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"During my service in the United States Congress, I took the initiative in creating the Internet."
Al Gore ; The basis for the later misquote by US Republicans that Gore had "invented" the Internet. Gore was the leading political champion of the modern-day Internet.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5525882 | Method and system for maneuvering a mobile robot A method and system for maneuvering a mobile robot are disclosed, which include a mobile robot having a plurality of sensors, including a sensor which detects the presence of an object and a sensor which detects image information related to the object. Ut... | 06/11/1996 |
| 5465327 | Method and system for document administration utilizing iconic representations within a data processing system A method for document administration within a data processing system which utilizes iconic representations. A bit image or graphic iconic representation is created for selected textual documents and stored as a bit image or graphic object at a selected me... | 11/07/1995 |
| 5448731 | Method and apparatus for controlling the deferred execution of user requests in a data processing system A method and apparatus are disclosed for controlling the deferred execution of user requests in a data processing system. In the depicted embodiment of the present invention, each deferred user request includes a plurality of user defined attributes which... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5448679 | Method and system for speech data compression and regeneration A method and system for creating a compressed data representation of a human speech utterance which may be utilized to accurately regenerate the human speech utterance. First, the location and occurrence of each period of silence, voiced sound and unvoice... | 09/05/1995 |
| 5437005 | Graphical method of processing multiple data blocks A method of processing multiple noncontiguous data blocks within a document is disclosed. A graphical pointing device such as a light pen, computer tablet, mouse pointer, or touch sensitive screen is utilized to designate an initial location and a final l... | 07/25/1995 |
| 5428729 | System and method for computer aided software engineering A data processing system supports preparation of a software application by coordinating the efforts of a metaprogrammer and a plurality of system users responsible to the metaprogrammer. The data processing system includes a plurality of workstations, eac... | 06/27/1995 |
| 5424724 | Method and apparatus for enhanced electronic mail distribution A method and apparatus for enhanced electronic mail distribution which permits expeditious distribution of electronic mail documents to multiple host systems and/or external networks via a single host agent. A distributed data processing system having mul... | 06/13/1995 |
| 5422993 | Method and system for performing direct manipulation operations in a computer system Disclosed are a method and system for directly manipulating an icon in a data processing system. The method includes attaching a visual pointer to the icon and moving the pointer with the icon attached thereto about the display screen. While the pointer r... | 06/06/1995 |
| 5410692 | Method for enhancing interactive query of a database A data processing system has access to a memory storing a data or other information base. The data processing system evaluates objects from the data base against search criteria generated from parameters entered into the data processing system by a user. ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5392389 | Graphical method for creating an object A method and system for creating objects in a computer system having a display screen and a device for manipulating objects on the screen. The method includes displaying an object dispenser icon on the screen and a dispensable object mini-icon on the obje... | 02/21/1995 |
| 5388993 | Method of and system for demonstrating a computer program A system and method are provided for building a help function in the form of a tutorial that physically demonstrates to an end user the function that the end user wants to understand. The invention includes a script language that includes tags or commands... | 02/14/1995 |
