Personalizing electronic device and smart covering

• US 20030186729A1
• Filed: 02/14/2003
• Published: 10/02/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Wildseed Ltd. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Wildseed Ltd. (Apollo Global Management, Inc.)
• Inventors: Graham, Tyrol R., Engstrom, G. Eric
• Application Number:
  US10/367,620
• Publication Number:
  US 20030186729A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/575.8
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/3888 Arrangements for carrying or protecting transceivers
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/021 using combined folding and rotation motions combined with translation movement H04M1/0235
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0283 for providing a decorative aspect, e.g. customization of casings, exchangeable faceplate
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72427 for supporting games or graphical animations
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/7246 by connection of exchangeable housing parts

Abstract

An electronic device such as a mobile phone, a personal digital assistant, a palm sized personal computer, a media player or a game console, is provided with an interchangeable covering having visual representation of a theme, and an electronic component embedded therein having data and/or programming instructions for non-visual representation of the theme. In various embodiments, the theme may be a celebrity singer theme, a celebrity sport figure theme.

Claims

1. An interchangeable cover for an apparatus comprising:

a cover body to cover a plurality of exterior surfaces of a body of the apparatus disposed on different geometric planes;

graphic design disposed on an exterior surface of the cover body to convey a celebrity singer theme; and

an electronic component disposed in an inside surface of the cover body, and having at least a selected one of data and location to retrieve said data, said data personalizing a functionality of the apparatus in support of the celebrity singer theme.

2. The cover of claim 1, wherein the cover body is substantially U-shaped, designed to snap onto said body of the apparatus from a sideway direction.

3. The cover of claim 1, wherein the celebrity singer theme comprise a singer of a music family selected from a music family group comprising rock n roll, country, pop, jazz, rap and classical.

4. The cover of claim 1, wherein the data provide a ring tone comprising audio segments extracted from songs of the celebrity singer theme.

5. The cover of claim 1, wherein the data provide at least a selected one of video/picture and audio materials in support of the celebrity singer theme.

6. The cover of claim 1, wherein the data provide lyrics of songs in support of the celebrity singer theme.

7. The cover of claim 1, wherein the apparatus comprises a selected one of a wireless mobile phone and a personal digital assistant.

8. An interchangeable cover to mate with an apparatus comprising a cover body to cover a plurality of exterior surfaces of a body of the apparatus disposed on different geometric planes;

graphic design disposed on an exterior surface of the cover body to convey a celebrity sport figure theme; and

an electronic component disposed in an inside surface of the cover body, and having at least a selected one of data and location to retrieve said data, said data personalizing a functionality of the apparatus in support of the celebrity sport figure theme.

9. The cover of claim 8, wherein the cover body is substantially U-shaped, designed to snap onto said body of the apparatus from a sideway direction.

10. The cover of claim 8, wherein the celebrity sport figure theme comprise a sport figure of a sport selected from a sport group comprising baseball, basketball, football, soccer, ice hockey, tennis, and figure skating.

11. The cover of claim 8, wherein the data provide a ring tone comprising audio segments extracted from songs consistent with the celebrity sport figure theme.

12. The cover of claim 8, wherein the data provide at least a selected one of video/picture in support of the celebrity sport figure theme.

13. The cover of claim 8, wherein the data provide a game schedule in support of the celebrity sport figure theme.

14. The cover of claim 8, wherein the data provide logic to access a game log in support of the celebrity sport figure theme.

15. The cover of claim 8, wherein the apparatus comprises a selected one of a wireless mobile phone and a personal digital assistant.