I have reviewed each of the following listed technologies as presented to me by Palm Tree Technologies/ ALOE Capital plc and have found them to be unique and well designed. The technologies under my review include ID Insure™, miniMP3, FullWave I, and FullWave II.

ID Insure is an encryption technique and protocol designed to secure the transmission of information between a trusted provider such as a financial institution or e-commerce website and their customer. Its design requires the cooperation of both the content provider and the consumer. Using machine specific information, the system delivers a file which can be opened only on the specific machine for which it is intended. Unlike other encryption techniques, each ID Insure file is unique. A machine is identified by a signature created in the combination of numericised data from physical attributes of a specific machine and personalized consumer data. These machine signatures are stored in thousands of templates and delivered randomly at the time of transmission to both the client and server. This technique leaves only milliseconds for an interceptor to attempt to decode the system.

MiniMP3 is designed to reduce the overall size of existing mp3 or AAC files by more 60%. The system identifies redundant frames in small blocks and stores them only once. This technique is called Frame Redundancy Elimination. These blocks are then replayed in the proper sequential order of the music through a series of mathematic pointers. MiniMP3 is not an audio codec but is rather a programmatic application used to process the result of other well known and standardized codecs.

FullWave I is a new audio codec designed to deliver an audio file at CD quality which is 1/3 the size of the current standard files like mp3 and AAC. FullWave I uses separate techniques for encoding and decoding and Uses mathematic pointers to reconstruct the sequentially of the music thereby avoiding the bloat of an encapsulated file. The codec uses two major techniques to achieve file size reduction. The first is stated in the description of miniMP3 above. It is called Frame Redundancy Elimination.

After scanning the digital audio footprint, the system identifies small blocks of redundant frames. Rather than storing these frames multiple times in an encapsulated file as do other codecs, FullWave I stores them only once and replays them in the proper sequence using mathematic pointers. The second is a unique approach to audio storage which uses the spectrum itself as a storage medium. Digital Audio is divided into sections and stored as multiples of the original values. These waveform blocks are separated well enough to avoid aliasing or harmonic bleed.

FullWave II is advancement upon the work of FullWave I. It delivers a far smaller file at a higher bit rate. Using a fresh approach this codec will deliver the first wirelessly transmittable audio file at 24 bits. Although FullWave II uses the same techniques mentioned above in FullWave I, it does so in a unique way. All codecs of this type apply their algorithms to the finished stereo pair. FullWave II is applied by the audio engineer in the recording studio. It is applies to each of the many tracks used in a modern studio. These tracks can number well above 200. The file size reduction is greatly increased by working with individual tracks using the Frame Redundancy Elimination and audio storage techniques employed by the FullWave codecs.

- Prof. Boris Berkovski

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