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...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8085775 | Identifying flows based on behavior characteristics and applying user-defined actions A mechanism is disclosed for identifying, classifying, and controlling flows in a network. In one implementation, a separate set of behavioral statistics is maintained for each flow. These behavioral statistics are updated as packets belonging to a flow are processe... | 12/27/2011 |
| 7813356 | Micro-flow management New switching technology relies upon state information for providing a previously unavailable degree of quality of service. In particular, by providing the ability to give service guarantees to uniquely identifiable sets of packets (“micro-flows”), different qua... | 10/12/2010 |
| 7630358 | Mechanism for implementing multiple logical routers within a single physical router A mechanism is disclosed for enabling a plurality of logical routers to be implemented within a single physical router. The logical routers emulate the behavior of interconnected, standalone routers. For example, the logical routers may be made aware of the presence... | 12/08/2009 |
