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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Aug. 27, 2002
Filed:
Aug. 12, 1999
Jeffrey C. Hawkins, Redwood City, CA (US);
Peter Skillman, San Carlos, CA (US);
Michael Wise, Los Altos Hills, CA (US);
John Raff, Menlo Park, CA (US);
Daniel Sung-Hwe Kim, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Dennis Boyle, Palo Alto, CA (US);
Charles R. Lewis, Jr., Palo Alto, CA (US);
Handspring, Inc., Mountain View, CA (US);
Abstract
An expandable mobile computer system is described. The mobile computer system includes a peripheral expansion interface that allows a large number of different sized expansion peripherals to be created and used with the mobile computer system. A pair of rails forms a first opening of the peripheral expansion interface wherein an expansion peripheral device may be inserted. Large expansion peripherals may extend in a first dimension out of that first opening. The rails also form a second opening along a second dimension orthogonal to the first dimension. Large expansion peripherals may also extend outward from the peripheral expansion interface in the second dimension.