Patent ID: 8649164

Claim:
A rearward-facing keyboard for a mobile computing device, comprising: a first partial field of keys, comprising a first group of keys for left-hand fingers, wherein the first group of keys is arranged such that the keys are placed in mirror-opposite of positions that they would have been in a front-facing keyboard; and a second partial field of keys, comprising a second group of keys for right-hand, wherein the second group of keys is arranged such that the keys are placed in mirror-opposite of positions that they would have been in a front-facing keyboard fingers; wherein the rearward-facing keyboard being attached on to back of the mobile computing device in a way that back of the rearward-facing keyboard is facing and parallel to the back of the mobile computing device while the keys of the rearward-facing keyboard are facing rearward away from its user as the user holds and faces front of the mobile computing device; wherein the rearward-facing keyboard can be flipped from the back of the mobile computing device to the front of and proximately perpendicular to the mobile computing device such that the rearward-facing keyboard is laid before its user; and wherein the first partial field being rotatable about a first vertical axis and the second partial field being rotatable about a second vertical axis such that when the first and second partial fields are rotated towards the mobile computing device from their respective original positions, the keys of the rearward-facing keyboard are in their front-facing orientation.