Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8175003 | Cooperative wireless communications When it is advantageous to do so, a wireless LAN station sends data packets to a destination station via an intermediate station, instead of to the destination station directly. That is, the intermediate station, which serves as a helper to the source, forwards pack... | 05/08/2012 |
| RE43110 | Pipelined maximal-sized matching cell dispatch scheduling A Pipelined-based Maximal-sized Matching (PMM) scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with a maximal matching scheme. In the PMM approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each subscheduler is allo... | 01/17/2012 |
| 8005209 | Invariance based concurrent error detection for the advanced encryption standard Advanced Encryption Standard (AES) is an encryption algorithm for securing sensitive unclassified material by U.S. Government agencies and, as a consequence the de facto encryption standard for commercial applications worldwide. Performing concurrent error detection... | 08/23/2011 |
| RE42600 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined arbitration scheme A pipeline-based matching scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with matching schemes, such as CRRD and CMSD. In the new approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each sub-scheduler is allowed to... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7986691 | Maintaining packet sequence using cell flow control Packets out-of-sequence problem can be solved by using a window flow control scheme that can dispatch traffic at the cell level, in a round robin fashion, as evenly as possible. Each VOQ at the input port has a sequence head pointer that is used to assign sequence n... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7986637 | On demand peer-to-peer video streaming with multiple description coding A peer-to-peer novel video streaming scheme is described in which each peer stores and streams videos to the requesting client peers. Each video is encoded into multiple descriptions and each description is placed on a different node. If a serving peer disconnects i... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7965729 | Transferring data such as files Transferring data (such as files) on an end-to-end, high-speed packet-switched network connection (a “virtual circuit”) or on a circuit. An out-of-band path is used for signaling and status messages (control). The same, or a separate, out-of-band path may be use... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7951899 | Enzyme-catalyzed polycarbonate and polycarbonate ester synthesis An enzymatic process for preparing aliphatic polycarbonates via terpolymerization or transesterification using a dialkyl carbonate, an aliphatic diester, and an aliphatic diol or triol reactant. A catalyst having an enzyme capable of catalyzing an ester hydrolysis r... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7894343 | Packet sequence maintenance with load balancing, and head-of-line blocking avoidance in a switch To avoid packet out-of-sequence problems, while providing good load balancing, each input port of a switch monitors the outstanding number of packets for each flow group. If there is an outstanding packet in the switch fabric, the following packets of the same flow ... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7852829 | Packet reassembly and deadlock avoidance for use in a packet switch Practical packet reassembly in large, multi-plane, multi-stage switches is possible by using a scheduling technique called dynamic packet interleaving. With dynamic packet interleaving scheduling, if more than one packet is contending for the same output link in a s... | 12/14/2010 |
| 7792118 | Switch module memory structure and per-destination queue flow control for use in a switch To use the memory space more effectively, cell memory can be shared by an input link and all output links. To prevent one flow from occupying the entire memory space, a threshold may be provided for the queue. The queue threshold may accommodate the RTT delay of the... | 09/07/2010 |
| 7462512 | Floating gate field effect transistors for chemical and/or biological sensing Specific ionic interactions with a sensing material that is electrically coupled with the floating gate of a floating gate-based ion sensitive field effect transistor (FGISFET) may be used to sense a target material. For example, an FGISFET can use (e.g., previously... | 12/09/2008 |
| 7435852 | Methods of producing a conjugated oligomer exhibiting supramolecular π-conjugation extension, and resulting products of such methods Methods for preparing an oligomer exhibiting supramolecular extension of π-conjugation are described. The manipulation of intra-oligomeric properties such as π-conjugation length and the precise architecture(s) resulting from inter-oligomeric variations resulting ... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7415020 | Packet classification apparatus and method using field level tries A packet classification apparatus and method using field level tries includes a main processing part for generating and maintaining the field level tries, which organize a multi-field packet by field in a hierarchical structure for classifications; and classificatio... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7330457 | Cooperative wireless communications When it is advantageous to do so, a wireless LAN station sends data packets to a destination station via an intermediate station, instead of to the destination station directly. That is, the intermediate station, which serves as a helper to the source, forwards pack... | 02/12/2008 |
| 7262178 | Treatment of sepsis and septic shock A method and composition for the treatment of humans or animals for septic shock and sepsis using a mixture of sophorolipids. ... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7212495 | Signaling for reserving a communications path A call signaling protocol that uses simplified messaging to set up, confirm set up, tear down, and confirm tear down of a connection. The available capacity of communications links is tracked so that it can be quickly determined whether or not a link can handle a ca... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7212160 | Locating an object of interest using back tracked-rays derived from multipath signals Multipath signals (rays) emanating from an object of interest are processed to locate the object. Multipath signals may be accepted, screened, and associated with a specific object by an observer. Information (time, amplitude, and angle information) may be recorded ... | 05/01/2007 |
| 7205373 | Enzyme catalyzed organosilicon esters and amides Methods for forming organosilicon esters and amides are provided. Additionally, organosilicon esters and amides are provided. The organosilicon esters and amides may be formed by contacting a hydrolase enzyme with an organosilicon reactant and an organic reactant. T... | 04/17/2007 |
| 7203202 | Arbitration using dual round robin matching with exhaustive service of winning virtual output queue An exhaustive service dual round-robin matching (EDRRM) arbitration process amortizes the cost of a match over multiple time slots. It achieves high throughput under nonuniform traffic. Its delay performance is not sensitive to traffic burstiness, switch size and pa... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7122642 | Method for producing crystal polymorphs and crystal polymorphs produced thereby A method to prepare new or unexpected polymorphs of materials which have not been observed, or to obtain a known polymorph under different conditions than those in which it is usually made, by using a laser to cause nucleation and crystal growth to occur in a supers... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7103056 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in multistage switches using a hierarchical arbitration scheme for matching non-empty virtual output queues of a module with outgoing links of the module A multiple phase cell dispatch scheme, in which each phase uses a simple and fair (e.g., round robin) arbitration methods, is described. VOQs of an input module and outgoing links of the input module are matched in a first phase. An outgoing link of an input module ... | 09/05/2006 |
| 7091441 | Portable arc-seeded microwave plasma torch Arc plasma torch generated by a torch module installed on the bottom wall in the narrow section of a tapered S-band rectangular cavity, is used to seed microwave discharge where the microwave electric field is maximum. This tapered cavity is designed to support TE | 08/15/2006 |
| 7078519 | Enzyme catalyzed organosilicon carbohydrates Methods for forming structurally defined organosilicon carbohydrates are provided. Additionally, structurally defined organosilicon carbohydrates are provided. The structurally defined organosilicon carbohydrates may be formed by contacting a hydrolase enzyme with a... | 07/18/2006 |
| 7058362 | Integrated micro-strip antenna apparatus and a system utilizing the same for wireless communications for sensing and actuation purposes A system utilizing a number of micro-strip antenna apparatus embedded in or mounted on the surface of a structure for enabling wireless communication of sensed and actuation signals. The micro-strip antenna apparatus may include smart materials or other substrates. ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7046661 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined hierarchical arbitration scheme A pipeline-based matching scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with matching schemes, such as CRRD and CMSD. In the new approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each sub-scheduler is allowed to... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7006514 | Pipelined maximal-sized matching cell dispatch scheduling A Pipelined-based Maximal-sized Matching (PMM) scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with a maximal matching scheme. In the PMM approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each subscheduler is allo... | 02/28/2006 |
| 6980524 | Methods and apparatus for routing in a mobile ad hoc network A “peer-to-peer” hierarchical routing protocol—also referred to as Zone-based Hierarchical Link State Routing protocol (or “ZHLS”)—which incorporates location information into a novel “peer-to-peer” hierarchical routing approach. The network may be d... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6940851 | Scheduling the dispatch of cells in non-empty virtual output queues of multistage switches using a pipelined arbitration scheme A pipeline-based matching scheduling approach for input-buffered switches relaxes the timing constraint for arbitration with matching schemes, such as CRRD and CMSD. In the new approach, arbitration may operate in a pipelined manner. Each sub-scheduler is allowed to... | 09/06/2005 |
| 6924129 | Enzyme-catalyzed esterification of pendant carboxylic acid groups A method for enzymatically synthesizing a polymer by combining a preselected quantity of an enzyme, a first reactant selected from polymers with at least one carboxylic acid pendant group, a second reactant selected from alcohols, i.e., polyols, in a reaction vessel... | 08/02/2005 |
| 6827840 | Chiral ligand exchange potentiometry and enantioselective sensors Enantiomeric resolution is realized by combining an electrochemical method with ligand exchange (LE) in a novel electrochemical method named chiral ligand exchange potentiometry. Chiral selector ligands preferentially recognize certain enantiomers and undergo ligand... | 12/07/2004 |
| 6667984 | Methods and apparatus for arbitrating output port contention in a switch having virtual output queuing A dual round robin arbitration technique for a switch in which input ports include virtual output queues. A first arbitration selects, for each of the input ports, one cell from among head of line cells of the virtual output queues to generate a first arb... | 12/23/2003 |
| 6630997 | Temperature measurement and temperature controlled switching using change in helical sense Helical arrays comprising structurally different chiral non-racemic molecules or molecular entities that control the helical sense of the helical array provide a method for temperature measurement with a unique characteristic in that the temperature depen... | 10/07/2003 |
| 6599442 | Temperature measurement and temperature controlled switching based on helical sense dependent liquid crystal phases Helical arrays comprising structurally different chiral non-racemic molecules or molecular entities that control the helical sense of the helical array provide a method for temperature measurement with a unique characteristic in that the temperature depen... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6559223 | Hydrogels and methods for their production Forming graft copolymers in water using labeling of water soluble polymers with photoinitiators. Water soluble polymers can form environmentally responsive hydrophobically stimulated cages. The cages, which contain initiating radicals after irradiation, m... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6487213 | Methods and apparatus for fairly arbitrating contention for an output port A hierarchical arbitration method in which requests are grouped, using a logical OR operation for example, and provided to higher levels of the hierarchy. Then, grant signals from higher levels of the hierarchy are either propagated down through each leve... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6405533 | Apparatus for reducing vibration inputs to a device and/or for micropositioning Apparatus for compensating for positioning, pointing and/or orientation errors caused by deflections of structural members and components of a high performance machine or device and/or for reducing vibration inputs to such machine or device and/or for mic... | 06/18/2002 |
| 6370144 | Methods and apparatus for shaping queued packets using a two-dimensional RAM-based search engine A two (2) dimensional shaper uses a hierarchical searching technique to find the first memory location of the calendar queue with a validity bit of "1" (that is, the lowest time stamp). The bit string at any level l (l.noteq.0) can be stored in a RAM of s... | 04/09/2002 |
| 6329628 | Methods and apparatus for generating a plasma torch A modular system for constructing an atmospheric pressure plasma source. A plasma torch module may be constructed by reassembling the structural components of two (2) different models of spark plugs. Each module can produce a plasma torch having a radius ... | 12/11/2001 |
| 6316899 | Apparatus for reducing vibration inputs to a device and/or for micropositioning Apparatus for compensating for positioning, pointing and/or orientation errors caused by deflections of structural members and components of a high performance machine or device and/or for reducing vibration inputs to such machine or device and/or for mic... | 11/13/2001 |