# US 2016/0148597 A1 · Portable device interface methods and systems > Agents: this data is available as JSON from the patentgrep API and MCP server — see https://patentgrep.com/llms.txt - Number: US 2016/0148597 A1 - Document ID: US20160148597A1 - Status: Published application - Kind: A1 - Application number: 14/946,986 - Filed: 2015-11-20 - Published: 2016-05-26 - Earliest claimed: 2014-11-20 - Assignees: BluInk Ltd. - Applicants: BluInk Ltd. - Inventors: Laurence Hamid; Stephen Borza - Web page: https://patentgrep.com/patent/US20160148597A1 ## CPC - H04L 9/3234: {involving additional secure or trusted devices, e.g. TPM, smartcard, USB or software token (network architectures or network communication protocols for supporting authentication of entities using an additional device in a packet data network H04L63/0853)} - G06F 3/0482: Interaction with lists of selectable items, e.g. menus - G06F 3/167: {Audio in a user interface, e.g. using voice commands for navigating, audio feedback} - G06F 12/1408: {by using cryptography (for digital transmission H04L9/00)} - G06F 21/00: Security arrangements for protecting computers, components thereof, programs or data against unauthorised activity - G06F 21/31: User authentication - G06F 21/44: Program or device authentication - H04W 12/033: of the user plane, e.g. user's traffic - G06F 3/1454: {involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay} - G06F 2212/1052: Security improvement - G06F 2221/2115: Third party - G09G 2354/00: Aspects of interface with display user - G09G 2370/16: Use of wireless transmission of display information - H04W 12/02: Protecting privacy or anonymity, e.g. protecting personally identifiable information [PII] - H04W 12/04: Key management, e.g. using generic bootstrapping architecture [GBA] - H04L: TRANSMISSION OF DIGITAL INFORMATION, e.g. TELEGRAPHIC COMMUNICATION (arrangements common to telegraphic and telephonic communication H04M) - G06F: ELECTRIC DIGITAL DATA PROCESSING (computer systems based on specific computational models G06N) - H04W: WIRELESS COMMUNICATION NETWORKS (broadcast communication H04H; communication systems using wireless links for non-selective communication, e.g. wireless extensions H04M1/72) - G09G: ARRANGEMENTS OR CIRCUITS FOR CONTROL OF INDICATING DEVICES USING STATIC MEANS TO PRESENT VARIABLE INFORMATION (arrangements for transferring data between digital computers and displays G06F3/14; static indicating arrangements comprising an association of a number of separate sources or light control cells G09F9/00; static indicating arrangements comprising integral associations of a number of light sources H01J, H01K, H10H, H05B33/12; scanning, transmission or reproduction of documents or the like, e.g. facsimile transmission, details thereof H04N1/00) ## Abstract Whilst portable electronic devices such as smartphones have become ubiquitous for billions of users their primarily uses are consuming content or generating limited low complexity data. In contrast, laptops, desktop PCs etc. allow users to enter extended and/or complex content due to ergonomic user interfaces such as keyboard and mouse. Moving data requires either a third electronic device, e.g. a USB memory drive, or remotely storing the content. Accordingly, it would be beneficial to provide users with the benefit of entering and generating content on one or more electronic systems supporting ergonomic and user compatible haptic interfaces with the ability to store this upon their PED, e.g. smartphone. It would be further beneficial to provide the user also with a means to enter information into applications upon their PED through such external interfaces rather than the haptic interface of their PED, e.g. typically a small touchscreen. ## Claims ### Claim 1 A method of entering at least one of user data and user commands to an electronic system comprising: associating a user interface adapter (UIA) with both the electronic system and a portable electronic device (PED) associated with a user, wherein the UIA enters the at least one of user data and user commands to the electronic system based upon user actions upon the portable electronic device. ### Claim 2 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the user enters the at least one of user data and user commands to the PED associated with the user through at least one of a microphone and a touchscreen forming part of the electronic device. ### Claim 3 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the PED is at least one of a smartphone, a tablet computer, and a cellular telephone. ### Claim 4 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the PED provides standalone functionality for the user absent the electronic system and UIA. ### Claim 5 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the user enters the at least one of user data and user commands to the electronic device using a process exploiting speech recognition upon the electronic device and a haptic device emulation forming part of the UIA. ### Claim 6 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, further comprising providing a voice recognition process upon the PED associated with the user, wherein the UIA receives data from the PED generated in dependence upon voice recognition process being applied to user supplied vocal input and provides said data to the electronic system by emulating a haptic interface of the electronic system. ### Claim 7 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein the user provides at least one of user data and user commands as the user supplied vocal input. ### Claim 8 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the user provides at least one of user data and user commands as the user supplied vocal input to the PED. ### Claim 9 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the PED provides standalone functionality for the user absent the electronic system and UIA. ### Claim 10 (depends on 1) The method according to claim 1, wherein the UIA is coupled to the electronic system by at least one of a wired interface and a first wireless interface according to a first predetermined wireless standard; and the UIA is coupled to the PED by at least one of a wired interface and a second wireless interface according to a first predetermined wireless standard. ### Claim 11 (depends on 6) The method according to claim 6, wherein the UIA is coupled to the PED via an audio connector. ### Claim 12 A method of entering data to a portable electronic device (PED) comprising: providing a user interface adapter (UIA) coupled to the PED and an electronic system with a haptic interface, wherein the UIA provides a first synchronization software application for installation upon the electronic system allowing for user entered data via the haptic interface of the electronic system to be communicated to the PED via the UIA. ### Claim 13 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein the PED executes a second synchronization software application providing application data for display to the user upon a display of the electronic system with a software application other than a software application to which the display data relates. ### Claim 14 (depends on 12) The method according to claim 12, wherein the first synchronization software applications at least one of scrambles and encrypts the haptic interface data such that the haptic interface data is not employed in generating any aspect of the application to which it relates upon a display of the electronic system but is employed by the software application upon the PED to which it relates to generate an image for display upon the electronic system display. ### Claim 15 A method of securely storing data upon an external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium comprising: executing encryption of data upon a portable electronic device (PED) and transmitting it to the external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium via a user interface adaptor (UIA) coupled to the external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium and PED. ### Claim 16 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the PED supplies at least one of authentication data and an encryption key to the external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium. ### Claim 17 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the UIA is coupled to the PED by at least one of a wired interface and a first wireless interface according to a first predetermined wireless standard; and the UIA is coupled to the external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium by at least one of a wired interface and a second wireless interface according to a first predetermined wireless standard. ### Claim 18 (depends on 15) The method according to claim 15, wherein the UIA is coupled to the PED via an audio connector; and the UIA is coupled to the external non-volatile non-transitory storage medium by at least one of a wired interface and a wireless interface according to a predetermined wireless standard.