[108128] in Cypherpunks
Re: do you wish you did this??
daemon@ATHENA.MIT.EDU (Michael Motyka)
Fri Feb 5 11:37:29 1999
Date: Fri, 05 Feb 1999 08:16:58 -0800
From: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
To: "Brown, R Ken" <brownrk1@texaco.com>
CC: cypherpunks@cyberpass.net
Reply-To: Michael Motyka <mmotyka@lsil.com>
Ken,
Here's a real winner. It's written as though the power fail bit that has
been available on switching regulators for years was put there accident
and finding it was a major discovery. Further, as if a digital camera is
so unlike any other battery-powered computer that it deserves special
treatment regarding its ISRs.
I'm going to patent the switch-case-default construct. And its
generalization the probably-sometimes-whenever statements.
I guess in some respects I have a certain admiration for China - all
intellectual property is for general use for free - property of the
human species. Why hamper your own efforts for the sake of some wacky
formalism?
Egads,
Mike
>
> system and method for recovering from a power
> failure within a digital camera device (assignee --
> apple computer, inc.)
>
> August 10, 1998
>
> U.S. Patents via NewsEdge Corporation : Abstract:
> A system and method for recovering from a power
> failure in a digital camera comprises a power
> manager for detecting power failures, an interrupt
> handler for responsively incrementing a counter
> device, service routines which register to receive
> notification of the power failure, and a processor for
> evaluating the counter and providing notification of
> the power failure to the service routines which then
> assist the digital camera to recover from the power
> failure.
>
> Ex Claim Text: A system for recovering from a failure
> to a power supply in a computer device, comprising:
> a power manager for detecting said failure and
> responsively generating a powerfail interrupt; service
> routines for registering to receive a notification of
> said failure to said power supply; and an interrupt
> handler for providing said notification to said service
> routines and incrementing a counter device in
> response to said powerfail interrupt; whereby said
> service routines may assist said computer device to
> recover from said failure to said power supply.
>
> Patent Number: 5790878
>
> Issue Date: 1998 08 04
>
> If you would like to purchase a copy of this patent,
> please call MicroPatent at 800-648-6787.
>
> Inventor(s): Anderson, Eric C.
> Johnson, Celeste
>
> [Copyright 1998, MicroPatent Publications]
Brown, R Ken wrote:
>
> > Michael Motyka[SMTP:mmotyka@lsil.com]
> >
> > Pretty damn generic patent.
>
> I'm thinking of taking out a US patent on a method of personal;
> transportation that involves putting one foot in front of the other on the
> ground or any other approximatly horizontal surface, shifting the balance of
> the body so that the centre of gravity is moved first over then slightly
> beyond a gravitationally vertical line drawn through the ball of the big
> toe of the leading foot whilst lifting the trailing foot off the ground and
> moving it in front of the first foot whilst making continual tracking
> adjustments to the balance to remain uproght. Then repeat until the
> destination is reached.
>
> Looks like it would be a cinch to get a patent on that in America. Then we
> can sue the army every time they march. Or maybe we should just go straight
> to patenting sucking eggs.
>
> Ken
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