A will information management and disclosure system keeps in custody deposit information that includes information about a depositor's last word and testament to be unsealed in accordance with unsealing conditions registered in advance by the depositor and disclosed to predetermined recipients, unseals the deposit information under predetermined unsealing conditions. The system comprises a depositor's terminal for entering as electronic information the deposit information prepared by the depositor in a rewritable manner, and a host processing system. The host processing system comprises an electronic information depositing part for keeping in custody the entered electronic information in accordance with predetermined depositing conditions, an unsealing part for unsealing the deposit information in accordance with predetermined unsealing conditions, and a recipient-specified delivery part for disclosing the deposit information to recipients designated in advance by the depositor and satisfying predetermined conditions, using predetermined means.

A bracelet for identifying to third parties that important legal and/or health care information of the wearer is stored therein. The bracelet includes a bracelet chain having first and second layers of link-like elements connected to a front panel, the front panel having a configuration and/or indicia thereon indicative of the type of information stored therein. The housing within the panel receives a storage medium, e.g. a computer chip, having the information recorded thereon in a machine-readable form. A releasable cover closes said housing. The housing is preferably made of a non-permeable material so as to preclude the passage of magnetic flux therein and deleteriously modify the encoded information on the storage medium.

A method of gathering, analyzing, and reporting data about commercial fish stocks and fisheries. Under this method, individual commercial fishermen use a device specific to the type of fishing being done to record the number of fish brought aboard, the number kept or released, the reason for release, the date, time, and location of the catch, and the fishery conditions, such as water temperature, depth, and salinity at the time that fish are brought aboard the fishing vessel. The individual fishermen transfer the data, typically via telephone link, to a central data repository, or to a receiving station when the data is transferred to the central data repository at a later time. The data is encrypted during transfer and placed in fisherman files, each fisherman having his own, restricted-access file. Data from all individual fishermen, as well as from other sources, are placed in a composite data pool to be used as source data for a general fishery database on fishstocks and fisheries. This data can be stripped of data that would identify a particular fisherman as the source, to preserve fishing secrets. Confidential reports can be generated from a fisherman file and delivered to the individual fisherman who is the source of that data. Reports for regulatory agencies can also be generated from the data in the fisherman file. The fishery database provides a unit for regulatory agencies, fisheries managers, and fish research institutions to analyze, monitor, and report on the development of fishstocks and fisheries.

A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for changing digital electrical signals to generate a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in property, the computer apparatus including: an input device operable for converting input data representing property into input digital electrical signals representing the input date; a digital electrical computer having a processor, the processor electrically connected to the input device to receive the input digital electrical signals, the processor programmed to change3 the input digital electrical signals to produce modified digital electrical signals representing a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in the property associated with at least one lease default condition for the property; a memory electrically connected to the processor; and wherein the processor manipulates further digital electrical signals to generate at least one document for the contingent interest by inserting the valuation in pre-existing text data obtained from the memory; and an output device electrically connected to the processor to print the document.

A computer system, and methods for making and using it, for changing digital electrical signals to generate a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in property, the computer apparatus including: an input device operable for converting input data representing property into input digital electrical signals representing the input data; a digital electrical computer having a processor, the processor electrically connected to the input device to receive the input digital electrical signals, the processor programmed to change the input digital electrical signals to produce modified digital electrical signals representing a valuation of a fractional interest in a contingent interest in the property associated with at least one lease default condition for the property; a memory electrically connected to the processor, and wherein: the processor manipulates further digital electrical signals to generate at least one document for the contingent interest by inserting the valuation in preexisting text data obtained from the memory; and an output device electrically connected to the processor to print the document.