At my job, I come across different terms/phrases daily that I feel I need more background information on and my first response is to Google the term and look for the wiki page on it.

What have you Googled/Wikied today?

I searched for how to translate logical memory into physical memory, and eventually found a link to page tables which has some info on what I was looking for.

^ thot u were a lawyer?


I search for words/phrases used by Nairalanders.

Examples include :

jocund
schadenfreude
troglodyte


and so many more!

yamakuza:

^ thot u were a lawyer?


I search for words/phrases used by Nairalanders.

Examples include :

jocund
schadenfreude
troglodyte


and so many more!

Yes, but I'm a Patent Attorney (aka Intellectual Property Attorney) and I represent clients in all issues related to obtaining patents. My primary area of technical expertise is electrical engineering which I also have a degree in but I deal with everything except pharmaceutical/chemistry type inventions.

^ cool. I once "interned" with such a firm while in college (here in 9ja).

Summer job stuff. Nothing technical. Twas fun.

Lucky u!

yamakuza:

^ cool. I once "interned" with such a firm while in college (here in 9ja).

Summer job stuff. Nothing technical. Twas fun.

Lucky u!

It is very cool because of the range of subjects that one works on from day-to-day but it could also be very daunting if one lacks the fundamental knowledge to understand the invention.

For example, in the last couple of weeks, I’ve worked on LED control circuit, capsule endoscope, flip-chip structure, lens module, asynchronous boost converter, car door lock, bicycle suspension etc.

One day you’re trying to figure out what about a particular circuit/design makes it novel and the next day, you’re trying to figure out why a particular bicycle suspension is better.

You can see why Wikipedia is a life saver to someone like me!

^ i can clearly see that.

One thing i still dont get. If nobody 'buys' ur patent and decides to go commercial with it, it just gathers dust for 7 to 14yrs and enters the public domain.

Twould have been a lazy man's way of making money in Nigeria, but . . . who go buy?

Which is why you need to have an ulterior motive for patenting a patentable idea.

A patent can easily run about $15k for the life of the patent (20 years). Some companies will patent anything and everything just to say we have X number of patents because it objectively adds to the value of a company when trying to sell, while there are others that acquire patents for offensive/defensive reasons.

A company like Google will be patenting anything related to Andriod OS, multi-gesture, Ads, and search engine.

Nothing is currently developed in Nigeria except maybe in oil drilling. Almost everything that we use/buy is manufactured somewhere else by people who obtained patents in their countries of interest. If you have a patent, you'd most likely be looking at selling/licensing it to foreign companies that will incorporate it into their products.

So, in effect, as an individual:

1. I invent

2. I patent the invention

3. I hope someone notices it and contacts me for licensing

4. I wait for them to use/infringe and them sue them

5. Or, i market it actively and hope to get good offers

looks like something for those with deep pockets!

yamakuza:

So, in effect, as an individual:

1. I invent

2. I patent the invention

3. I hope someone notices it and contacts me for licensing

4. I wait for them to use/infringe and them sue them

5. Or, i market it actively and hope to get good offers

looks like something for those with deep pockets!

lol, you can also use it as a market differentiator for products you sell or to make manufacturing the products cheaper. Unfortunately, anything patent related is for companies with deep pockets. It will cost between $1-5 million in court/attorney fees to sue someone for patent infringement.

^ thanks.

What else did you search for on Google?

When patent applications are written, there should be enough information in there to help “a person skilled in the art” understand and practice the invention. The problem occurs when the subject matter is not fully within my grasp or I've used it to eat eba. :-)

I don’t really remember majority of what I’ve searched which was why I made this thread to continually update when I use wiki.

Here’s what I remember from the last couple of months:
[list]
[li]I worked on an invention that detects the onset of ischaemia, arrhythmia, and other heart ailments by interpreting EKG signals (QRST) and alerting you and your doctor before the heart attack happens. I had no idea what QRST was. [/li]
[li]Even though I've never taken a class in Organic Chemistry in my life, I had to determine what the -COOR functional group is called and if it was part of the acid functional group because the inventor was saying something contradictory to the government official rejecting the invention. I hope I never have to see anything chemistry related again! [/li]
[li]I had to look up how “short sale” of a house works. [/li]
[li]A partner and I were arguing when trying to analyze how current flows in a particular circuit because he claims that you can measure voltage at a point and I said you need two points. His analysis of the circuit would have been wrong if he accepted that you need two points. Even having printing and giving him a wiki page, he wouldn't acknowledge that he was wrong and simple shifted the argument. [/li]
[/list]

^ Wow! Thats so cool.

Cant wait for the next update(s).

Had to look up "space domain" to see if it is the same as "spatial domain."

^ whats the difference/application?

Digital signal processing (DSP).

When you take pictures with a digital camera, the focal length of the lens assembly in the camera determines the depth of your picture. You can think of it as a shortsighted/longsighted person’s inability to see things clearly. Focal length is a physical attribute and is determined by the distance between the lens and the focal point.

In today’s world, we expect very little cameras to take a very clear picture but the little cameras, like a cell phone, lack the thickness (depth) needed for the lens assembly. A way of achieving picture qualities of a much larger dedicated camera is to take a picture twice at 2 different focal lengths, then add them together. To add the pictures together, you have to make sure that the objects/images within the picture fully align; otherwise the result will be blurry.

The invention I’m working on has to do with an efficient way of making sure the objects/images align without using a lot of processing power.

PS: Everything I just said is already in the public domain and is no longer secret. An invention gets published into the public domain 18 months after filing for an invention unless you elect to make it secret.

In my case, I'm more concerned with processes that takes place in frequency domain vs space/spatial/time domain. To process any real signal in frequency domain means that you must have converted it using Fourier Transform, which takes up more processing overhead when compared to a computation in time domain.

^ thanks. I get the application.

[s]So, how is space domain different from spatial domain?[/s]

yamakuza:

[s]So, how is space domain different from spatial domain?[/s]

Essentially the same. 'Spatial' relates to 'space' or 'position'.

@Topic,
I didn't Google anything today. We're all in a holiday mood at work.

^ thanks. Just making sure.

So, what did you google last?

yamakuza:

^ thanks. Just making sure.

So, what did you google last?

CEBP - Communication-Enabled Business Process

Well, I googled EDX SignalPro and its tutorials.


Frawzey

^ just checked it out. Never would have guessed it has to do with wireless networking.

Looks/sounds like one of those audio plugins at first glance.

Its basically a wireless tool thats used for Point-to-point/multipoint.


Frawzey

Keeping this thread live.
I googled One-way Hash Function today. Its basically an algorithm that converts messages and text into groups of strings that makes it almost impossible for it to be changed back to its original text. It is used for data management and security purposes.


Frawzey

^ almost impossible, huh? But still possible?

Reminds me of the RSA Encryption algorithm.

Nothing as secure as Quantum Cryptography for now sha.

I google where i wee buy sweet popcorn in ojuelegba and i get it. Tainx

I wikied Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-american novelist) just now. His name was mentioned in a book I currently am reading and I want to know what made him special while he was alive. While reading through his profile, I got to know the meaning of ''Lepidopterist''.
God bless Wikipedia!

I wikied Vladimir Nabokov (Russian-american novelist) just now. His name was mentioned in a book I currently am reading and I want to know what made him special while he was alive. While reading through his profile, I got to know the meaning of ''Lepidopterist''.
God bless Wikipedia!

^ So, not only does he write books, he also collects bugs?

Chap must have been a bookworm!

Yea. Nabokov was a diligent man while he was alive. At a time, he spent six hours every day of the week observing differences between butterflies and he was the only lepidopterist in Harvard.
Funny enough, he never knew to drive, fold an umbrella and answer a telephone. His wife did everything for him. In one of his funny quotes he said ''Genius is when a african man dreams of snow''.
In a light mood, have you noticed how your page looks when you google ''askew''?


Frawzey