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Mouse device with a built-in printer
A mouse device for use as an input device of a computer is provided that includes a housing in which recording paper is loadable, and a printer unit provided within the housing for printing on the recording paper print information received from the computer.
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| 7440423 | Channel specification apparatus, systems, and methods An apparatus and a system, as well as a method and article, may operate to select a group of contiguous communications channels having a specified number of channels, a center channel, and a control channel. Some embodiments may operate to select a group of contiguo... | 10/21/2008 |
| 7423984 | Digital subscriber line transmission method, apparatus and system A digital subscriber line transmission (xDSL), system includes a transmitting side which transmits training symbols by adding some data that is contained in a training symbol sequence onto at least one of the beginning and the end of this symbol sequence and then tr... | 09/09/2008 |
| 7415001 | Method and receiver for processing a multi-user signal The invention relates to the field of signal processing for telecommunications, and concerns a method and receiver for processing a multi-user signal. In the method of the invention, a multi-user signal is processed by a receiver using an iterative receiver process ... | 08/19/2008 |
| 7405980 | Shared terminal memory interface A memory architecture for a disk drive system in which Synchronous Random Access Memory (SRAM) and Dynamic Random Access Memory (DRAM) functions are provided on separate integrated circuits, and an interface protocol for transmitting information between these two me... | 07/29/2008 |
| 7372381 | Programmable serializer for a video display A serializer receives parallel data and a control signal. The serializer splits the parallel data into multiple subportions of data and, based on the control signal, sequentially outputs each of said subportions as serial output data in one or more serial output cha... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7373134 | Multiple-CPU portable terminal with communication function and control method In response to the occurrence of an application event in a portable terminal with the communication function that has an application control CPU (ACPU) and a communication control CPU (CCPU), the operation of a control target unit, which is under control of a CCPU a... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7359734 | Compensating for radiation pattern in radio system, and radio system The invention relates to compensation of a radiation pattern in a radio system. The solution comprises forming a primary radiation pattern by weighting signals of antenna branches with primary weights. The primary radiation pattern is compensated with a compensating... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7359471 | Data communication method and data communication device and semiconductor device The present invention provides a data communication method and a data communication device capable of performing high-speed data communication by using a parallel link and higher-speed data communication by reducing a timing skew. A data communication method include... | 04/15/2008 |
| 7352803 | Apparatus and method for communicating voice and data between a customer premises and a central office Systems and methods are provided for communicating data over a subscriber loop using a modem. One such method includes: transmitting data on the loop in a first frequency band; sensing an indication that simultaneous transmission on the loop in a POTS frequency band... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7353447 | System and method for representing compressed information The present invention provides a system and method for storing re-synchronization, error correction and/or error detection data within an existing communication protocol, while still maintaining full compliance to a standard, such as the MPEG-2 AAC standard. By doin... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7352711 | Circuit arrangement and method for data transmission In the inventive circuit arrangement and appertaining method, data of at least respectively one ISDN data connection, a traditional telephone connection as well as of a broadband data connection are transmitted in an SDSL frame of an SDSL data connection, where the ... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7346011 | Scheduling calls based on frame-offset selection A wireless communication network has radio resources for use to support calls over circuit switched (CS) and packet switched (PS) channels. The network uses such radio resources to first support CS calls and thereafter uses the leftover radio resources to support PS... | 03/18/2008 |
| 7342911 | Network element and a method for traffic management A traffic management method includes the steps of dividing a time slot into sub-blocks, defining the amount of available capacity for non-real time use in a time slot, defining the number of sub-blocks reserved by real time use in a time slot, defining the number of... | 03/11/2008 |
| 7339926 | System and method for wireless communication in a frequency division duplexing region A method and system for using half-duplex base stations and half-duplex nodes in a Frequency Division Duplexing region to provide wireless connectivity between the half-duplex base stations and customers in multiple sectors of a cell. The method and system can use t... | 03/04/2008 |
| 7336633 | Media access controller for high bandwidth communication media and method of operation thereof An access control method for a medium, a media access controller and a wireless communication system incorporating the method or the controller. In one embodiment, the method includes: (1) allowing first and second devices to employ a control channel defined in the ... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7336627 | Digital subscriber line transmission method, apparatus and system A digital subscriber line transmission (xDSL) system includes a transmitting side which transmits training symbols by adding some data that is contained in a training symbol sequence onto at least one of the beginning and the end of this symbol sequence and then tra... | 02/26/2008 |
| 7333445 | Method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched via a packet-switched network Some embodiments of the present invention are directed to a method and system for monitoring and recording voice from circuit-switched switches via a packet-switched network. A circuit-switched or VoIP recording system may record and/or live-monitor telephone calls ... | 02/19/2008 |
| 7327988 | Wireless communications system having reduced noise mode operation capability A wireless communication system having a terminal unit operates in a reduced noise state during receipt of a wireless transmission from a control unit. The terminal unit includes terminal circuitry, a radio and noise management circuitry. The noise management circui... | 02/05/2008 |
| 7324434 | Radio transmission system and method, and transmitter apparatus and receiver apparatus used in the radio transmission system A radio transmission system is configured to, on the occasion of radio transmission of information between a transmitter and a receiver, perform the radio transmission of information using an orthogonal frequency and code division multiplexing transmission scheme of... | 01/29/2008 |
| 7321611 | Method and transceiver for full duplex communication of ultra wideband signals An impulse radio transceiver for full duplex ultrawide-band communications. The transceiver comprises an impulse radio transmitter that transmits impulse radio signal pulses, an impulse radio receiver that receives impulse radio signal pulses. Either or both of the ... | 01/22/2008 |
| 7317896 | Mobile wireless router A mobile communication system for wireless communications includes a power adapter configured to receive input power from a power source and to adapt the input power to an output power, the output power being within Universal Serial Bus (USB) standards, a USB cable ... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7317687 | Transmitting data frames with less interframe space (ifs) time A method of transmitting data frames over a data network comprises a step of sending said data frames from a transmitter to a receiver with an Inter Frame Space (IFS) time, which does not include a time (T2) that the transmitter needs to change from a receive... | 01/08/2008 |
| 7315567 | Method and apparatus for partial interference cancellation in a communication system A method of partial interference cancellation of a received signal that includes a first data component and a second data component is disclosed. The method includes the steps of determining a characteristic of the communication channel, estimating a factor based up... | 01/01/2008 |
| 7304978 | Medium access control method and system A medium access control method is provided in which a control station transmits one specific frame to terminal stations, thereby arranging a schedule of a data transmission time of the control station and each of the terminal stations and allowing a time zone unused... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7302232 | Adaptive antenna control method and adaptive antenna transmission/reception characteristic control method An adaptive antenna control method is used for a radio communication system built by a plurality of radio base stations and a plurality of terminal stations capable of communicating with the radio base stations. Each radio base station includes an adaptive antenna h... | 11/27/2007 |
| 7289458 | Method for transmitting data between a read/write device and a data memory, use of the method in an identification system and a read/write device and mobile data memory for an identification system A method for transmitting data between a read/write unit (SLG) and one or more mobile data stores (D, HD) in an identification system. The method includes dividing the data transmission occurring between the read/write unit (SLG) and the data stores (D, HD) into a p... | 10/30/2007 |
| 7286495 | Digital subscriber line transmission method, apparatus and system A digital subscriber line transmission (xDSL)-, system includes a transmitting side which transmits training symbols by adding some data that is contained in a training symbol sequence onto at least one of the beginning and the end of this symbol sequence and then t... | 10/23/2007 |
| 7283488 | J1850 application specific integrated circuit (ASIC) and messaging technique A communication system for controlling remote devices within a vehicle is provided. The communication system includes a master module for generating a command message, and a remote module for executing the command message and generating a response message. A data bu... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7283551 | Technique for implementing an add/drop collector for supporting dedicated and shared timeslotting A technique for implementing a tunable add/drop collector having at least two bursting ports for supporting dedicated and shared timeslotting in a point to consecutive point environment is disclosed. In one embodiment, the technique is realized by method for impleme... | 10/16/2007 |
| 7280810 | Multimode communication system Multimode, multi-function, multiple modulator-demodulator (modem) system containing a fingerprint sensor, detection, identification, authentication, and processing device for one or multiple fingerprint information to activate one or multiple modulators for signal t... | 10/09/2007 |
| 7272294 | Wireless communication system and receiving device The present invention is to provide a wireless communication system and a receiving device each capable of restraining a circuit scale and obtaining an excellent error rate performance. In a wireless communication system in which a transmitting device and a receivin... | 09/18/2007 |
| 7266104 | Time division protocol for an AD-HOC, peer-to-peer radio network having coordinating channel access to shared parallel data channels with separate reservation channel An ad-hoc, peer-to-peer radio system includes a series of radio terminals forming a service group, each radio terminal having a transceiver for communicating with terminals in the same service group, computer means, and memory for storing program software. Within th... | 09/04/2007 |
| 7263073 | Systems and methods for enabling a mobile user to notify an automated monitoring system of an emergency situation Systems and methods for enabling a mobile user to notify an automated monitoring system of an emergency situation are provided. The automated monitoring system may be configured for monitoring and controlling a plurality of remote devices and may comprise a site con... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7263377 | System and method of assigning priority to remote units in a collision free multiple access protocol Disclosed embodiments include a system and method for prioritizing access requests from a plurality of remote units, wherein the access requests are requests for uplink access in a fixed wireless network. In one embodiment, the system receives an access request from... | 08/28/2007 |
| 7260091 | Transmission equipment having a packet switching function Efficient packet traffic transmission equipment is provided by enhancing the transmission equipment already implemented in a carrier to have the packet processing function, with a reduced number of cross-connects for 1:n (point-to-multipoint) connection between node... | 08/21/2007 |
| 7257098 | Wireless communications equipment In a wireless communications system, a base station unit covers a plurality of communications station units and downlink and uplink communication between the base station unit and the communications station unit are wireless. Each of the communications station units... | 08/14/2007 |
| 7254460 | Numerical control system, and method of establishing communication timing in numerical control system Performing communications between numerical control apparatus 1a and peripheral devices (composed of at least one of a servo amplifier 2a, a spindle amplifier 3a and a remote I/O unit 4a) by connecting a numeri... | 08/07/2007 |
| 7248571 | Multi-user time slots for TDMA A method of transmitting speech frames in a TDMA network in which at least one time-slot of the TDMA frame is allocated to at least two users. The method comprises encoding user data from the at least two users into a single RLC/MAC block, allocating at least one ti... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7249169 | System and method for network control and provisioning A multi-stratum multi-timescale control for self-governing networks provides automatic adaptation to temporal and spatial traffic changes and to network state changes. Microsecond timescale reacting through the routing function, a facet of the lowest stratum, allows... | 07/24/2007 |
| 7230931 | Wireless access system using selectively adaptable beam forming in TDD frames and method of operation A transceiver for use in a wireless access network comprising a plurality of base stations, each of the plurality of base stations capable of bidirectional time division duplex (TDD) communication with wireless access devices disposed at a plurality of subscriber pr... | 06/12/2007 |
