Did You Know...
...that the video game, Pong, was invented by a guy who graduated at the bottom of his engineering class? Nolan Bushnell spent more time running the games at a local amusement park than he did on his studies at the University of Utah. His dreams of working for Disney's amusement empire were dashed when the company wouldn't hire him. Taking a boring job, Nolan daydreamed about electronic versions of popular games. He invented Pong, the first video game, and went on to found Atari Co.
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| Number | Title | Issue Date |
| 6460020 | Universal shopping center for international operation An international transaction system for operation over the internet/intranet provides a pre-transactional calculation of all charges involved in any international transaction. Upon the option of the customer, the goods can be viewed on catalogue sheets tr... | 10/01/2002 |
| 6341261 | Knowledge driven composite design optimization process and system therefor A knowledge driven composite design optimization process for designing a laminate part includes steps for generating a globally optimized 3-D ply definition for a laminate part, and modifying the 3-D ply definition to include features of the laminate part... | 01/22/2002 |
| 6338032 | System and method for trimming IC parameters A circuit and method for trimming and simulating the effect of trimming a plurality of IC parameters. Trim signals which affect respective IC parameters are generated with respective digital-to-analog converters (DACs) in response to digital bit patterns.... | 01/08/2002 |
| 6327558 | Apparatus for simulating electrical characteristics of a circuit including a ferroelectric device and a method for simulating electrical characteristics of a circuit including a ferroelectric device It is an object of the present invention to provide a simulation apparatus capable of easily evaluating dynamic characteristics of a circuit including a ferroelectric device quantitatively. Means 30 and 32 calculate dynamic capacitance of a without-polari... | 12/04/2001 |
| 6311145 | Optimal design of an inductor and inductor circuit A method for the design and optimization of inductors for RF circuits. This method consists in the formulation of RF circuit designs as geometric programs. The designer can specify a wide variety of specifications such as gain, bandwidth, noise, etc. The ... | 10/30/2001 |
| 6295513 | Network-based system for the manufacture of parts with a virtual collaborative environment for design, developement, and fabricator selection The invention relates generally to a comprehensive, integrated computer-based system and method for undertaking an engineering design and development effort in a virtual collaborative environment, identifying qualified fabricators for manufacturing a part... | 09/25/2001 |
| 6285968 | Object shape determining method An initial object shape is set in a first process, a numeric fluid dynamic grid is generated on the surface of the object shape in a second process, and Navier-Stokes equations are numerically solved by numerical fluid dynamics based on the object and the... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6285976 | Device for implementing hierarchical state charts and methods and apparatus useful therefor The present invention discloses apparatus implementing hierarchical state charts and including a state machine engine (SME) operative to carry out repertoires of behaviors of a system, a state chart encoder operative to replicate, in computer code form, a... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6285973 | Apparatus for, and method of, calculating electromagnetic field strength and medium for recording program to achieve the method A method calculates the strength of an electromagnetic field radiated from an electric circuit device according to analytic data. The method includes the steps of sequentially displaying procedures that include at least a procedure for prompting a user to... | 09/04/2001 |
| 6272454 | Debugging and cosimulation method for wide band switch firmware An RS232C driver inside target firmware controls an RS232C interface. An OS debugger steals an input to and an output from another function block that is the actual target firmware, and exchanges that input and output with the RS232C driver 1005. This con... | 08/07/2001 |
| 6269326 | Method for testing electronic components A device (1) has a processor (13) capable of controlling test equipment (2) to carry out repeatedly at least some of its steps, each time reducing the duration of at least one of the steps until satisfying a final criterion taking into account the distrib... | 07/31/2001 |
| 6263302 | Hardware and software co-simulation including simulating the cache of a target processor A co-simulation design system that runs on a host computer system is described that includes a hardware simulator and a processor simulator coupled via an interface mechanism. The execution of a user program on a target processor that includes a cache is ... | 07/17/2001 |
| 6260006 | System and method for multi-volume tape library A tape library system for handling multi-volume tapes includes an automated tape system with at least one tape unit and a robotic tape handling system. The tape library system receives requests from at least one host for access to a specified tape volume ... | 07/10/2001 |
| 6256602 | Satellite simulator development tool A satellite simulator to aid in the development and test of a spacecraft command and telemetry application for ground stations permits a satellite simulator to be implemented effectively and with less cost than has traditionally been possible with customi... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6256597 | Three dimensional spray coating method and simulation A spray coating simulation for a robotic spray gun assembly imports a discretized model of an object geometry. Next, the simulator imports a numerically characterized spray pattern file and a robot motion file having a plurality of motion positions, dwell... | 07/03/2001 |
| 6253166 | Stable algorithm for estimating airdata from flush surface pressure measurements An airdata estimation and evaluation system and method, including a stable algorithm for estimating airdata from nonintrusive surface pressure measurements. The airdata estimation and evaluation system is preferably implemented in a flush airdata sensing ... | 06/26/2001 |
| 6246972 | Analyzer for modeling and optimizing maintenance operations A first model or first analyzer having a series of filters is provided to represent time-varying effects of maintenance events. The first model or analyzer further enhances the selection of derived variables which are used as inputs to the first analyzer.... | 06/12/2001 |
| 6243664 | Methods for maximizing routability in a programmable interconnect matrix having less than full connectability Methods for designing a programmable interconnect matrix having reduced connectivity to achieve maximum routability for the reduced connectivity. An array of multiplexors, each having a multiplexor width wmux that is less than number of input c... | 06/05/2001 |
| 6233542 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with response time monitoring A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6233541 | Server and web browser terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system and method of operation A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6233543 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with printer emulation A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 05/15/2001 |
| 6216101 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with client token authentication A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6216097 | Power measuring cooling plant system and method A terrestrial thermal vacuum system that tests spacecraft by developing a thermal balance having a margin of error of less then 5% and preheats spacecraft prior to terrestrial thermal vacuum testing are disclosed. In operation, working fluid is pumped thr... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6216086 | Driver preference responsive vehicle route planning system A vehicle route planning system takes a trip origin location and a trip destination location provided by the driver then considers alternative routes, taken from a map (107), between the trip origin location and trip destination location. Certain attribut... | 04/10/2001 |
| 6212489 | Optimizing hardware and software co-verification system An optimizing hardware-software co-verification system is disclosed including a number of bus interface models, a number of memory models, and a co-verification optimization manager for co-verifying a hardware-software system having memory. Co-verificatio... | 04/03/2001 |
| 6205415 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with file transfer A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6205417 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with direct As/400 host interface A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided. The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The le... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6205416 | Server and terminal emulator for persistent connection to a legacy host system with direct OS/390 host interface A computer network environment (10) allowing connection of a client system (36) to a legacy host system (18,19) using a server (26) is provided The computer network environment (10) includes a legacy host system (18,19) having TCP/IP connectivity. The leg... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6205411 | Computer-assisted surgery planner and intra-operative guidance system An apparatus for facilitating the implantation of an artificial component in one of a hip joint, a knee joint, a hand and wrist joint, an elbow joint, a shoulder joint, and a foot and ankle joint. The apparatus includes a pre-operative geometric planner a... | 03/20/2001 |
| 6202040 | Image modifiers for use in scanning photographic images A system and a method for modifying an original image to simulate a painting effect, wherein an irregularly translucent diffusion element is configured to be overlayed with an original image such as a photograph or picture and a scanner or photocopier is ... | 03/13/2001 |
| 6192331 | Method for simulating control functions of a control device A method for simulating control functions of a control device, in which a control program code for execution of control functions is stored in a first memory area of a memory belonging to the control device, the control program code including one or more ... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6192328 | Method and configuration for computer-aided determination of a system relationship function A system relationship function is defined which describes the "external response" of a set of coupled linear components in an electrical circuit. A differential equation system is defined for the set of coupled linear components, and a predetermined numbe... | 02/20/2001 |
| 6188975 | Programmatic use of software debugging to redirect hardware related operations to a hardware simulator The present invention is a method that uses breakpoints in a debugging program to signify to a hardware software co-verification tool when to redirect hardware calls to a hardware simulator. The method includes executing a line of software code within a s... | 02/13/2001 |
| 6185523 | Apparatus and method for computer system interrupt emulation Accordingly, provided is an apparatus and method for generating a computer system interrupt emulation having the effect of a hardwired interrupt. A service processor with a test circuit interface can be coupled to an integrated circuit, which has a test c... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6185518 | Method and system for logic design constraint generation A system and method for generating design constraints for a logic synthesized block from timing analysis of the block. A timing analysis of logic described in software is performed for each of various operating modes of a circuit in which the logic is use... | 02/06/2001 |
| 6173243 | Memory incoherent verification methodology A system and method for memory incoherent verification of functionality of an HDL (Hardware Description Language) design of a computer system component is disclosed. A simulated model of the HDL design receives a memory read stimulus from a stimulus file ... | 01/09/2001 |
| 6167361 | Racing vehicle four-link configuration method and apparatus The present invention includes a method and computer program for determining possible configurations of a racing vehicle Four-Link assembly. A user of the computer program is prompted for measurements of the Four-Link assembly bracket apertures relative t... | 12/26/2000 |
| 6163764 | Emulation of an instruction set on an instruction set architecture transition A method and apparatus for emulating an instruction on a processor. The instruction operates on an operand in a first data format and the processor operates in a second data format. The operand is converted from the first data format to the second data fo... | 12/19/2000 |
| 6157903 | Method of minimizing macrocell characterization time for state dependent power analysis A system and method are described for providing state dependent power consumption characterization data for a logic cell and for minimizing characterization time in a computer controlled power estimation process. The present invention identifies power-equ... | 12/05/2000 |
| 6154717 | Computer simulation method of impurity with pileup phenomenon A simulation method is provided, which makes it possible to simulate diffusion of doped impurity in Si and SiO2 in consideration of the pileup phenomenon of the doped impurity without using any intermediate layer. In the step (a), a mesh having... | 11/28/2000 |
