The method and system of the invention provide a variety of techniques for using a selected alias and a selected personal identification entry in conjunction with use of a transaction card, such as a credit card, debit card or stored value card, for example. The channel quality reports from the mobile terminals indicate the signal power of the signals received by the mobile terminals from the base station and one or more interference parameters relating to the power of impairment components contributing to the total impairment of the received signal during a first time interval. The server may determine if the requesting client is authorized to have access to the requested hostname, and respond with the network address when the client is authorized. The portion of boot code is read from the serial flash memory device and provided to the processor. A correction lookup table creation processing unit creates a lookup table on the basis of the inputoutput correction characteristic obtained by the inputoutput correction characteristic creation processing unit. Also provided are methods for producing multi-component patterns on a substrate with the magnetic nanoparticle masks.