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A method of swing on a swing is disclosed, in which a user positioned on a standard swing suspended by two chains from a substantially horizontal tree branch induces side to side motion by pulling alternately on one chain and then the other.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6145052 | Disk drive with adaptive pooling for command reordering A method for selecting a next command to execute from a set of SCSI commands where the commands are gracefully aged and performance of a disk drive is improved. An execution threshold age, a pool threshold age, and an age threshold age are used to determi... | 11/07/2000 |
| 6125396 | Method and apparatus for implementing bandwidth allocation with a reserve feature A method for accessing a shared resource is provided. An assigned usage rate is received from a resource coordinator and a desired usage rate is determined. When it is determined that the desired usage rate is higher than the assigned usage rate, a shared... | 09/26/2000 |
| 6098138 | Apparatus providing connectivity between devices attached to different interfaces of the apparatus A communications interface is provided for apparatus such as a desktop computer or printer. The communications interface provides both for connection to a network and connection to a local device that may be a portable computer, the two connections operat... | 08/01/2000 |
| 6070204 | Method and apparatus for using universal serial bus keyboard to control DOS operations A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for generating signals using a Universal Serial Bus (USB) host controller and USB keyboard. Data generated by the keyboard is marked as being used with an operating system which responds to keyboard generate... | 05/30/2000 |
| 5884097 | Data structure and methods for defining and using attribute data blocks to instantiate objects and describe changes to objects A data structure and method are disclosed for transferring object attributes between platforms in a distributed computing environment. The method includes creating an application description file. The application description file includes a type ID and an... | 03/16/1999 |
| 5845316 | Scheduling random I/O for data storage tape A system for scheduling read-requests for a serpentine data tape. The transit time between arbitrarily selected locations in the tape is not a linear function of distance between the locations. Despite this non-linearity, a model has been developed which ... | 12/01/1998 |
| 5822766 | Main memory interface for high speed data transfer An apparatus and method for transferring data sets between a storage controller and a number of daisy chained main memories on separate circuit elements at high speed. Each main memory has coupled control logic which receives a data set from the storage c... | 10/13/1998 |
| 5724614 | Circuits provide input/output module connections having the input receptacle being connected to neutral wiring terminal and the output receptacle being connected to hot wiring terminal A digital input/output circuit board includes a plurality of circuits each having an input module and an output module for mounting either an input module or an output module, wiring terminals for attaching field wires to electrically connect the circuit ... | 03/03/1998 |
| 5715475 | Topological identification and initialization of a system for processing video information A method and apparatus for initializing and determining the topological configuration of a system for processing video information is described. The system has a master device and multiple slave devices for transmitting or receiving video information. The... | 02/03/1998 |
| 5594925 | Method and apparatus determining order and identity of subunits by inputting bit signals during first clock period and reading configuration signals during second clock period A unit train (10) includes a base unit (12). Base unit (12) generates a clock signal and a bit signal. Base unit (12) also receives and interprets a data signal. Unit train (10) also includes a plurality of subunits (14) serially coupled in a certain orde... | 01/14/1997 |
| 4796176 | Interrupt handling in a multiprocessor computing system A multiprocessor computing system is disclosed which includes a system bus, a plurality of processing units and a plurality of synchronous input/output channel controllers. A plurality of priority lines each corresponding to a processing unit are provided... | 01/03/1989 |
| 4615019 | Data processing system with interrupt facilities The system comprises a series of input-output units (I/O) connected by means of a bus (21) to a central unit (CPU) capable of accepting at least one category of vectored interrupts requested by the I/O units and a category of non-vectored interrupts. The ... | 09/30/1986 |
| 4225942 | Daisy chaining of device interrupts in a cathode ray tube device A microprocessor controlled cathode ray tube display system has a plurality of peripheral devices all connected in common to a system bus. Apparatus in each peripheral device activates a single interrupt signal. A single acknowledge response signal to all... | 09/30/1980 |
| 4059851 | Priority network for devices coupled by a common bus A priority network utilizing a common bus coupled to a plurality of priority seeking peripheral devices wherein a processor or any number of processors is connected to the common bus. Each successive peripheral device is connected to the common bus in inc... | 11/22/1977 |
| 3996561 | Priority determination apparatus for serially coupled peripheral interfaces in a data processing system A priority determination technique for use in a data processing system having a data processor coupled with a plurality of peripheral interface logic elements or boxes for transferring data to such boxes serially by bit, such interface boxes coupled along... | 12/07/1976 |
