Robert Daniel - Carol Stream IL, US Joel Zupancic - Joliet IL, US Kenneth Falk - Mount Prospect IL, US Joseph Abreu - San Marcos CA, US Jason Coe - Temecula CA, US
International Classification:
G06K007/01
US Classification:
235/382500
Abstract:
A limited electronic system and method are provided for automatically shutting down equipment when an account associated with purchased or leased equipment falls into arrears. The system includes a control center (connected to a machine) with a screen display, means for entering a code, and a controller. The controller has a disabling program that shuts down the machine after a predetermined interval, such as time. Because the program automates the shut-down when no (timed) interval is in place, the user must obtain a “re-set code” from a non-user—i.e., the financing entity, the equipment supplier, the account manager, or other entity—and enter it into the system to set the next interval so the machine remains operational. The re-set code is generated by the machine. The non-user at a location remote from the machine receives or generates parallel re-set codes. The method involves: (a) activating the program, (b) assessing the payment status of the account, and (c) when the account is paid, releasing the re-set code to the user for manual entry it into the control center. If the account is in arrears, the re-set code is not released to the user, and no entry of a new re-set code, the program causes the machine to shut-down.
"If you have two people, it's going to look like a marriage," said Kenneth Falk of the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana. "If you have three or four, it doesn't. ... There's no slippery slope."
Date: Aug 26, 2014
Category: U.S.
Source: Google
Deleted posts on governor's Facebook page spark debate
Kenneth Falk, legal director for the American Civil Liberties Union of Indiana - which has supported gay marriage - said deleting so many posts and blocking users from interacting with Pence's page was, in his view, unconstitutional.
hese three plaintiffs and many others in similar situations, this law would allow their arrests simply because paperwork perhaps even paperwork supporting their routes to citizenship had been issued by an agency sometime in their lives, even if they have committed no crime, said Kenneth Falk, le