security reasons any databases systems or components of the present invention may consist of any combination of databases or components at a single location or at multiple locations wherein each database or system includes any of various suitable security features such as firewalls access codes encryption de encryption compression decompression and or the like the scope of the invention should be determined by the appended claims and their legal equivalents rather than by the examples given herein for example the steps recited in any method claims may be executed in any order and are not limited to the order presented in the claims moreover no element is essential to the practice of the invention unless specifically described herein as u201c critical u201d or u201c essential u201d in the specification the term u201c media u201d means any medium that can record data therein the term u201c media u201d includes for instance a disk shaped media for such as cd rom compact disc read only memory magneto optical disc or mo digital video disc read only memory or dvd rom digital video disc random access memory or dvd ram a floppy disc a memory chip such as random access memory or ram read only memory or rom erasable programmable read only memory or e prom electrical erasable programmable read only memory or ee prom a rewriteable card type read only memory such as a smart card a magnetic tape a hard disc and.