Mobile computing device with a physical button for wireless communications

• US 20060089174A1
• Filed: 04/28/2005
• Published: 04/27/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 04/29/2004
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Inventec Appliances Corporation (Inventec Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Tapwave, Inc.
• Inventors: Twerdahl, Timothy D.
• Application Number:
  US11/119,303
• Publication Number:
  US 20060089174A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/567
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266

Abstract

A mobile computing device includes a wireless communication interface and a physical button for wireless communications. The wireless communication interface communicates with other devices and is switchable between a number of different wireless communications states. The physical button is used to both switch the wireless communications state of the wireless communication interface and to indicate the current wireless communications state.

Claims

1. A mobile computing device comprising:

a wireless communication interface configured to communicate with other devices, the wireless communication interface being switchable between a plurality of different communications states; and

a physical button for switching the wireless communication interface between the wireless communications states and including a light indicator configured to indicate a current wireless communications state.