Computing device antenna identification system and method

• US 20070252699A1
• Filed: 04/27/2006
• Published: 11/01/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 04/27/2006
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Doczy, Paul, Homer, Steven, Neill, Timothy, Walker, Paul
• Granted Patent: US 7,589,647 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 340/572.700
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1616 with folding flat displays, e.g. laptop computers or notebooks having a clamshell configuration, with body parts pivoting to an open position around an axis parallel to the plane they define in closed position

Abstract

A portable computing device antenna identification system comprises an antenna configured to be disposed in the portable computing device, the antenna having a sensor connector uniquely configured to transmit a signal indicative of an identity of the antenna.

Claims

1. A portable computing device antenna identification system, comprising:

an antenna configured to be disposed in the portable computing device, the antenna having a sensor connector uniquely configured to transmit a signal indicative of an identity of the antenna.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the antenna is configured to transmit a binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements uniquely configured to transmit the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

4. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements, select ones of the sensor connector elements bridged to transmit the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

5. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements, select ones of the sensor connector elements bridged to transmit a unique binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector is couplable to a sensor connector disposed in the portable computing device.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector is couplable to a sensor connector disposed in a display member of a portable computing device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the sensor connector is couplable to a sensor connector disposed in a notebook computing device.

9. A portable computing device antenna identification system, comprising:

an antenna means configured to be disposed in the portable computing device; and

a sensor connector means uniquely configured to transmit a signal indicative of an identity of the antenna means.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the antenna means is configured to transmit a unique binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the sensor connector means comprises a plurality of sensor connector element means uniquely configured to transmit the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna means.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the sensor connector means comprises a plurality of sensor connector element means, select ones of the sensor connector element means bridged to transmit the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna means.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the sensor connector means comprises a plurality of sensor connector element means, select ones of the sensor connector element means bridged to transmit a unique binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna means.

14. A portable computing device antenna identification system, comprising:

a first sensor connector disposed in the portable computing device; and

a second sensor connector coupled to an antenna, the second sensor connector couplable to the first sensor connector and uniquely configured to communicate a signal indicative of an identity of the antenna to the first connector.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the second sensor connector is configured to communicate a binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

16. The system of claim 14, wherein the second sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements uniquely configured to communicate the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

17. The system of claim 14, wherein the second sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements, select ones of the sensor connector elements bridged to generate the signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein the second sensor connector comprises a plurality of sensor connector elements, select ones of the sensor connector elements bridged to generate a unique binary signal indicative of the identity of the antenna.

19. The system of claim 14, wherein the first sensor connector is disposed in a display member of a portable computing device.

20. The system of claim 14, wherein the first sensor connector is disposed in a notebook computing device