Near field communications-triggering for wireless display/docking

Abstract

Described herein are techniques related to devices with wireless docking capabilities and more particularly near field communications-based techniques for docking and undocking devices. This Abstract is submitted with the understanding that it will not be used to interpret or limit the scope or meaning of the claims.

Description

BACKGROUND[0001]Docking stations often have one or more persistent clients docked thereto. When the docking station operates wirelessly, as is increasingly the case, undocking and / or evicting an incumbent client and connecting another client involves many cumbersome steps often involving access to and use of the user interfaces (UIs) of the clients. For instance, some steps must occur on one client UI and other steps must occur on the other client's UI. The process often confuses the user leading to user frustration and failed docking attempts. Moreover, the UI of one or more of the clients (often the incumbent client) might not be readily accessible to the user who wishes to dock a client to the docking station.BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS[0002]FIG. 1 is a perspective view illustrating an example system implementing a docking station.[0003]FIG. 2 is a block diagram illustrating an example docking station, clients, and support devices.[0004]FIG. 3 is a flowchart illustrating an...

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When the docking station operates wirelessly, as is increasingly the case, undocking and / or evicting an incumbent client and connecting another client involves many cumbersome steps often involving access to and use of the user interfaces (UIs) of the clients.

The process often confuses the user leading to user frustration and failed docking attempts.

Moreover, the UI of one or more of the clients (often the incumbent client) might not be readily accessible to the user who wishes to dock a client to the docking station.

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