TOUCH-BASED SYSTEM FOR TRANSFERRING DATA

• US 20120110470A1
• Filed: 10/27/2011
• Published: 05/03/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 11/01/2010
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Original Assignee: Massachusetts Institute of Technology
• Inventors: Mistry, Pranav Kirtikumar, Nanayakkara, Suranga Chandima, Maes, Partricia Emilia
• Granted Patent: US 8,924,858 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0486 Drag-and-drop
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/22 including a touch pad, a touch sensor or a touch detector digitizers for touch screens G06F3/041
• 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

Abstract

Data transfer system. The system transfers data by touch from a first digital device to a second digital device and includes a first digital device having a touch screen along with a second digital device also having a touch screen. The first and second digital devices are connected to a network including a data storage cloud wherein the first digital device is programmed to copy a touched visual representation of a data item to the data storage cloud and wherein the second digital device is programmed to retrieve the data item from the data storage cloud when a paste-able area in the second digital device is touched. The first and second digital devices may be touch-enabled smart phones, tablet computers or other digital devices.

Claims

1. System for transferring data by touch from a first digital device to a second digital device comprising:

a first digital device having a touch screen; and

a second digital device having a touch screen;

the first and second digital devices connected to a network including a data storage cloud, wherein the first digital device is programmed to copy a touched visual representation of a data item to the data storage cloud, and wherein the second digital device is programmed to retrieve the data from the data storage cloud when a paste-able area in the second digital device is touched.

2. The system of claim 1 wherein the first and second digital devices are touch-enabled smart phones, tablet computers or other digital devices.

3. The system of claim 1 wherein the network is the Internet or an intranet.

4. The system of claim 1 wherein the data is text.

5. The system of claim 1 wherein the data is a still photograph.

6. The system of claim 1 wherein the data is video.

7. The system of claim 1 wherein the data is linked to a data item on the Internet.

8. The system of claim 1 wherein user authentication is achieved by face recognition, fingerprint detection, picture selection, drawing a pattern on the screen, or username/password.

9. The system of claim 1, wherein copying and pasting operations are controlled by drawing a user selected pattern on the screen.

10. The system of claim 1 wherein the second device is not touch enabled, and wherein a data item is retrieved by the second device via a web interface to the data cloud or via a desktop tool.