Did You Know...
...that when IBM conducted a market study of Chester Carlson's invention in 1959, the company concluded that it would take only 5000 units of his new product to saturate the market? IBM therefore declined to be part of the new product introduction. Too bad for IBM. Carlson's invention was the xerography process, and his new product was the beginning of the Xerox Corporation. It is estimated that every day, worldwide, 3,000,000,000 copies are made!!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7457910 | Method and system for managing partitions in a storage device A mass storage memory system and a method for re-allocating memory partition space is provided. The storage system includes a memory controller with a microprocessor that is adapted to receive data via a logical interface from a host system; a first memory partition... | 11/25/2008 |
| 7409623 | System and method of reading non-volatile computer memory The disclosure is directed to a method of reading a portion of a non-volatile computer memory including reading a first portion of a redundant memory area of a data sector of the non-volatile computer memory. The first portion of the redundant memory area includes d... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7406504 | Intelligent email detection and auto reply email technique to emails destined to no reply email addresses An intelligent email detection and auto reply email tool is disclosed. A method includes receiving an incoming email, determining whether the incoming email requires a response; and after determining that the incoming email requires a response, generating an auto re... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7395401 | System and methods for accessing solid-state memory devices The disclosure is directed to a method of determining memory parameters of a memory device. The method includes determining a communication protocol associated with the memory device, determining a page size of the memory device by using the communication protocol t... | 07/01/2008 |
| 7391346 | Switching amplifier system and method A switching amplifier system and method is disclosed. In a particular embodiment, a pulse width modulation frame size is determined based on a sample rate of a digital input signal. Data associated with the first digital input signal is modified based on the pulse w... | 06/24/2008 |
| 7388948 | AMA access over local audit analysis (AAOLA) A method of evaluating automatic message accounting records associated with telephony calls that originate at a local exchange carrier telephony office and that are routed over an inter-exchange carrier telephony facility is disclosed. The method comprises collectin... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7388906 | Method for detecting bridged taps on telephony cable In a particular embodiment a method of collecting and processing modem data is provided. The method includes, during training of a broadband modem, sending a series of tones within a frequency transmission band of the broadband modem, receiving the transmitted serie... | 06/17/2008 |
| 7376112 | Method and system for seamless service availability for multi-mode terminals in different access networks Systems, methods and devices provide seamless communication service for a wireless multi-mode communication terminal. A multi-mode communication terminal with an intelligent call forwarding module automatically forwards calls in a multi-mode network environment. A b... | 05/20/2008 |
| 7366203 | Passive optical network and ultrawide band adapter The disclosure relates generally to a system including a passive optical network element and a first ultra wideband adapter coupled to the passive optical network element. The first ultra wideband adapter is coupled via a data communication line to a second ultra wi... | 04/29/2008 |
| 7362810 | Post-filter for deblocking and deringing of video data An implementation of an MPEG-4 compliant post-filter for image data, which performs deblocking and deringing post-filtering on decoded video data. The post-filter comprises two independent processing units, one for horizontal deblocking and the other for vertical de... | 04/22/2008 |
| 7336770 | Method and apparatus for telephone line testing A method and apparatus for qualifying a telephone transmission line for XDSL communication services is disclosed. The system includes a modem, located at the customer premises to be connected. The modem analyzes actual signals to determine the electrical characteris... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336694 | Delay-induced scattering with phase randomization and partitioned frequency hopping A first copy and a second copy of a signal, which comprises a plurality of TDMA frames, are transmitted from the same antenna. Relative to the first copy, the second copy of the signal has a fixed delay and a random phase. The random phase changes from one of the TD... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7321656 | Shared usage telecommunications billing system and method In a particular embodiment, the disclosure is directed to a telecommunications billing system that includes an interface, a customer database, a usage database and a billing module. The interface is configured to receive subscription data associated with a subscript... | 01/22/2008 |
