Method for data communication between a wireless and an electronic device, and a data communication device
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1. A method comprising:
- accepting a first wireless data communication device into a memory expansion interface of an electronic device, wherein said memory expansion interface is compliant with a defined memory expansion interface specification and wherein said first wireless data communication device comprises a data storage memory configured to be read and written through said memory expansion interface by use of instructions compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification, and the first wireless data communication device further comprises a wireless data communication unit configured to receive, from said memory expansion interface, data to be wirelessly transmitted and to send, to said memory expansion interface, data that is wirelessly received, the first wireless data communication device configured to wirelessly transmit the data received from said memory expansion interface responsive, at least in part, to an instruction to store the data, wherein the instruction is compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification, and the instruction is received via said memory expansion interface; and
configuring the first wireless data communication device so that the data storage memory of said first wireless data communication device is one of readable and writable from a second wireless data communication device via a wireless link established with said wireless data communication unit.
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Abstract
A method for wireless data communication between a wireless device having means for short-range data communication, and an electronic device includes mounting a data communication device having means for short-range radio frequency wireless data communication in a general purpose expansion memory location of the electronic device, activating a short-range radio frequency wireless data communication link between the wireless device and the data communication device, and transmitting data between the electronic device and the wireless device so that the wireless device operates as an ordinary expansion memory from the view point of the electronic device.
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22 Claims
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1. A method comprising:
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accepting a first wireless data communication device into a memory expansion interface of an electronic device, wherein said memory expansion interface is compliant with a defined memory expansion interface specification and wherein said first wireless data communication device comprises a data storage memory configured to be read and written through said memory expansion interface by use of instructions compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification, and the first wireless data communication device further comprises a wireless data communication unit configured to receive, from said memory expansion interface, data to be wirelessly transmitted and to send, to said memory expansion interface, data that is wirelessly received, the first wireless data communication device configured to wirelessly transmit the data received from said memory expansion interface responsive, at least in part, to an instruction to store the data, wherein the instruction is compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification, and the instruction is received via said memory expansion interface; and configuring the first wireless data communication device so that the data storage memory of said first wireless data communication device is one of readable and writable from a second wireless data communication device via a wireless link established with said wireless data communication unit. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 20)
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6. An apparatus, comprising:
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an interface configured to connect said apparatus to a memory expansion interface of an electronic device, wherein said interface is compliant with a defined memory expansion interface specification; a data storage memory configured to be read and written through said interface, where data is read from and written to the data storage memory by use of instructions compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification; and a wireless data communication unit configured to receive via said interface data to be wirelessly transmitted and to send via said interface data that is wirelessly received, the wirelessly transmitting of the data occurring responsive, at least in part, to instructions to store the data, the instructions received via the interface and the instruction compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification. - View Dependent Claims (7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 21)
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15. A method, comprising:
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accepting an apparatus into a memory expansion interface of an electronic device, where said memory expansion interface is compliant with a defined memory expansion interface specification, said apparatus comprising a data storage memory and a wireless data communication unit; and operating said apparatus to at least one of read and write said data storage memory through said interface and to receive via said interface at said wireless data communication unit data to be wirelessly transmitted and to send to said interface data that is wirelessly received, where data is read from and written to the data storage memory by the apparatus by use of instructions compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification, wherein at least one of wireless transmission of data received via said interface, and sending to said interface data that is wirelessly received, is performed responsive, at least in part, to a write or read command, respectively, that is received via the memory expansion interface and that is compliant with the defined memory expansion interface specification. - View Dependent Claims (16, 17, 18, 19, 22)
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