HIGH-DATA-RATE LOW-CURRENT CONSUMPTION EASY-TO-IMPLEMENT MINIATURIZED WIRELESS MICRO-USB DONGLE

摘要

A dongle is provided that can be plugged into the micro-USB port of a mobile device that supports USB host mode. The dongle provides control of the radio circuitry housed within the dongle to applications running on a smartphone. The dongle is highly miniaturized, providing a small form factor that is useful to hardware manufacturers that want to move away from using Bluetooth, while enhancing aesthetics and practicality. The dongle enables high data rate devices such as medical, diagnostic, and physiological sensing devices, to realize significant energy savings, facilitating greater miniaturization, and increased consumer adoption. Also, the dongle allows manufacturers of these types of devices to avoid dealing with the overhead and complexity of large-scale mesh networking imposed by protocols governed by large consortiums, such as Bluetooth.

主权项

1. A wireless micro-USB dongle for use with a mobile device, the dongle comprising:
a circuit board including at least one integrated circuit, the at least one integrated circuit being capable of communication using a radio data signal, every byte of the radio data signal being user-determinable; a solder-mount micro-USB male connector having a largest surface that is mounted parallel to the circuit board; an antenna connected to an integrated circuit of the circuit board; and an enclosing shell having a hole through which the solder-mount micro-USB male connector extends, and having a portion abutting substantially directly against an edge of the mobile device having a female connector when the male connector is inserted into the female connector.