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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 12, 2012
Filed:
Feb. 04, 2008
Alysia M. Sagi-dolev, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Alysia M. Sagi-Dolev, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Qylur Security Systems, Inc., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Abstract
A method and an apparatus for efficient resource sharing are presented. The apparatus includes a central unit having a plurality of surfaces on the outside, the central unit holding a resource. Compartments are coupled to the central unit, each of the compartments being placed adjacent to one of the surfaces of the central unit. Each compartment has a platform to support an object, and has a sensor that reads an output signal indicating that the object in the compartment has finished accessing the resource from the central unit. A computation unit receives and processes the output signal from each of the compartments. The sensor in the apparatus may be located in the central unit instead of in the compartments.