{"id":494950,"date":"2010-03-31T15:00:28","date_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=14857"},"modified":"2010-03-31T15:00:28","modified_gmt":"2010-03-31T19:00:28","slug":"htc-patents-usb-host-adaptor","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/494950","title":{"rendered":"HTC patents USB Host adaptor"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"tweetmeme_button\" style=\"float: right; margin-left: 10px;\">\n\t\t\t<a href=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/share?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D14857\"><br \/>\n\t\t\t\t<img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/api.tweetmeme.com\/imagebutton.gif?url=http%3A%2F%2Fwmpoweruser.com%2F%3Fp%3D14857&amp;source=WMPoweruser&amp;style=normal&amp;service=bit.ly\" height=\"61\" width=\"50\" \/><br \/>\n\t\t\t<\/a>\n\t\t<\/div>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/htcusbhostpatent.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: block; float: none; margin-left: auto; border-top: 0px; margin-right: auto; border-right: 0px\" title=\"htcusbhostpatent\" border=\"0\" alt=\"htcusbhostpatent\" src=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2010\/03\/htcusbhostpatent_thumb.png\" width=\"624\" height=\"347\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>USB Host is a pretty useful feature to have on a smartphone, but also a feature that has so far been pretty rare on HTC\u2019s devices.<\/p>\n<p>It is therefore of interest when they apply for a patent for an adaptor which makes USB Host a little bit easier.&#160; The adaptor allows one to power the smartphone at the same time as powering the USB accessory using the same port. <\/p>\n<p>It is of interest that the <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?tag=htc-leo\" >HTC HD2<\/a>, which does have USB Host, <a href=\"http:\/\/wmpoweruser.com\/?p=13700\" >will only function if the device plugged is powered externally<\/a> suggesting that HTC may have intended to release this accessory at some point.<\/p>\n<p>See the <a href=\"http:\/\/appft.uspto.gov\/netacgi\/nph-Parser?Sect1=PTO1&amp;Sect2=HITOFF&amp;d=PG01&amp;p=1&amp;u=%2Fnetahtml%2FPTO%2Fsrchnum.html&amp;r=1&amp;f=G&amp;l=50&amp;s1=%2220100077121%22.PGNR.&amp;OS=DN\/20100077121&amp;RS=DN\/20100077121\" >patent here.<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>USB Host is a pretty useful feature to have on a smartphone, but also a feature that has so far been pretty rare on HTC\u2019s devices. It is therefore of interest when they apply for a patent for an adaptor which makes USB Host a little bit easier.&#160; The adaptor allows one to power the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":6200,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-494950","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494950","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/6200"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=494950"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/494950\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=494950"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=494950"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=494950"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}