Cisco Technology, Inc.

Steelcase Inc.

Bayerische Motoren Werke Aktiengesellschaft

Steven P Vassallo

Jonathan I Kaplan

Jochen P Backs

Steven Ryutaro Takayama

Alan M Vale

Heather Andrus

Rudy Lucas Samuels

Mark B Saffell

David J Ritch

Kristine Rene Chan-Lizardo

Robert Larry Stewart

Bradley D Youngs

Robert Stancel

Richard A Dunlap

Bruce Grant MacGregor

Alexander Klatt

Alex Kazaks

Andrew Bert Hodge

Erich Domingo

Hermann Juergen Salenbauch

Peter James Coughlan

Johnathan I Kaplan

Daniel James Stillion

An interactive user interface displayed on a monitor as part of a telephone is disclosed. The interactive user interface allows a user to easily use basic and advanced telephony functions, telephony-related services, such as accessing phone directories and voice mail, and non-telephony services. These non-telephony services can include any information deliverable over, for example, TCP/IP or DHCP, and can include information such as stock prices, weather, sports data, and so on, typically from third-party services. It can also include intra-company information such as meeting schedules, conference room bookings, cafeteria menus, and so on. A user can also pull up context-sensitive &ldquo;help&rdquo; information on the display at any time to learn more about a particular mode, option, or feature.

User interface for a network-enabled telephone

A telephone indicator system includes a telephone having a base and a handset. The telephone includes a cradle disposed on the base configured to receive the handset. The system also includes an indicator disposed on an least two elevated surfaces of the telephone to notify a user of a telephone message. The indicator may be disposed on at least two elevated surfaces of the handset. The system may also include another indicator disposed in the cradle of the telephone to notify the user of another telephone message while the handset is in use.

Telephone indicator system and method

An adjustable telephone system includes a base and a support coupled to the base. The support is operable to dispose the base in a plurality of positions relative to a support surface. The telephone system also includes an actuator coupled to the support to effect movement of the support relative to the base. The telephone system may also include one or more add-on line modules. Each add-on line module may include a support operable to dispose each add-on line module in a plurality of positions relative to the support surface. Each add-on line module may also include an actuator to effect movement of each add-on line module support. The actuator disposed on each add-on line module may also effect movement of other supports.

Adjustable telephone system and method

A system of nestable chairs for use in a work environment is disclosed. The system includes a plurality of chairs. Each chair includes a base, a support coupled to the base, and a seat assembly coupled to the support and adapted for pivotal movement and for vertical adjustment with respect to the base. The base of a first chair of the plurality of chairs is configured to allow for nesting within the base of a second chair of the plurality of chairs. A chair for use in a work space or the like is also disclosed. The chair includes a base having a nesting portion and a nested portion, a support coupled to the base, and a seat assembly coupled to the support and adapted for pivotal movement and for vertical adjustment with respect to the base. The nested portion of the base is configured to allow for nesting within the nesting portion of the base. The chair may also include a support in the form of a pedestal coupled to the base. A yoke may be coupled to the pedestal, with the seat assembly coupled to the yoke and adapted for pivotal movement and for vertical adjustment with respect to the base.

Chair

Telephone handset

Telephone base unit

Telephone extension module

A beverage holder composed of hollow cylindrical upper and lower parts, where the parts are rotatable with respect to one another. The upper and lower parts are connected with one another by a plurality of rod-shaped connecting elements (rods). When the two parts are rotated relative to one another, the rods are tilted, such that the inside diameter inside the hollow cylindrical upper and lower parts is reduced. In this manner, a container inserted into the beverage holder is reliably clamped. The rod-shaped connecting elements may be designed 'in the manner of a stocking.' When an impermeable material is used and the rod-shaped connecting elements are attached in a sealing fashion to the hollow cylindrical assembly and/or the ring, the cylindrical assembly then becomes suitable for allowing a liquid or a gaseous media to flow through it.

Variable size vehicle beverage container holder

A counterbalance mechanism for height adjustable computer equipment supports and the like that includes a drive shaft mounted on an associated support for axial rotation. The drive shaft is operably connected with a worksurface to facilitate vertical adjustment of the same within a predetermined range. The counterbalance mechanism has a first energy storage device operably connected between the support and the drive shaft, which applies a first axial torque to the drive shaft in a first rotational direction. The first energy storage device is configured such that the first axial torque diminishes at a predetermined rate as the drive shaft rotates in the first rotational direction. A second energy storage device is operably connected between the support and the drive shaft, and applies a second axial torque to the drive shaft in a second rotational direction, opposite to the first rotational direction, thereby defining a resultant counterbalance force which facilitates vertical adjustment of the worksurface. The second energy storage device is configured such that when the drive shaft rotates in the first rotational direction, the second axial torque diminishes at a rate which is substantially equal to the predetermined rate of the first energy storage device, whereby the resultant counterbalance force remains generally constant throughout the predetermined range of vertical adjustment of the worksurface.

Height adjustable support for computer equipment and the like

Horizontally nestable chair

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Palo Alto, CA, United States of America

Steven P Vassallo