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Parking problems at Blinn's Bryan campus was a hot topic of discussion for Blinn Board members Tuesday tonight.
The logjam of vehicles isn't unusual at the beginning of each semester, but usually eases up a couple of weeks after classes start.
However, that's not been the case this fall with parking still a problem five weeks into the semester.
In response, the Board considering adding a temporary parking lot next to the administration building.
It's also looking at adding Friday, and possibly Saturday, classes to spread out the demand for parking spaces.
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Summer is only months away and the school year is winding down, but talk of education funding in Alaska is just gearing up.
House Bill 145 was introduced last year but just recently gained ground in the state House, legislation that if passed will essentially provide parents with state money so they can send their kids to private schools if they wish.
The purpose of the bill is to create the Parental Choice Scholarship Program, helping cut the tuition bill for parents sending children to private school.
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A software object display system using an adaptation layer to obtain information concerning a number of software objects is described. The adaptation layer communicates to a presentation layer which produces a display for the software objects. The adaptation layer isolates the presentation layer from the details of the structures of the software objects to be displayed. The adaptation layer provides a standard set of data to the presentation layer for the presentation layer to display.
1. A system for providing users with access to different types of software objects contained in multiple heterogeneous repositories, comprising:
a display system that displays the different types of software objects from different respective repositories in a hierarchical arrangement, wherein an adaptation layer provides object-based information for object selection from the respective one of the different repositories;
a user interface device via which a user can select more than one of the displayed software objects at the same time, with at least one of the selected software objects being a first type of object from a first repository, and another of the selected objects being a second type of object from a second repository different from said first repository; and
a unit that interprets a command directed to the selected objects according to the type of each selected object, respectively, and applies the interpreted versions of the command to the corresponding selected objects.
2. The system of
3. The system of
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6. A computer-readable medium containing a program that executes the following functions:
displaying, in a hierarchical arrangement, a plurality of different types of software objects contained in multiple respective heterogeneous repositories;
detecting user selection of more than one of the displayed software objects at the same time, with at least one of the selected software objects being a first type of object contained in one of said repositories and another of the selected objects being a second, different type of object contained in another one of said repositories;
interpreting a command directed to the selected objects according to the type of each selected object, respectively, and applying the interpreted versions of the command to the corresponding selected objects; and
providing object-based information for the selected objects from the respective one of the different repositories through an adaptation layer.
7. The computer-readable medium of
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11. A method providing simultaneous access to multiple different types of software objects that are stored in different respective types of repositories, comprising the following steps:
displaying a hierarchy of objects containing different types of software objects contained in different respective repositories;
detecting the concurrent selection of at least two of the objects displayed in said hierarchy, wherein one of the selected objects comprises a first type of object contained in one of said repositories, and another of the selected objects comprises a second, different type of object contained in another one of said repositories;
interpreting a command directed to the selected objects according to the type of each selected object, respectively, and applying the interpreted versions of the command to the corresponding one of each of the concurrently selected; and
providing object-based information for the concurrently selected objects from the respective one of the different repositories through an adaptation layer.
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This application is related to the applications Arrouye et al, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/161,758 (now U.S. Pat. No. 6,230,310), for "A METHOD ADAPTED TO TRANSPARENTLY TRANSFORM OBJECTS FOR AN APPLICATION PROGRAM," and Arrouye et al, U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/162,126, for "PERSISTENT STATE DATABASE FOR OPERATING SYSTEM SERVICES," which are both incorporated herein by reference.
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to software systems for providing the display and access to software objects in a computer system.
2. State of the Art
Typically, in a computer system, the files which are available for selection by different applications are displayed in a hierarchical manner. The display is part of a user interface on the file management system of the computer system. The user can select a file to be opened by clicking on a representation of the file, or performing a related operation which issues a command to open the file.
A difficulty occurs when different types of software objects are accessible. In the past, the user interface has been designed with certain, sometimes hidden, expectations of the software objects to be accessed. Most file access systems assume that the software objects are based on a single model. Typically, the local file system forms the basis for this model, since files are the most common types of software objects. When a new type of software object is introduced, it is often forced into this file system model. Some types of software objects, however, do not have a good conceptual fit with the file system model. For example, in file systems, small portions of the file can be independently accessed and modified. This type of access is not possible for some other types of software objects, such as database objects, or web pages on the Internet. For these objects, the entire software object is replaced when a change is to be made.
As another example of the differences between types of software objects, file systems are typically based upon containment relationships, where one object can have child, or dependent objects, as well as parent objects. This type of relationship may not apply to other types of objects, such as database records, or web pages, since they are not inherently hierarchical.
In the past, when a new type of software object is introduced, either the user interface software is modified to recognize and handle the new type of software object, or the new type of software object is forced into an existing model, such as the file system model. Because of hidden links between the file system model and the user interface software, modifying the interface to add a new object type can be difficult.
It is desired to have an improved system of displaying and accessing software objects that avoid some of the problems of the prior art, and facilitate access to a variety of different types of software objects.
In accordance with the present invention, an adaptation layer is used to isolate a presentation layer of a user interface from the details of accessing the software objects. For each object to be displayed, a standard set of information is transferred to the presentation layer from the adaptation layer. This information, in one embodiment, includes the type of object (e.g. file, web page, etc.) the name and/or icon of the software object, and an indication of the presence of children objects of the software object. This data is provided by the adaptation layer which can call different access units for the different types of software objects. Thus, if there are three different types of software objects, there will be three different access software units called by the adaptation layer to get the appropriate information about the software object. Each of the access units can obtain a standard set of information from the respective types of software objects in vastly different manners. In a preferred embodiment, the amount of data required to be transferred from the adaptation layer to the presentation layer is relatively minimal. Optional information can also be transferred, including, but not limited to, the date and time of the last modification, and the object size.
An advantage of the present invention is that new types of software objects can be added without requiring modifications to the presentation layer. The presentation layer can display representations of software objects having vastly different software object types. For example, web pages, databases, file transfer protocol (FTP) objects, and regular file types can be displayed in the same hierarchical structure.
Another embodiment of the present invention concerns a hierarchical display which allows for the selection of software objects having different heterogeneous types. In one embodiment, such a system is made possible by the use of the adaptation layer. Representations of software objects of different types can be shown in the same display, and viewed and selected by the user. The selection of representations in the hierarchical display call access units to access the software objects. The presentation layer is not burdened with figuring out how to access the different software objects. The presentation layer merely sends an "open software object" signal to the different access units which can access the software objects in their own manner.
The software objects can be from a variety of different sources and repositories. These different repositories can contain heterogeneous types of objects, which would previously have been considered to be incompatible. For example, the software objects can include file objects, database objects, FTP objects, or internet web objects.
The present invention may be further understood from the following description in conjunction with the appended drawings. In the drawings:
Typically, conventional presentation systems were produced with knowledge of the types of software objects to be used. Conventional presentation systems can be tightly meshed with the details of the expected software object types. Often, the presentation layer expects the software objects to behave as files. The file system model is useful for a variety of different types of software objects, such as sound files, movie files, and text files. The prevalence of the file system model has influenced software designers to force new objects into this model.
A problem occurs when a new type of software object is introduced that does not easily fit the file system model, such as an Internet web page. Modifying the presentation software to allow display of a web page is quite difficult because the presentation software was written expecting all of the software objects to behave in the same manner as a file.
The software objects can be from a variety of different sources and repositories. These different repositories can contain heterogeneous types of objects, which would previously be considered incompatible. For example, the software objects can include file objects, database objects, and internet web objects, including FTP server objects.
The details of the software object access is provided by the adaptation layer and access units. Certain other types of information can be provided by the adaptation layer to the presentation layer, but is not required. This data can include the file size, and the time and date of the last modification. For some types of objects where this information does not make sense, it need not be transferred to the presentation layer. In a preferred embodiment, the adaptation layer is a "thin" layer of software that uses the access units to obtain the display information. The access units may be unmodified commercially available software.
The presentation layer also preferably sends signals to the lower levels in a fixed form. Thus, if the user selects a command to open a software object, an "open object" instruction is sent to the lower levels which interpret this instruction to open the software object in its own fashion.
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In a preferred embodiment, the presentation layer does not require the identifying data to be returned within a fixed time period. With a file system, when data is requested by the presentation unit, the computer system can quickly obtain this data. A presentation layer that expects the objects to conform to a file system model may require that data be received within a certain amount of time. For example, the system could time out after a short period if the data is not obtained by the presentation layer. However, in the preferred embodiment of the present invention, the presentation layer does not have any expectations of when the identification data is to be presented. The presentation layer requests data a few times, and can produce a display whenever the data is sent from the lower levels. The presentation layer does not have any expectations as to when this data is to be received.
This feature is particularly advantageous when web objects are accessed. Since Internet access is typically much slower than access over the computer system files, the timing out of the system can cause problems. In other embodiments, a time limit may be set.
Different access units can obtain the required data from the objects in vastly different manners. The presentation layer has no expectations of how this data is to be produced. For a file unit access, the data can be obtained in the conventional manner. For a web access system, the system can search for text to use as the name of the object, either from the web page or the web page's uniform resource locator (URL), and can go through the web page to identify URLs contained within it to produce an indication of the children objects of that web page. An access unit for a database can use the details of the database structure to produce the name and links to any children objects. The adaptation layer is preferably quite thin and merely an intermediary between the presentation layer and the different software object access units.
The access units can also provide different ways of manipulating the software objects as a result of instructions from the presentation layer. For example, if the user selects "open a file", this instruction is interpreted as appropriate by each of the different access units, to retrieve a file.
An access unit may be able to access more than one type of object. Additionally, a single type of object can be accessed by more than one access unit.
It will be appreciated by those of ordinary skill in the art that the present invention can be embodied in other specific forms without departing from the spirit or essential character thereof. The presently disclosed embodiments are therefore considered in all respects to be illustrative and not restrictive. The scope of the invention is indicated by the appended claims, rather than the foregoing description, and all changes which come within the meaning and range of equivalence thereof are intended to be embraced therein.
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Martin County Notebook: South Fork will 'Give Back' on Friday
MARTIN COUNTY — South Fork High School athletic director Tim Tharp hopes a big crowd is on hand when the Bulldogs take on the Jensen Beach football team on Friday night.
And that's not just because he likes to see people in the grandstand.
Friday is "Give Back" night at South Fork, with a portion of all ticket sales, parking, concessions and T-shirt sales going to the Indiantown Education Coalition.
Ticket prices have been increased to $7 for adults and $5 for students to help sweeten the donation. Parking is $3 and T-shirts will sell for $10. Game time is 7 p.m.
South Fork tied a charity event to the Martin Bowl last season, with the funds going to CASTLE.
"This is something we would like to do on a yearly basis," Tharp said. "We will always try to tie it in with the Martin Bowl when we host, but will look for other worthy organizations to support on the years we play Martin County at their place."
The Indiantown Education Coalition has raised approximately $225,000 to support local students, according to Tharp.
At the start of each year, the coalition distributes classroom grants totaling $10,000 to Warfield Elementary, Indiantown Middle, Indiantown Adult Education and Hope Rural.
Then, at the end of the year, it gives around $15,000 in scholarships to deserving students who reside in Indiantown.
"Needless to say, the vast majority of these recipients are South Fork students," Tharp said.
Avid volleyball fans have probably noticed a familiar name in the lineup this year for Pine School.
Mackenzie Lydon, an eighth-grader, plays outside and right side hitter for Pine.
Lydon is the younger sister of Martin County senior Madisen Lydon. Mackenzie has 19 aces for Pine. Madisen leads Martin County with 24 aces, 101 service points and 141 kills. She is second on the team with 147 digs.
Jensen Beach pitcher Taylor Blatch has committed to play baseball at Florida State University. Blatch went 7-0 last spring with a 0.73 earned run average. In his first start for the Falcons last February, the right-hander threw a no-hitter against Boynton Beach.
Taking a time out
Lucy Robson has played in just two matches so far for the Jensen Beach golf team, but there is nothing mysterious about her absence.
The senior, one of the top players on the Treasure Coast since her freshman year, has been visiting various colleges in hopes of determining where she'll play next.
"She has a few different possibilities, but we're keeping quiet until she commits," coach Mike Thurman said. "We should have her for the rest of our matches."
In her two appearances, Robson shot a 36 and a 39, both against Benjamin.
Ali Denny leads Pine with 146 kills. Cassie Pfeiffer has a team-best 26 blocks and Dani Skelly has 188 assists … Sarah Davis leads Okeechobee with 175 assists. Krista Ward has a team-high 158 digs and Darby Jones leads with 92 kills … Kendall Bradley leads Jensen Beach with 248 assists and 38 aces. Brooke Fasciana leads with 188 digs. Evin Foster has a team-high 124 kills and Ella Donaho leads with 36 solo blocks. She also has 15 block assists … Natalie Tuttle leads South Fork with 59 kills and 11 blocks. Jessica Bright has a team-high 95 assists and 24 aces. Morgan Carter leads with 171 digs … JoAnn Martin leads Martin County with 192 digs. Danielle Dodge has a team-best 198 assists. Jenna Daniel leads with 19 blocks … Nico Sawtelle lead Jensen Beach with 10 tackles in its win against Fort Pierce Westwood last week. Sawtelle has Jensen's only interception of the year, which came in the season opener. For the season, Matt Curivan leads the team with 39 tackles ... Blake Lucky led South Fork with 15 tackles in its win over Forest Hill. He has a team-high 50 tackles in three games.
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Novel section meetings tell a different story
Some STLE local groups are reaping big rewards by holding meetings at sites other than restaurants.
A couple of issues ago I discussed how the Houston Section is using teleconferencing to include off-site students in its meetings. Now I'd like to focus on how four other STLE groups have increased the value of their section meetings and education events by holding them at sites other than the traditional restaurant or hotel venue.
By holding their monthly meetings in such novel locales as national labs, corporate-member facilities and state universities, these groups are utilizing expanded meeting technologies, attracting new members, grabbing the interest of students and strengthening the ties between the national organization and its corporate members.
Let's take a look at how these groups are using this approach
This section holds its monthly meetings at the Engineering Society of Detroit's (ESD) spacious new facility in Southfield, Mich. ESD's Charlie Bender with NSK Corp. in Ann Arbor, Mich., says ESD has 77 affiliate member societies and organizations, several hundred corporate members and several thousand individual members throughout the Great Lakes region. ESD unites engineers, scientists, architects and those in related technical fields in a common goal?the advancement and promotion of the profession.
Each meeting room is equipped with a podium, various sized tables, a ceiling-mounted AV projector, a projection screen and microphone. The ESD staff is professional, knowledgeable and helpful. The cost is reasonable, and affiliate members of the ESD (STLE being one) receive a discounted rate.
This group conducts some of its education events at Argonne National Laboratory in Argonne, Ill., a Chicago suburb. "The setup is first class," says section chair Ted McClure with TribSys LLC in Valparaiso, Ind. "The meeting rooms have built-in screens and projectors. There's also a guest house on-site that provides low-cost lodging."
The restaurant site where the section holds its monthly meetings is close to Argonne, making it easy for program attendees to also attend. The cost is minimal, with only a small AV setup fee and no additional fee for the room. In addition, the building where the classes are held is housed within the Advanced Photon Source building.
"We have had several opportunities to tour the APS over the years as part of the program," adds Ted, "and Argonne has provided many interesting speakers for the program."
For the past five years this section has held its meetings at the University Center at Kent State Stark in North Canton, Ohio, at a modern facility that includes VCR, DVD, computer, printer, LCD projector and screen capabilities.
"The price is all-inclusive and is charged on a per-person basis with no contractual minimum," says Peter Drechsler with The Timken Co. in Canton. "We've had as many as 70 and as few as 19. The non-profit rate is $56 per person."
Peter adds that the center offers videoconferencing with satellite uplink and downlink availability.
This section holds its two-day Lube School at Atlanta's Wildwood Complex in a building where Chevron has its Southeast Division offices. Chevron allows the section to hold the meeting at no cost for the room and setup. Lunch is out of the section budget at a cafe` located on the first floor. The section also holds 4-5 meetings a year at the Southern Polytechnic State University (SPSU) conference center in Marietta, Ga. Section chair Art Vogel notes that SPSU and Georgia Tech students often are candidates for section scholarships.
If your section holds meetings in "novel" venues, please send me an e-mail at the address below. This is an idea STLE would like to build on.
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We recognize that many people feel stuck in their marriage, and you may not even know if you feel like working on your relationship. This is normal, and a great many couples start here. All that is needed is a desire to make it better, even if the loving feelings are just a distant memory.
Typical Program Length: Three to four months. After this we suggest a maintenance coaching program.
Cost: $400-800 (CAD) per month. Think of this in the same way as vehicle maintenance: not always fun, but necessary -- and you feel much better afterwards. We often invest more into our cars than we do on the most important decision we have ever made: our Marriage! (Hourly rates are also available.)
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But many parents were unaware of the lockdown and of a manhunt launched by authorities. Text and email alerts were sent, but most parents of the district's 5,000 students were not signed up to receive them.
But many parents were unaware of the lockdown and of a manhunt launched by authorities. Text and email alerts were sent, but most parents of the district's 5,000 students were not signed up to receive them.
A computerized emergency system from CopSync lets teachers and administrators alert police and other emergency responders to a crisis without waiting to go through a dispatch center. The instant message can display room numbers on a school map and the teacher assigned to that room.
Parents in the Polk County (Fla.) district received a letter stating a pilot program would track bus riders using each child's iris. Parents could opt out, but by the time they learned about the program, the company charged with gathering the information had already captured images of about 750 children's eyes.
Every West Virginia school should practice responding to a gunman's attack at least annually, as part of a plan to guard against violence, the top prosecutor for the state's southern federal court district said Tuesday.
When Alissa Parker first heard there was a shooting at her 6-year-old daughter's school, she immediately thought of the building's security weaknesses and wished she'd spoken up. "Knowing the location of where Emilie's classroom was, if anyone gained access to that building, I knew that my child was very vulnerable," she said.
In the wake of December's Sandy Hook Elementary School massacre — in which a lone gunman slaughtered 20 children and six faculty members at a school in Newtown, Conn. — federal officials are expecting a big spike in funding applications for armed, accredited police officers in America's schools.
With Illinois close to making shooting-incident drills mandatory in all public and private schools, some parents and officials say a proposed new law would require tough decisions on how to balance a student's safety with a child's innocence.
BYOD guidelines are just being defined, but one warning must rise above the din, this author says: never, ever, try to gain unauthorized access to an employee's private social networking site.
Since 20-year-old Adam Lanza gunned down 20 first-graders and six adults at a Newtown, Conn., elementary school in December, education officials in Vermont and across the nation have taken steps to review and increase security. That's driving a renewed interest in surveillance cameras.
Teachers attending a meeting at a small school in rural Oregon last Friday were shocked when two masked men wearing hoodies burst into the conference room and pretended to open fire. The surprise shooting drill at Pine Eagle Charter School in Halfway was designed to test the school's preparation for an assault by "active shooters," The Oregonian reported.
In the months following the Sandy Hook massacre, schools nationwide have stepped up efforts to provide safe environments for teachers and students, and many have turned to high-tech solutions.
More than four months after the shooting, just two Connecticut school districts are pushing forward with the idea while others are calling it unaffordable or imprudent.
Since the school shooting in Newtown, Connecticut, the town has paid thousands of dollars in overtime to put more police officers in schools.
The National Rifle Association's National School Shield project released a series of recommendations Tuesday it says will help keep schools safer, including a training program for teachers and other school staff who want to carry a firearm.
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Purpose built for social gaming. Dedicated party games are available online and in split-screen perfect for sofa gaming with a low barrier to entry for friends where classics like 'capture the flag' and checkpoint challenges get the Showdown treatment.
Issue Showdown Challenges to test yourself against friends whether they are online or not.
Flashback becomes Crashback in DiRT Showdown – whenever a large crash happens, players can see 'kill cams' from several angles showing how the carnage unfolds. In single player events, gamers can also upload clips direct to YouTube.
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You are DEFINETLY right about that. John Bohnam had a signature sound and style that was unique, original, entertaining and a joy to listen to. It's why I , among MANY others (including yourselves) gravitate to him so much for rock drumming. I don't think I ever called into question his greatness. You shouldn't feel a need to defend him. Just because I said that Elvin and Buddy were harder to imitate doesn't mean that Bohnam isn't awesome too. For another example, Tony Williams, Dennis Chambers and Billy Cobham are easier to imitate than Elvin Jones or Buddy. Elvin for his time concept, Buddy for pure fire. You'll notice my favorite drummer in the whole wide world is Tony Williams. In other words, this is no strike against John Bohnam. In terms of style, look at the company that he's in, in terms of learning difficulty, right? Get what I'm saying?
yes, i do get what your saying. Its just your first few posts, they struck me like you were saying Bonham could be easily imitated. I am a big bonham fan, but i dont think of myself as a fan thats blind to reality, i know that Bonham didnt have the best licks of all time, and i do know that he will be upstaged, but hes my personal favorite because of his originality, and in his time he could lay down a groove harder than anybody, plus the guys he was playing with helped a bit too. Im not going to argue anymore about people sounding exactly like him, but to my knowledge i havent heard anyone do what he did.
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A mobile communication terminal or telephone comprising a handheld main housing incorporating a digital keypad, a speaker and a microphone, and having a planar radiator antenna. The antenna is hingedly-attached to an extension arm element which, in turn, is hingedly-attached at the top of the main housing. During use, the antenna is pivoted above and away from the head of the user by a sufficient distance to significantly reduce or remove the exposure of the user to transmitted RF power of sufficient density to pose a health danger.
1. A compact terminal or telephone for mobile communications comprising an RF transmission circuitry including a microphone, an RF signal amplifier and an antenna electrically-connected to each other for the transmission of messages, and an RF reception circuitry including an antenna, an RF signal demodulator and a speaker electrically connected to each other for the reception of messages, said terminal or telephone comprising an elongate main housing having a microphone adjacent the bottom portion thereof, and a speaker, an elongate extender element having a face surface, an upper end and a lower end, the lower end of which comprises a ball joint connection to hinge means, said hinge means attaching said extender element to said housing at an upper portion thereof for rotation into storage position parallel to said housing, said ball point connection pivotably-attaching the extender element to the hinge means for axial rotation of said extender element to direct the face surface thereof in any desired direction relative to said housing, and a planar radiator transmission/reception antenna element hingedly-attached to the upper end of said extender element, remote from said lower end, and a flexible RF cable signal coupler means between said main housing, through said extender element to said radiator antenna element to couple the RF transmission circuitry including the microphone of the main housing and the transmission antenna of the antenna element, and to couple the RF reception circuitry including the speaker of the main housing and the reception antenna of the antenna element, whereby for use of the terminal or telephone, the hinge means and the extender element are rotated from storage position to extend above the upper portion of the main housing, the extender element is rotated axially on said ball joint connection to direct the face surface thereof in any desired direction relative to the housing and the planar radiator antenna element is rotated and/or pivoted to face upwardly and away from the user in the direction of optimum transmission and reception, whereby the exposure of the user to intense RF power transmitted by the antenna element is substantially reduced or eliminated.
2. A terminal according to claim 1 in which a portion of the rear face of the main housing comprises a recess to receive the extender element and the planar radiator antenna element when said elements are rotated into coplanar relation and rotated downwardly against said rear face into said recess, to produce a compact terminal during periods of non-use.
3. A terminal according to claim 1 in which the RF transmission circuitry is electrically isolated from the RF reception circuitry to provide reduced interference and improved performance.
This is a continuation of application(s) Ser. No. 08/121,075 filed on Sep. 14, 1993, now abandoned
1. Field of the Invention
The present invention relates to handheld terminals such as cordless telephones or wireless cellular telephones for sending and receiving signals by means of an antenna and a radio frequency signal processor such as a transmitter or a receiver.
2. State of the Art
Mobile or cellular telephones are becoming more common and popular with motorist whose businesses require them to be easily contacted during time periods when they are driving their vehicles, such as salesmen, doctors and other people who either spend much of their time driving or whose occupations frequently involve emergency situations.
There is much concern that frequent users of radio frequency telephones may be endangered by overexposure to radio frequency energy due to the fact that the handset of such telephones incorporates the antenna which transmits the amplified RF signals, and such antenna is in contact with or closely-spaced from the head of the user. It has alleged that the frequent use of such RF telephones may be responsible for the development of tumors and other medical problems by the users.
The present invention is concerned with improved handheld compact mobile telephone receivers on which the antenna portion or planar radiator portion is hingedly-attached to the speaker portion for deployment between compact folded position and unfolded use position. Compact mobile telephone receivers having hingedly-attached antenna portions are known in the art and reference is made to U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,014,346 and 5,170,173 for their disclosure of such devices. The handheld telephones of the cited patents are designed for compactness, and the planar radiator portion is attached at the bottom of the telephone, away from the speaker unit, so as to be foldable up over the input keypad for storage during periods of non-use, and to be unfoldable into position proximate the mouth or chin of the user during periods of transmission. Such devices are not designed to overcome or avoid the possible health dangers of overexposure to radio frequency energy posed by the proximity of the antenna of RF mobile telephones to frequent users of such telephones, nor do they inherently possess such advantages because the antennae of such compact telephones remain in close proximity to and aimed towards the head of the users when unfolded into use position.
The present invention relates to handheld terminals or mobile telephones comprising a main speaker/microphone housing portion, such as an RF signal transmitter/receiver unit, and a directional planar radiator antenna portion, and is characterized by the antenna portion being hingedly-connected to an elongate extender portion which, in turn is hingedly connected to the main housing position. This provides a mobile telephone terminal which is foldable into a compact configuration for storage during non-use, and is unfoldable into a deployed configuration in which the directional antenna is spaced above and or away from the head of the user by means of the extender portion and the directional planar radiator antenna is aimed away from the head of the user.
The extender portion is hingedly-connected at the top of the housing portion, the speaker is near the top of the housing portion, and the microphone is located near the bottom of the housing portion, so that the mouth of the user is positioned near the bottom of the housing portion during RF signal transmission. This design assures that the deployed antenna is held in extension above and/or away from the head of the user to further assure that the amplified RF transmission signals generated and emitted during use of the mobile telephone are emitted from the planar antenna surface located above and directed away from the head of the user.
Most preferably the extender portion and the planar antenna portion are hingedly-attached at the top to the main housing so as to be foldable down behind the main housing and to nest in a mating recess for purposes of compactness and appearance.
FIG. 1 is a perspective view of a handheld terminal or telephone for mobile communications according to an embodiment of the present invention, illustrating the planar radiator antenna and its extender is deployed condition;
FIG. 2 is a perspective view of the terminal or telephone of FIG. 1, illustrating the antenna and its extender folded down behind the main housing and nested into a recessed area in the rear face of the housing; and
FIG. 3 is a perspective view of an alternative contactless RF hinge connection suitable for use in place of the non-conductive hinges 15 and 16 of FIG. 1, to avoid the need for the cables 22;
FIG. 4 is an illustration of the RF hinge connection of FIG. 3, with the elements thereof separated for purposes of illustration; and
FIG. 5 illustrates operative circuitry for the transmission and reception of radio frequency signals by means of the mobile communications terminals or telephone units of the present invention.
Referring to FIGS. 1 and 2 of the drawings, the present hand terminals or telephones 10 comprise a main elongate housing 11, an elongate extender arm 12, and a planar radiator antenna unit 13 having a directional signal face 14. Hinge connections 15 and 15A rotatably and pivotably join the near end of the extender 12 to the top of the housing 11 and spaced hinge connection 16 rotatably joins the far or remote end of the extender to the antenna unit 13. The ball joint connection 15A permits the arm 12 and antenna unit 13 to be pivoted axially relative to the housing 11.
The elongate main housing 11 includes an upper liquid crystal display window 17, an intermediate digital keypad 18, a microphone 19 which is located at the based of the elongate housing 11, remote from the extender 12 and the antenna unit 13, and an upper speaker 21. Thus, the mouth of the person transmitting a message is normally brought into proximity with the microphone 19, which causes the user to hold the terminal or telephone 10 upright so that the antenna unit 13 is held in extension above and/or away from the head of the user, with the directional radiator surface 14 preferably tilted upwardly and/or away from the head of the user. By proper choice of the antenna transmitting power and the length of the extender 12, the transmitted RF power density from the antenna to the user can be kept well below the RF intensity limits which are considered to pose radiation health hazards. The hinge connections 15, 15A and 16 provide three axes of rotation as shown in FIG. 1, and allow the antenna to point toward the optimum transmission and receptive directions.
FIG. 2 illustrates the terminal or telephone 10 of FIG. 1 in compact retracted condition for storage during periods of non-use. The rear face of the elongate housing 11 comprises a recess 20 provided by the difference in the thickness of the housing 11 between a slim main upper portion and a deeper base portion. The recess 20 is of sufficient length and depth to receive the extender 12 and the antenna unit 13 when they are folded in coplanar relationship, down against the rear face of the housing 11, as illustrated.
The planar radiator antenna 13 comprises a directional sending and receiving face 14 which can incorporate conventional types of antenna circuits such as a microstrip patch circuit, a printed spiral circuit, or other conventional antenna circuits which can provide the proper radiation characteristics, fabricated on a substrate material having the proper dielectric constant to enable reduction in physical size.
As in apparent to those skilled in the present art, electrical interconnections must De provided between the circuitry located in the main housing 11, through the extender 12 to the antenna(e) located in the antenna unit 13. Such interconnections can be provided by conventional flexible RF cables 22 as illustrated by FIG. 1 and/or by hinges comprising rotatable contactless RF signal couplers as disclosed by aforementioned U.S. Pat. Nos. 5,014,346 and 5,170,173 which are incorporated herein reference. The interconnection can also be accomplished by using a rotatable RF contactless interconnection hinge as illustrated by FIGS. 3 and 4. The RF signal interconnection of FIGS. 3 and 4 is accomplished through inductive coupling between the two coaxial, spiral windings on the inner and outer cylindrical parts of the hinge. It will also be apparent to those skilled in the art that all or part of the RF front end circuitry of the transmission circuit and of the receive circuit of the present terminals or mobile telephones may be located in the main housing 11, in the extender 12 and/or in the antenna unit 13, except for the requirement that the speaker 21 is always located at the top of the housing 11 and the microphone 19 is always located in the base of the housing 11 and the antenna(e) is always located in the planar radiator antenna unit 13. Electrical isolation between the transmitting and receiving component can improve the performance of the present devices by reducing interference. While such isolation is generally provided by interposing frequency filters between the antennae and the respective transmission and reception components, further physical isolation of the components in different ones of the three units making up the present devices, i.e., the main housing 11, the extender 12 and the antenna unit 13, can provide reduced interference and improved performance. In addition, the location of the signal transmission components, including the power amplifier and the LNA thereof, in the planar radiator unit 13 further reduces noise and signal attenuation generally produced by the conduction of RF energy through rotatable signal coupler hinges.
The contactless RF signal hinge interconnection 41 of FIG. 3 may be used to unite the extender arm 42 and member 43 which may be either the antenna, such as 13 of FIG. 1, or the housing, such as 11 of FIG. 1. An interconnection between RF conductive microstrip lines 44 and 45 is accomplished by means of inductive coupling between two coaxially-located, spirally-wound wires 46 and 47 on the inner and outer cylindrical parts 48 and 49 of the hinge. The spiral wire windings can be etched onto the cylindrical parts 48 and 49 in the form of printed circuits, and the parts 48 and 49 must be of dielectric composition. One end of the spiral wire 46 on element 42 is in contact with the conductive line 44 while the other end 50 thereof is in contact with a ground plane 51 on the rear face of the element 42 one end of the spiral wire 47 on element 43 is in contact with the conductive line 45 while the other end 52 thereof is in contact with a ground plane 53 on the rear face of element 43.
FIG. 5 illustrates a suitable conventional electrical circuit useful in the present terminals or mobile telephones incorporating a single antenna. It will be apparent to those skilled in the present art that portions of the circuitry may be incorporated into different printed circuit boards which can be mounted within the main housing 11 or within the extender 12 or within the antenna unit 13 to physically isolate the portions from each other and/or from the antenna.
The transmission circuit comprises a microphone 23, always located at the base of the main housing 11, for converting voice signals into electrical signals which are transmitted over lines 24 and 25. A processor 36 controls whether the signals from the microphone 23 are modulated by the oscillator 26 to form frequency modulated information signals, or are encoded by the voice coder 28 and modulated at 27 to form composite modulated information signals. When frequency modulation is selected the signal on line 24 are converted to frequency modulated signals by voltage controlled oscillator 26 and conveyed to a modulator 27 which acts as a pass-through. Signals over line 25 are utilized when a discrete encoded signal, modulated to form a composite modulated signal, is to be generated. The line 25 signals are supplied to a voice coder 28 where they are digitalized and encoded to generate signals on line 29 to modulator 27. The frequency modulated or the composite modulated information signals are supplied to a mixer 30 which mixes the signal with an offset carrier wave generated by a synthesizer 31 and supplied to the mixer 30, to generate a modulated signal on a carrier wave of predetermined frequency.
The modulated information signal is passed through the frequency filter 32 which only transmits waves having a frequency proximate the frequency of the carrier wave. The filtered signal containing the modulated information signal is coupled to a transistorized power amplifier 33 which amplifies the signal to transmission power levels and couples them through a duplexer filter 34 to the antenna 35.
The receiving circuit comprises the same antenna 35 which conveys the signals received thereby to a filter 37 which passes signals of the desired frequencies to a mixer 38. The mixer 38 receives an oscillating signal from the synthesizer 31 and generates a mixed signal to a demodulator 39 which couples a demodulated electrical information signal to the speaker 40. The speaker 40 converts the electrical information signals into an audible message.
Alternatively, the present devices may comprise separate transmit and receive antennae as disclosed in aforementioned U.S. Pat. No. 5,014,346. It should be understood that the circuitry of the present devices comprises components which are conventional in the art and may be modified within the knowledge of the art.
It should be understood that the foregoing description is only illustrative of the invention. Various alternatives and modifications can be devised by those skilled in the art without departing from the invention. Accordingly, the present invention is intended to embrace all such alternatives, modifications and variances which fall within the scope of the appended claims.
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In many businesses, the real problem in getting revenues is not getting more people to come to your business: It's converting those prospects into real paying customers. Unfortunately many business owners spend too much time and money on Lead Generation and forget to work on Conversion Rate strategies. The fact is, conversion rate strategies are often more cost effective and gets more results.
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Green Day have not let Billy Joe Armstrong's recovery be more than a tiny kink their ambitious year-end plans. Save for a few postponed tour dates, they have gone ahead with the release of ¡Uno! in September and ¡Dos! just yesterday, as well as a barrage of music videos. The boys have clocked lots and lots of studio hours for these mostly performance-centric clips, but this new one for ¡Dos!'s "Stray Heart" finally lets them catch a break by leaving them out altogether. Instead of Billy Joe or Mike Dirnt, we get a Green Day (and vinyl) fan whose heart has literally strayed, leaving behind a gaping hole and a distressed girlfriend. It's pretty cute — the animated organ-gone-rogue, particularly so! — and befitting of the sort of whimsy-punk song, which is probably the album's most playful.
Speaking of which, Green Day have been so kind as to make ¡Dos! available for streaming. This latest installment of the ¡Uno!, ¡Dos!, ¡Tré! triology was recorded with Dookie and American Idiot producer Rob Cavallo, and accordingly finds them returning to their old punchy pop-punk tune. The guys have each taken a turn telling who ever might be asking that Dos is their "garage rock" album, and is meant to be played in the middle of a party, and we are inclined to agree after a first spin. What do you think?
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J Street Cinema
1414 J Street,
1414 J Street,Sacramento, CA 95814
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One of two independent theaters in Sacramento in the 1970's/early 80's (along with the Showcase Theatre) that showed independent, foreign, and art films. Closed in 1983.
Contributed by Charles Bunnell
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wulfgar64 on November 1, 2007 at 9:32 pm
Fond memories of samurai movies shown in the late 70's. If you needed a Toshiro Mifune fix, this was the place to go.
JohnRice on July 5, 2008 at 11:09 am
As I recall this little theater opened in the late 1960s and initially played Mexican films, sort of a replacement for the recently closed Rio Theater (519 J Street). That policy didn't work so they quckly switched to an art house policy. Landmark later operated it successfully for several years with a calendar rep policy.
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