System and method for transferring personalization information among computer systems
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1. A method for transferring personalization information among computer systems, the method comprising:
- persisting, into a storage of a removable device, a set of personalization information from a first computer determined to be of interest to a user and a first screen image of the first computer;
suppressing a user interface at a second computer, once the removable device has been relocated from the first computer to the second computer, the user interface comprising a second screen image that otherwise would be displayed on the second computer had the removable device not been attached to the second computer while the first screen image retrieved from the storage of the removable device is displayed instead, and persisting into the storage of the removable device at least one change made to the set of personalization information at the second computer to update the set of personalization information at the first computer once the removable device has been relocated from the second computer to the first computer.
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Abstract
A system and method transfers personalization information to a portable storage device from a first computer system, and then adds personalization information to a second computer system from the portable storage device.
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20 Claims
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1. A method for transferring personalization information among computer systems, the method comprising:
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persisting, into a storage of a removable device, a set of personalization information from a first computer determined to be of interest to a user and a first screen image of the first computer;
suppressing a user interface at a second computer, once the removable device has been relocated from the first computer to the second computer, the user interface comprising a second screen image that otherwise would be displayed on the second computer had the removable device not been attached to the second computer while the first screen image retrieved from the storage of the removable device is displayed instead, and persisting into the storage of the removable device at least one change made to the set of personalization information at the second computer to update the set of personalization information at the first computer once the removable device has been relocated from the second computer to the first computer. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9)
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10. A machine-readable medium carrying one or more sequences of instructions for transferring personalization information among computer systems, which instructions, when executed by one or more processors, cause the one or more processors to carry out the steps of:
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persisting, into a storage of a removable device, a set of personalization information from a first computer determined to be of interest to a user and a first screen image of the first computer;
suppressing a user interface at a second computer, once the removable device has been relocated from the first computer to the second computer, the user interface comprising a second screen image that otherwise would be displayed on the second computer had the removable device not been attached to the second computer while the first screen image retrieved from the storage of the removable device is displayed instead; and
persisting into the storage of the removable device at least one change made to the set of personalization information at the second computer to update the set of personalization information at the first computer once the removable device has been relocated from the second computer to the first computer. - View Dependent Claims (11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18)
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19. An apparatus for transferring personalization information among computer systems, comprising:
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an interface to connect with a computer; and
a storage, into which a set of personalization information from a first computer determined to be of interest to a user and a first screen image of the first computer is persisted when the apparatus is coupled with the first computer via the interface; and
from which the first screen image may be retrieved, once the apparatus has been relocated from the first computer to the second computer, to display in place of a second screen image that otherwise would be displayed on the second computer had the removable device not been attached to the second computer;
wherein the second screen image is suppressed while the first screen image is displayed; and
into which at least one change made to the set of personalization information is persisted at the second computer to update the set of personalization information at the first computer once the apparatus has been relocated from the second computer to the first computer.
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20. A method for transferring personalization information among computer systems, the method comprising:
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persisting, into a storage of a removable device, a set of personalization information from a first computer determined to be of interest to a user and a first screen image of the first computer; and
suppressing a user interface at a second computer, once the removable device has been relocated from the first computer to the second computer, the user interface comprising a second screen image that otherwise would be displayed on the second computer had the removable device not been attached to the second computer while the first screen image retrieved from the storage of the removable device is displayed instead.
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