2 Button Portable in the future?!?!?

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• Reply 1 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 11:00AM

  All I get is a bunch of stuff saying search timed out or whatever...and the freaking full text button isn't doing anything.
  
  
  
  [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>
• Reply 2 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 11:07AM

  Actually check <a href="http://patft.uspto.gov/netacgi/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO2&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;p=1&amp;u=/netahtml%2 Fsearch-bool.html&r=0&f=S&l=50&TERM1=apple&FIELD1=ASNM&co1 =AND&TERM2=computer&FIELD2=ASNM&d=ft00" target="_blank">this</a> out before it expires...
• Reply 3 of 15

  bigc Posts: 1,224member

  July 13, 2002 11:21AM

  Hardware graphics accelerator
  
  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.
• Reply 4 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 12:07PM

  
• Reply 5 of 15

  paul Posts: 5,278member

  July 13, 2002 12:15PM

  can someone fix the 2 links in the first post of this thread?
  
  It is impossible o read anything with more then one line of text
  
  without a hard return in it....
• Reply 6 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 12:25PM

  Note that <a href="http://aiw1.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?Docid=20020085337&amp;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...
• Reply 7 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 12:35PM

  <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]" />
• Reply 8 of 15

  zaz Posts: 177member

  July 13, 2002 12:37PM

  [quote]Originally posted by Spart:
  
  <strong>Note that <a href="http://aiw1.uspto.gov:80/.aiw?Docid=20020085337&amp;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.
• Reply 9 of 15

  blackcat Posts: 697member

  July 13, 2002 12:48PM

  [quote]Originally posted by zaz:
  
  <strong>
  
  
  
  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.
• Reply 10 of 15

  bigc Posts: 1,224member

  July 13, 2002 12:56PM

  interesting that all of the numbers are handrawn, must be lazy people that made the drawing
• Reply 11 of 15

  taboo Posts: 128member

  July 13, 2002 1:37PM

  [quote]Originally posted by Blackcat:
  
  <strong>
  
  
  
  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).
• Reply 12 of 15

  spart Posts: 2,060member

  July 13, 2002 1:51PM

  Well if the patents having two buttons is for legal concerns I think this is what we need to be talking about...
  
  
  
  [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>
• Reply 13 of 15

  mavster Posts: 51member

  July 13, 2002 2:26PM

  just to clarify the patent, here's the info again...
  
  
  
  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...
• Reply 14 of 15

  iconmaster Posts: 53member

  July 13, 2002 3:22PM

  Printed dots have the advantage of simplicity. Plus, they open up other possibilities. Imagine that the dot-technique becomes widespread -- everything from post-it notes to the works of Shakespeare come to have them. Furthermore, imagine that the dots not only encode coordinates on the page, but information about the paper on which they're printed. I.e.: "This is a post-it note. This is The Tempest."
  
  
  
  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.
• Reply 15 of 15

  kidred Posts: 2,402member

  July 13, 2002 3:57PM

  [quote]Originally posted by Bigc:
  
  <strong>interesting that all of the numbers are handrawn, must be lazy people that made the drawing</strong><hr></blockquote>
  
  
  
  huh?