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 |
| 4942616 | Interactive synthesized speech quotation system for brokers Apparatus for use by a broker including a memory for holding a number of market prices each corresponding to a security or a commodity. A speech synthesizer provides that prices may be quoted to customers in a synthesized human voice. A telephone interfac... | 07/17/1990 |
| 4876538 | Paging system sublocal switch A paging network is disclosed which utilizes a plurality of distributed switches to transmit pages on a non-real time basis to achieve efficient and low cost transmission. Each of the switches processes packets of pages received from the network. Each of ... | 10/24/1989 |
| 4873519 | Paging receiver having independent memory areas for common and individual addresses In a paging receiver with an individual paging number and at least one common paging number, there is provided memory means including individual memory means including individual memory areas capable of storing at least one message signal following the in... | 10/10/1989 |
| 4845491 | Pager based information system A pager based information system is used to transmit both conventional private messages (using unique pager IDs) and two types of unconventional multi-recipient (M-R) messages (using database IDs and group IDs), all using the conventional POCSAG pager tra... | 07/04/1989 |
| 4786901 | Paging receiver In a paging receiver with an individual paging number and at least one common paging number, there is provided memory means including individual memory means including individual memory areas capable of storing at least one message signal following the in... | 11/22/1988 |
| 4688034 | Paging receiver and transmitting device adapted to said receiver Paging system comprising a transmitter and one or more paging receivers, where said transmitter may transmit a communication comprising a first data block to all receivers. Each receiver comprises a first memory comprising up to five registers for storing... | 08/18/1987 |
| 4677434 | Access control system for transmitting data from a central station to a plurality of receiving stations and method therefor An apparatus and a method of providing an access control for transmitted stock market data from a central radio station to a plurality of one-way radio receivers. Into each receiver is inputted an access code including a cypher pointer which provides for ... | 06/30/1987 |
| 4674044 | Automated securities trading system Data processing based apparatus makes an automated trading market for one or more securities. The system retrieves the best obtaining bid and asked prices from a remote data base, covering the ensemble of institutions or others making a market for the rel... | 06/16/1987 |
| 4554418 | Information monitoring and notification method and apparatus An information monitoring and notification method and apparatus is provided which may monitor many forms of changing data input, such as market and stock market information, and notify a user or users in near real time of the occurrence of identified even... | 11/19/1985 |
| 4524430 | Dynamic data re-programmable PLA A re-programmable logic array is disclosed which has an AND array disposed for receiving n input signals on n rows of m cells per row, and an OR array providing k output lines on k rows of m cells per row. The AND and OR arrays are coupled together by m t... | 06/18/1985 |
| 4473824 | Price quotation system A price quotation system for conveying quotations of interest to the financial community comprising a transmitter for receiving a plurality of said quotations and broadcasting serial data representing each of said quotations, a handheld, portable receiver... | 09/25/1984 |
| 4370649 | Payment responsive data display network A payment responsive system for displaying information comprises at least one remote terminal adapted to display information for a pre-determined time upon payment, a central processor adapted to control input of information and transmission to the remote... | 01/25/1983 |
| 4129858 | Partitioned display control system A system for controlling display of characters on partitioned regions of a CRT display surface comprising a refresh memory having a capacity enough to store application display data for exhibiting application display on the entire area of the CRT display ... | 12/12/1978 |
| 4104624 | Microprocessor controlled CRT display system A display system is disclosed wherein a refresh memory is divided into a plurality of blocks of bytes so that a micro-processor can access the blocks byte by byte while display data of the plurality of blocks are assembled by word so that the display data... | 08/01/1978 |
| 4068225 | Apparatus for displaying new information on a cathode ray tube display and rolling over previously displayed lines A communications terminal having a video output wherein new data is displayed on the bottom line of the CRT and each line of previously displayed data is moved up one line. Logic internal to the terminal increments the address of the storage locations wit... | 01/10/1978 |
