Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6176733 | System and method for direct communication with a backup network device via a failover cable A system and method are disclosed for providing a failover for designating a primary network device and a backup network device and providing direct communication between the primary network device and the backup network device. The cable includes a plura... | 01/23/2001 |
| 6148428 | Method and apparatus for modulation encoding data for storage on a multi-level optical recording medium A system and method are disclosed for modulation encoding data for storage or transmission on a multilevel medium. The method includes encoding a first portion of data using a first tier modulation code. The first tier modulation code maps a first portion... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6134554 | System and method for recording receipt of information According to an embodiment of the present invention, a section map may be used which utilizes a series of section maps, each section map including a predetermined number of bits, such as 32 bits. Each section map may include a single bit which indicates w... | 10/17/2000 |
| 6061349 | System and method for implementing multiple IP addresses on multiple ports Disclosed is a system and method for handling a plurality of connection requests made for a plurality of virtual machines with a single physical machine. A system and method are disclosed for distributing virtual connections among a plurality of physical ... | 05/09/2000 |
| 6049666 | Method and apparatus for accurate profiling of computer programs An object code expansion profiler equips a program for execution profiling by preprocessing the object code files of the program so as to add profiling monitoring code to the beginning of all or substantially all functions. The preprocessing includes, for... | 04/11/2000 |
