Desk phone / hotel station for mobile first workers
View Patent ↗A mobile phone station and cellphone application cooperating to provide the complete mobility expected of a cellphone and yet provide a complete desktop experience. In a fully wireless embodiment, the mobile phone station and cellphone application cooperate to automatically connect the cellphone to a Miracast monitor without requiring user operations. After performing initial pairing operations and monitor selection, when the cellphone meets selected criteria, such as the cellphone wirelessly charging or the cellphone within Bluetooth range and autoconnection is selected, the mobile phone station directs the cellphone to automatically start Miracast operations and connect to a selected monitor. In one embodiment, the user simply places the cellphone on the wireless charging pad and the desktop environment is activated. When the user wishes to leave, the user simply picks up the cellphone and walks away, the environment connections ceasing when Bluetooth reception ends.
1. A method of automatically providing a desktop environment for a portable device, the method comprising the steps of:
wirelessly connecting the portable device to a keyboard and a pointing device;
wirelessly connecting the portable device to a desktop environment controlling device that wirelessly charges the portable device;
providing, automatically upon determining the portable device is wirelessly charging, an instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to instruct the portable device to wirelessly connect to a display device;
receiving the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device by the portable device;
setting or clearing an auto-connect state by the portable device;
storing an identity of the portable device by the desktop environment controlling device from setting or clearing the auto-connect state; and
connecting wirelessly to the display device without user interaction.
2. The method of claim 1 , wherein the portable device is a cellphone.
3. The method of claim 1 , wherein the desktop environment controlling device is a mobile phone station.
4. The method of claim 1 , further comprising the step of automatically terminating the wireless connection to the display device by the portable device when the portable device is removed from wirelessly charging.
5. The method of claim 1 , wherein the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device is provided automatically upon wirelessly connecting the portable device to the desktop environment controlling device.
6. The method of claim 5 , wherein the automatically providing the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device is a user controllable setting.
7. A desktop environment controlling device comprising:
a processor;
a wireless interface coupled to the processor for wirelessly connecting to a portable device;
memory coupled to the processor for storing programs executed by the processor, the memory storing programs executed by the processor to perform the operations of:
wireless connecting the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device using the wireless interface;
providing an instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to instruct the portable device to wirelessly connect to a display device;
receiving the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device by the portable device;
setting or clearing an auto-connect state by the portable device;
storing an identity of the portable device by the desktop environment controlling device from setting or clearing the auto-connect state; and
connecting wirelessly to the display device without user interaction; and
a wireless charger coupled to the processor,
wherein the memory further stores a program to cause the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to be provided automatically upon detecting the portable device wirelessly charging with the wireless charger.
8. The desktop environment controlling device of claim 7 , wherein the desktop environment controlling device is a mobile phone station.
9. The desktop environment controlling device of claim 7 , wherein the memory further stores a program to cause the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to be provided automatically upon wirelessly connecting the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device.
10. Non-transitory processor readable memories containing programs that when executed cause processors to perform the following method of wirelessly connecting a portable device to a display device without user interaction, the method comprising:
wirelessly connecting the portable device to a desktop environment controlling device;
providing an instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to instruct the portable device to wirelessly connect to the display device; and
receiving the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device by the portable device;
setting or clearing an auto-connect state by the portable device;
storing an identity of the portable device by the desktop environment controlling device from setting or clearing the auto-connect state; and
connecting wirelessly to the display device without user interaction,
wherein the desktop environment controlling device includes a wireless charger for the portable device, and
wherein the programs further include a program to cause the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to be provided automatically upon detecting the portable device wirelessly charging with the wireless charger.
11. The non-transitory processor readable memories of claim 10 , wherein the portable device is a cellphone.
12. The non-transitory processor readable memories of claim 10 , wherein the desktop environment controlling device is a mobile phone station.
13. The non-transitory processor readable memories of claim 10 , wherein the programs further include a program to automatically terminate the wireless connection to the display device by the portable device when the portable device is removed from the wireless charger.
14. The non-transitory processor readable memories of claim 10 , wherein the programs further include a program to cause the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device to be provided automatically upon wirelessly connecting the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device.
15. The non-transitory processor readable memories of claim 14 , wherein the programs further include a program to not automatically provide the instruction from the desktop environment controlling device to the portable device based on a user controllable setting.