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Hewlett-packard Development Company, L.p.

Jerry L Barber

Shao-Chun Chen

James P Gustafson

A system for generating efficient and compact update packages makes it possible to process a source binary image of software/firmware for an electronic device and a target binary image in order to generate a compact update package. It generates bubbles information that is optionally packaged with the generated update package. Together, the bubbles information and the update package, when delivered to an electronic device, facilitate the upgrade of the electronic device to a new or different version. The system for generating efficient and compact update packages selectively employs residue generation/computation and entropy computation, in addition to other techniques, in order to make the update package more compact.

System for generating efficient and compact update packages

An amusement apparatus comprising an elongated flume which has a fluid medium provided therein. A plurality of passenger vehicles are carried in the flume. Lifting mechanisms are provided for selectively raising and lowering various areas of the flume causing the fluid medium to travel as a wave in a continuous path around the flume and propel passenger vehicles floated thereon.

Amusement apparatus

An amusement ride car is disclosed as having a pair of driving propellers mounted at the rear of the car operating in the manner of an air boat. The propellers are driven individually, and each is arranged for forward and reverse directional rotation thereby permitting the forward and reverse movement of the car as well as turning movement thereof when opposite rotation is effected. The car can be supported for near frictional movement upon a riding platform by means of water, caster wheels, or the combination thereof, or by means of air flotation principles. Rotational speed of the propellers, and their direction of rotation, is under control of control devices made available for one of the passengers.

Amphibian air car

The subject matter of the disclosure is an amusement ride system having one or more passenger-carrying cars adapted for movement on an air flotation, rotating platform arranged at an angle to the horizontal plane. The cars are brought to the top side of the angled platform and allowed to free fall under gravity to the lower side of the platform. As the cars so descend, they bump into other cars and railings so that they experience random movement and rotation. Another embodiment utilizes roller ball devices instead of air flotation for providing free wheeling, random motion to the cars.

Rotating disc amusement ride

A portable amusement device wherein flotation of participants occurs on a continuous basis within flotation devices comprises a plurality of trough defining segments each being formed with double side walls and end walls with the double side walls defining a hollow section to permit nesting of the individual segments for shipment and storage. The trough segments are joined to one another to form a continous trough with a pump in at least one hollow section to continuously move a flotation medium throughout the trough and thus propel participants therethrough.

Flotation amusement device

A method of teaching golf utilizing a progression of golf balls of diminishing size. In one aspect, the method provides for starting with an oversize ball and using several increasingly smaller balls as the playing ability of the student improves until a conventional size ball is used. The method also contemplates the use of golf clubs with oversize heads. The present method contemplates a one-step reduction in the size of the golf club head from oversize to conventional size.

Set of golf balls

Golf club wood head

A golf club iron in which the hosel connects to the club head at one side of the top line of the head rather than along the side and base. The surfaces of the hosel and the bridging portion between the hosel and club head which face the line of flight from the face of the club are essentially flattened and continuous with the hitting surface of the club face. The combination of these structural relationships results in a club which is non-shanking.

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Greenville, SC, United States of America

Jerry L Barber