VIRTUAL CONNECTOR BASED ON CONTACTLESS LINK

The today's mobile handheld and portable devices become slim and thin while need to communicate with other devices and accessories that are attached or at very short range. The interface (contact based physical connector) becomes a real challenge and unreliable to the consumer that needs to attached and detach its device several times a day. It is an object of the present invention to provide system and method of replacing a contact based physical interface (connector) with very short range wireless (contactless) interface. This technique is called "contactless virtual connector" or CVC. The method of the present invention is based on a transmission of a very low power and wideband RF signal. The new innovating mechanism replaces the traditional physical connector with new radiated signal technique that consumes very low power and may be cost competitive with the today's physical connectors. The innovated contactless technology may be used for small flexi-cable replacement in the handheld devices as flip or slider based handheld devices. Although the contactess technique is a wireless based solution, yet, the link may be well secured at the Physical layer when the near-field technique is used.