Palm Electronics & Handheld Devices manual Keyless flat panel portable computer

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Seller:

Communication Intelligence Corp.

Featured IP Asset:

US 5,049,862

Related IP:

EP19900916650; JP19900515540;

PCT/US90/05726

Expected Value:

$200,000+

Lot Summary:

The patent offered in this Lot discloses a portable computing device. The disclosed device comprises two panels, one being an LCD screen with overlaying transparent digitizer, and a second being another digitizer. These panels have the ability to physically detach from one another, and to wirelessly interact.

Most portable computing devices include a keyboard and pointing device to enable user [data] input; some utilize a stylus in conjunction with a keyboard and/or pointing device. Portable computing devices are customarily designed with a form factor, which limits the ways a user can orient his/her device. For instance, the typical notebook computer has a clamshell design, whereby a screen occupies the top half of the device, and the keyboard and pointing device the lower half. Notably, this orientation – or design – indicates the device is intended for use in only one way. The technology disclosed in this Lot describes a portable computing device that utilizes dual digitizers (one with integrated screen) to provide a customizable user interface with

stylus input. Significantly, the digitizers can be rotated or separated as desired by the user.

The device described consists of a keyboardless portable computer that simulates a foldable notepad, and has a display which can be reoriented to the convenience of the user - carried in a self-protecting closed position and operated in any convenient open position. The computer has a first flat panel, a second flat panel, and hinge means for joining the first and second panels such that the first flat panel surface is juxtaposed to the second flat panel surface in a closed position, and is further disposed side by side on a common plane in one of a selection

of open positions. The first flat panel surface comprises a first digitizer, and the second flat panel surface comprises a second digitizer. A stylus is provided as well, which is connectable to at least one of the panels, to facilitate interaction with at least one of the digitizers. Further, one of the digitizers may include a flat panel display, through which visual output is provided.

This invention may be useful in a variety of portable computing products. Its features could be integrated into a typical notebook computer to increase its utility in a wide range of applications, as well as could also be used in portable gaming devices or mobile phones.

Sample Forward Citation Analysis:

■■A.T.X. International, Inc.

■■Access Company, Ltd.

■■ADC Technology Inc.

■■Adobe Systems Inc.

■■Affinity Technology Group Inc. ■■Alcatel-Lucent

■■Apple Inc.

■■Booklink Corporation

■■Broadcom Corp.

■■CalComp Technology, Inc.

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