Feature Pack For A Portable Device

Abstract

A feature pack coupled to and interfaced with a cellular phone, which is able to relieve the cellular telephone from performing tasks associated with several of battery power draining features of the cell phone thus preserving the power of the battery of the cellular telephone. The feature pack, while interfaced and coupled to the cellular telephone, uses its own circuitry and battery to perform these tasks. The feature has a compartment within which the cellular telephone (or other device with which it is coupled) is disposed. The feature pack has circuitry separate from the coupled device, but is able to use audio and other types of signals from the coupled device to perform such tasks as using speakers, microphones, recording voice and audio signals and communicating with external devices via a Blue Tooth interface.

Description

FIELD OF THE INVENTION[0001]The present invention generally relates to the field of electronic devices. In particular, the present invention provides a feature pack coupled to a portable device to enhance many of the features of the device during operation.BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION[0002]In the past decade, manufacturers of portable communication devices (e.g., smart cellular phones, tablets, laptops, notebooks) have been designing and manufacturing these devices with increasing amounts of new features. While many of the relatively new features are quite useful, the main and most important features are the standard features that existed in the earliest version of such devices and are still resident in virtually all of these devices. These features are a device's ability to provide relatively high quality of voice signal processing, the ability to play music and the ability to record voice and audio signals. In particular, the audio output power and the quality of the audio output s...

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Benefits of technology

The present invention is a device that can be added to a portable device to make it perform more tasks. This device uses its own battery and processor to do things that the portable device needs to do, which helps to save energy from the portable device's battery. This feature pack is controlled by a microprocessor and has its own user interface. It uses a separate power source from the portable device, which ensures that the feature pack works even when the portable device is turned off.

Problems solved by technology

It is well known by many users of such portable communication devices that the constant use of such main features necessarily results in the drainage of battery power.

A portable device operating under reduced battery power inevitably leads to a reduction in the quality of voice, audio related features and other features whose usage tend to significantly drain the battery power of such devices.

Also, the range of the volume of the output speakers are necessarily lowered, which makes it difficult to use the device as a speaker phone especially for users who are hearing impaired.

Even though the batteries can be recharged to full level (assuming the user has his / her battery charger available), in many cases users are caught with low battery power during inopportune moments such as during important phone calls.

Neither one of these two options is desirable as each severely limits the usefulness of such devices and are in conflict with the main reasons for which they were designed.

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