Charger having a data store and data link

• US 6,344,727 B1
• Filed: 03/05/2001
• Issued: 02/05/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 03/05/2001
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Amperex Technology Limited (TDK Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Motorola, Inc. (Motorola Solutions, Inc.)
• Inventors: Lefebvre, Rebecca, Liu, Richard, Lloyd, Grant Harries, Desai, Dipiti
• Primary Examiner(s): Toatley, Gregory
• Application Number:
  US09/799,436
• Time in Patent Office: 337 Days
• Field of Search: 320/107, 320/114, 320/115, 381/334, 455/569
• US Class Current: 320/107
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• 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

Abstract

A battery charger that includes a data store that can receive, store, and send data files to other computer devices. The battery charger can specifically receive, send, and store multimedia files such as those in MP3 format. The battery charger has a charger platform with at least a charger main processor, a data store (memory), a charged device interface, and a charge control resident thereupon. The battery charger also includes a power link for selectively providing electricity to the charge control of the charger, and a data link for sending and receiving data from the charger main processor. The charger main processor selectively sends and receives data through the data link and stores and retrieves the data from the data store.

Claims

1. A battery charger, comprising:

a charger platform having at least a charger main processor, a data store, a charged device interface and a charge control resident thereupon, the charged device interface conductively icing with a device hiving a rechargeable battery, and the charge control selectively providing electricity to the charged device interface to charge a device connected to the charged device interface,

a power link for selectively providing electricity to the charge control of the charger; and

a data link for sending and receiving data from the charger main processor, wherein the charger main processor selectively sends and receives data through the data link, and the charger main processor further selectively stores and retrieves data from the data store;

wherein the device is selected from the group consisting of cellular phones and personal digital assistants;

further wherein the charger main processor selectively stores and retrieves data in a multimedia format.

2. The battery charger of claim 1, further comprising a secondary storage interface for allowing data to be stored upon and read from a secondary storage medium.

3. The battery charger of claim 1, wherein the charger main processor selectively stores and retrieves data in MP3 format.

4. The battery charger of claim 1, wherein the charger further includes a speaker and a microphone, the speaker and microphone being controlled by the charger main processor.