Shared resources in a docked mobile environment
AssigneeInternational Business Machines Corporation
InventorsRonald Patrick Doyle, David Louis Kaminsky
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Abstract
Sharing resources in a docked mobile environment comprises maintaining a set of execution tasks within a first data handling system having a system dock interface to physically couple to a second data handling system and assigning a task to be executed by the second data handling system while the two systems are physically coupled. The described method further comprises detecting a physical decoupling of the first and second data handling systems and displaying an execution result of the task via a first display element of the first data handling system in response to such a detection.
Claims8
A method comprising:
- maintaining a first set of data handling system execution tasks within a first data handling system, wherein,
- said first data handling system comprises a first system unit comprising,
- a first processing element,
- a first memory storage element, coupled to said first processing element,
- a first user input element coupled to said first processing element,
- a first display element coupled to said first processing element, and
- a system dock interface to physically couple said first data handling system to a second data handling system, said second data handling system comprising a second system unit comprising,
- a second processing element,
- a second memory storage element, coupled to said second processing element,
- a second user input element coupled to said second processing element,
- a second display element coupled to said second processing element;
- and
- assigning a task of said first set of data handling system execution tasks to be executed by said second data handling system while said first data handling system is physically coupled to said second data handling system;
- detecting a physical decoupling of said first data handling system and said second data handling system;
- and
- storing an execution result of said task of said first set of data handling system execution tasks via said first memory storage element in response to a detection of said physical decoupling of said first data handling system and said second data handling system.
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