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Dining Table Having Integral Dishwasher
A space-saving dishwasher, which may be installed within a counter top or table, having a dish-carrying rack that is vertically shiftable through the open top of the dishwasher for facilitating loading and unloading of the dishes.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6604237 | Apparatus for journaling during software deployment and method therefor A method and apparatus for automatically generating a log, or journal, during the deployment of software packages to client systems on a network are implemented. The logs may be used to verify the deployment and facilitate selectively deployment of compon... | 08/05/2003 |
| 6526447 | Apparatus for restarting interrupted data transfer and method therefor A method and apparatus are implemented which allow applications to automatically resume from the last checkpoint on the receiver when a distribution interruption has occurred due, for example, to a network failure, machine reboot or power failure. For eac... | 02/25/2003 |
| 6496911 | Apparatus for memory bus tuning and methods therefor An apparatus and method for memory bus tuning are implemented. A plurality of drivers having a plurality of selectable drive levels are coupled to a memory bus. The memory bus is connected to a memory device which may have a variable amount of memory, whi... | 12/17/2002 |
| 6486894 | Contrasting graphical user interface pointer An apparatus and method for the display of a graphical user interface (GUI) pointer, such as a mouse pointer, in a GUI system operating in conjunction with a color or monochrome-scale display system having a display screens. The pointer is displayed in a ... | 11/26/2002 |
| 6483503 | Pixel data merging apparatus and method therefor A pixel merge apparatus and method has been implemented. Included is a configurable graphics device, which may serve as a standalone graphics engine, or as a master or slave in a master/slave configuration. In stand alone mode, the mechanism drives a disp... | 11/19/2002 |
| 6445393 | Three-dimension graphics rendering apparatus and method therefor An apparatus and method for three-dimensional graphic rendering are implemented. For each vertex on a surface of a graphic to be rendered, the scalar product of the unit normal to the surface and a half vector (the vector bisecting an angle between a unit... | 09/03/2002 |
| 6327643 | System and method for cache line replacement A cache replacement algorithm improves upon a least recently used algorithm by differentiating between cache lines that have been written with those that have not been written. The replacement algorithm attempts to replace cache lines that have been previ... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6219743 | Apparatus for dynamic resource mapping for isolating interrupt sources and method therefor An apparatus and method of dynamic resource mapping for isolating interrupt sources is implemented. Each interrupt source is provided with a unique identifier. The identifier is mapped to an interrupt number which is sent to an operating system when the i... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6219733 | Transmission line loop Two daughter cards connected by bus connectors to a motherboard have integrated circuits connected to each other and to an integrated circuit on the motherboard through a bus network. The bus network is also connected by a bus cable connected at the top o... | 04/17/2001 |
| 6205504 | Externally provided control of an I2C bus A command string is sent from an operating system to a microcontroller coupled to one or more I2 C buses. Such a command string may instruct the microcontroller to perform a read or write operation with respect to a bus device designated within... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6185523 | Apparatus and method for computer system interrupt emulation Accordingly, provided is an apparatus and method for generating a computer system interrupt emulation having the effect of a hardwired interrupt. A service processor with a test circuit interface can be coupled to an integrated circuit, which has a test c... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6148419 | System diagnostic location codes A multitude of devices coupled to a processor are each given a location code, which is then displayed in proximity to each of the devices. Then, when the processor indicates an error within a particular device, the service person can easily find which dev... | 11/14/2000 |
| 6055492 | System and method for providing trace information data reduction The present invention is a system, method, and computer readable medium for representing program event trace information in a way which is very compact and efficient, and yet supports a wide variety of queries regarding system performance. The tracing and... | 04/25/2000 |
