Did You Know...
...that the inventor of the electric motor was a blacksmith named Thomas Davenport? Described as "a brilliantly unsuccessful inventor", Davenport invented the first rotary electric motor. In 1836 he headed out -- on foot -- from his Vermont home to file a patent application at the Patent Office in Washington, D.C. By the time he got there, he had squandered away his money and couldn't afford the $30 filing fee so he turned around and went home. When he later mailed in his application with money he'd raised, the Patent office was destroyed in a fire. He did finally get credit for his invention on Feb. 5, 1837.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 5995744 | Network configuration of programmable circuits An interactive graphical software tool is provided that can be used to report the configuration data (i.e., the state of the various configuration bits) in a programmed device as well as to probe and stimulate circuits in the programmed device. A graphica... | 11/30/1999 |
| 5978911 | Automatic error recovery in data processing systems An error recovery technique is provided which is used during the automatic installation of software on a client data processing system from a connected server data processing system. The installation process is made up of a plurality of operations executi... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5978589 | Loading method of base station system in digital cellular system A loading method of a base station system in a digital cellular system. The loading method run in its own processor includes the steps of: requesting its upper processor to load a file, receiving a file header from the upper processor, and assigning a sto... | 11/02/1999 |
| 5960204 | System and method for installing applications on a computer on an as needed basis A data processing system for computer application installation on a client/server network on an as needed basis is disclosed. The server computer includes an installation unit, a system application repository, and a user information file. The client compu... | 09/28/1999 |
| 5956505 | Remote activation of software features in a data processing device A method is provided for activating an optional feature in a data processing device that includes a microprocessor and memory. The method includes storing in the memory: a number of applications programs, at least one of which has at least one optional fe... | 09/21/1999 |
| 5953532 | Installation and deinstallation of application programs A method, apparatus, and article of manufacture for a computer implemented method of installing and deinstalling Windows™ application programs. The present invention provides two windows. The first window displays application programs that can be instal... | 09/14/1999 |
| 5931909 | System for multiple-client software installation and upgrade A software package is installed to multiple target systems in a client/server distributed processing system. The software package is installed on program files of the server. A target list of clients served by the server is established, and the software p... | 08/03/1999 |
| 5926631 | Network computer emulator systems, methods and computer program products for personal computers Network computer emulator systems, methods and computer program products for personal computers can provide many of the advantages of network computers to personal computers, without requiring the replacement of existing personal computers with network co... | 07/20/1999 |
| 5923885 | Acquisition and operation of remotely loaded software using applet modification of browser software Methods, systems, and software for installing and operating selected software applications on a client computer that is in communication with a server computer on a computer network is described. In one aspect, a method for installing and operating a sele... | 07/13/1999 |
| 5881236 | System for installation of software on a remote computer system over a network using checksums and password protection A system to perform software on a remote computer system automatically over a network using a local computer system. The software being performed is placed on a storage device connected to the local computer. The local computer executes software that logs... | 03/09/1999 |
| 5870611 | Install plan object for network installation of application programs An installation plan object is built for installing an application in a network. The empty installation plan object is first created from a template of a prototypical installation plan object. Next, from a workspace container object containing potential c... | 02/09/1999 |
| 5867713 | Committing an install plan object for the network installation of application programs Committing an installation plan object for installing applications in a network. The installation plan object includes an application-in-plan object which represents an application program and a group-in-plan object which represents a group of workstation... | 02/02/1999 |
| 5860012 | Installation of application software through a network from a source computer system on to a target computer system A technique for the remote installation of application software from a source computer system to one or more target computer systems (workstation) coupled to a Local Area Network (LAN). The present invention allows a LAN Administrator to install applicati... | 01/12/1999 |
| 5793982 | Validating an installation plan containing multiple transports and redirectors by adding data structure of the modules to the plan if the indicated transport and redirector modules are unavailable An installation plan object including application objects representing applications to be installed during an installation process and workstation objects representing the workstation on which the applications are to be installed is validated prior to exe... | 08/11/1998 |
| 5717930 | Installation system The present invention provides an installation system that facilitates the operation on computer terminals in the network system and allows for automatic installation of an operating system software program on computer terminals. A PC to be shipped is con... | 02/10/1998 |
| 5410651 | Program loading method and system for distributed processing system In a distributed processing system wherein a plurality of processors are connected through a network and wherein programs are transmitted among the processors; each of the processors monitors the status of a program in the processor or the load status of ... | 04/25/1995 |
| 5375206 | Method for licensing software Disclosed is a system that provides a common application software interface for a variety of vendor supplied license servers. The system provides a single set of program calls and translates this single set of calls into a set of calls for each license se... | 12/20/1994 |
| 5339450 | Computer system including a terminal operable as a service processor and a work station The present invention relates to a floating console control system of computer system. This computer system includes a main storage unit storing the operating system, a central processing unit for reading instructions of a program stored in the main stora... | 08/16/1994 |
| 5247683 | System and method for installing software and updating configuration files A process of software installation over a data processing network is described. New pieces of software being installed over a data processing network require changes to the configuration of the workstation upon which they are being installed. The configur... | 09/21/1993 |
| 5142680 | Method for loading an operating system through a network The method allows for the loading of operating systems between computers over a network, thereby drastically decreasing the amount of time required to download an operating system or update an operating system. A root directory is created and a subset of ... | 08/25/1992 |
| 5138712 | Apparatus and method for licensing software on a network of computers The present invention provides to the software application the verification and license check out functions which are normally performed by a license server of a network software license system. The encrypted license information is contained in a license ... | 08/11/1992 |
| 4724521 | Method for operating a local terminal to execute a downloaded application program The present invention provides methods for operating a local terminal which includes a programmable computer so that the terminal executes a pre-arranged application program. More specifically, the present invention provides methods for operating a local ... | 02/09/1988 |
