8.times.8, Inc.

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Casio Computer Co., Ltd.

Tracy R Hall

Bryan R Martin

Keith Barraclough

R Chris Eddington

Videophone housing

Personal speakerphone

Combined videophone and speakerphone

Videophone

A device for mounting a structure, such as a video-phone, includes a base and a platform. The base has a first surface for resting on top of a display device, for example, a television monitor or computer monitor. The base also has an opposite, platform-supporting surface which includes a first central recess and a second recess, or track, surrounding the first recess. The first and second recesses are separated by a ridged portion. The platform includes a top surface for engaging or being integral with the video-phone. The bottom surface engages the base and is contoured to slidably communicate with the first and second recesses. This allows the platform and the video-phone to move in a complete circle with respect to the base and to pivot to allow adjustment in the vertical direction. The mounting device prevents adjustment by tilting in a horizontal direction, and therefore prevents the transmission of strangely angled images.

Device for mounting and adjusting a video-phone and methods thereof

Combined videophone and mounting arrangement

A communication paging device whereby the coding mechanism allows messages to be constructed using bit-stream syntax blocks. Each syntax block is designated with a category such as a sentence format, subject, verb, location modifier, location, date modifier, date, time, and etc. Within each syntax block category is a set of variable code values that will translate into a screen display of alphanumeric characters to form both words and graphical screen elements. By using the coding mechanism, the syntax blocks are concatenated to form meaningful sentences with words arranged in a logical syntax order for that particular language. The conjugation of words in the sentence are easier and require less Boolean type functions to arrive at the conjugate word. The use of syntax blocks gives flexibility to allow conversion of statement sentences to question sentences, and question sentences into statement sentences. The use of syntax blocks also allow sentence structure conversion from a pager of one language into a receiving pager of a different language. The use of syntax blocks also reduces the amount of memory, and transmission bandwidth needed to transmit the data.

Build message communication system utilizing data tables containing

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Santa Clara, CA, United States of America

Tracy R Hall