Providing Input and Output for a Mobile Device

• US 20110074670A1
• Filed: 12/08/2010
• Published: 03/31/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 07/27/2006
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Sawhney, Ishdeep S., Chang, Eric I., Teegan, Hugh A.
• Application Number:
  US12/962,682
• Publication Number:
  US 20110074670A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72415 for remote control of appliances

Abstract

Providing input and output for a mobile device may be provided. At a mobile device, input may be received from at least one of a plurality of remote input devices. The plurality of remote input devices may be remote from the mobile device. The mobile device may have at least one local input device. The at least one of the plurality of remote input devices may have a greater form factor than the local input device. Next, the received input may be processed. The mobile device may transmit the output to at least one of the plurality of remote output devices. The plurality of remote output devices may be remote from the mobile device. The mobile device may have at least one local output device. The at least one of the plurality of remote output devices may have a greater form factor than the local output device.

Claims

1. A method for providing interaction with a mobile device, the method comprising:

receiving input from a remote input device;

accessing a remote application server;

retrieving data associated with the received input from the remote application server, the data associated with received the input comprising one of the following;

an applet and a script associated with the received input;

processing the received input; and

transmitting an output to at least one output device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the input comprises receiving the input at one of the following:

a mobile telephone, a cellular telephone, a wireless telephone, a wireless device, a hand-held personal computer, a hand-held computing device, a multiprocessor system, microprocessor-based or programmable consumer electronic device, a personal digital assistant (PDA), a telephone, and a pager.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the input from the remote input device comprises receiving the input from the remote input device through at least one of a plurality of corresponding local input drivers resident on the mobile device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the input from the remote input device comprises receiving the input from the remote input device associated with one of the following:

a keyboard, a mouse, and a storage device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein processing the received input comprises processing the received input using data received from the remote application server.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the output comprises transmitting the output being created from a signal driving at least one local output device from a processing unit located on the mobile device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the output comprises transmitting the output comprising one of the following formats:

composite, red-green-blue (RGB), phase alternating line (PAL), national television standards committee (NTSC), sequential color with memory (SECAM), super-video (S-VIDEO), video graphics array (VGA), and digital visual interface (DVI).

8. The method of claim 1, wherein transmitting the output to the at least one output device comprises:

outputting a first content to remote output device, and

outputting a second content to a local output device.

9. A system for interacting with a mobile device, the system comprising:

a memory storage; and

a processing unit coupled to the memory storage, wherein the processing unit is operative to;

receive input from a remote input device;

receive data from a remote application server configured to serve at least one of the following;

an executable program, a database record, an applet, and a script associated with the received input;

process the received input and the received data; and

send output to at least one output device, the sent output being based on the processed input and the received data.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the at least one output device comprises at least one of the following:

a local output device and a remote output device.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the processing unit being operative to send comprises the processing unit being operative to send the output being created from a signal driving a local output device from the processing unit located on the mobile device.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the processing unit being operative to wherein send the output to at least one output device comprises the processing unit being operative to:

output a first content to remote output device, and

output a second content to a local output device.

13. A computer-readable storage medium which stores a set of instructions which when executed performs a method for interacting with a mobile device, the method executed by the set of instructions comprising:

receiving input from at least one input device;

retrieving data associated with one of the following;

an applet and a script associated with the received input;

processing the received input with the retrieved data; and

providing output to at least one output device, the output being based on the processed input and data.

14. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein receiving the input from at least one input device comprises receiving the input from at least one remote input device.

15. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 14, wherein receiving the input from the at least one of remote input device comprises receiving, at the mobile device, the input from the remote input device through at least one of a plurality of corresponding local input drivers resident on the mobile device.

16. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein receiving the input from the at least one input device comprises receiving, at the mobile device, the input from the at least device associated with one of the following:

a keyboard, a mouse, and a storage device.

17. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein providing the output comprises transmitting, from the mobile device, the output being created from a signal driving at least one local output device from a processing unit located on the mobile device.

18. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein providing the output comprises transmitting, from the mobile device, the output comprising one of the following formats:

composite, red-green-blue (RGB), phase alternating line (PAL), national television standards committee (NTSC), sequential color with memory (SECAM), super-video (S-VIDEO), video graphics array (VGA), and digital visual interface (DVI).

19. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein providing the output to the at least one output device comprises:

outputting a first content to remote output device, and

outputting a second content to a local output device.

20. The computer-readable storage medium of claim 13, wherein retrieving the data comprises retrieving the data from a remote application server.