Context of use differentiation in a pocket computer

一种便携式计算机、计算机的技术，应用在个人数字助理型便携式计算机,便携式计算机领域，能够解决不能区分开、内容媒介混淆等问题

Inactive Publication Date: 2005-05-11
FRANCE TELECOM SA
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Since tools for personal use and tools for business use exist and are available regardless of the context of use, users cannot distinguish between them, thus, for users, the result is content medium confusion

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[0027] The present invention relates to personal digital assistants, which are small portable computers well known in the art and comprising the basic resources found in standard computers (scaled down to their own size). More precisely, a personal digital assistant includes processing means, such as a processor for executing programs, and storage means for storing data. In order to enable and manage the execution of the programs, the PDA includes an operating system, such as the WindowsCE(R) operating system. As is well known to those skilled in the art, an operating system is the entity that manages all programs, especially application software, and corresponding data stored in the device. As will be explained in detail below, this is why the solution offered by the invention consists of providing a setting means for setting the parameters of the applications and data contained in the digital assistant according to each context of use, This enables the operating system to i...

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The invention discloses a portable computer comprising a plurality of programs and data (30, 40), the loading and accessing of which is managed by an operating system (10). The portable computer includes means (50) for selecting one of at least two predefined usage contexts, and a context database (20) including the associated, List of programs and data. In response to selection of a context to use, the operating system (10) queries the context database (20) to activate, from among the plurality of programs and data, only those programs and data associated with said context in the context library.

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technical field [0001] The field of the invention is that of portable computers, in particular of the Personal Digital Assistant (PDA) type. Background technique [0002] Personal digital assistants are portable computers which, due to their small size and the resources provided (processor, memory), constitute practical and powerful management tools for their users. Users can take their personal digital assistant with them wherever they go to help manage, process and / or store data, regardless of context of use, such as business or personal use. [0003] Such devices initially functioned basically as organizers, providing functions such as electronic appointment diaries and address books, calculators, and the like. However, with increased memory and processing capacity, personal digital assistants are currently unable to support applications like those used on laptop or desktop computers. These programs, and some or all of the data they use, are generally dedicated to a sin...

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Patent Type & Authority Applications(China)
IPC IPC(8): G06F9/445G06F1/00G06F9/44G06F15/02G06F17/30G06F21/60G06F21/62G06F21/74
CPCG06F21/604G06F21/62G06F21/6218G06F21/629G06F21/74G06F2221/2105G06F2221/2141G06F2221/2149Y10S707/99932
Inventor 热罗姆·比代安东尼·多盖斯特凡娜·皮卡尔
Owner FRANCE TELECOM SA
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