S. C. Johnson Commercial Markets, Inc.

Apple Inc.

S. C. Johnson Commerical Markets, Inc.

Brent Duchon

Thomas A Helf

John A Boticki

Charles E Seaman

Carey W Zimmerman

Michael J Greaney

Raymond McKinnon

A Ross Cameron

James Baldwin

Anh Nguyen

A docking station and bottle system 23 including a filling head 20 and bottle 22 which have a head interconnect 86 and a bottle interconnect 90, respectively, for fastening the bottle 22 to the filling 20 head in order to prevent spillage. The bottle interconnect 90 includes a fluid port 106 and a vent port 104 which are simultaneously opened from a closed position in order to allow the filling head 20 to draw concentrated fluid from the bottle 22 and mix the concentrated fluid with a diluting fluid such as water before being dispensed from a filling head nozzle 52. The bottle 22 includes identifying indicia 158 for purposes of tracking utilization of the bottle and the concentrated fluid contained therein. An information storage system 170 is associated with the bottle and filling head in order to provide records of such concentrated fluid utilization. A wall mounted docking station 200 including one or more filling heads 20 is also provided for. A refill head is further provided for refilling bottle 22.

Docking station and bottle system

A multi-state, one-button computer mouse includes a housing movable over a reference surface, a tracking mechanism coupled to the housing to provide positional coordinates relative to the reference surface, a single button, and a switch mechanism coupled to the button. The single button is movable between a base position, a first button position, and a second button position by a force exerted on the button. The button is biased to the base position in absence of the force. The switch mechanism is coupled to the button such that it activates a first switch at the first button position and a second switch at the second button position. A computer system with the pointing device includes a processing unit, a visual display, a pointing device as described above, and a computer implemented process for indicating on the visual display when the button of the pointing device is in a locked button mode. A computer-implemented process for processing pointer data includes intercepting pointer data entered into the processing unit of the computer system, determining whether the pointer data includes locked button data, entering a locked button state if it is included, processing the pointer data in a pointer data handler, and changing a cursor image to be displayed on the visual display to indicate that the button is in the locked button state.

Multi-state one-button computer pointing device

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San Jose, CA, United States of America

Brent Duchon