Configuring User Equipment to Display Information Through a Cover Window
First Claim
1. A cover apparatus for a user equipment comprising:
- a front surface connected to a user equipment and positioned to cover and prevent user viewing of a first portion of a display device of the user equipment, the front surface having a window providing user viewing of a second portion of the display device while the front surface covers and prevents user viewing of the first portion of the display device; and
a near field communication (NFC) tag circuit configured to become powered by inductive coupling to signals emitted by a NFC reader within the user equipment to temporarily operate to transmit cover configuration data to the NFC reader within the user equipment, the cover configuration data providing information to an application executed by a processor of the user equipment to determine a location of the window in the front surface and to configure information displayed in the second portion of the display device while the front surface covers and prevents user viewing of the first portion of the display device.
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Abstract
A cover apparatus for a user equipment includes a front surface connected to a user equipment and positioned to cover and prevent user viewing of a first portion of a display device. The front surface has a window providing user viewing of a second portion of the display device while the front surface covers the first portion of the display device. The cover apparatus further includes a NFC tag circuit configured to become powered by inductive coupling to signals emitted by a NFC reader within the user equipment to temporarily operate to transmit cover configuration data to the NFC reader within the user equipment. The cover configuration data provides information to an application executed by a processor of the user equipment to determine a location of the window in the front surface and to configure information displayed in the second portion of the display device.
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1. A cover apparatus for a user equipment comprising:
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a front surface connected to a user equipment and positioned to cover and prevent user viewing of a first portion of a display device of the user equipment, the front surface having a window providing user viewing of a second portion of the display device while the front surface covers and prevents user viewing of the first portion of the display device; and a near field communication (NFC) tag circuit configured to become powered by inductive coupling to signals emitted by a NFC reader within the user equipment to temporarily operate to transmit cover configuration data to the NFC reader within the user equipment, the cover configuration data providing information to an application executed by a processor of the user equipment to determine a location of the window in the front surface and to configure information displayed in the second portion of the display device while the front surface covers and prevents user viewing of the first portion of the display device. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A user equipment comprising:
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a housing that attaches to a cover apparatus; a display device forms at least a portion of a front surface of the housing; a near field communication (NFC) reader circuit that is configured to scan a NFC tag circuit of the cover apparatus through inductive coupling to obtain cover configuration data; a processor coupled to the NFC reader circuit and the display device; and a memory coupled to the processor and comprising computer readable program code that when executed by the processor causes the processor to perform operations comprising; determining from the cover configuration data a location of a window in the cover apparatus that provides user viewing of a second portion of the display device while a first portion of the display device is covered by the cover apparatus preventing user viewing of the first portion of the display device; and configuring information based on the determined location of the window in the cover apparatus for display in the second portion of the display device while the cover apparatus covers and prevents user viewing of the first portion of the display device. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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