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Vitesse Semiconductor Corporation

Gary Brian Lee

John P Mullaney

Alan Heine

Embodiments of the present invention include an adjustable hairdryer permitting a user to rotate and vertically adjust the barrel portion of a hand-holdable dryer. Embodiments of the invention disclose ball-and-socket and disc joint couplings between a hairdryer barrel and handle. Embodiment linkage apparatus is disclosed providing mechanical contact between the barrel and a rotatory electrical interface, permitting the barrel to be freely rotatable relative to the handle while maintaining electrical contact.

Adjustable hair dryer

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An audio looping method and system that stores a segment of an audio signal and plays back the stored segment in a repeated loop. The beginning and the end of the audio segment are determined by changes in the audio signal, instead of a predetermined time interval or a time specified by manual user input. This produces a repeated loop that is timed to an event in the audio signal.

Audio loop timing based on audio event information

An asynchronous serial crosspoint switch is word synchronized to each of a number of transceiver circuits. The crosspoint switch circuit generates both a master bit clock and a master word clock signal. A transceiver circuit recovers the master bit clock signal from an incoming high-speed serial data stream using a clock and data recovery circuit. The recovered bit clock signal is used as a timing signal by which data is serialized and transmitted to the crosspoint switch circuit. The data stream transmitted to the switch circuit is frequency locked to the master bit clock signal, such that the serial data stream need only be phase adjusted with a data recovery circuit. To recover word timing, the switch circuit issues alignment words to the transceivers during link initialization. The transceivers perform word alignment and establish a local word lock. Alignment words are then reissued to the switch circuit using the local word clock. The switch circuit compares the boundary of the received word clock to the master word clock and, if misaligned, the transceiver shifts its transmitted word by one bit and retries. Necessary edge transition density is provided by overhead bits which also designate special command words asserted between a transceiver and a switch circuit. Flow control information is routed from a receiving transceiver back to the transmitting transceiver using the overhead bits in order to assert a ready-to-receive or a not-ready-to-receive flow control signal. The overhead bits additionally provide information regarding connection requests and other information.

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Rancho Cordova, CA, United States of America

Gary Brian Lee