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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7415322 | Motherboard having advanced fan control features A motherboard is capable of accepting various types of fans from same or different manufacturers and is capable identifying the type of fan to which it is connected. In one embodiment, the motherboard is capable of decoding bar code data originating from a fan of th... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7184796 | Personal communication device having a built in projection display A personal communication device comprising a dual mode display for a user's viewing in both a direct-view mode, wherein sufficiently-sized characters are displayed in a manner visible to the user without further magnification, and in “projection-view” mode, wher... | 02/27/2007 |
| 6785760 | Performance of a PCI-X to infiniband bridge Communication from a processor in a computer system to a remote input/output (I/O) unit in an expansion drawer using a Peripheral Component Interface (PCI) protocol is optimized to improve system performance. An InfiniBand (IB) protocol link is used to couple the I/... | 08/31/2004 |
| 6754811 | Operating system device centric agent A USB device centric agent is associated with an operating system. The agent software is only required to be loaded once and then it will function with multiple compatible USB devices. A standard interface is established between the device agent and any compatible U... | 06/22/2004 |
| 6741296 | Multi-hemisphere color CRT The present invention discloses a color CRT system that can be easily adapted for installations in either the northern or the southern hemisphere. The CRT is symmetrical with respect to its yamming or set up for the earth's magnetic field so the CRT can be installed... | 05/25/2004 |
| 6728833 | Upgrading firmware on disks of the raid storage system without deactivating the server A method, system and computer program product for updating firmware in a disk in a disk array in a RAID storage system without deactivating a server coupled to the disk array. Upon selecting the disk whose firmware is to be updated, the selected disk may enter a deg... | 04/27/2004 |
| 6651123 | File system locking The present invention utilizes a file locking emulator between an application program and an operating system. The file locking emulator comprises an application program interface and a file lock supervisor. The file locking emulator receives the file loc... | 11/18/2003 |
| 6643735 | Integrated RAID system with the capability of selecting between software and hardware RAID A system, computer program product and method for servicing requests. A server may be configured to receive a stream of requests to access particular logical block addresses in one or more logical drives in a RAID from one or more clients. The server may ... | 11/04/2003 |
| 6634296 | Printer document presenter apparatus and method A kiosk printer for unattended operation is equipped with a presenter to prevent a user from prematurely trying to remove a printed document. The presenter has motor driven feed rollers and a document sensor for determining when the printing document is i... | 10/21/2003 |
| 6601124 | Universal interface for selectively coupling to a computer port type and method therefor Provided is an universal Interface that is electrically coupled and physically embedded in a peripheral device. The universal Interface allows the peripheral device to be electrically coupled to a host computer having either a universal Serial Bus (USB) p... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6600347 | Dynamically producing an effective impedance of an output driver with a bounded variation during transitions thereby reducing jitter A method and system for reducing a reflection coefficient below a predetermined value thereby reducing jitter by the variation of the effective impedance of a driver appearing to be bounded during state transitions. The driver may include a pull-up driver... | 07/29/2003 |
| 6574549 | Method and system for the visually impaired to navigate a route through a facility A system and method of the type for aiding a user in navigating a route through a facility so as too efficiently locate specific items within a facility is provided. The system includes a facility processor having a database and software stored thereon fo... | 06/03/2003 |
