APPARATUS, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR CHARGING OR INTERCONNECTING MULTIPLE DEVICES USING A SINGLE MOBILE DEVICE COVER

• US 20130222991A1
• Filed: 04/12/2012
• Published: 08/29/2013
• Est. Priority Date: 02/27/2012
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: 4 Leaf Patent Partners, LLC
• Original Assignee: 4 Leaf Patent Partners, LLC
• Inventors: McWilliams, Thomas J.
• Application Number:
  US13/445,024
• Publication Number:
  US 20130222991A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 361/679.4
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2200/1633 Protecting arrangement for the entire housing of the computer
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/00 Circuit arrangements for charging or depolarising batteries or for supplying loads from batteries
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/0044 specially adapted for holding portable devices containing batteries H02J7/0045 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: H02J 7/342 The other DC source being a battery actively interacting with the first one, i.e. battery to battery charging with circuits for polarity protection H02J7/0034
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/04 Supports for telephone transmitters or receivers

Abstract

An apparatus, system and method of providing and/or using at least a portable, protective cover, cradle, or the like for a mobile device, wherein a battery (or batteries) within the cover is capable of providing a back-up charge or recharge not only to the device covered, but additionally to a second one or more devices not typically physically associated with the device covered or with the device'"'"'s cover.

Claims

1. A protective cover for at least partially covering a mobile device, comprising:

a battery inlay capable of receiving and holding at least one rechargeable battery;

at least two electrical ports electrically connected to said battery, wherein at least one of the at least two ports is capable of physical association with an electrical connector of the mobile device, and wherein another of the at least two ports is capable of physical association with a second electrical connector of a second mobile device.

2. A cover for at least partially covering a mobile device, comprising:

an at least partially flexible cradle for covering at least a portion of the non-screen portion of the mobile device;

at least two ports embedded within said cradle, wherein at least a first of the at least two ports is physically and communicatively connected with the mobile device, and wherein at least a second of the at least two ports faces outwardly from said cradle away from the mobile device and is communicatively connected to at least the first port;

an actuator, wherein, upon actuation of said actuator, the second port is extended outward from said cradle for physical association with at least a second device.

3. The cover of claim 2, wherein the communicative connection comprises at least a data exchange connection.

4. The cover of claim 2, wherein the communicative connection comprises at least a charging connection.