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Mark Twain (Samuel L. Clemens) received Patent No. 121,992 for "An Improvement in Adjustable and Detachable Straps for Garments." He later received two more patents: one for a self-pasting scrapbook and one for a game to help players remember important historical dates.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7072987 | Method for operating and observing field devices The invention relates to a method for operating a proxy server device (1) connected to a field device (FG1–FGN), in addition to a proxy server device. The proxy server device can be connected to the field device and a user device (N1–NN) in ... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7073000 | Communication system and communication control apparatus and method An initiator has logical devices (A, B, C). A target to obtain services from the initiator designates the ID of provided services and the directory ID indicating a directory where the information concerning a logical device is stored, and further the target issues a... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7073001 | Fault-tolerant digital communications channel having synchronized unidirectional links A method of synchronizing or initiating channel lock in a serial loop formed by an initializing transceiver and subject transceivers disclosed. Should a transceiver in the serial loop detect that its receiving serial channel is desynchronized, it sends an unlock sig... | 07/04/2006 |
| 7069371 | Motherboard having a non-volatile memory which is reprogrammable through a video display port and a non-volatile memory switchable between two communication protocols A motherboard of a computer system has a video display port, a reprogrammable non-volatile memory, a controller for the non-volatile memory, and a graphics controller circuit for outputting video signals to the video display port. A wired-OR circuit connects the gra... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068667 | Method and system for path building in a communications network A method and system for managing an interconnect fabric that connects nodes. A network manager manages an interconnect fabric or network of routing devices (e.g., interconnect fabric modules, switches, or routers) to allow source nodes to transmit data to destinatio... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069368 | System of co-located computers in a framework including removable function modules for adding modular functionality A system and method for configuring a system in which one or more centrally located computers are coupled to one or more human interfaces (HIs), and in which removable function modules are used to provide additional functionality to the computers. Each computer incl... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7069350 | Data transfer control system, electronic instrument, and data transfer control method A data transfer control system receives a command packet ORB (SBP-2) transferred through a bus BUS1 (IEEE1394), and issues a command included in the ORB to a device connected with a bus BUS2 (ATA (IDE)/ATAPI). The data transfer control system sets a su... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7068756 | Multi-interface telephony test system using separate interface cards The present invention provides a method to configure the hardware and software resources in a system to utilize two physical interface boards in pairs such that their aggregate units of voice processing DSP resources can be applied to either all of a T1 board's phys... | 06/27/2006 |
| 7065602 | Circuit and method for pipelined insertion The invention transmits data on an integrated circuit chip by first propagating a first data portion along a first segment of a segmented data line and then propagating the first data portion along a second segment of the segmented data line and simultaneously propa... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7065597 | Method and apparatus for in-band signaling of runtime general purpose events A method and apparatus for communicating general purpose events in-band from a downstream controller is presented. ... | 06/20/2006 |
| 7062595 | Integrated gigabit ethernet PCI-X controller A network controller having a multiprotocol bus interface adapter coupled between a communication network and a computer bus, the adapter including a predictive time base generator; and a management bus controller adapted to monitor and manage preselected components... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7062593 | Circuit system and method for data transmission between LPC devices The present invention provides a circuit system for data transmission between LPC devices, comprising: a first LPC bus, connected to a first LPC device; a second LPC bus, connected to a second LPC device; and an LPC host controller, able to drive the first LPC devic... | 06/13/2006 |
| 7058741 | System for suspending processing by a first electronic device on a data line to allow a second electronic device to use the data line, with subsequent resumption of the processing of the first electronic device To provide a method for controlling a transmission system with quick response in which plural electronic devices are connected to one host apparatus through a common data line. The method for controlling the transmission system of the present invention comprises: a ... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058854 | Automode select A microprocessor based system automatically detects the occurrence of certain conditions in the microprocessor. The conditions may include a determination of data corruption in the microprocessor. If a determination is made that data is corrupted, the microprocessor... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7057755 | Communication method and apparatus A communication method and a communication apparatus for smooth facsimile data transmission in both of facsimile communication via the Internet and facsimile communication without the Internet. In a case where facsimile communication via the Internet based on the IT... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058872 | Method and apparatus for generating jitter test patterns on a high performance serial bus The present invention provides a computer readable medium containing instructions for generating random jitter test patterns by generating a sequence of maximum-size asynchronous packets according to the P1394b standard and transmitting the sequence to the device un... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058461 | Page back system and method for remote paging in a control system The invention comprises a modem apparatus adapted to provide full messaging and communications interface between a control device and a communications medium such as a telephone line. The modem can comprise an interface adapted to communicate directly with a control... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7058780 | Device resource allocation In one embodiment, a method is provided. The method of this embodiment may include detecting an operation initiated by a first device that can result in a change of a first set of resources previously allocated to a second device. If the operation has completed at l... | 06/06/2006 |
| 7054968 | Method and apparatus for multi-port memory controller A memory controller is provided. The memory controller includes an initiator block configured to arbitrate requests corresponding to data from multiple ports. The initiator block includes an arbitration module configured to consider a latency factor and a bandwidth ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7055012 | Latency reduction using negative clock edge and read flags A method of selecting CAS latencies in a system. Specifically, a system which includes a plurality of memory devices and a memory controller is provided. Because different memory devices may have different CAS latencies, a system CAS latency is selected wherein the ... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7054693 | High data rate actuator/sensor control system for a plastics processing machine A control system for a plastics processing machine with at least one central processing unit with a real-time operating system is described. The central processing unit is connected to a plurality of actuators and/or sensors via a bus system, with at least one actua... | 05/30/2006 |
| 7051147 | Storage router and method for providing virtual local storage A storage router and storage network provide virtual local storage on remote storage devices to Fiber Channel devices. A plurality of Fiber Channel devices, such as workstations, are connected to a Fiber Channel transport medium, and a plurality of storage devices a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051245 | System and method for handling out-of-order data supplied by a real-time feed A system and associate method handle out-of-order data supplied by a real-time feed, and ingests the real-time feed fast enough to keep up with the feed rate while storing the data in a database in a time-ordered or other sequential manner without discarding any dat... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051229 | Logical bus overlay for increasing the existing system bus data rate A system and method for increasing the data rate of a system bus without making modifications to existing (legacy) devices connected to the bus. A logical bus is overlaid onto one or more physical buses in a TDM manner. The overlaying is done by transmitting data in... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7050453 | Method and apparatus for ensuring compatibility on a high performance serial bus A data communications system is disclosed having at least one Legacy cloud coupled to at least one Beta cloud. The system further having at least one BOSS node and at least one border node. A method for ensuring compatibility is disclosed comprising determining when... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051101 | Methods and apparatus for controlling devices within storage network A management station includes a management application that controls zoning within devices manufactured or provided from different vendors within a network, such as a data storage network. The management application receives a generic zone control command from a use... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051143 | Method, system and program for the transmission of modbus messages between networks The present invention is directed to facilitating communication within an automation system having a plurality of networks and network protocols. Specifically, a Modbus network is operably connected to a network. A fieldbus coupler operably connected to both network... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051131 | Method and apparatus for recording and monitoring bus activity in a multi-processor environment A method and apparatus to facilitate a history trace of system bus activity in a Symmetric Multi-Processor (SMP) environment. A dynamic scan capability is provided to User (516) via Computer (504) that allows dynamic configuration of History Control Re... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7051146 | Data processing systems including high performance buses and interfaces, and associated communication methods A processor is disclosed that executes an instruction including a user-defined value (an address or a command) and provides the user-defined value during execution of the instruction. In one embodiment the processor includes a bus interface adapted for coupling to a... | 05/23/2006 |
| 7047327 | Method and structure for supporting flow control by a SCSI initiator during the data out phase of the packetized SCSI protocol A method for supporting flow control by a SCSI initiator using a Packetized SCSI Protocol includes transmitting a data packet information unit in a Packetized SCSI Protocol Data Out phase. The SCSI initiator also receives a signal in said Packetized SCSI Protocol Da... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047339 | Computer system with detachable always-on portable device A computer system includes a primary display and a secondary display. The secondary display is coupled to a portable device. Information displayed on the secondary display includes information transmitted by the computer system via a short-range communication channe... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047357 | Virtualized striping controller A striping disk controller and disk drive system for a computer system wherein the computer system includes a CPU connected to a system bus and executes an operating system including a BIOS, the striping disk controller and disk drive system includes, 1) an interfac... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047335 | Method for receiving user defined frame information structure (FIS) types in a serial-ATA (SATA) system An apparatus comprising one or more user programmable registers and a circuit configured to compare a predetermined portion of one or more information packets with contents of said one or more user programmable registers. ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047323 | Data processing apparatus, data processing method and data recording medium on which a data processing program that can be read by a computer is recorded A drive apparatus is provided, which is connected via a serial bus to a personal computer. An identification process is performed for identifying the drive apparatus when the serial bus is initialized. Also, the drive apparatus includes a connection-detection unit, ... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7046536 | Programable identification circuitry An integrated circuit has been described that includes a user programmable identification code register. The register can be programmed by the user to emulate other integrated circuit devices. The integrated circuit register can also be reset to reflect the original... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7047304 | System and method for provisioning broadband service in a PPPoE network using a configuration domain name A modem that includes a configuration domain name associated with a configuration Broadband Service Node (BSN) is firstly provided. A PPPoE session is established, and an authentication request is transmitted, containing the identifier and a generic password, from t... | 05/16/2006 |
| 7043577 | Auto-detecting universal appliance communication controller Apparatus and methods for communicating a communications controller with a connected device over a serial bus is provided. The connected device is connected to the bus at one of a plurality of addresses, and the method includes sending a first request to the device ... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043579 | Ring-topology based multiprocessor data access bus The present invention provides a data access ring. The data access ring has a plurality of attached processor units (APUs) and a local store associated with each APU. The data access ring has a data command ring, coupled to the plurality of APUs. The data command ri... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043578 | Method, system, and program for processing a packet including I/O commands and data Provided are a method, system, and program for processing a packet including an Input/Output (I/O) command. A first level protocol processes a first level packet including a frame and a first level error code, wherein the first level error code is used to perform li... | 05/09/2006 |
| 7043583 | Method and system for improved processing of CPU intensive communications protocols A method of processing a frame of a CPU intensive communications protocol includes disabling per frame interrupts of a CPU; enabling a periodic interrupt handler to interrupt the CPU upon an interrupt period; and upon an interrupt of the periodic interrupt handler, ... | 05/09/2006 |
