Abstract: Various techniques for gestured-based control of electronic devices are disclosed herein. In one embodiment, a method includes detecting first and second inputs respectively to first and second locations of a detection zone of an input/output device when the electronic device is in a locked mode. The first location is different than the second location. The method also includes determining a gesture that corresponds to both the detected first and second inputs and interpreting the determined gesture as a control signal to a media player on the electronic device. The method further includes controlling the media player based on the interpreted control signal.

Abstract: A system and method to facilitate communication between an associated bus, such as employs a standard bus protocol, and a connector to which a removable SFF device can be attached. A desired operating mode is selected based on the device attached at the connector, such as either to pass the protocol between the bus and device generally unchanged or to implement suitable protocol conversion for such communication. Thus, by configuring the SFF device to appear as device currently supported by the bus, the SFF device can operate at the connector with native operating system support.