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US 9,310,839 B2Granted
Disable home key
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMichael Delpier, Kevin L. Massaro, Stacy L. Wolff
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Abstract
A docking station can be coupled to a tablet computing device. A tablet computing device can include a home key that is disabled when the tablet is connected to the docking station. The docking station can include a release to separate the tablet computing device from the docking station.
Claims16
A device comprising:
- a tablet computing device;
- a docking station to couple to the tablet computing device;
- a home key displayed as an icon on a display of the tablet computing device;
- a release, in the docking station, to separate the tablet computing device from the docking station;
- and
- a controller in the tablet computing device to disable the home key when the tablet computing device is connected to the docking station, wherein an activation of the home key generates an interrupt signal that is ignored.
3 more elements
A device comprising:
- a tablet computing device;
- a docking station to couple to the tablet computing device;
- a home key displayed as an icon on a display of the tablet computing device;
- a release, in the docking station, to separate the tablet computing device from the docking station;
- and
- a controller in the tablet computing device to disable the home key when the tablet computing device is connected to the docking station and the release is activated, wherein an activation of the home key generates an interrupt signal that is ignored.
3 more elements
A method of disabling a home key comprising:
- detecting that a tablet computing device is attached to a docking station, wherein the tablet computing device displays the home key as an icon on a display of the tablet computing device while attached to the docking station;
- and
- ignoring an interrupt signal generated by an activation of the home key that is displayed and the tablet computing device is attached to the docking station to prevent the tablet computing device from displaying a home screen.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.