AUTO-WAKING OF A SUSPENDED OS IN A DOCKABLE SYSTEM

• US 20120084481A1
• Filed: 08/24/2011
• Published: 04/05/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Z124 LLC (Flexis)
• Original Assignee: IMERJ LLC (Flex, Ltd.)
• Inventors: Reeves, Brian, Reeves, Paul, Teltz, Richard, Reeves, David, Sirpal, Sanjiv, Tyghe, Chris, Yusupov, Alisher, Chincisan, Octavian, Liu, Wuke
• Granted Patent: US 9,026,709 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 710/304
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/14 Handling requests for interconnection or transfer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4068 Electrical coupling
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 13/4282 on a serial bus, e.g. I2C bus, SPI bus on daisy chain buses G06F13/4247
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2009/45575 Starting, stopping, suspending or resuming virtual machine instances
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4411 Configuring for operating with peripheral devices; Loading of device drivers
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/4418 Suspend and resume; Hibernate and awake
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/44505 Configuring for program initiating, e.g. using registry, configuration files
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/45533 Hypervisors; Virtual machine monitors
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/541 via adapters, e.g. between incompatible applications

Abstract

A mobile computing device with a mobile operating system and desktop operating system running concurrently and independently on a shared kernel without virtualization. The mobile operating system provides a user experience for the mobile computing device that suits the mobile environment. The desktop operating system provides a full desktop user experience when the mobile computing device is docked to a secondary terminal environment. The desktop operating system may be suspended when the mobile computing device is not docked with a secondary terminal environment and resumed when the mobile computing device is docked with a secondary terminal environment that provides a desktop computing experience. The mobile computing device may be a smartphone running the Android mobile OS and a full desktop Linux OS distribution on a modified Android kernel.

Claims

1. A method for configuring a mobile computing device to multiple user environments, the mobile computing device running a mobile operating system in a first execution environment on a shared kernel and running a desktop operating system in a second execution environment concurrently on the shared kernel, the method comprising:

detecting, in the mobile computing device, a docking event of the mobile computing device with a secondary terminal environment;

determining that a user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the desktop operating system; and

resuming, in response to determining that the user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the desktop operating system, the desktop operating system from a suspended condition.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining that a user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the desktop operating system comprises:

receiving, in a desktop monitor service of the mobile operating system, a notification of a docking event from the shared kernel; and

determining, by the desktop monitor service, that the user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the desktop operating system.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of resuming the desktop operating system from a suspended condition comprises:

receiving, in a daemon process of the desktop operating system, a call to a remotable object, the call to the remotable object including an action; and

performing the action in the daemon process of the desktop operating system.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining the user experience profile of the secondary terminal environment includes receiving an indicator of the user experience profile of the secondary terminal environment from a dock connector.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the step of determining the user experience profile of the secondary terminal environment is based on predefined criteria associated with one or more input or output devices of the secondary terminal environment.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the predefined criteria include a resolution of a display device of the secondary terminal environment.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the predefined criteria include character input device type criteria.

8. The method of claim 1, further including associating the desktop operating system with the docked secondary terminal environment.

9. The method of claim 1, wherein the secondary terminal environment includes a display device, a keyboard, and a pointing device.

10. A method for configuring a mobile computing device to multiple user environments, the mobile computing device concurrently running a mobile operating system in a first execution environment on a shared kernel and a desktop operating system in a second execution environment on the shared kernel, the method comprising:

registering a daemon process of the desktop operating system through an inter-process communication channel in the shared kernel to receive remotable objects from a desktop monitor service of the mobile operating system;

detecting a docking event of the mobile computing device with a secondary terminal environment;

notifying the desktop monitor service of the mobile operating system of the docking event;

determining, by the desktop monitor service, an action to be performed by the daemon process of the desktop operating system based on a user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment; and

sending, from the desktop monitor service to the daemon process of the desktop operating system through the inter-process communication channel, the action to be performed.

11. The method of claim 10, wherein the user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the desktop operating system and the action to be performed comprises resuming the desktop operating system from a suspended condition.

12. The method of claim 11, further including associating the docked secondary terminal environment with the desktop operating system.

13. The method of claim 11, wherein the user experience profile of the docked secondary terminal environment is associated with the mobile operating system and the action to be performed comprises suspending the desktop operating system.

14. The method of claim 13, further including associating the docked secondary terminal environment with the mobile operating system.

15. A method for configuring a mobile computing device to multiple user environments, the mobile computing device running a mobile operating system in a first execution environment on a shared kernel and running a desktop operating system in a second execution environment concurrently on the shared kernel, the method comprising:

detecting, in the mobile computing device, a docking event of the mobile computing device with a secondary terminal environment;

determining that the mobile computing device is not docked to a secondary terminal environment; and

suspending, in response to determining that the mobile computing device is not docked to a secondary terminal environment, the desktop operating system.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the docking event comprises undocking the mobile computing device from a secondary terminal environment.

17. The method of claim 15, wherein the step of suspending the desktop operating system comprises:

receiving, in a daemon process of the desktop operating system, a call to a remotable object, the call to the remotable object including an action; and

performing the action in the daemon process of the desktop operating system.