Did You Know...
...that power steering was invented by independent inventor Francis W. Davis? As chief engineer in the 1920s of the truck division of the Pierce Arrow Motor Car Company, he saw how hard it was to steer heavy vehicles. So that he would be able to keep the profits from his future invention, Davis left his job, rented a small engineering shop in Waltham, Mass., and developed a hydraulic power steering system that led to power steering.
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| 6603488 | Browser based command and control home network A method and system for commanding and controlling diverse home devices is provided. A first home device capable of displaying user interface data is connected to a home network. A second home device stores user interface data that defines a user interfac... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6493874 | Set-top electronics and network interface unit arrangement A set-top electronics and network interface unit arrangement is connected to an internal digital network interconnecting devices in the home. The digital network operates on a single, nomodulated, baseband channel. Entertainment services are introduced in... | 12/10/2002 |
| 6466971 | Method and system for device to device command and control in a network Method and system for command and control among a plurality of devices via a network by: connecting a first device to the network; connecting a second device to the network, where the second device stores application interface description data in a struct... | 10/15/2002 |
| 6411308 | Television graphical user interface having variable channel control bars A TV graphical user interface provided on a TV screen includes a graphical channel changer for enabling a user to select a required TV channel among about 1000 channels carried by a satellite TV system. The graphical channel changer contains a vertical ch... | 06/25/2002 |
| 6288716 | Browser based command and control home network A method and system for commanding and controlling diverse home devices is provided. A first home device capable of displaying user interface data is connected to a home network. A second home device stores user interface data that defines a user interfac... | 09/11/2001 |
| 6275616 | Method and apparatus for converting a high definition image to a relatively lower definition image using wavelet transforms A method and an apparatus for converting a high definition image to a relatively lower definition image is provided. Image data encoded with a discrete cosine transform (DCT) is decoded using an inverse wavelet transform (IDWT). A fast inverse discrete wa... | 08/14/2001 |
| 6198479 | Home network, browser based, command and control A method and system for commanding and controlling diverse home devices on a home network to perform a service is provided. According to the method, a client device that is capable of displaying a user interface is connected to a home network. A software ... | 03/06/2001 |
| 6195089 | Television graphical user interface having variable channel changer icons A TV graphical user interface provided on a TV screen includes a graphical channel changer for enabling a user to select a required TV channel among about 1000 channels provided by a satellite TV system. The graphical channel changer contains a vertical c... | 02/27/2001 |
| 6191781 | Television graphical user interface that combines electronic program guide with graphical channel changer A graphical user interface (GUI) for a TV receiver combines a graphical channel changer with an electronic program guide to enable a user to quickly and seamlessly go from a TV channel selection mode to a TV program selection mode. The graphical channel c... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188397 | Set-top electronics and network interface unit arrangement A set-top electronics and network interface unit arrangement is connected to an internal digital network interconnecting devices in the home. The digital network operates on a single, nomodulated, baseband channel. Entertainment services are introduced in... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6181333 | Television graphical user interface having channel and program sorting capabilities A TV graphical user interface is provided with a graphical channel changer for enabling a user to select a required TV channel among about 1000 channels offered by a satellite TV system. The graphical channel changer contains a vertical channel bar compos... | 01/30/2001 |
| 6175362 | TV graphical user interface providing selection among various lists of TV channels A TV graphical user interface (GUI) in a satellite TV system enables users to create customized lists of TV channels. Everyday, favorite and theme lists may be generated to respectively combine TV channels being watched regularly, favorite TV channels and... | 01/16/2001 |
| 6044416 | Configurable first-in first-out memory interface A first-in first-out (FIFO) memory interface is provided by coupling an input register and an output register to a conventional static random access memory (SRAM). The registers and SRAM are coupled to control logic that controls the timing of shift-in (w... | 03/28/2000 |
