Did You Know...
...that after Parker Brothers executives turned down the game of Monopoly because it had "52 fundamental errors" (including taking too long to play), a copy of the game wound up in the home of the company president who stayed up until 1 a.m. to finish playing it? He was so impressed by the game that the next day he wrote to inventor Charles Darrow and offered to buy it!
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 7188313 | Context sensitive font generation Programs, methods and apparatus for context sensitive font generation, especially handwriting fonts. In a preferred embodiment, a computer program product contains instructions to identify a character string including upper case, lower case, and/or symbolic characte... | 03/06/2007 |
| 5499285 | Automated telephone system with TDD capability An automatic telephone answering system employs a switch activated by any of several techniques to select a language for communication with a caller. A single matrix determines the content of a message to be generated in response to input from the caller.... | 03/12/1996 |
| 5388146 | Automated telephone system using multiple languages An automatic telephone answering system employs a switch activated by any of several techniques to select a language for communication with a caller. A single matrix determines the content of a message to be generated in response to input from the caller.... | 02/07/1995 |
| 5095179 | Extensive morse code processing system An extensive morse code processing system includes a microprocessor unit, a transmitter processing unit, a receiver processing unit, a display unit, a keyboard unit, and a radio unit. Whenever a data key on the keyboard is pressed, the ASCII code of the p... | 03/10/1992 |
| 4959847 | Telecommunications device with automatic code detection and switching A telecommunications device automatically detects the code used by a second telecommunications device to which the devices are linked to transmit and receive therebetween. After the telecommunications device has been set to transmit and receive in code wh... | 09/25/1990 |
| 4884287 | Converter device for interconnecting systems having different communication standards A converter device for converting signals between an RS-232 device and an RS-422 device. The converter device can either be self-powered, using signals at the I/O port of the RS-232 device to derive its operating voltages, or can be powered by an external... | 11/28/1989 |
| 4752765 | Apparatus, method and algorithm for encoding and decoding characters in a message to be transmitted between a first system and a second system A first data processing system sends a message to a second data processing system via a modem. A processor of the first data processing system executes the instructions of an encoding algorithm stored in a memory of the first data processing system thereb... | 06/21/1988 |
| 4649231 | Method for the transmission of characters by means of the code combinations of a telegraph alphabet It is an object of the present invention to provide a teleprinting machine capable of transmitting and writing capital and small letters, where the number of additionally transmitted shift code combinations is minimized in order to reduce the transmission... | 03/10/1987 |
| 4547628 | Data transmission system A data transmission system has a data converter for converting character code data into dot image data, and/or vice versa. The data converter has a memory and a pattern generator and/or a character recognition apparatus to perform such conversion. The sys... | 10/15/1985 |
| 4511758 | Reduction of message length in a communication system In a message communication system and process, a character string with a plurality of characters is encoded into a compact code, which is transmitted to a reception side. At the reception side, the compact code is decoded to an original character string. ... | 04/16/1985 |
| 4477695 | Microprocessor operated telecommunications interface for a terminal of an automatic teletypewriter switching service A microprocessor operated telecommunications interface for connection to a telecommunications line to provide transmission of data between a dedicated terminal of an automatic teletypewriter switching service of the type operating in one code and a data b... | 10/16/1984 |
| 4431864 | Communications system input-output converter An input-output converter permits the integration of terminals and transmit and receive equipments that operate at given logic voltage levels and character formats into communications system that operate at different logic voltage levels and character for... | 02/14/1984 |
| 4430525 | Circuit arrangement for connecting telex subscriber stations to teletex subscriber stations which are connected to the same data exchange system A data exchange system is connected to at least one signal converter in which digital signals emitted from teletex subscriber stations are converted so that they may be processed by teletex subscriber stations, and vice-versa. In order that the load on th... | 02/07/1984 |
| 4403111 | Apparatus for interconnecting data communication equipment and data terminal equipment An interface for connecting data terminal equipment (DTE) to data communication equipment (DCE) is provided which requires no modification to an existing and widely accepted DCE connector and yet which permits data communication according to more recently... | 09/06/1983 |
| 4122299 | Data output format modifying system A system for placing data in a format for acceptance by a general purpose communications printer, the data originally being in a format for providing a television display to news wire service subscribers, and being originally in a format composed of signa... | 10/24/1978 |
| 4093819 | Closed user group facility A closed user group facility in a data transmission system which has a closed user group of terminals accomodated in a switching network, and in which the switching network registers a terminating terminal in response to a request for registration of that... | 06/06/1978 |
