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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 |
| 7429030 | Variable radial flow rate control system A variable radial flow rate control valve including a body forming a bore along the longitudinal axis thereof for transporting a fluid through the body, a fixed choke member fixedly positioned about the bore, the fixed choke member forming a fixed aperture, a rotati... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7428921 | Well treatment system and method A well treatment system of the present invention includes a housing forming a sealed surge chamber, and a surge charge disposed within the sealed surge chamber, wherein the surge charge is adapted upon activation to penetrate the housing and to not penetrate materia... | 09/30/2008 |
| 7372031 | System and method for sensitive photon detection A sensitive photon detection system generates an electronic photon sensor signal as a K factor times a number N photons per unit time. The system is configured by combining a separate optical amplifier with a gain factor K1 with a photo detector with a gain f... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7240087 | Communication network having adjustable response timeouts and method therefore A communication network implements a timing system that closely approximates network response times so that information may be transmitted between two data processing systems within the network in a timely and efficient manner. During operation of the communication ... | 07/03/2007 |
| 7155429 | Method, apparatus and article of manufacture to aggregate automated transaction procession A method, apparatus and article of manufacture to aggregate automated transaction processing and facilitate database integrity. In one embodiment of the invention, identified transactions are interrogated and their associated processing requirements determined. Once... | 12/26/2006 |
| 7140002 | Method and system for automatic code generation accessing functionality in a remote process A mechanism for automatically generating code, in particular high level source code for remotely accessing functionality running in a remote process is provided. Given a specified set of functionality, which may be defined via an interface, for providing functionali... | 11/21/2006 |
| 7134153 | Cradle conversion system A cradle conversion system having a cradle moveable between at least one sofa position and a bed position. The system comprised of a cradle having a first and second deck and a locking mechanism for selectively securing the decks in a set angular position to one ano... | 11/14/2006 |
| 7123699 | Voice mail in a voice over IP telephone system In a voice over IP system, an IP telephone includes an LED lamp that indicates a voice message has been stored in a remote voice mail system. The IP telephone can then access that voice message. The message can also be moved from one remote site to another. ... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7122827 | Monolithic light emitting devices based on wide bandgap semiconductor nanostructures and methods for making same The present invention is directed toward a method for fabricating low-defect nanostructures of wide bandgap materials and to optoelectronic devices, such as light emitting sources and lasers, based on them. The invention utilizes nanolithographically-defined templat... | 10/17/2006 |
| 7113048 | Ultra high frequency ring oscillator with voltage controlled frequency capabilities A pseudo Set/Reset latch circuit is configured with modified NOR or NAND gates wherein one of the series pull-up devices or pull-down devices is removed. A minimum of three pseudo Set/Reset latches may be coupled as a ring oscillator generating an output and a non-s... | 09/26/2006 |
| 7100039 | Systems and methods for a bootstrap mechanism for software execution A mechanism to acquire and deploy (“bootstrap”) software files, particularly testcase files, across multiple hosts and platforms is provided. A software package is created and a predetermined bootstrap executable file is built into the package. A process on each... | 08/29/2006 |
| 6996804 | Adapting polymorphic inline caches for multithreaded computing A method and computer system that implements polymorphic inline caches having locking slots. Each time the polymorphic method is called having a new object type, a new slot in the polymorphic inline cache is created. By comparing the object types of new methods with... | 02/07/2006 |
| 6991105 | Apparatus for releasably holding a tool A tool holder has a carrier and a boss movable within the carrier. The boss is configured to accept the drive end of the tool. A locking pin within the boss releasably engages the boss to the tool when the boss is turned. ... | 01/31/2006 |
| 6982061 | System and method for odorizing a gas line A closed system odorant chamber or wick-style odorizer and method for transferring odorant to an odorant chamber is described. Two cylinders are connected to the odorant chamber, which in turn may be connected to a gas line. The pressure differential between the two... | 01/03/2006 |
| 6980660 | Method and apparatus for efficiently initializing mobile wireless devices A method and system for enabling wireless devices distributed throughout an enterprise to be efficiently initialized for secure communications. The method and system utilize well known public key cryptography and machine unique identifiers to establish a secure chan... | 12/27/2005 |
| 6981257 | System, method and apparatus to allow communication between CICS and non-CICS software applications A system, method and apparatus to facilitate the invocation of existing CICS BMS transactions and deliver the executed transaction output to a requesting application as a standardized XML document. Building upon a facility which intercepts the flow of control betwee... | 12/27/2005 |
| D512560 | Cell phone purse | 12/13/2005 |
| 6976218 | User interface design The invention relates to providing to a user a user interface. It is determining from a plurality interactions by a user with a first user interface whether they experienced difficulties using at least one module of the first user interface. Responsive to determinin... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6974561 | Methods of preparing and using electrostatically treated fluids The present invention includes an improved electrostatic device for energizing fluids, in particular water based fluids, which will be used to provide a benefit to living organisms, machinery, processes and substances. The improved device of the invention will inclu... | 12/13/2005 |
| 6968848 | Retractable bristle brush A retractable bristle brush of the type for retracting the bristles into the brush is provided. The retractable bristle brush includes a handle adapted for grasping by a user and an elongated, cylindrical inner mandrel extending from the handle; a plurality of brist... | 11/29/2005 |
| 6948969 | Electrical connector assembly with a cable guiding member An electrical connector assembly includes an electric cable, and an electrical connector member for signal transmission. The connector member terminates an end portion of the electric cable. A cable guiding member is mounted on the end portion of the electric cable,... | 09/27/2005 |
| 6946018 | Method and apparatus for cleaning a gas A method and apparatus for cleaning a gas comprising a rotatable centrifugal cylinder having passageways for flowing a gas stream with a liquid stream through the cylinder to centrifugally remove the particulates from the gas stream with the liquid stream; turbine b... | 09/20/2005 |
| 6933670 | Flat multi-spectral light source Cold cathodes are used as field emitters within a multi-spectral light source, which is flat and compact. With the use of filters, very narrow and tunable light wavelengths can be achieved from a single lamp having a large selection of spectral behavior. ... | 08/23/2005 |
| D507478 | Carpet rod bracket-finial assembly | 07/19/2005 |
| 6886011 | Good and service description system and method The present invention provides a system and method for the description of goods and services which permits the user to use an interactive system to automate the generation of descriptions of those goods or services for use, entry into a database or for query of a da... | 04/26/2005 |
| 6823428 | Preventing cache floods from sequential streams A method that avoids cache flooding when handling sequential I/O request streams in storage subsystem caches. Both on-demand and prefetched data are addressed. A mechanism is provided that makes the blocks read from the disk array, that are part of a sequential I/O ... | 11/23/2004 |
| 6767167 | Method and apparatus for lifting and stabilizing a foundation A method and apparatus for lifting and stabilizing a foundation including a pier having a top end and a bottom end, the pier being disposed in shaft drilled proximate the foundation to a desired underground formation suitable for supporting the foundation, a slab br... | 07/27/2004 |
| 6748491 | Designing a cache using an LRU-LFU array A system, computer program product and method for designing a cache. A server in a network system, e.g., file system, database system, may receive requests forming a workload. A trace may be performed on the workload to provide information such as the frequency coun... | 06/08/2004 |
| 6734837 | Variable color display system for comparing exhibited value with limit A variable color optical device repeatedly develops a start signal and two end signals respectively timed in relation to the start signal in accordance with the values of two sets of data. Two stable signals are developed, each from the start signal to the respectiv... | 05/11/2004 |
| 6665409 | Methods for surround sound simulation and circuits and systems using the same A method of producing reverberation effects is disclosed. A filter is implemented for modeling early acoustic reflections in response to an input signal using a first processor, the filter includes a delay buffer of a selected length and having a selected... | 12/16/2003 |
| 6662255 | System for housing CompactPCI adapters in a non-CompactPCI frame A system for housing CompactPCI cards in a frame that does not meet a specified CompactPCI form factor (3U and 6U) is presented. Existing telecommunication frames have generally a larger depth that those required by the CompactPCI standard (160 mm) and th... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6661122 | Polarity independent power supply control methods and systems using the same A method of controlling a power supply having an output activated in response to a first logic level of a control signal and deactivated in response to a second logic level of the control signal. A clock is generated on a second power source and used to t... | 12/09/2003 |
| 6657574 | One line data format for audio analog-to-digital converters An analog-to-digital converter is provided for converting multiple analog inputs into corresponding digital values. An output interface circuit uses differential signaling to reduce noise and interference induced in the analog portions of the analog-to-di... | 12/02/2003 |
| 6642863 | Sample rate converters using virtual sample rates and analog to digital and digital to analog converters using the same A method of performing sample rate conversion in a data converter operating from an oversampling clock corresponding to a native sample rate and a native oversampling factor. A virtual sample rate and a virtual oversampling factor are selected proportiona... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6625740 | Dynamically activating and deactivating selected circuit blocks of a data processing integrated circuit during execution of instructions according to power code bits appended to selected instructions An integrated circuit 300 included a plurality of circuit blocks 202-206 for selectively performing data processing operations in response to a set of instructions. Circuitry 301 dynamically activates and deactivates selected ones of circuit blocks 202-20... | 09/23/2003 |
| 6593806 | Circuits and methods for compensating switched mode amplifiers A system and method for compensating switched mode amplifiers. The amplifier system includes an adaptive filter coupled to the output of circuitry that recovers the analog signal from the output of the switching amplifier circuitry. The adaptive filter de... | 07/15/2003 |
| 6559789 | High speed successive approximation return path and data conversion methods and circuits using the same A return path for use in a switched capacitor circuit includes an array of capacitors and a plurality of switches for selectively coupling voltages to capacitors. A set of latches selectively controls the plurality of switches during time periods partitio... | 05/06/2003 |
| 6556159 | Variable order modulator A delta-sigma modulator 400 includes circuitry 407 for selectively varying an order of the modulator to vary a modulation index of the delta sigma modulator.... | 04/29/2003 |
| 6542024 | Circuits and methods for controlling transients during audio device power-down, and systems using the same A driver circuit 605 including a p-channel transistor 606 for driving an output from a supply rail at a positive supply voltage, p-channel transistor 606 disposed in an n-well. A detector 500 detects ramp down of the supply voltage below a preselected thr... | 04/01/2003 |
| 6529074 | Circuits and methods for output impedance matching in switched mode circuits An output stage 300 includes a first output switch 201 having a current path for driving an output from a first voltage rail and a second output switch 202 having a current path for selectively driving the output from a second voltage rail. A first refere... | 03/04/2003 |
