Hastings Entertainment

About: Hastings Entertainment is a based out in . It is known for research contribution in the topics: Population & Piston ring. The organization has 1990 authors who have published 2145 publications receiving 45286 citations.

Secured content delivery system and method

Abstract: A system for and method of automatically implementing PKI-based encryption between a sender and a recipient. The system includes a sender local agent (130) associated with a sender electronic device (100) and a recipient local agent (130) associated with a recipient electronic device (100) wherein both the sender and recipient electronic devices are capable of connecting to a control server (200) via the Internet. The sender local agent is operable to (i) receive content generated on the sender electronic device, (ii) generate a package of encrypted content using PKI-based encryption by obtaining at least one public key from the control server, and (iii) send the package to the control server. The control server is operable to receive the package from the sender local agent and transmit the package to the recipient local agent. The recipient local agent is operable to (i) receive the package from the control server, (ii) launch a recipient local agent-controlled window or process, (iii) decrypt the encrypted content in the package, and (iv) use or display decrypted content within the recipient local agent-controlled window or process. Packages preferably include content such as text, data and graphic images. Packages also preferably include embedded content dissemination rules, selected by the package sender, restricting the dissemination of the content by the recipient.

Polylingual simultaneous shipping of software

Abstract: Systems and methods for software development in which the development of a base product (12) proceeds concurrently with the internationalization (14) and localization (16) of base product to produce multiple language versions of the product for polylingual simultaneous shipment (18) to customers wherein one or more of the multiple languages can be uploaded by the customer in a single installation process.

Detectability, philopatry, and the distribution of dispersal distances in vertebrates

Abstract: Dispersal is of central importance to population biology, behavioral ecology and conservation. However, because field studies are based on finite study areas, nearly all dispersal distributions for vertebrates currently available are biased, often highly so. The inadequacy of dispersal data obtained directly by traditional methods using population studies of marked individuals is highlighted by comparing the resulting distributions with dispersal estimates obtained by radio-tracking and by using genetic estimates of gene flow.