All-in-one modular wireless device

• US 7,215,977 B2
• Filed: 11/13/2001
• Issued: 05/08/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 09/19/2001
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Enfora Incorporated (Inseego Corp.)
• Original Assignee: Enfora Incorporated (Inseego Corp.)
• Inventors: Glover, Kenneth Matthew
• Primary Examiner(s): Trinh, Sonny
• Application Number:
  US10/008,004
• Publication Number:
  US 20030054856A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,002 Days
• Field of Search: 455/556.1, 455/556.2, 455/557, 455/558, 455/73, 455/456.1, 455/456.6, 455/344, 455/575.1, 455/575.5, 455/566, 439/131, 439/638, 439/946
• US Class Current: 455/556.1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1626 with a single-body enclosure integrating a flat display, e.g. Personal Digital Assistants [PDAs]
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1632 External expansion units, e.g. docking stations
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/0254 comprising one or a plurality of mechanically detachable modules
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72409 by interfacing with external accessories hands-free H04M1/60

Abstract

The present invention provides a modular designed CompactFlash interface for voice and data applications. The present invention provides the advantages of attachments, such as a keypad, that attach to a PDA and give the PDA the ability to provide a wireless voice handset. Other attachments include a small screen attachment that gives pager/PDA-like interfaces for data transmission and/or retrieval.

Claims

1. A method for communicating via a wireless module, comprising:

attaching a device to a first wireless module;

receiving a signal from the attached device;

transmitting the signal from the first wireless module;

receiving the transmitted signal at a second wireless module;

communicating between the device and the second wireless module via the first wireless module;

communicating with a data network by the device and the first wireless module;

utilizing information in the data network; and

communicating with the second wireless module by the device and the first wireless module utilizing the information in the data network.

2. The method of claim 1 comprising displaying a visual result on the first wireless module based on the communicating between the device, the data network, and the second wireless module.

3. The method of claim 1 comprising processing the received signal from the attached device by a program in the first wireless module.

4. The method of claim 3 comprising transmitting a signal from the first wireless module to the second wireless module based on the processing.