Patent ID: 8738951

Claim:
A system, comprising: a first base subsystem, the first base subsystem comprising a first power source, a first display, a first storage device and a first output device, wherein the first base subsystem is configured to execute a first application using data in the first storage device; and a second detachable subsystem coupled to the first base subsystem and is configured to execute a second application, the second detachable subsystem being able to access the first storage device and the first output device, wherein a second display and a second storage device storing at least a subset of the data in the first storage device are to reside in the second detachable subsystem, and wherein when the first base subsystem is to enter a sleep state while executing the first application, the second detachable subsystem is configured to continue operations of the first application by executing the second application using the data from the second storage device in the second detachable subsystem each time the second detachable subsystem processes the data.