Modular computer system

• US 7,035,598 B2
• Filed: 11/26/2001
• Issued: 04/25/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 01/18/1991
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Scott J. Lochner
• Original Assignee: Scott Lochner
• Inventors: Bartur, Meir, Lochner, Scott
• Primary Examiner(s): Maung, Nay
• Assistant Examiner(s): SOBUTKA, PHILIP
• Application Number:
  US09/994,521
• Publication Number:
  US 20020077067A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,611 Days
• Field of Search: 445/73, 445/566, 445/90.1, 445/90.2, 445/90.3, 445/351, 445347-349, 445/344, 445/557, 445/556.1, 445/2, 445/66.1, 345/173, 345/169, 345/156, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/90.3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/16 Constructional details or arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0231 Cordless keyboards
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 345/905 Display device with housing structure

Abstract

A computer system composed of a storage and control unit including components for receiving and processing input data signals and components for producing output signals based on the input data signals; an input/output unit including components for generating input signals and output components for providing a display based on output signals; and a wireless link between the units for conducting data signals from the components for generating input signals to the components for receiving and processing input signals and for conducting output signals from the components for producing output signals to the output components.

Claims

1. A wireless computer system comprising:

a base storage and control system including;

a processor, receiving and using an input signal in real-time, the input signal being for use in interacting with an application program being executable at the base storage and control system,

a non-volatile memory,

a display element producing an output signal based on the input signal and execution of the application program, said output signal being produced in bursts, with delays between the bursts, during which delays, no information is transmitted, and

a wireless transceiver that wirelessly communicate the display output signal when produced;

at least one portable input-output system for use with the base storage and control system, the portable input-output system including;

a wireless transceiver, which wirelessly communicates the input signal to the base storage and control system and wirelessly receives the display output signal from the base storage and control system,

a user interface, allowing inputting an information item and generating an input signal corresponding to the information item the input signal being wirelessly communicable in real-time to the base storage and control system to interact with the application program being executable at the base storage and control system, and

an arrangement for providing a continuously-displayed full screen display using the display output signal received in bursts to generate a portion of the full screen display corresponding to the display output signal.

2. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein at least one of a radio frequency signal and an electromagnetic frequency signal is used as a communication signal by said wireless transceivers.

3. The wireless computer system of claim 2, wherein:

the communication signal has a wavelength longer than an infrared signal wavelength, and

the communication signal includes at least one of a modulated signal, an amplitude modulated signal, a frequency modulated signal, and a spread spectrum modulated signal.

4. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein the output display signal includes at least one of a video signal, a video synchronizing signal, a horizontal video synchronizing signal, a vertical video synchronizing signal, a composite video signal, a video and synchronizing signal, and an RGB signal.

5. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein the input signal is a keyboard signal.

6. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein;

the input signal is a keyboard signal and the output display signal includes at least one of a video signal, a video synchronizing signal, a horizontal video synchronizing signal, a vertical video synchronizing signal, a composite video signal, a video and synchronizing signal, and an RGB signal.

7. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein at least the input signal is an asynchronous signal.

8. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein said wireless transceivers each include:

an antenna;

an arrangement for demodulating a communicated signal corresponding to at least one of the input signal and the output display signal; and

an arrangement for modulating at least one of the input signal and the output display signal.

9. The wireless computer system of claim 8, wherein said wireless transceivers each include a directional coupler, the directional coupler being coupled to the antenna.

10. The wireless computer system of claim 1, wherein for an existing full screen display at the at least one portable input-output, the burst provides new graphics information for a changed portion of the existing full screen display.

11. A wireless computer system comprising:

a) a base storage and control system including;

means for receiving and using an input signal in real-time, the input signal being for use in interacting with an application program being executable at the base storage and control system,

means for providing non-volatile storage of information,

means for providing a display output signal based on the input signal and execution of the application program, said output signal being produced in bursts, with delays between the bursts, during which delays, no information is transmitted, and

means for wirelessly receiving the input signal and for wirelessly communicating the display output signal;

b) at least one portable input-output system for use with the base storage and control system, the portable input-output system including;

means for wirelessly communicating the input signal to the base storage and control system and for wirelessly receiving the display output signal from the base storage and control system,

means for inputting an information i-tern and for generating the input signal corresponding to the information item, the input signal being wirelessly communicable to the base storage and control system to interact with the application program that is executable at the base storage and control system, and

means for providing a full screen display by directly using the display output signal to generate a portion of the full screen display corresponding to the display output signal.

12. A wireless computer system comprising:

a base storage and control system including;

a processor, receiving and using an input signal in real-time, the input signal being for use in interacting with an application program being executable at the base storage and control system,

a non-volatile memory,

a display element producing an output signal based on the input signal and execution of the application program, said output signal being produced in bursts, with delays between the bursts, during which delays, no information is transmitted, and

a wireless transceiver that wirelessly communicate the display output signal when produced in bursts;

at least one portable input-output system for use with the base storage and control system, the portable input-output system including;

a wireless transceiver, which wirelessly communicates the input signal to the base storage and control system and wirelessly receives the display output signal from the base storage and control system,

a user interface, allowing inputting an information item and generating an input signal corresponding to the information item, the input signal being wirelessly communicable in real-time to the base storage and control system to interact with the application program being executable at the base storage and control system, and

an arrangement for providing a continuously-displayed full screen display that differs from a previously-received full screen display, using the display output signal received in bursts to generate a portion of the full screen display corresponding to the display output signal.