Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20070198972 | Extensible Metadata Systems and methods for extensible metadata are described. In one aspect, source code is compiled to generate an assembly. During assembly generating operations, metadata and extensible metadata is emitted into the assembly. The extensible metadata describes standard an... | 08/23/2007 |
| 20070011177 | Metadata-based form rendering and write-back RDL (report description language) is an XML-based schema that has been designed and extended for standardizing report generation and maintenance. Reports can be generated that allow inspection of data that can come from several sources. The data can come from several ar... | 01/11/2007 |
| 20050203740 | Speech recognition using categories and speech prefixing Speech recognition utilizing categories and prefixes is disclosed. Categories identify types of recognition and allow different grammars and prefixes for each category. Categories can be directed to specific applications and/or program modules. Uttering a prefix allows ... | 09/15/2005 |
