Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7739038 | Methods and apparatus for geo-collaboration Methods and computer readable medium for collaborating on geographical maps between two or more computers are disclosed. In particular, sharing a geographical location on a map between two or more computers and co-navigating a map between two or more computers are d... | 06/15/2010 |
| 7587361 | Methods and apparatus for electronic reporting of mortgage delinquency Techniques for managing mortgage delinquency information are described. A system for managing and reporting mortgage delinquency information according to an aspect of the present invention comprises a delinquency information database for receiving, storing and maint... | 09/08/2009 |
| 7236473 | Methods and apparatus for automatic assignment of a communication base station and timeslot for an electronic shelf label An electronic price label (ESL) system with automatic assignment of an ESL to an appropriate CBS and timeslot is described. In one aspect, the ESL system automatically assigns a missing ESL to an appropriate CBS and timeslot following a successful find command. Afte... | 06/26/2007 |
| 7028041 | Methods and apparatus for database space calculation and error detection Techniques for more accurately analyzing the additional capacity of very large hierarchical databases are described. More particularly, techniques and tools for looking at physical sequential data files, such as the OSAM files used in IMS databases, to determine how... | 04/11/2006 |
| D514354 | Stemware rack | 02/07/2006 |
| 6993130 | Methods and apparatus for mediametric data cryptoprocessing A data storage device having mediametric properties used as a source of data for cryptoprocessing keys. A memory array is formed by a plurality of memory cells, each cell containing a level of trapped charges that are difficult or impossible to set to a specific val... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6965991 | Methods and apparatus for power control in a scalable array of processor elements A reconfigurable register file system is described. The reconfigurable register file system includes an instruction register for storing an instruction specifying an operational requirement, a reconfigurable register file comprising an odd register file having at le... | 11/15/2005 |
| 6955156 | Injection pump and fuel DME feed device of diesel engine with the injection pump In an injection pump element 2, a communication route for communicating an injection pipe 3 connected to a fuel liquid outlet 212 and an inner peripheral surface of a plunger barrel 25 is formed by a purge passage 242 formed in a d... | 10/18/2005 |
| 6954842 | Methods and apparatus to support conditional execution in a VLIW-based array processor with subword execution General purpose flags (ACFs) are defined and encoded utilizing a hierarchical one-, two- or three-bit encoding. Each added bit provides a superset of the previous functionality. With condition combination, a sequential series of conditional branches based on complex... | 10/11/2005 |
| 6944683 | Methods and apparatus for providing data transfer control A variety of advantageous mechanisms for improved data transfer control within a data processing system are described. A DMA controller is described which is implemented as a multiprocessing transfer engine supporting multiple transfer controllers which may work ind... | 09/13/2005 |
| 6929110 | Coin chute with optical coin discrimination Systems and techniques for providing an improved coin acceptor are described. In one aspect, an electronic coin acceptor exaggerates relatively small differences in coin diameters. A coin deposited into the coin acceptor passes along a coin path through two sensing ... | 08/16/2005 |
| 6912608 | Methods and apparatus for pipelined bus Techniques for a pipelined bus which provides a very high performance interface to computing elements, such as processing elements, host interfaces, memory controllers, and other application-specific coprocessors and external interface units. The pipelined bus is a ... | 06/28/2005 |
| 6901375 | Methods and apparatus for electronically storing and retrieving value information on a portable card A value storage system in which information representing value is directly written to an easily portable storage medium as a reference fingerprint. The value storage system includes a plurality of read/write units for storing and retrieving the value information. Ea... | 05/31/2005 |
