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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 |
| 8081967 | Method to manage medium access for a mixed wireless network Briefly, in accordance with one embodiment of the invention, an access point may provide multiple access to a single medium by providing time division multiple access to the medium. ... | 12/20/2011 |
| 8009601 | Power saving when using aggregated packets In a communications packet directed to multiple addresses and having a directory of the addresses in order of transmission, a device receiving the packet may use the directory to help determine when the last frame in which the device has an interest is received, and... | 08/30/2011 |
| 7839836 | Arranging SDMA poll groups by response length A base station may organize poll groups into groups having similar predicted durations of subsequent responses. In one embodiment predicted durations may be provided by the devices that are to be polled. In another embodiment the predicted durations may be based on ... | 11/23/2010 |
| 7826798 | Trained data transmission for communication systems Various embodiments are described for a trained data transmission for communication systems. ... | 11/02/2010 |
| 7804800 | Efficient training schemes for MIMO based wireless networks Schemes are disclosed for efficiently training MIMO channels in wireless networks. In at least one embodiment, multiple STAs in a network may share a single channel sounding packet to develop corresponding beamforming matrices or CSI. ... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7804762 | Method and apparatus for implementing downlink SDMA in a wireless network Methods and structures are disclosed for use in implementing downlink spatial division multiple access (SDMA) in a wireless network. In at least one embodiment, a number of orthogonal sets of user devices are first identified within a coverage area. One of the ident... | 09/28/2010 |
| 7768988 | Method and apparatus to perform network medium reservation in a wireless network Techniques and structures are provided to support a short-NAV type wireless medium reservation scheme in a network that utilizes adaptive modulation techniques. The conventional long-NAV medium reservation technique uses a medium reservation period that reserves a w... | 08/03/2010 |
| 7583975 | Adaptive transmit power control in wireless devices In a wireless network communications device, transmit power levels may be interactively adjusted to dynamically maintain a desired level of network loading and/or data throughput within the network in a changing network environment. ... | 09/01/2009 |
| 7567612 | SDMA communications with non-immediate block acknowledgment In Spatial Division Multiple Access (SDMA) communications, mobile devices that are transmitting to a base substantially simultaneously during a predetermined communications phase may wait until after an end of the predetermined communications phase to receive acknow... | 07/28/2009 |
| 7512070 | Adaptive use of a transmit opportunity Various embodiments are described to adaptively use a transmit opportunity. A wireless system comprising a memory and a processor is described. The processor is coupled to the memory. In one embodiment, the processor allocates a first portion of a transmit opportuni... | 03/31/2009 |
| 7474608 | Method for signaling information by modifying modulation constellations Methods and systems for communicating in a wireless network may distinguish different types of packet structures by modifying the phase of a modulation constellation, such as a binary phase shift keying (BPSK) constellation, in a signal field. Receiving devices may ... | 01/06/2009 |
| 7426395 | Techniques to select data rates for a wireless system A system, apparatus, method and article to select data rates for a wireless communication system are described. An apparatus may include a media access control processor to monitor interference levels for a receiver, estimate throughput values for each interference ... | 09/16/2008 |
| 7408908 | Variable SDMA ACK timeout In a spatial division multiple access system that employs acknowledgements to variable length transmissions within a timeout period, a station that has completed its transmission may delay beginning the timeout period until it determines that other stations on the s... | 08/05/2008 |
| 7385961 | Contending for the medium with a mixture of backwards-compatible wireless devices In a wireless network in which a central network device (e.g., an access point) communicates with multiple generations of mobile wireless devices that are backward compatible but not forward compatible, each generation of device may be selectively put into a mode th... | 06/10/2008 |
| 7373112 | Trained data transmission for communication systems Various embodiments are described for a trained data transmission for communication systems. ... | 05/13/2008 |
| 7352696 | Method and apparatus to select an adaptation technique in a wireless network An adaptation technique is selected for use in a wireless network based on estimated throughput. In at least one embodiment, throughput is estimated for a wireless channel for both prefix adaptation and postfix adaptation. An adaptation technique is then selected ba... | 04/01/2008 |
| 7305237 | Hole-filling channel access Channel access techniques are provided for use in a high throughput wireless network that utilizes multiple wireless channels within a single service set. ... | 12/04/2007 |
| 7203858 | Program clock synchronization in multimedia networks A method may include sampling a receive frequency at which information received over a communication link is played. The method may also include sampling a system frequency related to the communication link and computing a first value based on the sampled receive fr... | 04/10/2007 |
| 7200374 | Method and apparatus to improve throughput in a wireless network using a minimum received interference power level Aggregate throughput may be improved in a wireless network by rejecting packets that have a low probability of creating harmful interference within a wireless device. In at least one embodiment, a minimum received interference power level that is likely to cause a l... | 04/03/2007 |
| 7197315 | Method and apparatus to select a channel using performance metrics A method and apparatus to select a channel of operation for a wireless network device may examine channels supported by the device to gather information regarding present use of the channels. A best channel may be determined for the wireless network device by identi... | 03/27/2007 |
