System, method and apparatus for wireless communication between a wireless mobile telecommunications device and a remote wireless display

• US 10,095,463 B2
• Filed: 07/14/2014
• Issued: 10/09/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 03/28/2005
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: AT&T Mobility II LLC (AT&T, Inc.)
• Inventors: Enzmann, Mark J., Grooms, Paul Christopher, Moton, Jr., Robert Torrence
• Primary Examiner(s): Ho, Huy C
• Application Number:
  US14/330,773
• Publication Number:
  US 20140320381A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,548 Days
• Field of Search: 345 11
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/147 using display panels
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/022 Centralised management of display operation, e.g. in a server instead of locally
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/00 Substation equipment, e.g. for use by subscribers subscriber services or facilities provided at exchanges H04M3/00; prepayment telephone coin boxes H04M17/00; current supply arrangements H04M19/08
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0254 comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0266 for a display module assembly
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit

Abstract

A method and apparatus provide for removal of a display screen from a wireless device, or, in a different embodiment, provide for a display screen as a separate and additional device that functions in real time in the same way as if the screen were incorporated in the wireless device. This functionality is enabled by a short range wireless connection, such as Bluetooth, between transceivers located in the wireless device and the display screen device. The display screen device allows a user to monitor the associated wireless device without needing to operate the full device. The display screen device may also have control capability for controlling the wireless device. Thus, a user can monitor and control a mobile device from a smaller remote display device while being presented with the information that would be displayed on the display screen of the wireless device.

Claims

1. A watch comprising:

a band; and

a remote display device comprising

a processor, and

a memory storing instructions that, when executed by the processor, cause the processor to perform operations comprising;

wirelessly receiving, from a transceiver of a mobile telecommunications device, a visual display control signal generated by the mobile telecommunications device, wherein the visual display control signal controls information being displayed on a permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device, and wherein the mobile telecommunications device comprises a housing within which the permanent display and the transceiver are located, and

producing, using the visual display control signal from the mobile telecommunications device, an output for display by the remote display device, the output comprising a portion of the information being displayed on the permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device.

2. The watch of claim 1, wherein the remote display device further comprises a battery.

3. The watch of claim 2, wherein the remote display device further comprises an inductive coil, and wherein the battery of the remote display device is charged by the inductive coil of the remote display device when the inductive coil of the remote display device interacts with an inductive coil of the mobile telecommunications device while the remote display device is physically coupled to the mobile telecommunications device.

4. The watch of claim 1, wherein the remote display device further comprises an LCD display for displaying the output.

5. The watch of claim 4, wherein the operations further comprise converting the visual display control signal into an operating signal for the LCD display.

6. The watch of claim 1, wherein the remote display device further comprises an impenetrable and weather-tight housing.

7. The watch of claim 1, wherein the remote display device further comprises at least one of a Bluetooth transceiver or an 802.xx transceiver.

8. The watch of claim 1, wherein the remote display device further comprises an input device for receiving an input to operate a function of the mobile telecommunications device.

9. A non-transitory computer-readable medium storing instructions that, when executed by a processor of a remote display device of a watch, cause the processor to perform operations comprising:

wirelessly receiving, from a transceiver of a mobile telecommunications device, a visual display control signal generated by the mobile telecommunications device, wherein the visual display control signal controls information being displayed on a permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device, and wherein the mobile telecommunications device comprises a housing within which the permanent display and the transceiver are located; and

producing, using the visual display control signal from the mobile telecommunications device, an output for display by the remote display device, the output comprising a portion of the information being displayed on the permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device.

10. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the remote display device comprises a battery.

11. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 10, wherein the remote display device further comprises an inductive coil, and wherein the battery of the remote display device is charged by the inductive coil of the remote display device when the inductive coil of the remote display device interacts with an inductive coil of the mobile telecommunications device while the remote display device is physically coupled to the mobile telecommunications device.

12. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise displaying, via an LCD display of the remote display device, the output.

13. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 12, wherein the operations further comprise converting the visual display control signal into an operating signal for the LCD display.

14. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the operations further comprise supplying the visual display control signal to a graphics driver within the remote display device.

15. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the remote display device further comprises an impenetrable and weather-tight housing.

16. The non-transitory computer-readable medium of claim 9, wherein the remote display device further comprises at least one of a Bluetooth transceiver or an 802.xx transceiver.

17. A method comprising:

wirelessly receiving, at a remote display device of a watch, from a transceiver of a mobile telecommunications device, a visual display control signal generated by the mobile telecommunications device, wherein the visual display control signal controls information being displayed on a permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device, and wherein the mobile telecommunications device comprises a housing within which the permanent display and the transceiver are located; and

producing, by the remote display device of the watch, using the visual display control signal from the mobile telecommunications device, an output for display by the remote display device, the output comprising a portion of the information being displayed on the permanent display of the mobile telecommunications device.

18. The method of claim 17, further comprising displaying, via an LCD display of the remote display device, the output.

19. The method of claim 18, further comprising converting, by the remote display device, the visual display control signal into an operating signal for the LCD display.

20. The method of claim 17, wherein the remote display device comprises a battery and an inductive coil, and wherein the battery of the remote display device is charged by the inductive coil of the remote display device when the inductive coil of the remote display device interacts with an inductive coil of the mobile telecommunications device while the remote display device is physically coupled to the mobile telecommunications device.