a wide range of contactless services all housed in their mobile phone. Customers see the benefits of mobile contactless services and are quick to adopt them. The demand for this new range of contactless services is applicable across all user and market segments. Furthermore, customers want to keep the same "look and feel" as experienced with existing mobile services, while preserving: • Ease of use • Security and confidence • Customer care Mobile NFC is set to revolutionise the way customers use their mobile phone. This is analogous to the take-up of SMS a few years ago. Mobile NFC will take the user experience in to new sensory areas such as "touch". Currently, the customer's daily life routines are enabled by an ever increasing plethora of cards, keys, tickets and cash. Having the possibility to house all of them in one's mobile device will bring greater convenience to the customer. Customers have confirmed that the mobile phone is the preferred form factor for contactless services. This has sparked remarkable industry-wide interest in the creation of a new mobile NFC ecosystem, which will involve more players and hence new roles will appear. The participation of the MNO in the value chain is logical in order to meet customer expectations. Mobile network operators have established a strong and long-term relationship with the customer, and have several services in place, which are required to make mobile NFC a success. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 7/17
Mobile NFC Services 5 PROJECT DEFINITION 5.1 GSMA The GSMA is the global trade association representing over 700 GSM mobile phone operators across 215 countries of the world. The primary goals of the GSMA are to ensure mobile and wireless services work globally and are easily accessible, enhancing their value to individual customers and national economies, while creating new business opportunities for operators and their suppliers. Hence the GSMA provides the ideal forum to represent the MNO community for the purposes of defining mobile NFC services. MNO collaboration in this area ensures a consistent approach in the development of mobile NFC services among mobile operators and other involved parties in the industry and hence promotes interoperability, leading to standardisation on a global scale and prevents market fragmentation. 5.2 Stakeholders Nineteen of the largest MNOs are working together to develop a common vision on mobile NFC services, promoting MNO's capabilities and value add for the mobile NFC ecosystem. The MNOs involved in this mobile NFC initiative are: Bouygues Telecom, China Mobile, Cingular Wireless, Elisa, KPN, KTF, Mobilkom Austria, NTT DoCoMo Inc., Orange, Rogers, SFR, SKTelecom, Telefonica Móviles España, Telenor Mobile, TeliaSonera, Telecom Italia Mobile, TMN, Vodafone and 3. They represent about 45% of the worldwide GSM market, which addresses over 800 million customers. 5.3 Approach The following approach has been adopted in this project: 1. Analyse the key mobile NFC use cases 2. Analyse the mobile NFC ecosystem and perform an end-to-end value chain analysis 3. Analyse the MNO's role within this ecosystem 4. Extract the mobile NFC business requirements needed to make mobile NFC a success and deliver value to all entities in the value chain 5. Assess the impact of the business requirements to the current NFC standards Several Work Packages (WPs) have been defined in this project. These are summarised below: • Mobile NFC Use Case Analysis and Business Requirements • Architecture Definition UICC-NFC Chip • Architecture Definition Handset-Reader • Architecture Definition Multi-Application Framework • Architecture Definition UICC run-time environment • Architecture Definition OTA provisioning 5.4 Deliverables The project started in early September 2006 and aims to deliver several outputs in early 2007. The deliverables from this project are a series of White Papers, which are: • An Ecosystem White Paper derived from the NFC Ecosystem analysis and related Business Requirements, - this document; 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 8/17
Mobile NFC Services • A Technical Guidelines White Paper including the architectural vision of the MNOs for a Mobile NFC Solution The following mobile NFC Use Cases were analysed: • Mobile Ticketing – for example to access public transport systems • Mobile Payment – for example for credit/debit/pre-paid stored value card payments at merchants/retail stores • Physical Access – for example to control access to home or office • Logical Access – for example to control access to a computer network • Loyalty Application – for example to award loyalty points at a supermarket or hotel • Health Care Application – for example storage of medical information for use in emergencies • Digital Rights Management – for example to allow controlled exchange of purchased music or multi-media data • Automotive Application – for example to control access to a car • Smart Advertisement Application – for example to access information from a smart poster at a bus stop The output of the analysis was a set of generic and specific business requirements. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 9/17
Mobile NFC Services 6 NFC ECOSYSTEM KEY FINDINGS This section presents the key findings of the work conducted by MNOs regarding the Mobile NFC ecosystem. It describes the MNO vision regarding mobile NFC and how to make it a market success. 6.1 Mobile NFC Ecosystem Entities Figure 1: Mobile NFC Ecosystem Entities Figure 1 shows different entities that are considered to be involved in the Mobile NFC ecosystem. These are defined below: • Customer – uses the mobile device for mobile communications and mobile NFC services. The customer subscribes to an MNO and uses mobile NFC services. • MNO – provides the full range mobile services to the Customer • Service Provider – provides contactless services to the Customer (e.g. Banks, Public Transport companies, Loyalty programs owners etc). • Retailer/Merchant – not shown in figure as it is service dependent. • Trusted Service Manager (TSM) – securely distributes and manages the Service Providers services to the MNO customer base. • Handset, NFC Chipset and UICC Manufacturer – produce Mobile NFC/Communication devices and the associated UICC hardware. • Reader Manufacturer – produces NFC reader devices. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 10/17
Mobile NFC Services • Application developer – designs and develops the mobile NFC applications. • Standardisation Bodies and Industry Fora – develop a global standard for NFC, enabling interoperability, backward compatibility and future development of NFC applications and services. The following factors will influence the shape of the mobile NFC ecosystem and the roles of the players: • Customers expect convenient, friendly and secure services, within a trusted environment. • Service Providers want their applications to be housed and used in as many mobile devices as possible and hence across as many mobile networks as possible. • Service Providers want to maximise the use of the existing infrastructures, which are already deployed using different (reader) technologies. • Handset manufacturers want to make their mobile devices more appealing to the Customer. • MNOs want to provide new mobile contactless services that are secure, high quality and consistent with the existing services experienced by the Customer. • MNOs and UICC manufacturers want to leverage the unique capabilities provided by the UICC to guarantee security and privacy to the customer. • MNOs want to leverage their long-standing customer relationship to provide a seamless service to both the Customer and the Service Provider. 6.2 Key Finding #1: The role of the Trusted Service Manager Mobile NFC will be successful provided that the mobile NFC ecosystem: • Is steady, providing value for all entities within it • Is efficient, by introducing a new role of the Trusted Service Manager The success of NFC services will heavily depend on the ability of the industry to establish a steady ecosystem and to achieve a critical mass. Prior to the allocation of different roles to entities within the mobile NFC ecosystem, an end-to- end process analysis was performed. The NFC service process was broken down into three major parts (as described below and shown in Figure 2): (1) NFC enablement, to provide the basis for any NFC services (2) Trusted Service Management, to meet the NFC security and service life cycle requirements (3) Application, to provide the NFC application NFC Enablement Trusted Service Management Application Distribution & NFC Hand- Customer Personal- Delivery Life Cycle / Develop- Infra- Service Point of Sales set UICC isation chip acquisition Customer C. ment structure Provider partners Figure 2: NFC process areas 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 11/17
Mobile NFC Services 6.2.1 The role of the Trusted Service Manager To increase the efficiency of business relationships, the role of Trusted Service Manager (TSM) is proposed. The TSM's role is to: • Provide the single point of contact for the service providers to access their customer base through the MNOs. • Manage the secure download and life-cycle management of the mobile NFC application on behalf of the service provider. The TSM will need to fulfill certain requirements. Those are in particular: • Ability to contract with and support a high number of partners • A good business reputation in handling services securely • Being seen as a trusted partner in the ecosystem The TSM does not participate in the transaction stage of the service, thus ensuring that the service provider's existing business model is not disrupted. Depending on the national market needs and situations, the TSM can be managed by one MNO, a consortium of MNOs, or by independent Trusted Third Parties. The number of operating TSMs in one market will depend on the national market needs and circumstances. The TSM role needs to be defined and agreed between the main players (for instance, Service Providers and MNOs) in order to deploy mobile NFC services efficiently to the customer. Figure 3 shows an example of the roles and relationships between entities involved in a mobile- payment service. Roles, Relationships & Responsibilities Operates a NFC capable Merchant (s) Point of Sales Terminal Customer of a service provider and an Customer MNO, and finally of the Merchant(s) NFC UICC vendors Mobile Network Mobile network operator Provides UICC & NFC Terminals Operator Plus OTA transport mechanism NFC Terminal Vendors Trusted Services Secure life cycle management Trusted Service Manager of NFC application Manager (s) Direct relation or via clearing houses Bank, Credit Card Issuer Service Provider (s) Transport Authority..Issuer Bank, Credit Card Transport Authority.. Figure 3: Example of the roles and relationships for entities involved in mobile-Payment 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 12/17
Mobile NFC Services 6.2.2 The role of the MNO in the Mobile NFC Ecosystem The MNO provides reassurance to the customers by preserving the following features: • End User trust. • Quality of Customer Care support. • Revocation and Restoration of lost/stolen device, whilst blocking further transactions until a new device has been re-provisioned and re-activated (with the associated service settings). • Service Portability (e.g. the ability to transfer service capabilities across different devices). • State-of-the-art services, meeting the MNO design standards. • Integration of NFC services in the mobile services suite. • Customer peace-of-mind that the device can be used for mobile NFC services without impacting existing services. • Provides the full range mobile services to the Customer and issues the UICC (One of the main enablers for Mobile NFC Services). As mentioned in section 6.2.1, the MNO can perform the role of the Trusted Service Manager. The concrete roles of the different entities in the NFC ecosystem, as well as whether the MNO performs the role of the Trusted Service Manager, will depend on national market situations and circumstances. 6.3 Key finding #2: The UICC as the most appropriate NFC Secure Element (SE) for the Mobile Phone Mobile NFC applications need to be performed in a secure environment (SE). The UICC provides both logical security (i.e. command encryption) and physical security (i.e. tamper proof and copy protection). Furthermore, the UICC has been identified by MNOs as the recommended SE for NFC because of the following unique advantages that it offers to the market place: • Universal: The UICC has the widest available deployment of any SE, with more than 2 billion users worldwide – hence it is cost effective to use the existing UICC as an SE rather than to develop, implement and deploy a new alternative. • Portable: The UICC is portable – hence Customers can easily transfer their applications and rights from one NFC enabled mobile device to another. • Dynamic Remote Management: MNOs already operate secure remote UICC management systems and processes (Over the Air). These can easily be leveraged to manage the whole life cycle of mobile NFC services. Furthermore, services loaded onto the UICC can be immediately blocked, activated or suspended. • Standardised: UICC Security is based on global, well-established standards (such as ETSI-SCP, 3GPP, Global Platform) covering application storage, OTA communication, privacy and the entire life cycle management. • Long Lifecycle: The UICC has a longer lifecycle than a mobile device - hence it is more suitable to house the NFC applications on it rather than on the mobile device. This permits the Customer to easily transfer and use their mobile NFC services over time. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 13/17
Mobile NFC Services Additional benefits of using the UICC as the SE include: • Business synergies: UICC manufacturers that already supply contactless cards to service providers will benefit from their expertise and their operational excellence. • Customer care service: In addition to providing high quality customer care for mobile telephony and data services, the MNO can also provide high quality mobile NFC customer care services to the customer – for instance the MNO can be the single point of contact to a customer for managing their mobile NFC services if their mobile device is lost, stolen or damaged. • Consistent approach By deploying mobile NFC applications in the UICC, the MNO can leverage existing capabilities to provide OTA management of services to customers. • Battery independent: The UICC mobile solution also allows NFC services to work even when the battery is off. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 14/17
Mobile NFC Services 6.4 Key finding #3: Inter-operability, Backwards compatibility and Standardisation are essential Existing contactless infrastructure implementations are based on different ISO standards (e.g. ISO/IEC 14443) as well as on existing de-facto proprietary solutions. In the vast majority of cases it will not be possible to request that Service Providers change or upgrade their existing contactless infrastructure. All of these existing systems have been designed to be mono- applications (e.g. Oyster is supported in London and NaviGo in Paris etc). A mechanism has to be found that enables the correct NFC application to be activated within the context of the appropriate NFC system. The required critical mass will heavily depend on positive customer acceptance. This will need to be achieved through an exciting service experience meeting customer needs, combined with economy of scale leading to appealing handset and application development costs. Standardisation of the NFC handset and the related interfaces will decrease costs and is therefore of utmost importance. In order to achieve interoperability with many existing legacy systems and those currently under development, appropriate standards need to be defined and implemented. Factors that need to be considered in the standardisation process are: • Ease of use by the customer • Time to market • IPR issues Other key points that need to be considered are: • Design of new mobile handsets for mobile NFC devices – these have to integrate NFC capabilities with the NFC chipset and antenna. • Interface between the UICC as the NFC Secure Element with the NFC chipset in the mobile device Further details are provided in the Technical Guidelines White Paper. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 15/17
Mobile NFC Services 7 CONCLUSIONS AND NEXT STEPS The MNO vision is to enable the frequent use of mobile NFC services to the benefit of the customers. MNO's want to enrich the user experience by providing a range of new contactless services that are highly secure and easy to use. This will result in a successful mobile NFC business model, providing value for all participants in the mobile NFC ecosystem. However, a consistent approach is required to ensure that the needs of the customer are met. A number of business requirements need to be fulfilled to make this vision a reality. In particular, the following are recommended: • To create a trusted and efficient mobile NFC ecosystem by introducing the new role of the Trusted Service Manager • To implement the UICC as the Secure Element (SE) • To achieve interoperability, backward compatibility and standardisation 7.1 Next Steps 1. Validate key findings with industry players (starting Q1 2007) 2. Deliver a Mobile NFC Technical Guidelines White Paper (Q2 2007) 3. Liaison with Standardisation Bodies and Industry fora (starting Q1 2007) End. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 16/17
Mobile NFC Services 8 ACRONYMS Acronym Meaning 3GPP Third Generation Partnership Project ETSI European Telecommunications Standards Institute ETSI-SCP European Telecommunications Standards Institute-Smart Card Platform GSM Global System for Mobiles GSMA GSM Association IPR Intellectual Property Rights ISO International Standards Organisation MNO Mobile Network Operator Mobile-TV Mobile Television NFC Near Field Communication OTA Over The Air SE Secure Element SIM Subscriber Identity Module SMS Short Message Service SP Service Provider TSM Trusted Services Manager UICC Universal Integrated Circuit Card The UICC is a smart card which contains account information and memory that is used to enable GSM cellular telephones. One of the applications running on the smart card is the SIM, or Subscriber Identity Module. In common parlance the term "UICC" is not used but the phrase "SIM" is used to describe the smart card itself. 11 January 2007 GSMA_153_WP510_001, v 0.8 17/17


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Epson has announced its new portable projector, DVD and music player combo, in the form of the Epson MovieMate 55.
Apparently as easy as "plug, load and play", the Epson MovieMate 55 combines a built-in progressive scan DVD/CD player and dual Dolby 5.1 8W speakers into one unit. Aim it at any blank wall or screen, and it projects the DVD movie loaded at up to eight times larger than it would appear on a 40-inch, widescreen TV. And by our calculations, that's pretty big.
The MovieMate 55 is also compatible with iPod, Nintendo Wii, Sony PS3 and Microsoft Xbox 360 so you can play your games on a really big screen. The projector displays an 80-inch widescreen image from 7.8 feet away, or a whopping 120-inch image from 11 feet away.
There's no pricing details or release dates for the MovieMate 55 as yet, but we'll let you know as soon as we get them.
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Last Updated: Wednesday, May 9, 2012 - 21:10
Hyderabad: Andhra Pradesh Anti Corruption Bureau (ACB) on Wednesday caught an assistant professor at the Osmania University here red-handed while he was allegedly accepting a bribe of Rs 20,000 in return of official favour.
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CEDAR KNOLLS, N.J., Feb. 26, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- Pazoo, Inc., (OTCQB Symbol: PZOO); (German WKN#: A1J3DK) is pleased to announce that its newly redesigned website has gone live. Pazoo joined forces with iBuild Media, LLC, and Better Business Network (BBN) last month to develop a more comprehensive and interactive website.
By establishing this alignment with iBuild and BBN, Pazoo and its newly redesigned website have greatly increased its online capabilities and positioned itself as a leader in the digital world. BBN has started to optimize the newly redesigned www.pazoo.com website through its top notch search engine optimization (SEO) work. The SEO work includes keyword optimization, content optimization, and site optimization. However, it is now the redesigned website with up to the minute information and timely content that makes the SEO work so effective. Not only will the content be up to the minute but there is a whole team of individuals providing minute by minute attention to making Pazoo.com the Premier Health and Wellness Social Community.
iBuild Media has dramatically redesigned pazoo.com and has included a more comprehensive layout that delivers Pazoo's information and content seamlessly through site redesign, site optimization, and content optimization. iBuild has greatly enhanced Pazoo's online capabilities, presence, feel, and interactivity for the user. Furthermore, the new pazoo.com contains constantly updated information that is relevant to your everyday life. The new website encompasses a total health and wellness feel for both people and their pets.
Pazoo Inc.'s goal is to empower individuals with the necessary information, services, products, and above all knowledge, that will help improve their overall health and wellness. With the launch of the new website, it is expected that traffic will dramatically increase to Pazoo.com providing for the enhanced ability to earn advertising revenue as well as increased sales and a tremendous increase in awareness for Pazoo experts.
Over the last six months, Pazoo has aggressively worked behind the scenes to position itself where it currently is and Pazoo is now entering the stage where its prime focus is to aggressively grow its revenue and profitability here in the first quarter of 2013 and moving forward.
The core value of Pazoo.com's content lies within its vast network of experts. Along with the site redesign, Pazoo will be rolling out numerous video and editorial programs. By delivering weekly contributions, experts will be able to better engage with users, as well as driving traffic to their respective networks. Furthermore, our Experts page will incorporate a live chat room transitioning the site primarily into a Health and Wellness social community and platform.
David M. Cunic, CEO of Pazoo, Inc., stated, "The launch of our new website has been fantastic. Pazoo has dramatically increased its web presence and this increase in web presence has given us a better and easier avenue whereby to deliver our information, services, products, and overall health and wellness knowledge to help both the individual and their pets."
About Pazoo, Inc.:
Pazoo, Inc. is a company focused on empowering individuals with the tools to enrich their lives. Pazoo delivers information, services and products through direct response digital and TV, retail stores and its website. www.pazoo.com is a health and wellness social community with an array of experts delivering vital information to improve and enhance the enjoyment of living a full and enriching life. We feature industry experts from the health and wellness industry as well as the pet industry. On the website an individual can find a limited, and high quality, selection of merchandise, including fitness consumables, nutritional supplements, apparel, and wellness/safety products.
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SYS-CON Events announced today that HPM Networks will exhibit at the 17th International Cloud Expo®, which will take place on November 3–5, 2015, at the Santa Clara Convention Center in Santa Clara, CA. For 20 years, HPM Networks has been integrating technology solutions that solve complex business challenges. HPM Networks has designed solutions for both SMB and enterprise customers throughout the San Francisco Bay Area.
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Discussions about cloud computing are evolving into discussions about enterprise IT in general. As enterprises increasingly migrate toward their own unique clouds, new issues such as the use of containers and microservices emerge to keep things interesting. In this Power Panel at 16th Cloud Expo, moderated by Conference Chair Roger Strukhoff, panelists addressed the state of cloud computing today, and what enterprise IT professionals need to know about how the latest topics and trends affect their organization.
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|March 27, 2014 02:03 PM EDT
End-user computing devices have followed a trajectory of faster, smaller, and cheaper for several decades: adding better connectivity, more natural interfaces, but largely remaining a device with a screen and human input device. This model is breaking down as computation and connectivity collide with ordinary real-world things. These things often have existing physical methods of interacting with them that we culturally don't want to change or no interface at all.
I've been involved with devices for much of my professional career, starting with television set top boxes at Microsoft for the better part of a decade, then working in mobile as part of the Android team at Google, and most recently in the Internet of Things at Nest Labs before rejoining Microsoft as part of our platform strategy team. In my current role, one of my focus areas has been to think about so called Internet of Things and what that means for the industry, for Microsoft, and for enterprises and consumers.
It's clear to me that the future of computing lies in these things. The screens in our lives will slowly start to take a back seat to a model of computing that operates off of the context that we generate. In this sense, computing will take a much more active role in our lives but at the same time much more invisible. That said there are substantial challenges in getting from where we are today to this future, and I thought I'd survey those problems and potential solutions.
In the broader Internet, we've started to think about connectivity as a given. The pervasiveness of networks and the consolidation of the industry around cellular standards like LTE and wireless standards like 802.11 mean that, for our computing devices, we are almost always connected and the design of applications has shifted from primarily offline to primarily online to match this.
One of the key challenges in the Internet of Things is that it doesn't fit cleanly into this. The existing set of wireless and cellular standards are wholly unsuited for long longevity battery use - they are designed for devices, like our computer or phone, that are always or frequently connected to a power plug.
A door lock is a good example of a real-world device. It isn't connected to a power plug. While one solution could be to change or charge the batteries in your door lock once a month so that it can use Wi-Fi, when you step back and realize that there are hundreds of these devices in the home, it's clear that this would quickly limit our desire to manage more than a handful of these in our houses.
Rethinking then how we connect these devices is one of the key challenges facing the industry. There are a number of efforts to solve this, including new protocols like Zigbee, but the most promising of these are the efforts to create highly efficient variants of existing protocols like 802.11 with 802.11ah or Bluetooth with Bluetooth Low Energy (now branded Bluetooth Smart). These technologies hold the promise to overcome rapid power consumption in these devices.
In many ways, Bluetooth Smart is already here. As part of the Bluetooth 4.0 spec, it has piggybacked its way into many of the latest Bluetooth chipsets and from a software platform perspective (Windows 8, iOS, and Android platforms all include support for it). Given this, it is starting to become prevalent with the latest wave of devices. It also promises multi-year battery life levels of efficiency and provides an abstraction mechanism for exposing data and control through its characteristics and services. I wouldn't be surprised to see Bluetooth Smart move front and center in 2014 as it gains critical mass as a key way of bridging to these real-world things.
The simplicity of these devices implies that what it means to be an application will also change. In this world, applications shift from being something with a user interface that runs on our devices and backed by the cloud to a model where an application analyzes the context provided by potentially a large number of these devices. The application will begin to present itself less on a screen and more in the state changes in the real world. These applications will not run on any one of these devices but between them.
Message Based
One potential model for this that we are experimenting with at Microsoft is a messaging-based approach. You can conceptually think about this as "Twitter for devices" where devices and applications communicate using messages through a message broker. The schema for these messages is well known among the principals in the system, enabling applications and devices to communicate that otherwise have no knowledge of each other.
This is a key advantage because devices in this new world are shifting from being consumption and creation devices to devices that provide context and control. A messaging-based approach allows you to leverage the message stream from one of these devices for multiple applications without correspondingly taxing this device with multiple requests for state. For example, a proximity sensor in your office hallway provides very interesting context for a security application for the building but is equally interesting to an application that uses them to make dynamic climate control decisions. A messaging model enables this with one set of state. It also provides a clean archiving and auditing model, enabling you to look back over this data two years later, for instance, when you want to build an occupancy model for your building across all of its proximity sensors.
The quantity and sensitivity of these devices will also mean that we need to rethink how we manage them and their data streams.
We currently manage an increasingly large number of computing devices in our lives, and while application stores have made it easier for us to install and upgrade applications and operating systems, we still spend a significant amount of time managing our devices.
As we increase the number of devices by an order of magnitude, we won't be able to provide this same level of love and care for every device in our lives. These devices are going to need to be largely autonomous. One of the core challenges of Internet of Things will be building the infrastructure to enable this level of autonomy.
Highly Distributed
Our current conception of devices working with services is largely a two-tier model. For many applications that require precise control, the 200ms latency involved in doing a round-trip from a home in Oklahoma to a data center in Virginia where multiple devices' message streams are combined may be too much. This means that applications that require this level of low latency will need to execute much closer to the edge. That said, there are many applications that will require the computational capacity and flexibility that only a larger public or private cloud data center can provide. One of the key challenges we face is providing a single abstraction for developers such that both these classes of application use the same interfaces and the infrastructure is smart enough to satisfy them transparently.
The data streams involved in the Internet of Things are also typically highly sensitive, either in the context that they provide on us or the sensitivity of the equipment that they control. One of the things we must demand as individuals and enterprises is control on what set of data we send to a centralized public cloud versus retain within systems under our control.
I believe these factors will drive a distributed approach to the Internet of Things, where applications move to the data instead the current direction of all of our data moving to the applications in the public cloud. At Microsoft we are currently experimenting with this hybrid approach, where there are several hierarchical tiers of increasing computation and storage as you go toward the cloud. Applications and data in this model flow between these tiers to the appropriate level that balances computational, latency, and privacy concerns. This distributed approach is also another key reason that an immutable messaging-based approach makes sense - it enables you to replicate these message streams between these tiers in the system while applying permission-based controls to filter them down to the messages you are comfortable sharing with another application or computational tier.
Big Data
One thing that is clear is that the volume of data that is generated from these much more numerous devices will be staggering. For example, capturing all of the data from a single car's lifetime in an enterprise fleet requires upwards of 100GB on a relatively spacious once-a-second resolution. For an enterprise like Avis, which has on the order of 150,000 cars, this means managing nearly 15PB of information over the lifetime of one generation of cars.
As an industry we have established batch algorithms and platforms like map/reduce and Hadoop and newer near real-time platforms like Storm to process these large streams of information - but these still require substantial data science and DevOps investments to operate, which put them out of the reach of smaller organizations. A key challenge is making it easier to run data pipelines that operate on the context these devices generate and building abstractions that make them easier to develop for and to use with existing information worker tools.
First Steps
We are at the very beginning of this transformation and are all still trying to get our heads around the right model that solves the problems in this space. Although I've posed a number of potential solutions in this post, you should take these more as strawmen to start a discussion than any concrete recommendation. I'd love to talk with you if working on any problems in this space - feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] or @timpark on Twitter.
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- What actions are not considered new matter?
- What are the three requirements of section 112, first paragraph?
- What condition should claims be written in according to 112, 2nd paragraph?
- How can one avoid a 35 USC 112, rejection?
- Best Mode
- a 1) written description of the invention
2) enablement
3) best mode of carrying out invention
- b 1) Rewording
2) Making inherent function explicit
3) making explicit material incorporated by reference not new matter
- c 1) keep exemplary language (specific examples) and preferences out of the claim language and limit them to the specifications.
- d claims should be as self-contained as possible and should not reference tables and figures unless necessary.
- e The best mode requirement is intended to ensure that the inventor does not disclose less than the most desirable form of his invention. The examiner should assume that the best mode is in fact disclosed, unless evidence arises to the contrary.
5 Multiple choice questions
- If the specification clearly recites a feature of the invention that is critical to the invention performing its intended operation, and the feature is not recited in the claims, ("purposely" making the claims broader than the enabling disclosure) a rejection based on lack of enablement will be made.
- The specification shall conclude with one or more claims particularly pointing out and distinctly claiming the subject matter which the applicant regards as his invention
- Although the use of the term "means" or "means for" is often a clear indication that the means or step for function rules apply, the actual determination is base coin whether the element in the claim is set forth, at least in part, by the function that it performs rather than the specific structure, material or acts that perform the function.
- only evidence of concealment is relevant. Concealment need not be intentional. For example, the quality of the applicant's best mode may be so poor as to effectively result in concealment.
- Claims to a process that do not include any steps to be taken in carrying out the process are usually held to be indefinite. For example, a claim to "a process for using X of claim 4 to isolate and purify Y" was found indefinite because it recites a use without giving steps for how the use is practiced.
5 True/False questions
Is there a need to update the believed best mode? → Broadening or narrowing the breadth of the claim limitations or altering a numerical range limitation after the application has been filed often results in failure to meet the written description requirement.
What is the definiteness requirement? → The claims must particularly point out and distinctly define the metes and bounds of the subject matter that will be protected by the patent.
What four factors are among those to be used to determine whether necessary experimentation is "undue?" → 1) The breadth of the claims;
2) The nature of the invention;
3) The state of the prior art; and
4) The level of one of ordinary skill
Consistency with Specification or Prior Art → Claims that are inconsistent with their supporting specification or the prior art cannot be considered reasonably particular and distinct, even though the terms of the claims may seem definite. [MPEP §2173.03]
What are the six terms that are scrutinized by the USPTO for their exact meaning relative to the invention? → 1) written description of the invention
2) enablement
3) best mode of carrying out invention