Motherboard and daughterboard multi-swap system with communication module for a GPRS system

• US 7,324,835 B2
• Filed: 08/07/2004
• Issued: 01/29/2008
• Est. Priority Date: 08/07/2004
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: C-One Technology Corporation (Pretec Electronics Corporation)
• Original Assignee: C-One Technology Corporation (Pretec Electronics Corporation)
• Inventors: Yu, Gordon, Chen, Jui-Chung, Wen, Forli
• Primary Examiner(s): Kincaid; Lester G.
• Assistant Examiner(s): HERRERA, DIEGO D
• Application Number:
  US10/914,558
• Publication Number:
  US 20060029094A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,270 Days
• Field of Search: 455/563, 455/558, 455/557, 455/568, 455/347, 455/559, 712/227
• US Class Current: 455/558
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 1/40 Circuits
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices
• CPC Class Codes: H05K 1/141 One or more single auxiliary printed circuits mounted on a main printed circuit, e.g. modules, adapters H05K1/142 and H05K1/147 take precedence

Abstract

A multi-swap communication module includes a motherboard and a daughterboard. The motherboard is provided with a plurality of necessary components for maintaining the operation of a wireless communication card and the daughterboard is connectable with the motherboard. The daughterboard is a modular add-on card swappable according to different requests, while the motherboard reads control data selectively either in the motherboard or in the daughterboard by means of a swapping action of the daughterboard.

Claims

1. A multi-swap system with communication module for General Packet Radio Service (GPRS) comprising:

a motherboard having a multi-function controller, a first bus connected to said multi-function controller, a second bus, a solid state disk bridge chip connected to said first and second buses, a switching chip connected to said second bus, a third bus connecting said switching chip to said first bus, a wireless communication module, and a memory for storing control data, said motherboard operating as a wireless communication card; and

a daughterboard swappably connected to said motherboard, said daughterboard having a memory for storing control data;

wherein said multi-function controller selectively reads control data from the memory on said daughterboard or the memory on said motherboard depending on whether said daughterboard is connected to said motherboard, and the control data includes a setting value for configuring said multi-function controller for different working modes including multiplex and simplex modes; and

wherein said switching chip controls if the control data on said daughterboard pass through said solid state disk bridge chip or said third bus to said multi-function controller when said daughterboard is connected to said motherboard.

2. The multi-swap system according to claim 1, wherein said memory in said motherboard is an Electrically Erasable programmable Read Only Memory (E²PROM).

3. The multi-swap system according to claim 1, wherein the daughterboard is provided with at least an E²PROM and a connector, and further, at least one of four components including a battery pack, a memory slot, a Global Positioning System (GPS) module, or a wireless communication module.

4. The multi-swap system according to claim 1, wherein said switching chip controls said multi-function controller to selectively read control data from the memory on said daughterboard or the memory on said motherboard.

5. The multi-swap system according to claim 1, wherein the operation of the switching chip depends on a swapping action of the daughterboard that performs an ON/OFF operation of a pin in the switching chip.

6. The multi-swap system according to claim 1, wherein said switching chip passes data stored in a multi media card, a safe digital card, or a memory stick on said daughterboard through said solid state disk bridge chip to said multi-function controller when said daughterboard is connected to said motherboard.