Motion enabled data transfer techniques

• US 20120137230A1
• Filed: 12/29/2011
• Published: 05/31/2012
• Est. Priority Date: 06/23/2010
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Domenic Forte
• Original Assignee: Michael Domenic Forte
• Inventors: Forte, Michael Domenic
• Application Number:
  US13/374,443
• Publication Number:
  US 20120137230A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 715/748
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/40 for recovering from a failure of a protocol instance or entity, e.g. service redundancy protocols, protocol state redundancy or protocol service redirection management of faults, events, alarms or notifications in data switching networks H04L41/06
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A method of transferring data between computing devices by way of asynchronous enablement is disclosed, the method comprising: receiving a user gesture input at a first computing device; receiving a user voice command; determining whether the user gesture input forms one of a plurality of different motion types; determining whether the user voice command matches a user-defined voice command; and one of the following: transferring data from the first computing device to a second computing device, in response to a determination that a second computing device is available for the reception of data, and transferring data from the first computing device to a server, in response to a determination that a second computing device is not available for the reception of data.

Claims

1. A method of transferring data between computing devices by way of asynchronous enablement, the method comprising:

receiving a user gesture input at a first computing device;

receiving a user voice command;

determining whether the user gesture input forms one of a plurality of different motion types;

determining whether the user voice command matches a user-defined voice command; and

one of the following;

transferring data from the first computing device to a server, then transferring data from the server to a second computing device, in response to a determination that a second computing device is available for the reception of data, and

transferring data from the first computing device to a server, in response to a determination that a second computing device is not available for the reception of data.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein receiving the gesture input further comprises receiving an output of an accelerometer, touch pad, touch screen, or other motion sensor of the first computing device.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the output is indicative of a fling or flick motion.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the method further comprises the step of animating a transfer status audio-visually on the first computing device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the data is transferred simultaneously from the server to a plurality of available devices, in response to a determination that a plurality of computing devices is available for the reception of data.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the server transfers data to said second computing device upon a determination that the second computing device indicates acceptance of a data transfer.