High Tech Archives - Robert Plamondon's Rural Life https://www.plamondon.com/wp/category/hightech-18/ Including Practical Poultry Tips Tue, 21 Feb 2017 01:41:00 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 90460172 U.S. Patent 38 https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-38/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-38/#respond Thu, 07 Aug 2014 03:33:50 +0000 http://plamondon.com/wp/?p=963 Okay, I’ll be the first to admit that this is getting a little ridiculous! My early warning system went off (that is, I got a piece of junk mail from Professional Awards of America), offering to sell me a patent plaque for U.S. Patent #8786473, “Systems and methods for sharing compression histories between multiple devices,” … Continue reading "U.S. Patent 38"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-38/feed/ 0 963 U.S. Patent #35 https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-35/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-35/#respond Mon, 30 Jun 2014 16:46:07 +0000 Another of the patents from my day job at Citrix Systems just issued. “Systems and methods of using the refresh button to determine freshness policy,” U.S Patent #8701010. This was from my Web Optimization Period. It was filed in 2007 and only now made it into the light of day. That makes me either inventor … Continue reading "U.S. Patent #35"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/u-s-patent-35/feed/ 0 861 A Newcomer to Type 1 Diabetes Management https://www.plamondon.com/wp/a-newcomer-to-type-1-diabetes-management/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/a-newcomer-to-type-1-diabetes-management/#respond Sun, 30 Oct 2011 10:02:03 +0000 What happens if you are suddenly diagnosed with Type 1 diabetes these days? This happened to my son Karl, who is 17 and autistic, this July. He seemed to have a cold, but took a turn for the worse, looking suddenly very thin and tired and with an odd, deep note in his breathing. He … Continue reading "A Newcomer to Type 1 Diabetes Management"

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/a-newcomer-to-type-1-diabetes-management/feed/ 0 841 Patent Mania https://www.plamondon.com/wp/patent-mania/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/patent-mania/#comments Wed, 08 Jun 2011 18:26:02 +0000 My employer, Citrix Systems, sent me the plaques for the patents that I helped develop for them. Woo-hoo! Ten patents about different kinds of network acceleration, which is what my day job is about.

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]]> https://www.plamondon.com/wp/patent-mania/feed/ 1 835 Quoted in the New York Times https://www.plamondon.com/wp/quoted-in-the-new-york-times/ https://www.plamondon.com/wp/quoted-in-the-new-york-times/#comments Wed, 17 Nov 2010 21:41:34 +0000 I’ve just been quoted in the New York Times about my experience with cell-phone range extenders, or “femtocells.” The reported contacted me because of a blog posting I made giving my experiences with Verizon’s range extender (which I’m still quite happy with).

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