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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:
Jul. 05, 2011
Filed:
May. 07, 2009
Applicants:
Peter Yen, Houston, TX (US);
Wei H Dodd, Taipei, TW;
Bart M Downing, Spring, TX (US);
Richard J Shepherd, Magnolia, TX (US);
James R Herbert, Houston, TX (US);
Inventors:
Peter Yen, Houston, TX (US);
Wei H Dodd, Taipei, TW;
Bart M Downing, Spring, TX (US);
Richard J Shepherd, Magnolia, TX (US);
James R Herbert, Houston, TX (US);
Assignee:
Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P., Houston, TX (US);
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 13/00 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract
A computer dock has a lock slot and media on which driver code is encoded. When a lock is inserted into the slot, it causes a switch to open so as to disconnect the media from a docking port of the dock. When the lock is not inserted into the slot, the media is connected to the docking port.