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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7929444 | Communication nodes and methods using small routers to communicate over a backhaul facility For a wireless network, communication nodes (such as a Mobile Switching Center) are disclosed that include at least ten small routers. The small routers handle traffic received from a plurality of base stations over a backhaul facility. The backhaul facility transpo... | 04/19/2011 |
| 7401171 | Methods and structure for SAS expander initiating communication to a SAS initiator to identify changes in the SAS domain Methods and structures within a SAS expander for initiating communication with one or more SAS initiators in a SAS domain to inform the initiators of sensed changes in the domain without the need for a full SAS Discovery process. In one aspect hereof, the expander m... | 07/15/2008 |
| 7370139 | Methods and structures for efficient storage of task file information in serial ATA environments Methods and structures for efficiently storing task file information for a significant number of SATA devices coupled to a SATA storage controller. A RAM memory within the SATA storage controller may store task file information for virtually any number of SATA devic... | 05/06/2008 |
| 7310682 | Systems and methods for improving network performance Systems and methods for improving network throughput in a packet ties to network communication environment. In one aspect here of, delays associated with retransmission of a packet or reduced to improve total performance and bandwidth utilization on the communicatio... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7301906 | Methods and structures for improved buffer management and dynamic adaption of flow control status in high-speed communication networks Methods and structure for standardized, high-speed serial communication to reduce memory capacity requirements within receiving elements of a high-speed serial communication channel. In an exemplary SPI compliant embodiment of the invention, the semantic meaning of ... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7290066 | Methods and structure for improved transfer rate performance in a SAS wide port environment Methods and associated structure for utilizing multiple ports or PHYs comprising a SAS wide port to improve transmission bandwidth utilization for a single large I/O request. In one aspect hereof, a large I/O request is broken into a plurality of smaller I/O request... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7259584 | Methods and structure for selective impedance control of bus driver circuits Methods and apparatus for selectively allowing and disallowing changes to an impedance control signal applied to bus driver circuits coupling a device or system to a common, shared bus where impedance of the bus may vary over time. Well known impedance sensing circu... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7210065 | Methods and structure for testing responses from SAS device controllers or expanders Improved methods and structures for testing of SAS components, in situ, in a SAS domain. A first SAS component is adapted to generate stimuli such as error conditions to elicit a response to the error condition from a second SAS component coupled to the first in the... | 04/24/2007 |
| 7174476 | Methods and structure for improved fault tolerance during initialization of a RAID logical unit Methods and structure for improved tolerance of errors during initialization of a storage volume. More specifically, features and aspects of the invention provide for tolerating read errors during read-modify-write or read-peer-write processing of I/O requests overl... | 02/06/2007 |
| 7146481 | Methods and systems for pre-merge read of configuration data from a foreign volume group inserted in storage array Methods and structure for storing volume and other configuration information on all disk drives of a volume group and for performing pre-merge operations to inform a user of the pending availability of the identified volumes. Configuration information has been histo... | 12/05/2006 |
| 6911803 | Systems and methods for evaluating a charge state of a battery based on optical properties of the battery electrolyte material System and methods for evaluating a charge state of a battery are provided. A light source is configured for emitting light through an electrolyte contained within the battery. An optical element determines the charge state based on the light passing through the ele... | 06/28/2005 |
