Modular application computing apparatus, system and method
First Claim
1. An open platform computer, comprising:
- at least one microprocessor;
a plurality of external interfaces to said at least one microprocessor, comprising at least three ports, wherein said ports are communicatively electrically connected to the at least one microprocessor; and
at least one operating system resident on the at least one microprocessor, wherein said at least one operating system comprises an open platform for accepting a plurality of applications resident exclusively on a memory device presented at one or more of said ports, wherein each of the plurality of applications is correspondent to at least one independent hardware device, which at least one hardware device is, absent the correspondent one of the plurality of applications, not operable by said at least one operating system.
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Abstract
An apparatus, system and method of open platform computing. The present invention may include at least one microprocessor, a computer case that encases the at least one microprocessor, at least one operating system resident on the at least one microprocessor, wherein the at least one operating system includes an open platform for accepting a plurality of applications and hardware not presented as forming a portion of, and absent the plurality of applications not being operable by, the at least one operating system, at least three ports in the computer case, wherein the ports are communicatively electrically connected to the at least one microprocessor, and wherein at least one of the plurality of applications is applied at least one of the ports for presentation by the at least one microprocessor via the at least one operating system.
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30 Claims
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1. An open platform computer, comprising:
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at least one microprocessor; a plurality of external interfaces to said at least one microprocessor, comprising at least three ports, wherein said ports are communicatively electrically connected to the at least one microprocessor; and at least one operating system resident on the at least one microprocessor, wherein said at least one operating system comprises an open platform for accepting a plurality of applications resident exclusively on a memory device presented at one or more of said ports, wherein each of the plurality of applications is correspondent to at least one independent hardware device, which at least one hardware device is, absent the correspondent one of the plurality of applications, not operable by said at least one operating system. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16)
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17. A computing platform, comprising:
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at least one open source software for interacting with at least one modular software, wherein the open source software comprises an open application programming interface; and at least one open source hardware that interacts with the at least one modular software, wherein at least a portion of the open source hardware comprises at least a functional aesthetic design and a computer peripheral. - View Dependent Claims (18, 19, 20, 21, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30)
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