Detachable computer structure

• US 5,948,047 A
• Filed: 08/29/1996
• Issued: 09/07/1999
• Est. Priority Date: 08/29/1996
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: RPX Corporation
• Original Assignee: XYBERNAUT CORPORATION
• Inventors: Moynahan, John F., Jenkins, Michael D.
• Primary Examiner(s): Palys, Joseph E.
• Assistant Examiner(s): OMAR, OMAR B
• Application Number:
  US08/705,247
• Time in Patent Office: 1,104 Days
• Field of Search: 395/733, 395/500, 395/2, 364/708-1, 364/188, 364/466, 367/681, 244/161, 708/141, 318/561, 701/50, 710/260
• US Class Current: 708/141
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/181 Enclosures for portable computers G06F1/1613

Abstract

This structure is a stand alone or laptop computer that has a detachable hands-free mobile computer housed therein. The stand alone (or laptop) computer and the detachable hands-free mobile computer each can operate independent of or together with the other computer. Also each computer can communicate with the other during operation while connected or disconnected from each other.

Claims

1. A computer system comprising a power source and a base computer with a detachable body-worn mobile computer unit (when detached) that has means to fully function apart from or in conjunction with said base computer, said mobile computer unit comprising hands-free activation means and comprising in a single housing the components of a general purpose computer, said mobile computer unit comprising hands-free activation means selected from the group consisting of audio activation means, brain activation means, eye-tracking means, and mixtures thereof and means for attachment to a user'"'"'s body, said base computer having means to permit full functioning of said base computer before or after said mobile computer unit is detached therefrom.

2. A computer system comprising a power source and a base computer with a detachable body-worn mobile computer unit, said mobile computer unit has a CPU that is continuously completely active and has means to fully function apart from or when docked in said base computer, said mobile computer unit comprising hands-free activation means and comprising all of the components of a general purpose computer including a CPU, said mobile computer unit comprising hands-free activation means selected from the group consisting of audio activation means, brain activation means, eye-tracking means, and mixtures thereof and means for attachment to a user'"'"'s body, said base computer, and said mobile computer unit both being general purpose computers and having means to permit full functioning of both computers while connected or after said mobile computer unit is detached from said base computer, both said base computer and said mobile computer comprising their own separate processor means, memory means, activation means, internal storage means and display controller means.

3. The computer of claim 2 wherein said hands-free activation means comprises a voice-activation means.

4. The computer system of claim 2 wherein a monitor of said computer system is removable.

5. The computer system of claim 2 wherein said power source is an electrical source such as AC current or a battery.

6. The computer system of claim 2 wherein said mobile computer unit comprises a self-contained computer means.

7. The computer system of claim 2 wherein said detachable body-worn mobile computer and said base computer have means to communicate with each other when said detachable body-worn mobile computer is detached and removed from said base computer.

8. The computer system of claim 2 wherein said detachable body-worn mobile computer has voice activation means and means for attachment to a body-worn display means.