DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING, SHARING AND DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC CONTENT

• US 20110113369A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Lazaridis, Mihal
• Application Number:
  US12/751,170
• Publication Number:
  US 20110113369A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/810
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a device, system and method to present electronic content on a first mobile electronic device in communication and configured to receive electronic content from a second electronic device.

Claims

1. A method for providing electronic content, comprising:

establishing a short-range wireless connection between a first mobile electronic device and a second mobile electronic device;

the second mobile electronic device presenting a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading to the first mobile electronic device;

the second mobile electronic device receiving a request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items;

the second mobile electronic device retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items; and

the second mobile electronic device transmitting via the short-range wireless connection the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the list comprises a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmitting the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via a short-range wireless connection between the first and second mobile electronic devices.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the list comprises the second mobile electronic device displaying the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items on a display element of the second mobile electronic device.

4. The method of claim 3, wherein receiving the request further comprises receiving at an input subsystem of the second mobile electronic device a selection for the one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items;

5. The method of claim 1, wherein presenting the list further comprises the first mobile device receiving the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items and displaying the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items on a display element of the first mobile electronic device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available in an electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items further comprises:

the first mobile electronic device receiving at an input subsystem a selection of the one or more selected electronic-content-items;

an output subsystem of the first mobile electronic device transmitting a request for the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the second mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection between the first and second mobile electronic devices; and

a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device receiving the request for the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items further comprises:

receiving at an input/output subsystem of the second mobile electronic device selection of the one or more selected electronic-content-items

9. The method of claim 8, wherein the input/output subsystem of the second mobile electronic device comprises a user interface of the second mobile electronic device.

10. The method of claim 1,

wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available in an electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device and retrieving comprises an electronic content manager of the second mobile electronic device retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the electronic content repository.

11. The method of claim 1,

Wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available from a content server external the second mobile electronic device, the method further comprising:

the second mobile electronic device establishing a long-range wireless connection with the content server;

a long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device querying the content server;

the content server returning to the second mobile electronic device via the long-range wireless connection the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items presented by the second mobile electronic device;

in response to the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items received by the second mobile electronic device, the second mobile electronic device retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items by requesting and receiving from the content server via the long-range wireless connection the one or more selected electronic-content-items; and

a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmitting the retrieved one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items reside in a content repository coupled to the content server and further comprising the content server retrieving the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items from the content repository.

13. The method of claim 11, further comprising:

after receiving the request, the second mobile electronic device re-establishing the long-range wireless connection to the content server.

14. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available from a content server.

15. The method of claim 14, wherein in response to the second mobile electronic device receiving the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items, further comprising:

a long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device receiving the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the content server via a long-range wireless connection with the content server; and

a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmitting the received one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

16. The method of claim 15, wherein the one or more selected electronic-content-items reside in a content repository coupled to the content server and further comprising the content server retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the content repository.

17. The method of claim 15, further comprising:

after receiving the request, the second mobile electronic device establishing the long-range wireless connection to the content server;

18. The method of claim 15, wherein the long-range wireless connection with the content server comprises a communications network to which the long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device and the content server are coupled.

19. the method of claim 18, wherein the communications network further comprises:

a wireless wide-area network to which the long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device is coupled via the long-range wireless connection;

20. The method of claim 19, wherein the wireless wide-area network is a cellular network that comprises a plurality of base stations coupled to and controlled by a base station controller to which the second mobile electronic device is coupled via the long-range wireless connection.

21. The method of claim 19, wherein the wireless wide-area network is a public or private network coupled to the wireless wide-area network and to which the content server is coupled.

22. The method of claim 21, wherein the public or private network is the world wide web.

23. The method of claim 14, the method further comprising:

a long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device retrieving the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items from the content server via a long-range wireless connection with the content server; and

in response to the second mobile electronic device receiving the request, a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmitting the retrieved one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

24. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

after receiving the request, the second mobile electronic device establishing the long-range wireless connection to the content server.

25. The method of claim 23, further comprising:

an electronic content manager of the second mobile electronic device storing the retrieved plurality of selectable electronic-content-items in an electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device.

26. The method of claim 1,

wherein transmitting the one or more selected electronic-content-items via the short-range wireless connection further comprises a short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmitting the one or more selected electronic-content-items via the short-range wireless connection;

and

an input subsystem of the first mobile electronic device receiving the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

27. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the first mobile electronic device receiving the transmitted one or more selected electronic-content-items; and

the first mobile electronic device performing one or more of displaying the received one or more selected electronic-content-items and playing the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

28. The method of claim 27, further comprising:

the first mobile electronic device storing in an electronic content repository of the first mobile electronic device the received one or more selected electronic-content-items.

29. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

the second mobile electronic device storing in an electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device the retrieved one or more selected electronic-content-items.

30. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items comprise one or more of an electronic book, video, music, multimedia, and an e-mail attachment.

31. The method of claim 1, the method further comprising one or more of:

the first mobile electronic device transmitting to the second mobile electronic device a first mobile device electronic contact list via the short-range wireless connection, wherein the first mobile device electronic contact list is an updated list of electronic content stored on the first mobile electronic device; and

the second mobile electronic device transmitting to the first mobile electronic device a second mobile device electronic contact list via the short-range wireless connection, wherein the second mobile device electronic contact list is an updated list of electronic content stored on the second mobile electronic device.

32. The method of claim 1, wherein establishing the short-range wireless connection between the first mobile electronic device and the second mobile electronic device creates a personal area network (PAN) between the first and second mobile electronic devices.

33. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile electronic device is one or more of a personal digital assistant (PDA) and an electronic book.

34. The method of claim 1, wherein the first mobile electronic device has a display large enough for visual viewing the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

35. The method of claim 1, wherein the second mobile electronic device is one or more of a cellular phone, a personal digital assistant (PDA), and a computer.