2 Button Portable in the future?!?!?
checked through a couple of patents and came across this.. It's a patent on some new Apple portable technologies but the pic of the portable clearly shows 2 buttons on it.. even the description explains the numbers (110 & 112) as buttons..
maybe a sign of things to come???
<a href="http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=2&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522" target="_blank">http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=2&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522</a>
<a href="http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=9&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522" target="_blank">http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=9&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522</a>
check out both links...
maybe a sign of things to come???
<a href="http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=2&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522" target="_blank">http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=2&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522</a>
<a href="http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=9&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522" target="_blank">http://aiw2.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?docid=us20020089190ki&PageNum=9&IDKey=2ACCBD7 6AEFF&HomeUrl=http://appft1.uspto.gov:8080/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2%26Sect2=HITOFF%26p=1%26u=/netahtml/PTO/search-bool.html%26r=1%26f=G%26l=50%26co1=AND%2 6d=PG01%2526s1='apple%252Bcomputer'.AS.%2526OS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522%2526RS=AN/%252522apple%252Bcomputer%252522</a>
check out both links...
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[EDIT: Maybe you can give us a patent # to search for here: <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html</a> ]
[ 07-13-2002: Message edited by: Spart ]</p>
Abstract
The present invention, generally speaking, provides a hardware graphics accelerator for use in a computer system having a data processor, a system bus, and a memory subsystem including both main memory and video memory. The hard-ware graphics accelerator includes a datapath controller connected to the system bus and to the memory subsystem for receiving data from the memory subsystem, performing an operation upon the data, and returning the data to the memory subsystem; and a memory controller connected to the system bus, to the datapath controller, and to the memory subsystem for controlling the memory subsystem such that at one time the datapath controller receives the data from the main memory and at another time the datapath controller receives the data from the video memory. In accordance with a further aspect of the invention, the hardware graphics accelerator includes circuitry for maintaining cache coherency when the system includes either a level-one cache only or both a level-one and a level-two cache.
It is impossible o read anything with more then one line of text
without a hard return in it....
Patent 6,404,892.
Interesting...
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" />
<strong>Note that <a href="http://aiw1.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?Docid=20020085337&homeurl=http://appft1 .uspto.gov%3A8080%2Fnetacgi%2Fnph-Parser%3FSect1%3DPTO2%2526Sect2%3DHITOFF%2526p%3D1 %2526u%3D%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsearch-bool.html%2526r%3D2%2526f%3DG%2526l%3D50%2526co1%3 DAND%2526d%3DPG01%2526s1%3Dapple.AS.%2526s2%3Dcomp uter.AS.%2526OS%3DAN%2Fapple%252BAND%252BAN%2Fcomp uter%2526RS%3DAN%2Fapple%252BAND%252BAN%2Fcomputer &PageNum=&Rtype=&SectionNum=&idkey=8A0B117C9B2A " target="_blank">this</a> also has two buttons...note that this isn't a granted patent only a applied for one...</strong><hr></blockquote>
Here it is.
Now, that looks like an Apple pro model.
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Here it is.
Now, that looks like an Apple pro model.</strong><hr></blockquote>
Sorry, looks like a Pismo again. My keyboard lifts out that way, I think iTits do too.
These drawings have to describe the essence of an idea in a way that is watertight.
If Apple didn't allow for 2 buttons a potential patent infringer could simply say "look, ours has 2 buttons so we did not infringe on patent #235211246782 which clearly shows only one".
I'd guess the opposite could be true too, but pretty much all PC laptops have 2.
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Sorry, looks like a Pismo again. My keyboard lifts out that way, I think iTits do too.
These drawings have to describe the essence of an idea in a way that is watertight.
If Apple didn't allow for 2 buttons a potential patent infringer could simply say "look, ours has 2 buttons so we did not infringe on patent #235211246782 which clearly shows only one".
I'd guess the opposite could be true too, but pretty much all PC laptops have 2.</strong><hr></blockquote>
AAAGGGHHH. Not again!!!
Actually, you WERE right last time....it was the locking mech for a Wallstreet/Pismo.
Kinda right this time too.....all of Apple's powerbook patents show 2 buttons, so it's gotta be some generic/legal need.
As for the keyboard, they all came out this way, right back to the 1400 (earliest one I've had to deal with yet).
[quote]Originally posted by Spart:
<strong><a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&Sect2=HITOFF&p=1&u=/netahtml/search-bool.html&r=8&f=G&l=50&co1=AND&d=ft00&s1=apple.ASN M.&s2=computer.ASNM.&OS=AN/apple+AND+AN/computer&RS=AN/apple+AND+AN/computer" target="_blank">Reduced Complexity Audio Mixing Apparatus</a>
Patent 6,404,892.
Interesting...
<img src="graemlins/smokin.gif" border="0" alt="[Chilling]" /> </strong><hr></blockquote>
go to <a href="http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html" target="_blank">http://www.uspto.gov/patft/index.html</a>
click on "publication number search"
put in... 20020089190
images are page 2 and description is page 9...
hope that helps...
Now if you're using a pen that reads these dots, your pen just became your knowledge management system. Go around your house and scribble notes as you see fit. The pen wires it all back to the computer with the appropriate meta-data. Now, not only are all your notes available in a central location; but when you're trying to remember "Why was I scribbling this jibberish about Elizabethan blank verse?" you'll see in the database that "this note was made on July 13 in a Penguin Classics version of Shakespeare's The Tempest." Aha! you exclaim, and go to the bookshelf to read your notes in context. Of course, the office is where this would really come in handy. No more worries about losing a file folder of your notes... heck, throw it out -- it's all on the computer.
Until we get cheap digital paper, this dot technique seems like the next-best thing.
<strong>interesting that all of the numbers are handrawn, must be lazy people that made the drawing</strong><hr></blockquote>
huh?