TRANSFER TO TARGET DISAMBIGUATION

• US 20140152894A1
• Filed: 11/30/2012
• Published: 06/05/2014
• Est. Priority Date: 11/30/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Lenovo PC International Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Original Assignee: Lenovo Singapore Pte Limited (Lenovo Group Ltd.)
• Inventors: Vanover, Michael Terrell, Wang, Hui, Chen, Shaowei, Childs, Philip Lee
• Granted Patent: US 9,813,662 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 348/552
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 5/76 Television signal recording

Abstract

An aspect provides a method, including: ascertaining, at a first device, a request to transfer media data to another device; determining, at the first device, a plurality of connected devices for potential transfer of media data corresponding to the request; providing, at the first device, a disambiguation cue to a user; ascertaining via the disambiguation cue a target device from the plurality of connected devices for transfer of the media data; and transferring the media data to the target device. Other aspects are described and claimed.

Claims

1. A method, comprising:

ascertaining, at a first device, a request to transfer media data to another device;

determining, at the first device, a plurality of connected devices for potential transfer of media data corresponding to the request;

providing, at the first device, a disambiguation cue to a user;

ascertaining via the disambiguation cue a target device from the plurality of connected devices for transfer of the media data; and

transferring the media data to the target device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the request for transfer media data is a gesture to transfer request.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the plurality of connected devices are wirelessly connected to the first device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the disambiguation cue comprises a visual display of indicators of the plurality of connected devices.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein the visual display of indicators comprises an ordered list of the plurality of connected devices.

6. The method of claim 5, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on user transfer history.

7. The method of claim 5, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on a predetermined default ordering.

8. The method of claim 5, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on directional information ascertained by the first device.

9. The method of claim 5, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on one or more of:

media data attributes, media data application attributes, and connected device attributes.

10. The method of claim 1, wherein the first device comprises a tablet device and further wherein the second device comprises a television.

11. An information handling device, comprising:

one or more processors; and

a memory operatively coupled to the one or more processors that stores instructions executable by the one or more processors to perform acts comprising;

ascertaining, at the information handling device, a request to transfer media data to another device;

determining, at the information handling device, a plurality of connected devices for potential transfer of media data corresponding to the request;

providing, at the information handling device, a disambiguation cue to a user;

ascertaining via the disambiguation cue a target device from the plurality of connected devices for transfer of the media data; and

transferring the media data to the target device.

12. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the request for transfer media data is a gesture to transfer request.

13. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the plurality of connected devices are wirelessly connected to the information handling device.

14. The information handling device of claim 11, wherein the disambiguation cue comprises a visual display of indicators of the plurality of connected devices.

15. The information handling device of claim 14, wherein the visual display of indicators comprises an ordered list of the plurality of connected devices.

16. The information handling device of claim 15, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on user transfer history.

17. The information handling device of claim 15, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on a predetermined default ordering.

18. The information handling device of claim 15, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on directional information ascertained by the information handling device.

19. The information handling device of claim 15, wherein the ordered list is ordered based on one or more of:

media data attributes, media data application attributes, and connected device attributes.

20. A program product, comprising:

a storage medium having computer program code embodied therewith, the computer program code comprising;

computer program code configured to ascertain, at a first device, a request to transfer media data to another device;

computer program code configured to determine, at the first device, a plurality of connected devices for potential transfer of media data corresponding to the request;

computer program code configured to provide, at the first device, a disambiguation cue to a user;

computer program code configured to ascertain via the disambiguation cue a target device from the plurality of connected devices for transfer of the media data; and

computer program code configured to transfer the media data to the target device.