Device and display device having attached mode and detached mode
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsTom Fisher, Derek Lukasik
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Abstract
A computing system includes a base processing device, as well as a display device having a screen. In an attached mode, the base processing device is mechanically attached to the base processing device, and is to display a user interface on the display device using a mechanical data connection between the base processing device and the display device. In a detached mode, the base processing device is mechanically detached from the display device, and is to render the user interface and transmit the rendered user interface to the display device over a wireless data connection between the base processing device and the display device. The display device is to receive and responsively display the rendered user interface.
Claims17
A computing system comprising:
- a display device having a screen;
- and
- a base processing device having an attached mode in which the display device is mechanically attached to the base processing device and a detached mode in which the display device is mechanically detached from the base processing device,
- wherein in the attached mode, the base processing device is to display a user interface on the display device using a mechanical data connection between the base processing device and the display device, and in response to detecting mechanical disconnection of the display device from the base processing device, establish a wireless data connection between the base processing device and the display device,
- and wherein in the detached mode, an operating system of the base processing device with which the user interface is associated is to render the user interface and transmit the rendered user interface to an operating system of the display device over the wireless data connection, the operating system of the display device to receive and responsively display the rendered user interface, and in response to detecting mechanical connection of the display device to the base processing device, terminate the wireless data connection.
A non-transitory computer-readable data storage medium storing program code executable by a computing device to:
- in an attached mode in which the computing device is mechanically attached to a display device having a screen, display a user interface on the display device using a mechanical data connection between the base processing device and the display device, and in response to detecting mechanical disconnection of the display device from the computing device, establish a wireless data connection between the computing device and the display device;
- and
- in a detached mode in which the computing device is mechanically detached from the display device, render the user interface and transmit the rendered user interface to the display device over the wireless data connection between the computing device and the display device for display, and in response to detecting mechanical connection of the display device to the computing device, terminate the wireless data connection.
A method comprising:
- in a detached mode in which a display device having a screen is mechanically detached from a computing device, receiving, by the display device over a wireless data connection between the computing device and the display device, a user interface rendered at the computing device, and in response to detecting mechanical connection of the display device to the computing device, terminating the wireless data connection;
- in an attached mode in which the display device is mechanically attached to the computing device, receiving, by the display device over a mechanical data connection between the computing device and the display device, the user interface, and in response to detecting mechanical disconnection of the display device from the computing device, establishing the wireless data connection between the computing device and the display device;
- and
- displaying, by the display device, the received user interface on the screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.