EXPANDABLE SYSTEM ARCHITECTURE COMPRISING A HANDHELD COMPUTER DEVICE THAT DYNAMICALLY GENERATES DIFFERENT USER ENVIRONMENTS WITH SECONDARY DEVICES WITH DISPLAYS OF VARIOUS FORM FACTORS

摘要

An expandable system architecture comprising a self-configuring handheld device that dynamically generates different user environments with secondary devices with displays of various form factors is described. In one embodiment, the handheld device includes an operating system, a user environment, which includes a graphical user interface generated by the operating system, and a display that displays at least a portion of the user environment. The handheld device also has an interface that communicates with a secondary device with a second display, wherein the operating system enables a different second user environment, which in one embodiment includes a different second graphical user interface, that is transmitted across the interface for display at least partially on the second display based upon a configuration of the secondary device.