Wake signal from a portable transceiver unit
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorDavid H. Hanes
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Abstract
A method includes, with a portable, wireless transceiver, detecting a predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver; and in response to detecting the predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver, transmitting a wireless wake signal from the portable transceiver to a sleeping computer. A corresponding portable transceiver unit includes: a microphone to receive spoken voice commands from a user; a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with a separate computer; and a motion sensor to detect a predetermined motion pattern at the portable transceiver unit. The wireless transceiver, in response to the motion sensor detecting the predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver, wirelessly transmits a wake signal to the computer.
Claims20
A portable transceiver unit comprising:
- a microphone to receive a voice command from a user, the voice command designated for a personal assistant application;
- a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with a computer remotely located from the portable transceiver unit, the computer to host the personal assistant application;
- and
- a motion sensor to:
- detect a predetermined motion pattern at the portable transceiver unit;
- and
- cause
- the wireless transceiver, in response to a signal corresponding to detection of the predetermined motion pattern by the motion sensor to:
- wirelessly transmit the wake signal to the computer when in a low-power state;
- wirelessly transmit a launch command to launch the personal assistant application after the computer is awakened from the low-power state;
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- wirelessly transmit the data of the voice command to the computer hosting the personal assistant application after the voice command is transduced by the microphone.
A method comprising:
- with a portable transceiver, detecting a predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver corresponding to a trigger to transmit a wake signal to a sleeping computer;
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- in response to detecting the predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver corresponds to the trigger to transmit a wake signal to a sleeping computer, wirelessly transmitting a wake signal from the portable transceiver to a remotely-located computer.
A remote communication system for a computer, the system comprising:
- a dongle for connection to a host computer;
- and
- a portable transceiver unit, the portable transceiver unit comprising:
- a microphone to receive spoken voice commands corresponding to a personal assistant application;
- a wireless transceiver to wirelessly communicate with the dongle at the host computer;
- and
- a motion sensor to detect a predetermined motion pattern at the portable transceiver unit, the predetermined motion pattern corresponding to a trigger to transmit a wake signal;
- wherein the wireless transceiver, in response to the motion sensor detecting the predetermined motion pattern of the transceiver, to wirelessly transmit a wake signal to the dongle at the computer.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.