Data processing on extended mobile access enabled computer

• US 20050289277A1
• Filed: 06/29/2004
• Published: 12/29/2005
• Est. Priority Date: 06/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Kardach, James P., Forand, Richard A., Belmont, Brian V., Huckins, Jeffrey L., Jackson, Riley W.
• Application Number:
  US10/881,304
• Publication Number:
  US 20050289277A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/306
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/543 User-generated data transfer, e.g. clipboards, dynamic data exchange [DDE], object linking and embedding [OLE]

Abstract

Embodiments of the present invention can make data from a primary system of a computer available to an extended mobile access module embedded in the computer.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

identifying data to be made available for extended mobile access from a computer, said data being identified using a primary system of the computer while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

transferring the data to an extended mobile access module embedded with the computer.

2. The method of claim 1 wherein the data comprises at least one of audio data, calendar data, email data, address data, or game data.

3. The method of claim 1 wherein the data comprises at least one of WMA (Windows Media Audio) files or MP3 (Moving Picture Experts Group, Audio Layer III) files.

4. The method of claim 1 further comprising:

pre-processing the data using the primary system prior to transferring the data to the extended mobile access module.

5. The method of claim 4 wherein pre-processing the data comprises:

transcoding one or more portions of the data to a format supported by the extended mobile access module.

6. The method of claim 4 wherein the extended mobile access module supports a first audio data format, wherein the data comprises audio files in a plurality of audio data formats, and wherein pre-processing the data comprises:

transcoding the audio files that are not in the first data format into the first data format before transferring the transcoded audio files to the extended mobile access module.

7. The method of claim 6 wherein pre-processing the data further comprises:

generating data records for each of the transcoded audio files; and

transferring the data records with the transcoded audio files to the extended mobile access module.

8. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the data comprises:

providing an interface for the primary system to allow a user to browse files; and

receiving one or more indications of files selected by the user through the interface.

9. The method of claim 1 wherein identifying the data comprises:

selecting a predetermined set of data.

10. The method of claim 1 wherein the predetermined set of data comprises at least one of calendar data for a particular window of time, email data for a particular window of time, a particular subset of email data, or a particular subset of address data.

11. A method comprising:

receiving data at an extended mobile access module embedded with a computer, said data being received from a primary system of the computer while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

processing the data at the extended mobile access module while the computer is in a non-active mode of operation.

12. The method of claim 11 wherein one or more portions of the data has been transcoded by the primary system into a format supported by the extended mobile access module.

13. The method of claim 11 wherein the data includes transcoded audio files and data records for each transcoded audio file.

14. The method of claim 11 wherein processing the data comprises:

storing the data in a memory; and

updating a user interface to reflect the data.

15. The method of claim 11 wherein processing the data comprises:

providing a user interface to the data;

receiving a file selection from a user through the user interface; and

executing on the file selection.

16. The method of claim 15 wherein executing on the file selection comprises:

decoding the file selection; and

rendering the file selection.

17. The method of claim 16 wherein rendering the file selection comprises:

delivering an audio signal to at least one of a wired speaker, a wireless speaker, wired headphones, or wireless headphones.

18. The method of claim 15 wherein executing on the file selection comprises at least one of displaying a calendar item, displaying an email, displaying an address, or launching a game.

19. An apparatus comprising:

identification circuitry to identify data to be made available for extended mobile access from a computer, said data being identified while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

transfer circuitry to transfer the data to an extended mobile access module embedded with the computer.

20. The apparatus of claim 19 further comprising:

processing circuitry to pre-process the data prior to the data being transferred to the extended mobile access module.

21. The apparatus of claim 20 wherein the processing circuitry comprises:

a transcoder to transcode one or more portions of the data to a format supported by the extended mobile access module.

22. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein identification circuitry comprises:

a user interface to allow a user to browse files and to receive one or more indications of files selected by the user through the user interface.

23. The apparatus of claim 19 wherein the transfer circuitry comprises a data bus.

24. An extended mobile access module comprising:

receive circuitry to receive data from a primary system of a computer while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

processing circuitry to process the data while the computer is in a non-active mode of operation.

25. The extended mobile access module of claim 24 wherein one or more portions of the data is to be transcoded by the primary system into a format supported by the processing circuitry.

26. The extended mobile access module of claim 24 wherein the processing circuitry comprises:

a memory to store the data;

a user interface to allow a user to browse the data; and

a processor to execute on one or more files selected by the user through the user interface.

27. The extended mobile access module of claim 26 wherein the processor comprises:

an audio decoder.

28. A machine readable medium having stored thereon machine executable instructions that, when executed, implement a method comprising:

identifying data to be made available for extended mobile access from a computer, said data being identified using a primary system of the computer while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

transferring the data to an extended mobile access module embedded with the computer.

29. The machine readable medium of claim 28, the method further comprising:

pre-processing the data using the primary system prior to transferring the data to the extended mobile access module.

30. The machine readable medium of claim 29 wherein pre-processing the data comprises:

transcoding one or more portions of the data to a format supported by the extended mobile access module.

31. A machine readable medium having stored thereon machine executable instructions that, when executed, implement a method comprising:

receiving data at an extended mobile access module embedded with a computer, said data being received from a primary system of the computer while the computer is in an active mode of operation; and

processing the data at the extended mobile access module while the computer is in either the active mode of operation or a non-active mode of operation.

32. The machine readable medium of claim 31 wherein one or more portions of the data has been transcoded by the primary system into a format supported by the extended mobile access module.

33. The machine readable medium of claim 31 wherein processing the data comprises:

storing the data in a memory;

updating a user interface to reflect the data.

receiving a file selection from a user through the user interface; and

executing on the file selection.

34. A system comprising:

a notebook computer;

a primary system of the notebook computer; and

an extended mobile access module embedded with the computer, said primary system to identify data to be made available for extended mobile access from the computer and to transfer the data to the extended mobile access module while the computer is in an active mode of operation, said extended mobile access module to receive the data and to process the data while the computer is in a non-active mode of operation.

35. The system of claim 34 wherein the primary system is further to pre-process the data prior to transferring the data to the extended mobile access module.

36. The system of claim 34 wherein the primary system is further to transcode one or more portions of the data to a format supported by the extended mobile access module prior to transferring the data to the extended mobile access module.