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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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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 8180916 | System and method for identifying network applications based on packet content signatures Embodiments of the invention provide a framework for traffic classification that bridges the gap between the packet content inspection and the flow-based behavioral analysis techniques. In particular, IP packets and/or IP flows are used as an input, network nodes ar... | 05/15/2012 |
| 8145785 | Unused resource recognition in real time for provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers Real time provisioning and management of fabric-backplane enterprise servers includes monitoring system status and configuration, displaying monitoring results, accepting user commands, and providing hardware and software management and configuration commands to the... | 03/27/2012 |
| 8140703 | Regulating users of online forums Regulating a user of a computer-based service includes receiving input about a first user from at least one other user of the computer-based service, determining a degree to which the at least one other user can influence a parameter associated with the first user, ... | 03/20/2012 |
| 8135856 | Data streaming through time-varying transport media Methods of data streaming from an encoder to a decoder through a connection subjected to time-varying conditions are disclosed. The connection is assigned a nominal flow rate and an encoding coefficient associated with the connection modifies the nominal flow rate t... | 03/13/2012 |
| 8060643 | Method and apparatus for dynamically managing bandwidth for clients in a storage area network A method for managing bandwidth allocation in a storage area network includes receiving a plurality of Input/Output (I/O) requests from a plurality of client devices, determining a priority of each of the client devices relative to other client devices, and dynamica... | 11/15/2011 |
| 8028082 | Location based multicast policies Disclosed herein in an example embodiment is a multicast policy infrastructure that allows administrators to integrate location awareness for a particular multicast stream when it is being forwarded to an intended user. The infrastructure provides more flexibility b... | 09/27/2011 |
| 8019887 | Method, system, and program for managing a speed at which data is transmitted between network adaptors Provided are a method, system, and program for managing data transmissions at a local network device communicating with a linked network device over a network, wherein each network device is capable of transmitting data at different speeds. An operation is initiated... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8005977 | Method and apparatus for transmitting data In a method for transmitting data of various traffic types an xDSL modem is utilized. Detectors are used to detect the traffic types of the data which are to be transmitted and the detected traffic types are taken as a basis for dynamically adjusting a data transmis... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7987285 | Adaptive bitrate management for streaming media over packet networks A method including receiving a receiver report from a terminal; estimating one or more network conditions of a media network based at least in part on the receiver report; determining an optimal session bitrate based on the estimated one or more network conditions; ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7987284 | Communication processing apparatus, data communication system, and communication processing method A communication processing apparatus that acts as a server for transmitting data to a client includes a data transceiver configured to carry out communications with the client; a rate controller configured to control a bitrate of data transmitted to the client; and ... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984179 | Adaptive media transport management for continuous media stream over LAN/WAN environment Methods and systems for transmitting compressed audio/video data streams across conventional networks or channels in real time. Each system employs the Adaptive Rate Control (ARC) technique that is based on the detection of defective packets and other influencing fa... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7975066 | System and method for implementing application functionality within a network infrastructure A system and method for implementing functionality within a network on behalf of first and second computers communicating with each other through the network. A front-end computer is provided within the network having an interface for communicating data traffic with... | 07/05/2011 |
| 7970926 | Synchronized transmission of audio and video data from a computer to a client via an interface A method for controlling data transmission between a computer and a video client via an interface, the method comprising: the computer polling the interface a first time to determine the size of the buffer on the interface; receiving a first buffer size value from t... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7966416 | Management of bandwidth allocation in a network server A server is connected to a plurality of connected client devices, and is configured to transfer information between any selected one of the client devices and a memory for static storage of information. The method comprises increasing the defined delay period after ... | 06/21/2011 |
| 7958256 | System and method for providing application categorization and quality of service in a network with multiple users Internet protocol (IP) data service providers may provide several services over a single communications channel and/or circuit. For example, the provider may deliver public services such as Wi-Fi, content, gaming, etc. as well as business-critical “back-office” ... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7934013 | Synchronous rate adapter Systems and methods for transporting client data received at a first rate over an interconnect at a second, higher rate, wherein the client data is combined with dummy data according to a pattern that minimizes the amount of buffer space required to store the receiv... | 04/26/2011 |
| 7917647 | Method and apparatus for rate limiting A method and apparatus for a network monitor internals mechanism, which serves to translate packet data into multiple concurrent streams of encoded network event data, to contribute to enterprise management, reporting, and global mechanisms for aggregating monitors ... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7895352 | System and method for throttling host throughput A method for throttling host throughput in a computer storage subsystem is provided. The host throughput is compared to a throughput limit for a predetermined time period. If the host throughput exceeds the throughput limit during the predetermined time period, an i... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895353 | System and method for providing throttling, prioritization and traffic shaping during request processing via a budget service A network gateway application is described that provides throttling, prioritization and traffic shaping for incoming requests from client applications. A request is received by a plug-in manager component of the gateway application. The plug-in manager can then invo... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7890649 | System and method for scalable processing of multi-way data stream correlations A computer implemented method, apparatus, and computer usable program code for processing multi-way stream correlations. Stream data are received for correlation. A task is formed for continuously partitioning a multi-way stream correlation workload into smaller wor... | 02/15/2011 |
| 7849209 | System and method for link rate negotiation A system and method are provided for negotiating a link data rate in a communication system using a plurality of data rates. In a system including a first device network-connected to a second device, auto-negotiation (AN) messages are mutually transmitted. The AN me... | 12/07/2010 |
| 7844728 | Packet filtering/classification and/or policy control support from both visited and home networks A method of supporting access to a selected Internet Protocol (IP) multimedia application via an IP Multimedia Subsystem (IMS) is provided for a roaming mobile node (MN)—i.e., user equipment (UE)served by a wireless telecommunications system. The method includes: ... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7844727 | Method and device for proactive rate adaptation signaling A method and system for adaptively controlling level of a receiver buffer in a client in a multimedia streaming network. The multimedia streaming network has a server for providing streaming data to the client. The server is responsible for adapting the transmission... | 11/30/2010 |
| 7836199 | System and method for multilane link rate negotiation A system and method are provided for negotiating a link data rate in a communication system using a plurality of data rates. In a system including a first device network-connected to a second device, auto-negotiation (AN) messages are mutually transmitted. The AN me... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836200 | Communication device, communication method, and program for determining a transmission rate A transmission device includes: a relay device information obtaining unit (101) which obtains self-device transmission status information that is information indicating a transmission status of a communication device; a neighboring communication device determ... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7836198 | Ethernet virtualization using hardware control flow override A method of Ethernet virtualization using hardware control flow override. The method comprises providing, at a first logical entity of a first programmable logic device, control signals used for performing control-flow, selectively routing the control signals to a s... | 11/16/2010 |
| 7827301 | Method for connection acceptance control and optimal multi-media content delivery over networks A method for bandwidth allocation for delivery of multimedia data from at least one server to one or more clients over a network. The method includes the steps of: determining a maximum flow rate and a minimum flow rate for each client; determining a flow rate range... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7788397 | Method for mitigating adverse processor loading in a personal computer implementation of a wireless local area network adapter A personal computer's (PC) microprocessor is used to provide both the physical layer (PHY) and media access control (MAC) processing functions required to implement a wireless local area network (WLAN) adapter. This technique uses the polling mechanism associated wi... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7788398 | Media player plug-in installation techniques In general, the invention is directed to techniques of distributing media player plug-in software. As described herein, default media player software may cause a client device to begin receiving and presenting media data in a media object. During the presentation of... | 08/31/2010 |
| 7779146 | Methods and systems for HTTP streaming using server-side pacing Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for controlling the transmission rate of streaming processes. ... | 08/17/2010 |
| 7765318 | Wireless distribution & collection system A system for data transmission and reception is provided. The system includes a wireless data broadcast system (100) broadcasting outgoing data from a data network to a plurality of users (126, 128) using one or more wireless broadcast repeaters. A wir... | 07/27/2010 |
| 7761591 | Central work-product management system for coordinated collaboration with remote users Client-specified methods, systems and computer program product with multi-protocol access for data input requests designed around a client's business application. It does this by interfacing IVR/telephony programming of multiple communication device protocols to sep... | 07/20/2010 |
| 7756995 | Regulating transmission rates Techniques for reducing propagation delay and message loss within a network when replicating information among host computing devices are provided. To maintain flow control among host computing devices, a distributed transmission rate for host computing devices is a... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7756994 | Consistent information management among server devices The present invention has an object of managing information without generating any inconsistency between a plurality of servers. A server system according to the present invention includes a plurality of server devices that perform processing using a plurality of pr... | 07/13/2010 |
| 7730201 | Method and apparatus for congestion avoidance in source routed signaling protocol communication networks A method and apparatus for communicating and utilizing control plane congestion information in a communication network that utilizes a source routed signaling protocol is presented. When control plane congestion is detected at a network element within the communicat... | 06/01/2010 |
| 7707304 | Storage switch for storage area network A storage switch in accordance with an embodiment of the invention is a highly scalable switch that allows the creation of a SAN that is easy to deploy and that can be centrally managed. Moreover, such a storage switch also allows the deployment of a global infrastr... | 04/27/2010 |
| 7698452 | Access-controlling method, repeater, and server The present invention includes a repeater and a server for controlling access, from a terminal of an outside network, to the server of an inside network. The repeater and the server permit a packet transmission from the terminal to the server under limited condition... | 04/13/2010 |
| 7676592 | 10/100 Mbs network device A scheme by which a network device may be made to locate data signals from a plurality of potential data sources in the context of a network environment having devices that employ autonegotiation over an autonegotiation period. The scheme involves switching an input... | 03/09/2010 |
| 7657651 | Resource-efficient media streaming to heterogeneous clients A resource-efficient live streaming system includes a broadcaster and a streaming server. The broadcaster receives a live feed and broadcasts a media stream to the streaming server containing several descriptions of the live feed along with control information. The ... | 02/02/2010 |
| 7640358 | Methods and systems for HTTP streaming using an intelligent HTTP client Elements of the present invention relate to systems and methods for controlling the transmission rate of HTTP streaming processes with an intelligent HTTP client. ... | 12/29/2009 |
