Data prioritization and distribution limitation system and method
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Abstract
A method of communicating between a handheld computer and other local area computing devices having wireless communication capability includes providing a handheld computer and identifying a plurality of other local area computing devices having wireless communication capability. The method further includes creating an identifier for one or more of the plurality of other local area computing devices and listing each identifier on a display. The list is sorted in order of at least one of distance and direction from the handheld computer.
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52 Claims
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1-32. -32. (canceled)
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33. A method, comprising:
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receiving data from a wireless computing device;
displaying an indicator on a mobile computing device corresponding to the wireless computing device;
assigning a name for the wireless computing device; and
displaying the name of the wireless computing device. - View Dependent Claims (34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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41. A method, comprising:
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sending a signal from a mobile computing device having telephony to a wireless computing device;
receiving a response signal from the wireless computing device; and
determining a distance from the mobile computing device to the wireless computing device based on the signal and response signal. - View Dependent Claims (42, 43)
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44. A mobile computing device, comprising:
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a radio frequency transceiver;
a display; and
a processing circuit configured to provide a wireless telephony function using the radio frequency transceiver, wherein the processing circuit is configured to provide distance data representing distance from the mobile computing device to a plurality of computing devices and to present the plurality of computing devices in distance order on the display. - View Dependent Claims (45, 46)
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47. A method, comprising:
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identifying at a mobile computing device a plurality of nearby computing devices;
determining distances from the mobile computing device to the nearby computing devices;
displaying the nearby computing devices based on the distance data on the mobile computing device;
receiving a selection of one of the displayed computing devices on the mobile computing device; and
sending data from the mobile computing device to the selected computing device. - View Dependent Claims (48, 49, 50, 51, 52)
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