Customizable work stations
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsCharles J. Stancil, Richard E. Hodges, Harold Merkel, Ravi Shankar Subramaniam
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Abstract
A customizable work station is described with a computing device that has a local processor, a local display, a connector communicably coupled to the local processor, and a plurality of sensors that collect proximal information at the station to provide at least one personalized enhancement to a user of the station.
Claims15
A customizable work station comprising:
- a computing device that comprises a local processor and a local display output;
- a connector communicably coupled to the local processor, the connector to connect with a computing device;
- and
- a plurality of sensors connected to the local processor, the plurality of sensors to collect proximal information at the station and provide the information to the local processor in response to the computing device being detected by the local processor,
- the local processor to use the information to provide at least one personalized enhancement for a user of the station, the at least one personalized enhancement further being stored by the local processor.
A method of providing a customizable work station comprising:
- detecting a computing device connected to a connector of a local processor, wherein processing by the local processor is isolated from a central server;
- receiving proximal information from at least one sensor that is communicably connected to the local processor;
- and
- providing, based on received proximal information, at least one personalized enhancement to a feature associated with a customizable work station.
A computer program product comprising at least one computer-readable storage media having thereon computer-executable instructions that are structured such that, when interpreted by a local processor associated with the computer program product, cause the computer program product to:
- detect a computing device connected to a connector of the local processor, wherein processing by the local processor is isolated from a central server;
- receive proximal information from at least one sensor that is communicably connected to the local processor;
- and
- provide, based on received proximal information, at least one personalized enhancement to a feature associated with a customizable work station.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.