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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Jun. 13, 2017
Filed:
Jan. 17, 2012
Applicant:
Gary Voronel, Seattle, WA (US);
Inventor:
Gary Voronel, Seattle, WA (US);
Assignee:
Microsoft Technology Licensing, LLC, Redmond, WA (US);
Attorneys:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 1/16 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 1/1618 (2013.01); G06F 1/1662 (2013.01);
Abstract
In one embodiment, a clamshell-slate hybrid may act as either a clamshell or slate computing device. The clamshell-slate hybridmay selectively set an activation state of a vestigial key setof a keyboardon a key sideof a keyboard chassishinged along a top axis to a display chassis. The clamshell-slate hybridmay retract the vestigial key setbased on an activation state. The clamshell-slate hybridmay receive a user input in a touch screen displayon a display sideof the display chassis