Mobility Device Method

• US 20130124695A1
• Filed: 12/20/2012
• Published: 05/16/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 09/29/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Anderer, Peter Bookman, Rick Charles White
• Original Assignee: Michael Anderer, Peter Bookman, Rick Charles White
• Inventors: Bookman, Peter, White, Rick Charles, Anderer, Michael
• Application Number:
  US13/722,720
• Publication Number:
  US 20130124695A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 15/16 Combinations of two or more digital computers each having at least an arithmetic unit, a program unit and a register, e.g. for a simultaneous processing of several programs coordinating program control therefor G06F9/52; in regulating and control system G05B
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/0428 wherein the data content is protected, e.g. by encrypting or encapsulating the payload
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 63/08 for authentication of entities cryptographic mechanisms or cryptographic arrangements for entity authentication H04L9/32
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/033 of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 12/06 Authentication

Abstract

A mobility device search client operative to perform searches across disparate computing environment, and an upgrade module operative to allow at least one upgrade of a computing application is provided. In an illustrative implementation, a mobility device comprises at least one search client or upgrade computing application that is operative with a plurality of computing environments.

Claims

1. A mobility device for connecting to at least one separate cooperating computing environment to perform a search on data stored on the at least one separate cooperating computing environment, the mobility device comprising:

a communications interface for connecting the mobility device to any of a plurality of different computing devices;

at least one of a search computing application and an upgrade computing application;

an operating system; and

a processing unit that, when the mobility device is connected via the communication interface to any of the plurality of different computing devices, executes the search computing application or the upgrade computing application.

2. The mobility device as recited in claim 1, wherein the search computing application is for performing a search, via the communications interface, of data stored in a file system of the connected computing device.

4. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising a peripheral interface module operative to accept and cooperate with peripherals comprising any of:

flash memory, communications interface, automation control peripherals and input peripherals.

5. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising NAND flash memory operatively coupled to the processing unit and utilized as part of web services processing.

6. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising a mobile desktop computing application operable to present a desktop computing environment on a computing device when the mobility device is connected to the computing device via the communications interface.

7. The mobility device as recited in claim 6 further comprising a user management module operable to customize participating users preferences and settings for the mobility device.

8. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising an auto-run module that performs auto-configuration of a computing device when the mobility device is connected to the computing device.

9. The mobility device as recited in claim 8 wherein the computing device comprises an operating system native to the computing device.

10. The mobility device as recited in claim 9 wherein the operating system of the mobility device controls the operating system native to the computing device.

11. The mobility device as recited in claim 10 further comprising a user authentication and management module operative to authenticate a participating user with the mobility device using user authentication information.

12. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising a mobility device platform authentication and verification module operative to authenticate the mobility device with a cooperating mobility device management server.

13. The mobility device as recited in claim 12 wherein the mobility device cooperates with the mobility device management server to obtain web services comprising any of search features and data storage features.

14. The mobility device as recited in claim 13 wherein the mobility device management server provides web services to the mobility device upon authenticating the mobility device.

15. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 further comprising a math co-processor cooperating with the processing unit to process web services.

16. The mobility device as recited in claim 15 further comprising an encryption module for use to encrypt and decrypt web services transactions.

17. The mobility device as recited in claim 2 wherein the operating system comprises a java virtual machine (JVM) operable to execute various computing applications.

18. The mobility device as recited in claim 17 wherein the computing applications comprise any of an e-mail computing application, a word processor computing application, a browser computing application, a mobile desktop environment, a spread sheet computing application, search client computing application and other computing applications that may be presented as web services.

19. The mobility device as recited in claim 18 further comprising a work space module operative to allow the operation of a plurality of work spaces on the mobility device.

20. The mobility device as recited in claim 1 wherein the processing unit executes the search computing application to perform the search on data stored remotely over the internet, such that the search computing application searches data stored both locally and remotely to the connected computing device simultaneously.

3. The mobility device as recited in claim 3 further comprising a memory storage area operable to store searches and search configuration data.