MOUSE INCLUDING STORAGE

• US 20080238873A1
• Filed: 03/30/2007
• Published: 10/02/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 03/30/2007
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Original Assignee: Intel Corporation
• Inventors: Dolatshahi, Faramarz
• Application Number:
  US11/694,775
• Publication Number:
  US 20080238873A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/162
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/03543 Mice or pucks G06F3/03541 takes precedence

Abstract

In some embodiments a mouse includes a user interface to interact with a computing device and storage to store information received from the computing device. Other embodiments are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A mouse comprising:

a user interface to interact with a computing device; and

storage to store information received from the computing device.

2. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the user interface includes one or more of a button, a scroll wheel, a ball, a mechanical sensor, an optical sensor, or a laser.

3. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the mouse is a wireless mouse.

4. The mouse of claim 3, wherein the wireless mouse includes a mouse transmitter/receiver.

5. The mouse of claim 4, wherein the storage is included in the mouse transmitter/receiver.

6. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the storage is one or more of an integrated clip board, an internal buffer, a memory, a flash memory, a hard drive, integrated memory, onboard memory, a Random Access Memory (RAM), or an integrated circuit memory.

7. The mouse of claim 1, wherein the storage is capable of storing information from the computing device and allowing the stored information to be accessed by a second computing device after the mouse has been coupled to the second computing device.

8. An apparatus comprising:

a coupled device; and

a mouse including a user interface to interact with the coupled device, and storage to store information received from the coupled device.

9. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the user interface includes one or more of a button, a scroll wheel, a ball, a mechanical sensor, an optical sensor, or a laser.

10. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the mouse is a wireless mouse.

11. The apparatus of claim 10, wherein the wireless mouse includes a mouse transmitter/receiver

12. The apparatus of claim 11, wherein the storage is included in the mouse transmitter/receiver.

13. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the storage is one or more of an integrated clip board, an internal buffer, a memory, a flash memory, a hard drive, integrated memory, onboard memory, a Random Access Memory (RAM), or an integrated circuit memory.

14. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the storage is capable of storing information from the computing device and allowing the stored information to be accessed by a second computing device after the mouse has been coupled to the second computing device.

15. The apparatus of claim 8, further comprising a cable to couple the mouse to the coupled device.

16. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the coupled device is a single computer.

17. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the coupled device allows the mouse to interface with two or more different computers.

18. The apparatus of claim 8, wherein the coupled device is a KVM switch to allow the mouse to interface with two or more different computers.