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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 25, 1998
Filed:
Dec. 29, 1995
Applicant:
Inventors:
Sung-Soo Cho, Sunnyvale, CA (US);
James P Kardach, San Jose, CA (US);
Diane M Bryant, San Jose, CA (US);
Assignee:
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F / ;
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
3647081 ; 361683 ; 395281 ;
Abstract
A system having a portable computer, a docking station and an interface coupled between the portable computer and the docking station that is responsive to unpreconditioned insertion or removal of the portable computer into or from the docking station respectively. When the portable computer is being inserted into or removed from the docking station, the interface generates events to allow software to configure (e.g., precondition) the portable computer and the docking station without prior user intervention.