All in one mobile computing device

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-11237840-B2
Application number	US-201616091201-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Apr 26, 2016
Priority date	Apr 26, 2015
Publication date	Feb 1, 2022
Grant date	Feb 1, 2022

Abstract

All in one mobile computing devices and methods performed by the devices. The all in one mobile computing device includes a processor, memory, and software instructions configured to be executed on the processor to enable the mobile computing device to perform various operations. The all in one device may include various wired and wireless interfaces that enable it to communicate with a wide-range of devices, including smartphones, tablets, laptops, personal computers, smart TVs, and others. The all in one device is capable of being remotely accessed when linked in communication with a second device, and is enabled to aggregate data from various user devices and cloud-based services to create unified data resources. Data that is accessed by the device may be synched with a cloud-based storage service to enable a user to access data from across a range of devices via the all in one device. The all in one device has a form factor that is approximately the size of a credit card, yet is capable of running a full-fledged desktop operating system.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computing card, including a processor and memory and having approximately the same width and height dimensions as a standard credit card and configured to run a desktop operating system and one or more applications, the computing card further configured to:
run the operating system and at least one application on the processor when installed in a first host apparatus;
detect the computing card is removed from the first host apparatus, store a current operating state of the operating system and the at least one application in the memory, and put the computing card into a sleep state,
in response to being installed into one of the first host apparatus or second host apparatus;
awake from the sleep state and resume operation of the operating system and the at least one application on the processor at the same state the operating system and the at least one application was in when the computing card was removed from the first host apparatus.

2. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the first host apparatus is associated with a first set of keyboard, video, and mouse (KVM) resources and the second host apparatus as associated with a second set of KVM resources wherein at least one of the keyboard, video, and mouse resources is different in the first and second sets of KVM resources, and wherein the computing card is further configured to reconfigure itself to use the second set of KVM resources in response to being installed in the second host apparatus.

3. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the computing apparatus is further configured to, when installed in the second host apparatus:
interrogate the second host apparatus to determine each of the KVM resources associated with the second host apparatus; and
reconfigure at least one operating system driver associated with a KVM resource associated with the second host apparatus that is different than a corresponding KVM resource associated with the first host apparatus.

4. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the computing apparatus includes a USB Type-C connector and is configured to mate with a USB Type-C plug when installed in a host apparatus.

5. The computing card of claim 4 , wherein the computing apparatus is configured to generate DisplayPort graphic signals that are sent to a video display device via the USB Type-C connector.

6. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein at least one of the first and second host apparatus comprises a clamshell apparatus having a built-in keyboard, video screen, and at least one pointing device, and the computing card is configured to be installed in a slot in the clamshell apparatus.

7. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the computing card is configured to be installed into a first slot of a dual-slot host apparatus having a second computing card installed in a second slot, and wherein the computing card includes logic for facilitating cloning of the computing card to the second computing card.

8. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the computing card is configured to be installed into a first slot of a dual-slot host apparatus having a second computing card installed in a second slot, and wherein the computing card includes logic for facilitating a migration to the second computing card.

9. The computing card of claim 1 , wherein the computing card is configured to be installed into a first slot of a dual-slot host apparatus having a second computing card installed in a second slot, and wherein the computing card includes logic for facilitating a migration for the second computing card to the computing card.

10. A system, comprising:
a computing card host apparatus including a keyboard, a video screen, and at least one of a touchpad and a touchscreen associated with the video screen and having at least one computing card slot;
a computing card, including a processor and memory and having approximately the same width and height dimensions as a standard credit card and configured to run a desktop operating system and one or more applications on the processor, the computing card further configured to, when installed in a computing card slot of the computing card host apparatus,
interrogate the computing card host apparatus to determine configuration information corresponding to the keyboard, video screen, and the at least one touchpad and touchscreen; and
configure drivers in the desktop operating system on the computing card to enable the computing card to operate with the keyboard, video screen, and the at least one touchpad and touchscreen.

11. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computing card host apparatus comprises a clamshell apparatus having a physical keyboard and a video screen integrated into a folding lid.

12. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computing card host apparatus comprises a tablet apparatus having a touchscreen and implementing a virtual keyboard via the touchscreen.

13. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computing card is configured to:
run the operating system and at least one application on the processor when installed in a slot of the computing card host apparatus;
detect the computing card is removed from the computing card host apparatus, store a current operating state of the operating system and the at least one application in the memory, and put the computing card into a sleep state,
in response to being installed into a slot in the computing card host apparatus,
awake from the sleep state and resume operation of the operating system and the at least one application on the processor at the same state the operating system and the at least one application was in when the computing card was removed from the computing card host apparatus.

14. The system of claim 10 , wherein the computing card host apparatus includes first and second computing card slots, and wherein the computing card is configured to create a clone of itself by performing a cloning operation with a second computing card when the first and second computing cards are installed in respective computing card slots in the computing card host apparatus.

Assignees

• Intel Corp

Inventors

• Adiletta Matthew J
• Wilde Myles
• Fallon Michael F
• Kumar Amit
• Yang Chengda
• Gorius Aaron
• Wheeler William R

Classifications

• G06F9/4406

  Loading of operating system · CPC title

• G06F9/4408 Primary

  Boot device selection · CPC title

• G06F1/1632 Primary

  External expansion units, e.g. docking stations · CPC title

• G06F13/4081

  Live connection to bus, e.g. hot-plugging (current or voltage limitation during live insertion H02H9/004) · CPC title

• G06K19/042

  the record carrier having a form factor of a credit card and including a small sized disc, e.g. a CD or DVD (disc shaped data carriers in general, see G11B20/00 and G11B23/00) · CPC title