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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5805808 | Real time parser for data packets in a communications network A parser for reading bits of a packet has a set of logic circuits implemented in a computer chip; a memory interacting with the computer chip, the memory providing first data to the set of logic circuits; means for reading bits from any field of packet in... | 09/08/1998 |
| 5748961 | Efficient method and apparatus for compiling and linking modules of computer code in a large software system A software system is defined by a tree of system models which are written in a functional language. During a build of the software system, the functions are interpreted and the results of the expensive expressions are cached. Each function is examined bef... | 05/05/1998 |
| 5555375 | Method and apparatus for network computer systems management group administration The following is a method and apparatus for administering an operation specified for performance on a set of independently managed hosts. The operation is received initially by one of a plurality of management servers in a managed host system. The operati... | 09/10/1996 |
| 5511168 | Virtual circuit manager for multicast messaging A multicast connection arrangement is provided by which a source node may establish multicast virtual circuits to a group of destination nodes of an arbitrary-topology network using a single procedure, and may subsequently modify those circuits, i.e., add... | 04/23/1996 |
| 5483598 | Message encryption using a hash function An encryption system employing a one-time key-pad uses a shared secret number and a one-way hash function with which both the originator and recipient of a message generate successive segments of a key-pad to encrypt and decrypt the message respectively. ... | 01/09/1996 |
| 5446575 | System for constructing and loading a table data structure based on an associated configuration data An apparatus for storing and retrieving data acts as an interface between modules such as data collection devices and data analysis tools. The apparatus provides the capability of maintaining a data standard so the number of translation tools needed to tr... | 08/29/1995 |
| 5434971 | System for constructing a table data structure based on an associated configuration data structure and loading it with chemical sample physical data An apparatus for storing and retrieving data acts as an interface between modules such as data collection devices and data analysis tools. The apparatus comprises a means for storing a configuration data structure, the configuration data structure having ... | 07/18/1995 |
| 5329426 | Clip-on heat sink A clip-on heat sink assembly includes a spring and electrically-insulating braces. The spring is shaped to fit over a heat sink and a chip carrier package and engage with the braces which support the chip carrier package. The spring holds the heat sink in... | 07/12/1994 |
