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Patent No. 5823386

Reward Candy Dispenser for Personal Computers

A personal computer peripheral, battery powered reward candy dispenser which immediately presents students with a single candy for each problem completed correctly.

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Inventor: Osten Kit COLBERT


Address: San Francisco, CA
No. of applications: 4
Last application issue date: 08/11/2011

Application No.Application TitleIssue Date
20110197090Error Reporting Through Observation Correlation
A software component is executed to carry out a task, the task including a subtask. An external function is called to perform the subtask, the external function executing in a separate thread or process. The component receives an observation recorded by the external fun...
08/11/2011
20110066597Method and System for Performing Live Migration of Persistent Data of a Virtual Machine
Persistent data of virtual machines are migrated between and across data stores using a method that provides for a bounded disk size, low performance overhead, arbitrarily low downtimes, atomic switch-over, and ability to build optimizations based around block level heu...
03/17/2011
20110066786Method of Suspending and Resuming Virtual Machines
A virtual machine is suspended and quickly restarted while maintaining the VM's state. The method is quick enough so that network connections are maintained across the restart and the guest operating system and guest applications running in the VM are not aware of the r...
03/17/2011
20100023565Separate Swap Files Corresponding to Different Virtual Machines in a Host Computer System
A swap space is provided for a host computer system, where the swap space includes a plurality of swap files with each individual swap file for swapping data only for a single corresponding virtual machine (VM). The per-VM swap space is used solely by the single, corres...
01/28/2010
 
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