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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6141697 | System and method for performing external procedure calls in heterogeneous computer systems utilizing program stacks A method is disclosed for performing function calls from a first program operating under control of a first operating system running on a first CPU; to a second program operating under control of a second operating system running on a second CPU. The meth... | 10/31/2000 |
| 6129460 | Object-oriented apparatus and method in a computer system for a programming language compiler to select optimal pointer kinds for code generation The invention disclosed is an object-oriented apparatus and method in a computer system for a programming language compiler to select optimal pointer kinds for code generation. The invention offers important advantages over current compiler practice. In P... | 10/10/2000 |
| 6106574 | Computer-implemented object-oriented method for relating objects in a compiler to locations in the source program and to inlined call histories An object-oriented method and apparatus for relating objects in a compiler program running on a computer for compiling source files into a binary code file for execution on a target computer to source code locations, said apparatus includes a type of obje... | 08/22/2000 |
| 6105073 | Method for packing/unpacking C operations to/from RPC compatible format using the RPC protocol to operate remotely with an object-oriented repository The present invention provides a C interface program that remotely operates with an object oriented repository by making the public properties and operations of the types in the repository available to Client programs written in the C language, or accesse... | 08/15/2000 |
| 6101504 | Method for reducing semaphore contention during a wait to transfer log buffers to persistent storage when performing asynchronous writes to database logs using multiple insertion points A method in a symmetric multi-processor computer system for increasing database transaction log performance by reducing semaphore contention while waiting to transfer the contents of log buffers stored in a volatile memory of the system to a persistent st... | 08/08/2000 |
| 6038393 | Software development tool to accept object modeling data from a wide variety of other vendors and filter the format into a format that is able to be stored in OMG compliant UML representation A programmed computer system transforms a distinctive representation of a business model into a generic representation format, such as the Unified Modeling Language ("UML") object model. The system also transforms legacy business processes, including lega... | 03/14/2000 |
| 6026408 | Method for synchronizing the schema of a database with its representation in an object-oriented repository The present invention is an object-oriented apparatus stored in the memory of a computer system for executing a method for synchronizing schemas between a database and an object-oriented repository. The method includes the steps of initializing a variable... | 02/15/2000 |
| 6023579 | Computer-implemented method for generating distributed object interfaces from metadata A method and system for creating a distributed object interface description and a distributed object server interface module to a software system, such as a repository. In a preferred embodiment, a repository contains an object oriented information model ... | 02/08/2000 |
| 6018627 | Tool-independent system for application building in an object oriented development environment with data stored in repository in OMG compliant UML representation A programmed computer system includes a set of development tools, each having a format used to store data and code files. The output data from a developmental tool is transformed into a generic format data which is saved in a repository. The repository al... | 01/25/2000 |
| 5978586 | Method for tracking changes in source locations in a compiler The disclosed method creates a source object for each source language element parsed by the compiler and associates each such created source object with objects created from source language elements to produce source-mapped objects. Next, the source-mappe... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5974430 | Method for dynamically embedding objects stored in a web server within HTML for display by a web browser A method in a computing system having at least one server and a multiplicity of clients coupled thereto by means of a network. The server executes a Web Server program and at least one of the clients executes a Web browser program. The method operates in ... | 10/26/1999 |
