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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 |
| 8176207 | System debug of input/output virtualization device An adapter card for testing the functionality of a particular interface configuration may include an interface core. The interface core may comprise an electric circuit including electronic components and control logic for interfacing with an information handling sy... | 05/08/2012 |
| 8171176 | Method for selective replication of physical devices on a virtual self-configuring zoning expander Disclosed is a method and a SAS controller device that abstract access from one or more virtual machines operating on a host system to SAS physical devices connected to the SAS controller without a routing table for port-to-port messaging on the SAS controller. An e... | 05/01/2012 |
| 8156251 | Advanced logic system The Advanced Logic System (ALS) is a complete control system architecture, based on a hardware platform rather than a software-based microprocessor system. It is significantly different from other PLC-type control system architectures, by implementing a FPGA in the ... | 04/10/2012 |
| 8131882 | Method for input output expansion in an embedded system utilizing controlled transitions of first and second signals A method for expanding input/output in an embedded system is described in which no additional strobes or enable lines are necessary from the host controller. By controlling the transitions of the signal levels in a specific way when controlling two existing data or ... | 03/06/2012 |
| 8117346 | Configuration space virtualization Various aspects are disclosed herein for bounding the behavior of a non-privileged virtual machine that interacts with a device by creating a description of the device which indicates to a privileged authority (1) which operations on the device may have system-wide ... | 02/14/2012 |
| 8108561 | Apparatus that prevent a malfunction of the circuit and reduce power consumption An interface circuit provided with a first input/output unit and a second input/output unit which respectively access external apparatuses to which electric power is supplied from power sources via different electric power supply lines includes an acquisition unit c... | 01/31/2012 |
| 8103802 | Portable data system A data system includes an article such as footwear, model car or toy, an electronic module carried by said article, the electronic module having a microprocessor and a data storage device to which the user can selectively store and retrieve data, a data input to the... | 01/24/2012 |
| 8086759 | Controller having reduced control key set and method for operating same in a learning, macro, or cloning mode In some embodiments, a wall-mountable, configurable controller having control keys (e.g., less than eight keys or another small number of keys), a subassembly including circuitry, and a control key insert removably mountable to the subassembly and including at least... | 12/27/2011 |
| 8065440 | Enabling and disabling device images on a platform without disrupting BIOS or OS Device images, for example IDE mass storage device images, may be enabled and disabled without disrupting a host system. In one embodiment, the invention includes a memory device register to indicate the presence of a memory device to a computer system, a switch cou... | 11/22/2011 |
| 8055804 | Data storage system with shared cache address space An apparatus for a node of a peer-to-peer network having a plurality of nodes comprises one or more I/O adapters; a cache component; one or more inter-node routing components; a memory mapping component for presenting to the I/O adapters a single address space mappe... | 11/08/2011 |
| 8032661 | Automatic peripheral device sharing In accordance with the automatic peripheral device sharing, a peripheral device that has been newly installed on a device is detected and is shared with one or more additional devices coupled to the device. A notification of the peripheral device is automatically pu... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8032662 | Module connecting system An object of the present invention is to provide a module connecting system that can comply flexibly with the number of expansion modules and has an inexpensive and simple configuration. In the configuration of the module connecting system of the present invention, ... | 10/04/2011 |
| 8019903 | Removable accessory for a computing device An accessory computing device or display detachable from another computing device such as a mobile computing device. The accessory computing device displays data from the mobile computing device including notifications relating to electronic mail messages, voice mai... | 09/13/2011 |
| 8010708 | Serial port initialization in storage system controllers A boot menu is provided for manual setting of serial port parameters. A serial console mode menu allows an operator to set serial port parameter values. After the user selects the serial port parameters, when the controller continues with the boot process, the seria... | 08/30/2011 |
| 8005994 | Image forming apparatus and method for outputting information of the image forming apparatus An image forming apparatus includes a communication section configured to communicate with an external storage device which has a storage section that stores designated information for at least designating information which is output from an apparatus, an operation ... | 08/23/2011 |
| 8005993 | System and method of a storage expansion unit for a network attached storage device A system and method of a storage expansion unit for a network attached storage device. At least some of the illustrative embodiments are storage expander systems comprising an enclosure, a communications port (the communication port configured to configured to opera... | 08/23/2011 |
| 7996570 | Usage of keyboard driver in extensible firmware interface for adding new hot keys at firmware level A hot key register request is created in an extensible firmware interface application, the hot key register request has a key number and a pointer to a hot key function for the new hot key. The hot key register request is sent to a keyboard driver in the extensible ... | 08/09/2011 |
| 7987296 | Methods and devices for CEC propagation control A CEC propagation control function, operated by a manipulating switch coupled to a first, second, and third HDMI-CEC devices, enables the manipulating switch to receive a CEC block from the first HDMI-CEC device, pass the received CEC block to the second HDMI-CEC de... | 07/26/2011 |
| 7984197 | Methods and devices for on the fly CEC modification A CEC on the fly modification function, operated by a manipulating switch including at least three HDMI-CEC ports, enables the manipulating switch to receive a CEC block comprising a CEC address according to the initiator's HDMI-CEC network; modify on the fly the CE... | 07/19/2011 |
| 7979590 | Multiple sink configuration supporting HDMI-CEC Methods and devices for enabling a chain of displays to communicate with HDMI-CEC sources using HDMI-CEC. Also disclosed is a display device supporting picture-in-picture through two HDMI-CEC input ports, where each port communicates using HDMI-CEC with an HDMI-CEC ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979591 | Network views for a multi display network supporting CEC Method and devices for discovering, maintaining and updating network views of a multi display network supporting CEC. Some embodiments include determining CEC logical addresses of HDMI-CEC devices coupled to HDMI-CEC ports using selective CEC message generation and ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7979589 | Method, apparatus, and system for port multiplier enhancement A method, apparatus and system are provided for enhancing port multipliers. In one embodiment, a port multiplier is configured to couple a network host with port multipliers. The port multiplier includes a top port multiplier to establish and maintain communication ... | 07/12/2011 |
| 7970953 | Serial ATA port addressing In one aspect, a shared transport layer frame information structure (FIS) generation logic may generate FISes for each of a plurality of SATA ports. In a further aspect, a port addressing logic, in communication with the shared transport layer FIS generation logic, ... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970954 | System and method of providing a user-friendly device path A method can include, during a boot flow at an information handling system, receiving an initial device path related to a device that is integrated with or coupled to the information handling system. The method can also include identifying a system-specific device l... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7970955 | Recording/reproducing apparatus A device, including a first storage unit configured to store a first plurality of files and a first management data corresponding to the first files; a connector configured to connect to an external storage device, the external storage being configured to store a se... | 06/28/2011 |
| 7962658 | Image output apparatus using close range radio contact wherein radio contact element is attached to document on which an image is recorded An image output apparatus includes a receiving unit that receives first information from a first radio contact element that performs a close-range radio contact; an image processing unit that forms image data of an image to be output from the first information; and ... | 06/14/2011 |
| 7958273 | System and method for connecting SAS RAID controller device channels across redundant storage subsystems A system comprising a first expander device and a second expander device. The first expander device and the second expander device comprise a subtractive port and a table mapped port and are suitable for coupling a first serial attached SCSI controller to a second s... | 06/07/2011 |
| 7953898 | Apparatus and method for using expansion key in portable terminal An input apparatus for using an expansion key in a portable terminal includes an expansion key matrix unit which forms a key matrix through which a plurality of expansion keys are input; an input/output (I/O) expansion chip which, in response to a key input through ... | 05/31/2011 |
| 7945701 | Television with multiple interfaces A television includes multiple interfaces, a storage medium, an updating module, a processing module and a display module. The multiple interfaces are mounted on a housing of the television, for connecting to peripheral devices. The storage medium stores a table com... | 05/17/2011 |
| 7937501 | Displayport CE system control functionality An improved method and apparatus is disclosed for communicating control information between components of an audio/video system. Processing and control logic is implemented to transfer a plurality of data streams on predetermined channels of a digital video interfac... | 05/03/2011 |
| 7921228 | Modularized electronic switching controller assembly for computer A modularized electronic switching controller assembly for a computer includes a computer device; a hub positioned at a rear end of the computer device; two sides of the hub unit being installed with tracks which are retained in a machine frame; the machine frame be... | 04/05/2011 |
| 7917658 | Switching apparatus and method for link initialization in a shared I/O environment An apparatus and method are provided that enable I/O devices to be shared among multiple operating system domains. The apparatus has a first plurality of I/O ports, a second I/O port, and link training logic. The first plurality of I/O ports is coupled to a pluralit... | 03/29/2011 |
| 7899942 | Switch device A switch device applicable to a server has at least a display chip set, a switch unit, a logic unit, a first connector and a second connector. The display chip set is used to provide a plurality of video signals. The switch unit and the logic unit are connected to t... | 03/01/2011 |
| 7895364 | Component identification and transmission system Embodiments of this invention comprise a modular, scalable architecture for building a variety of Layer 2/3/4+ Ethernet products and devices. Such devices or units can be attached to form an homogenous systems called stack. The invention provides a set of rules to h... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7895365 | File storage for a computing device with handheld and extended computing units A handheld computing unit includes a processing module, a main memory interface for coupling to a main memory, a baseband processing module, an RF section, a block I/O interface for coupling to a hard disk, a handheld bus structure, and a handheld connection structu... | 02/22/2011 |
| 7870299 | Advanced logic system The Advanced Logic System (ALS) is a complete control system architecture, based on a hardware platform rather than a software-based microprocessor system. It is significantly different from other PLC-type control system architectures, by implementing a FPGA in the ... | 01/11/2011 |
| 7865625 | Data storage system with shared cache address space An apparatus for a node of a peer-to-peer network having a plurality of nodes comprises one or more I/O adapters; a cache component; one or more inter-node routing components; a memory mapping component for presenting to the I/O adapters a single address space mappe... | 01/04/2011 |
| 7840714 | Mapping SDVO functions from PCI express interface An embodiment of the present invention is a technique to map pins on an interface connector to signals for a digital display. A first group of signal traces maps transmitter differential pairs pins in a first group of lanes on the interface connector compatible with... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7840715 | Apparatus connection interface, apparatus control system and method of controlling apparatus control system An apparatus connection interface remarkably reduces the processing load of the controller. The apparatus connection interface includes a pair of connectors including a first connector and a second connector having respective signal transmission terminals for connec... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7836212 | Reflecting bandwidth and priority in network attached storage I/O A method for processing a first input/output (I/O) request on a network attached storage (NAS) device that includes receiving the first I/O request from a source by the NAS device, placing the first I/O request in an I/O queue associated with the NAS device, wherein... | 11/16/2010 |
