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

• US 20110113370A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Blackberry Limited, Leveque IP law, P.C.
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited, Leveque IP law, P.C.
• Inventors: Lazaridis, Mihal
• Granted Patent: US 8,656,316 B2
• 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 system for presenting electronic content, comprising:

a first mobile electronic device having a first processor, a first short-range communications subsystem coupled to the first processor, and a first display coupled to the first processor; and

a second mobile electronic device having a second processor, a second short-range communications subsystem coupled to the processor, a long-range communications subsystem coupled to the processor, and a second display coupled to the second processor, wherein a short-range wireless connection is established between the first and second short-range communications subsystems of the first and second mobile electronic devices;

wherein the second mobile electronic device presents a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading to the first mobile electronic device, and

wherein in response to a request for one or more selected electronic-content-items received by the second mobile electronic device, the second mobile electronic device retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items and the second short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmits the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein the second mobile electronic device presents the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items in response to a query received by the second mobile electronic device.

3. The system of claim 2, wherein the query is received by the second short-range communications subsystem and originates from the first mobile electronic device.

4. The system of claim 2, wherein the query is received at an input/output subsystem of the second mobile electronic device and originates from a user of the second mobile electronic device.

5. The system of claim 4, wherein the second mobile electronic device displays the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items on the display element of the second mobile electronic device.

6. The system of claim 1, wherein the second mobile electronic device transmits the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection between the first and second mobile electronic devices to present the list.

7. The system of claim 1, wherein the second mobile electronic device displays the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items on the display element of the second mobile electronic device.

8. The system of claim 1, wherein the second short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmits the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items to the first short-range communications subsystem of the first mobile electronic device via short-range wireless connection and the first processor controls a display controller of the first mobile electronic device to display the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items on the first display

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

10. The system of claim 1, wherein the request received by the second mobile electronic device originates when the first mobile electronic device receives at an input subsystem of the first mobile electronic device a selection of the one or more selected electronic-content-items, an output subsystem of the first mobile electronic device transmits the 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 the short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device receives the request for the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

11. The system of claim 10, wherein the request received by the second mobile electronic device comprises an input/output subsystem of the second mobile electronic device that receives a selection of the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

12. The system of claim 11, wherein the input/output subsystem of the second mobile electronic device comprises a user interface of the second mobile electronic device.

13. The system of claim 1, wherein the second mobile electronic device further comprises an electronic content manager coupled to the second processor and an electronic content repository controlled by the electronic content manager and wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available in the electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device and in response to the request, the electronic content manager of the second mobile electronic device retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the electronic content repository.

14. The system of claim 1, wherein the system further comprises a content server coupled to the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device via a communications network and a content repository coupled to the content server.

15. The system of claim 14, wherein the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device establishes a long-range wireless connection with the content server via the communications network, the long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device queries the content server, and the content server retrieves the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items and returns to the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device via the long-range wireless connection the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items.

16. The system of claim 15, wherein in response to the request received by the second mobile electronic device, the second short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmits the one or more selected electronic-content-items of the retrieved plurality of selectable electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

17. The system of claim 15, the second mobile electronic device further comprises an electronic content manager coupled to the second processor and an electronic content repository controlled by the electronic content manager, wherein the electronic content manager of the second mobile electronic device stores the retrieved plurality of selectable electronic-content-items in the electronic content repository of the second mobile electronic device.

18. The system of claim 14, wherein in response to the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items, the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device establishes a long-range wireless connection with the content server via the communications network, the long-range communication subsystem of the second mobile electronic device queries the content server for the one or more selected electronic-content-items, and the content server retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items and returns to the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device via the long-range wireless connection the one or more selected electronic-content-items.

19. The system of claim 18, wherein the short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmits the retrieved one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first short-range communications subsystem of the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection.

20. The system of claim 18, wherein after receiving the request, the second mobile electronic device re-establishes the long-range wireless connection to the content server.

21. The system of claim 14, wherein the communications network further comprises a wireless wide-area network to which the long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device is coupled via the long-range wireless connection;

22. The system of claim 21, 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.

23. The system of claim 21, wherein the communications network further comprises a public or private network coupled to the wireless wide-area network and to which the content server is coupled.

24. The system of claim 23, wherein the public or private network is the world wide web.

25. The system of claim 1, further comprising:

the first mobile electronic device receives the transmitted one or more selected electronic-content-items and displays the one or more selected electronic-content-items on the first display of the first mobile electronic device.

26. The system of claim 25, further comprising:

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

27. The system of claim 1, wherein the first mobile electronic device receives the transmitted one or more selected electronic-content-items and displays the one or more selected electronic-content-items on the first display of the first mobile electronic device.

28. The system of claim 27, further comprising:

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

29. The system of claim 1, wherein the first mobile electronic device further comprises a memory that stores one or more subroutines executable by the first processor, the one or more subroutines being adapted to:

present the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading to the first mobile electronic device via the first display;

receive a selection of one or more of plurality of selectable electronic-content-items at an input subsystem of the first mobile electronic device; and

request the one or more selected electronic-content-items via the first short-range communications subsystem of the first mobile electronic device.

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

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

33. The system 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.