Inventors:
Charles Stancil - Tomball TX, US
Randall Martin - The woodlands TX, US
Kenneth Williams - The Woodlands TX, US
Thomas Gawlik - Houston TX, US
Wayne Sharum - Spring TX, US
Craig Walrath - Spring TX, US
Ernest Hood - Tomball TX, US
Assignee:
Compaq Information Technologies Group, L.P. - Houston TX
International Classification:
G09G005/00
Abstract:
A portable personal configuration device contains non-volatile memory and can be used to quickly and efficiently transport a user's personalized computing environment from one computer to another. The portable personal configuration device preferably is USB-compatible and thus plugs into a USB port in any computing device. In one embodiment, one or more files representing the user's computing environment are downloaded to the portable device and can then be uploaded to a different computer once connected to such new computer. Alternatively, the portable device can cause the computer's web browser to access a particular website containing the user's personalized computing environment which can then be readily downloaded to the computer. In this latter embodiment, the user's computing environment data is maintained on the web and once the portable device is plugged into a computer, the computer is caused to download the user's computing environment from the web.