Did You Know...
...Chester Carlson was a patent agent who tired of having to make multiple copies of patent applications using the only duplication method available at the time: carbon paper. In 1959 he came up with a new copying system and took it to IBM for evaluation. The "experts" at IBM determined potential sales to be only 5,000 units because people wouldn't want to use a bulky machine when they had carbon paper. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, the company founded on the system is Xerox.
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| Application No. | Application Title | Issue Date |
| 20100273538 | NITRIDING STAINLESS STEEL FOR CONSUMER ELECTRONIC PRODUCTS A cost effective system, method and apparatus adapted to provide a nitride layer on stainless steel used for the manufacture of consumer electronic products. In addition to providing a durable, hard surface that is both scratch and impact resistant, the nitride layer al... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100271767 | MICROPERFORATED AND BACKLIT DISPLAYS HAVING ALTERNATIVE DISPLAY CAPABILITIES A visual display having microperforations, backlighting and contrasting surface finishes is disclosed. The visual display includes an opaque base object having a front surface and a plurality of microperforations therethrough from the front surface to a back surface. Ea... | 10/28/2010 |
| 20100220231 | TRACK FOR IMPROVED VIDEO COMPRESSION A computer readable medium for compressing video data with an edit track is provided. Generally, computer readable code for compressing video data is provided. The computer readable code for compressing comprises computer readable code for accessing the edit track to us... | 09/02/2010 |
| 20100217779 | USING A CALCULATION EXPRESSION TO DEFINE AND CONTROL ACCESS RIGHTS FOR RECORDS IN A DATABASE Techniques for providing limited access to data stored in records of databases are disclosed. The techniques can be implemented in a database program operating on a computer system. The database program can provide a Graphical User Interface that can be used to convenie... | 08/26/2010 |
| 20100205531 | PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYBACK DEVICE INCLUDING USER INTERFACE EVENT PASSTHROUGH TO NON-MEDIA-PLAYBACK PROCESSING A method of operating a portable electronics device can include integrated operation of media playback processing and non-media-playback processing (such as, for example, a game). The method can include receiving an event corresponding to operation of a user interface i... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100205472 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR OPERATING A PORTABLE ELECTRONIC DEVICE IN A POWER-LIMITED MANNER Improved techniques to manage operation of a portable electronic device having a substantially depleted battery when power is available from an external, power-limited source are disclosed. In one embodiment of the invention, the substantially depleted battery can be in... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100202630 | METHOD AND SYSTEM FOR APPROXIMATING GRAPHIC EQUALIZERS USING DYNAMIC FILTER ORDER REDUCTION Improved approaches to flexibly implementing graphic equalizers on media players are disclosed. These approaches provide dynamic order reduction of a multi-band graphic equalizer so that equalizer effects can be timely performed with only limited computational resources... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100201539 | ACTIVE ENCLOSURE FOR COMPUTING DEVICE A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light device disposed inside the housing. The light device is configured to illuminate the illuminable portion.... | 08/12/2010 |
| 20100192356 | HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE A handheld computing device is disclosed. The handheld computing device includes an enclosure having structural walls formed from a ceramic material that is radio-transparent.... | 08/05/2010 |
| 20100186578 | MUSIC SYNCHRONIZATION ARRANGEMENT The invention generally pertains to a hand-held computing device. More particularly, the invention pertains to a computing device that is capable of controlling the speed of the music so as to affect the mood and behavior of the user during an activity such as exercise.... | 07/29/2010 |
| 20100169509 | HOST CONFIGURED FOR INTEROPERATION WITH COUPLED PORTABLE MEDIA PLAYER DEVICE Methods and system for transferring images between devices is disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred au... | 07/01/2010 |
| 20100156818 | MULTI TOUCH WITH MULTI HAPTICS Methods and systems for processing touch inputs are disclosed. The invention in one respect includes reading data from a multi-touch sensing device such as a multi-touch touch screen where the data pertains to touch input with respect to the multi-touch sensing device, ... | 06/24/2010 |
| 20100151996 | SMART GARMENT A sensor authenticated to a garment transfers information, either wirelessly or wired, to an external data processing device. Such information includes location information, physiometric data of the individual wearing the garment, garment performance and wear data (when... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100149735 | HOUSING OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE FORMED BY DOUBLESHOT INJECTION MOLDING A method for forming an enclosure for enclosing internal electronic components of an electronic device is provided, which comprises: performing a first injection molding process, the first injection molding process forming at least a first wall of the enclosure; allowin... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100146766 | HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE A minimum Z height handheld electronic device and methods of assembly is described. The electronic device includes a single seamless housing having a front opening and a cover disposed within the front opening and attached to the seamless housing without a bezel.... | 06/17/2010 |
| 20100138056 | APPARATUS FOR AIR COOLING OF AN ELECTRONIC DEVICE An apparatus for air-cooling an electronic device is disclosed. A contoured panel channels a flow of air within the housing of an electronic device so as to channel the flow of air more directly over heat producing elements such as the microprocessor and peripheral card... | 06/03/2010 |
| 20100119634 | CARBON COMPOSITE MOLD DESIGN A mold assembly or system includes a moldbase that holds mold inserts and has embedded fluid lines to facilitate cooling during part formation. Mold inserts combine to form mold cavities that receive carbon fiber and resin components to form a carbon composite based par... | 05/13/2010 |
| 20100114346 | HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE A handheld computing device and handheld music player are disclosed. The handheld computing device includes a seamless enclosure formed from an extruded tube. The extruded tube includes open ends and internal rails which serve as a guide for slidably assembling an opera... | 05/06/2010 |
| 20100103612 | THERMAL SPRAY COATING FOR SEAMLESS AND RADIO-TRANSPARENT ELECTRONIC DEVICE HOUSING Electronic devices and other apparatuses adapted to receive electromagnetic wave communications are disclosed. An outer housing encloses various device components, including at least an internal antenna located fully therewithin and adapted to receive/send communication... | 04/29/2010 |
| 20100100212 | EFFICIENT TECHNIQUES FOR MODIFYING AUDIO PLAYBACK RATES Improved techniques for modifying a playback rate of an audio item (e.g., an audio stream) are disclosed. As a result, the audio item can be played back faster or slower than normal. The improved techniques are resource efficient and well suited for audio items containi... | 04/22/2010 |
| 20100095209 | PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE WITH WORKOUT SUPPORT Improved techniques and systems for utilizing a portable electronic device to monitor, process, present and manage data captured by a remote sensor are disclosed. The portable electronic device offers a convenient user interface that can be visual and/or audio based cus... | 04/15/2010 |
| 20100088450 | COMPONENT RETENTION MECHANISM A component retention mechanism facilitates improved installation, retention and removal of hardware components (e.g., PCI cards) on a personal computer. The retention mechanism includes a locking component, support member, and release mechanism coupled to each other. T... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100085011 | METHODS AND APPARATUS FOR CHARGING A BATTERY IN A PERIPHERAL DEVICE A power manager for managing power delivered to a battery operated peripheral device is disclosed. The power manager includes an input current limiter arranged to suppress a power surge associated with an insertion event by a power cable arranged to provide an external ... | 04/08/2010 |
| 20100079970 | ULTRASONIC BONDING OF DISCRETE PLASTIC PARTS TO METAL Electronic devices and other apparatuses that include plastic parts ultrasonically bonded to metal parts are disclosed. A first component or part includes a metallic surface region having a surface roughness with one or more surface irregularities. A second component or... | 04/01/2010 |
| 20100068991 | MULTIMEDIA DATA TRANSFER FOR A PERSONAL COMMUNICATION DEVICE In a portable multimedia device, data is passed between a sender and receiver unit by way of voice channel only. Multimedia data is vocalized and then forwarded to a receiver unit by way of the voice channel without the use of a backend server. Once received at the rece... | 03/18/2010 |
| 20100061055 | HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE A minimum Z height handheld electronic device and methods of assembly is described. The electronic device includes a single seamless housing having a front opening and a cover disposed within the front opening and attached to the seamless housing without a bezel.... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100061040 | HANDHELD COMPUTING DEVICE A minimum Z height handheld electronic device and methods of assembly is described. The electronic device includes a single seamless housing having a front opening and a cover disposed within the front opening and attached to the seamless housing without a bezel.... | 03/11/2010 |
| 20100054715 | IMAGE SCALING ARRANGEMENT Methods and system for transferring images between devices are disclosed. For example, differently scaled images by a host device may automatically and/or selectively be transferred to a media player for display. In turn, appropriately scaled images may be transferred a... | 03/04/2010 |
| 20100045627 | SHAPE DETECTING INPUT DEVICE A system and method for recognizing a signet and for performing an action associated with the signet, wherein the signet is an inanimate object. In one embodiment, the method includes generating a touch signal with a signet, the touch signal representing a particular si... | 02/25/2010 |
| 20100042922 | CUSTOMIZABLE, DYNAMIC AND ON-DEMAND DATABASE-INFORMER FOR RELATIONAL DATABASES Techniques for displaying information associated with a database are disclosed. A database-informer displays information (or additional information) about various database objects displayed for a user. The database-informer may be presented to user as a tool-tip. Howeve... | 02/18/2010 |
| 20100035598 | WIRELESS COMMUNICATION OUT OF RANGE INDICATION With respect to a wireless network, an out of range warning provides an estimate of an amount of time remaining until a wireless device is out of range of the wireless network. In this way, the user is presented with an opportunity to take corrective measures, if desire... | 02/11/2010 |
| 20100008040 | COLD-DRAWN HOUSING FOR ELECTRONIC DEVICE A primary outer housing component for an electronic device formed via a cold-drawing process is disclosed. The electronic device can include internal operational components located within an outer housing, as well as a processor and one or more user interfaces in commun... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20100008030 | MICROPERFORATED AND BACKLIT DISPLAYS HAVING ALTERNATIVE DISPLAY CAPABILITIES A visual display having microperforations, backlighting and contrasting surface finishes is disclosed. The visual display includes an opaque base object having a front surface and a plurality of microperforations therethrough from the front surface to a back surface. Ea... | 01/14/2010 |
| 20090301857 | CANTILEVERED PUSH BUTTON HAVING MULTIPLE CONTACTS AND FULCRUMS A cantilevered push button adapted for accepting an input on an electrical or electronic device is disclosed. The button can include an elongated button top component disposed about an exterior surface of an electrical or electronic device such that it is accessible to ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090301633 | TAMPER RESISTANT LABEL FOR DETECTING DEVICE OPENINGS A tamper resistant label adapted to indicate whether a device has been opened is disclosed. The label can be flat and flexible, having a first distal end with an adhesive substance on its top side and a second distal end having an adhesive substance on its bottom side. ... | 12/10/2009 |
| 20090292831 | HOT UNPLUGGABLE MEDIA STORAGE DEVICE Improved techniques for rendering a peripheral device removable (e.g., unpluggable) are disclosed. According to one aspect of the invention, the peripheral device is rendered removable from a host computer without preparatory user actions. In effect, the peripheral devi... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290359 | ACTIVE ENCLOSURE FOR COMPUTING DEVICE A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light device disposed inside the housing. The light device is configured to illuminate the illuminable portion.... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090290296 | SMALL LANYARD CONNECTOR FOR LOW PROFILE DEVICE A miniaturized attachment mechanism for attaching a lanyard to a cell phone, MP3 player or other portable device having a hole in its outer casing is disclosed. The miniaturized attachment mechanism can have one end permanently fastened to a lanyard, and can include a s... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090289789 | EVENT RECORDER FOR PORTABLE MEDIA DEVICE Operational parametric sensing and event recording capabilities are provided for portable electronic devices such as media players, cell phones, laptop computers, and the like that takes the can take the form of a standalone sensing unit or as an integrated component of... | 11/26/2009 |
| 20090289571 | ACTIVE ENCLOSURE FOR COMPUTING DEVICE A computing device is disclosed. The computing device includes a housing having an illuminable portion. The computing device also includes a light device disposed inside the housing. The light device is configured to illuminate the illuminable portion.... | 11/26/2009 |
