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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:
Sep. 30, 2014
Filed:
Mar. 28, 2011
Applicant:
Rodney Owen Williams, Cary, NC (US);
Inventor:
Rodney Owen Williams, Cary, NC (US);
Assignee:
HTC Corporation, Taoyuan, Taoyuan County, TW;
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H02J 7/00 (2006.01); H04M 1/04 (2006.01); H04M 1/725 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04M 1/04 (2013.01); H04M 1/72572 (2013.01); H04M 1/72527 (2013.01);
Abstract
A system and method are described for automatically executing an application program in a mobile phone (or other electronic device) upon coupling of the mobile phone to a charging unit. The system and method operate to communicate a unique charging unit identification to the mobile phone and, in response, have the mobile phone execute a particular application program (or other command or mode of operation) that is associated with the particular charging unit.