Displaylink (uk) Limited

Displaylink Limited

Martin Andrew Turnock

Timothy Mark Edmonds

Richard Jonathan Petrie

Colin Skinner

Douglas Morse

Patrick David Cooper

Daniel Ellis

Trevor Hall

Rebecca Ann Edney

A method of controlling a wireless docking station, which has one or more peripheral devices connected thereto, which are controllable from a mobile device when the mobile device is docked with the wireless docking station. The method involves receiving (S) a sensing signal indicating that a user is proximate the peripheral device(s) and detecting (S) that a mobile device is within a predetermined range of the wireless docking station. An identification of the mobile device is determined and the user is requested (S) to confirm that the user wants to dock the mobile device having the identification with the wireless docking station. When a confirmation signal (S) is received, an authentication of the mobile device having the identification is permitted to be performed whereby the mobile device having the identification is docked (S) with the wireless docking station if the authentication is successful.

Wireless docking

A system to enable a computer to provide output to a display over a general-purpose data transmission medium, such as USB. The system includes provision of a plurality of display interface components, each display interface component adapted to receive display data and transmission of the display data to the display via the general-purpose data transmission medium. Each component is associated with a respective stage of operation of the system. The system is configured to use a respective one of the display interface components during each of a plurality of distinct operational stages.

System for connecting a display over a general-purpose data transport

A method, at a host device (), of managing memory () of a display control device (), the memory () being used for storing display data sent from the host device () to the display control device () for display. The method involves maintaining a map () at the host device () corresponding to the memory () at the display control device, the map () indicating locations corresponding to addresses of the memory () at which data is stored or not. The map () is used to determine a size of a portion of the display data, and a location on the map () where the portion of display data would fit into the memory. An address in the memory () corresponding to the determined location on the map (), together with the portion of display data, is then sent to the display control device (), and the location on the map () corresponding to the address in the memory () is updated to indicate that the address has data stored in it. The data may be compressed using compression parameters, which can be selected so that the compressed portion of display data will fit into a free space in the memory () of the display control device ().

Variable compression management of memory for storing display data

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Martin Andrew Turnock