Automatic wireless docking system
AssigneeDell Products L.P.
InventorsJoseph Paul Marquardt, Todd Farrell Basche
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Abstract
An automatic wireless docking system includes a source device that includes a source device display screen, a display device, and a sink device that is coupled to the display device. The sink device determines a location of the source device and determines a motion of the source device. The sink device then identifies a wireless docking intent of the source device with the sink device based on the location of the source device and the motion of the source device. In response to identifying the wireless docking intent, the sink device establishes a current wireless docking session between the source device and the sink device.
Claims20
An automatic wireless docking system, comprising:
- a source device that includes a source device display screen;
- a first display device;
- and
- a first sink device that is coupled to the first display device and that is configured to:
- establish an initial wireless communication session with the source device and, in response, receive source device information that includes a source device identifier;
- determine a location of the source device;
- determine a motion of the source device;
- identify a wireless docking intent of the source device with the first sink device based on the location of the source device, the motion of the source device, and the source device identifier;
- and
- establish, in response to identifying the wireless docking intent, a current wireless docking session between the source device and the first sink device.
An information handling system (IHS), comprising:
- a communication subsystem that is configured to provide communication with source devices;
- a processing system that is coupled to the communication subsystem;
- and
- a memory system that is coupled to the processing system and that includes instructions that, when executed by the processing system, cause the processing system to provide a wireless docking engine that is configured to:
- establish, via the communication subsystem, an initial wireless communication session with a source device and, in response, receive source device information that includes a source device identifier;
- determine, via the communication subsystem, a location of the source device;
- determine, via the communication subsystem, a motion of the source device;
- identify a wireless docking intent of the source device based on the location of the source device, the motion of the source device, and the source device identifier;
- and
- establish, in response to identifying the wireless docking intent, a current wireless docking session with the source device.
A method for wireless automatic docking, comprising:
- establishing, by a first sink device, an initial wireless communication session with a source device;
- receiving, by the first sink device in response to establishing the initial wireless communication session with the source device, source device information that includes a source device identifier;
- determining, by the first sink device, a location of the source device;
- determining, by the first sink device, a motion of the source device;
- identifying, by the first sink device, a wireless docking intent of the source device with the first sink device based on the location of the source device, the motion of the source device, and the source device identifier;
- and
- establishing, by the first sink device in response to identifying the wireless docking intent, a current wireless docking session between the source device and the first sink device.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.