US 6,622,018 B1
Portable device control console with wireless connectionGeneral
US 6,622,018 B1
Portable device control console with wireless connection
Tech Center:
2600 Communications
Examiner:
William Trost
Art Unit:
2683 Telemetry and Code Generation; Vehicles and System Alarms; Selective Communication; Dynamic Storage Systems; Mechanical parts of Disk Drives; Signal Processing and Control Processing in Disk Drives
Inventors:
Rich Erekson
Assignee:
Priority:
04/24/00
Filed:
04/24/00
Granted:
09/16/03
Expiration:
04/24/20
Abstract
A system and method for controlling a remote device over a wireless connection. In one embodiment, a hand-held computer system having a Bluetooth-enabled transceiver is used to control other Bluetooth-enabled devices. A wireless connection between a transceiver and a remote device is established. A position where a stylus makes contact with a surface of an input device of the hand-held computer system is registered. The particular position where the stylus element makes contact with the input device is translated into a particular command for controlling the remote device. The command is then transmitted to the remote device over the wireless connection.