Expanded Display For Mobile Wireless Communication Device

• US 20080026794A1
• Filed: 09/04/2007
• Published: 01/31/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2002
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Peter David Warren
• Original Assignee: Peter Warren
• Inventors: Warren, Peter
• Granted Patent: US 7,477,919 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 455/557
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces

Abstract

A keyboard and a microphone for inputting information, a display screen and a speaker for viewing or hearing information, and a processor, all mounted to or within a housing in the form of a laptop computer or hand-held computer. A phone interface has a slot, channel, or other support member for holding the portable phone, with a phone port electrically connected to the processor. Alternative embodiments include a modem that is electrically connected to the processor and the phone port, and an adapter with a port that mates with the phone port and a port that mates with a selected phone. The phone wirelessly transmits data entered into the input components and transferred to the phone via the phone port, and wirelessly receives data to be transferred to the output components via the phone port for visual or audible output.

Claims

1-27. -27. (canceled)

28-1. The system of claim 28, wherein the communication port comprises a metal contact operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

34. A display device providing an enlarged and analogous display screen for a mobile wireless communication device comprising:

a communication port for communicating with the mobile wireless communication device;

a cradle for physically supporting the mobile wireless communication device from the display device with the mobile wireless communication device in functional communication with the communication port of the display device;

wherein the display device is configured to operate as an enlarged and analogous version of the display shown on the display screen of each mobile wireless communication device when the mobile wireless communication device is located in the communication port; and

wherein the display device comprises a display side and a rear side, and the display device is configured to support the mobile wireless communication devices from the rear side of the display device.

35. The system of claim 34, wherein the communication port comprises a metal contact operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

36. The system of claim 34, wherein the communication port comprise a wireless communication port operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

37. The system of claim 34, wherein the communication port comprises a Bluetooth communication port operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

38. The system of claim 34, wherein the display device comprises a battery charger configured to charge a battery for the mobile wireless communication device.

40. A display device providing an enlarged and analogous display screen for a mobile wireless communication device comprising:

a communication port for communicating with the mobile wireless communication device;

wherein the display device is configured to operate as an enlarged and analogous version of the display shown on the display screen of each mobile wireless communication device when the mobile wireless communication device is located in the communication port; and

wherein the display device comprises a display side, a rear side, and an edge extending between the display side and the read side, wherein the display device is configured to support the mobile wireless communication device from the edge of the display device.

41. The system of claim 40, wherein the communication port comprises a metal contact operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

42. The system of claim 40, wherein the communication port comprise a wireless communication port operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

43. The system of claim 40, wherein the communication port comprises a Bluetooth communication port operative for transmitting signals between the display device and the mobile wireless communication device.

44. The system of claim 40, wherein the display device comprises a battery charger configured to charge a battery for the mobile wireless communication device.

45. The system of claim 40, wherein:

the display device comprises input components; and

the input components are functional to operate the mobile wireless communication device when the mobile wireless communication device is functionally connected to the communication port of the display device.