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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7469540 | Energy recovery from waste heat sources In some embodiments, three integrated phases may be used to reduce emissions, convert thermal energy into electricity, and cool inlet combustion air. An ammonia injection system may be designed to eliminate extraneous equipment and hazardous re-circulation lines by ... | 12/30/2008 |
| D580936 | Keyboard | 11/18/2008 |
| 7436059 | Thermoelectric cooling device arrays In various embodiments, a TEC device array may be coupled to a chip and a heat sink to cool the chip. The TEC device array may include multiple TEC devices separately controlled to provide different cooling rates at different points in the TEC device array coupled t... | 10/14/2008 |
| 7433990 | Transferring system information via universal serial bus (USB) In various embodiments, a system may include a processor, a host controller coupled to the processor, a Universal Serial Bus (USB) device coupled to the host controller and a non-USB device coupled to the USB device. In some embodiments, the host controller may be c... | 10/07/2008 |
| D569354 | Videoconferencing unit | 05/20/2008 |
| 7325733 | Electrically disconnecting a peripheral device If a USB device is turned off or is not active, the device may be electrically disconnected from a USB host controller. The device may be electrically disconnected through a physical interface on the device. In some embodiments, if the device becomes active during a... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7310498 | Communication protocol for personal computer system human interface devices over a low bandwidth, bi-directional radio frequency link A system and method for maintaining communications with a radio frequency (RF) peripheral device such as an RF input device and an RF output device. A computer may search for an RF peripheral device by transmitting a signal request on available channels until a resp... | 12/18/2007 |
| 7290069 | Data acquisition system which monitors progress of data storage A pattern may be written to an allocated section of host memory to track how much data has been received in the host memory from a direct memory access controller coupled to a First In, First Out memory. A driver may send the most recently written sample of data fro... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7222252 | Power management of computer peripheral devices which determines non-usage of a device through usage detection of other devices A system and method for monitoring usage of peripheral devices and placing a second peripheral device in a low power state when the usage indicates that a second peripheral device is not being used. For example, if a computer system detects that a user's current typ... | 05/22/2007 |
| D540753 | Separable videoconferencing settop unit | 04/17/2007 |
| D536719 | Camera | 02/13/2007 |
| D536327 | Circular speakerphone | 02/06/2007 |
| 7159766 | Peripheral device feature allowing processors to enter a low power state If a USB device is turned off or is not active, the device may be electrically disconnected from a USB host controller. The device may be electrically disconnected through a physical interface on the device. In some embodiments, if the device becomes active during a... | 01/09/2007 |
| 7149093 | PXI chassis with backwards compatibility for existing PXI devices The coupling apparatus couples two circuit cards to fit into a larger chassis. A coupling element can connect two similar sized circuit cards or two different sized circuit cards together by coupling the first circuit card and the second circuit card to effectively ... | 12/12/2006 |
| 7140907 | Strain-relieving device for card connected cables In some embodiments, a module may have a slot for an input/output card. While cables may be connected to the card in the module, external forces acting on the cable and/or module may result in the cable pulling the card out of the module, damaging the connector or c... | 11/28/2006 |
| D532387 | Integrated videoconferencing unit | 11/21/2006 |
| 7137855 | Mechanical adapter for circuitry modules In some embodiments, a mechanical adapter may be used to couple a first circuit board (e.g., a motherboard) to a second circuit board (e.g., a daughtercard) in a module. The mechanical adapter may have a mounting portion and a configurable portion. In some embodimen... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7131595 | Automatic drive icon assignment by media type in single slot USB card readers In various embodiments, icons, specific to a type of memory card (e.g., a flash memory card) inserted into a card reader may be displayed. In some embodiments, the card reader may be electrically connected to the host controller each time a memory card is inserted i... | 11/07/2006 |
| 7127564 | Double buffered flash programming A double buffered flash bank. In one embodiment, a flash interface may be programmed by a register interface with a first set of data while a second set of data is being written to the register interface. In one embodiment, flash banks may be programmed in parallel ... | 10/24/2006 |
| 7086583 | Systems and methods for power reduction in systems having removable media devices In some embodiments, if a card in a card reader has not been accessed in a first specified amount of time, the card may be powered down. The card may be powered back up if an attempt is made to access the card. In some embodiments, if a memory card is in the memory ... | 08/08/2006 |
| 7055047 | Selective implementation of power management schemes based on detected computer operating environment Detecting a radio frequency (RF) environment around a computer and using a power management scheme for an RF user input device being used by the computer system. If the computer system is in a single user environment, a power management scheme may be used to conserv... | 05/30/2006 |
| 6920527 | Portable RAM drive A portable RAM drive comprising data stored on a non-volatile memory and transferable to a volatile memory when the portable RAM drive is coupled to a computer system. When the portable RAM drive is plugged into the computer system, the data from the non-volatile me... | 07/19/2005 |
