TRANSMISSION DEVICES, RECEIVING DEVICES AND METHODS OF SHARING DATA

• US 20150215983A1
• Filed: 01/28/2015
• Published: 07/30/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 01/29/2014
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Taiwan Semiconductor Manufacturing Company Limited
• Original Assignee: MediaTek Singapore Pte. Ltd. (MediaTek, Inc.)
• Inventors: HUANG, Yanni, HSIEH, Chin-Ying, WU, ZHONGE, LIU, Kai-wen
• Granted Patent: US 9,661,671 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1698 the I/O peripheral being a sending/receiving arrangement to establish a cordless communication link, e.g. radio or infrared link, integrated cellular phone details of antennas disposed inside a computer H01Q1/2266
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04162 for exchanging data with external devices, e.g. smart pens, via the digitiser sensing hardware
• 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 76/14 Direct-mode setup

Abstract

A transmission device, a receiving device and a method of sharing data are provided. The transmission device includes a touch-display module which includes one or a plurality of display areas, wherein each of the display areas displays a respective display result corresponding to the same or different applications; a link module which is configured to establish a touch link with one or a plurality of receiving devices through the touch-display module; a judgment module which is configured to determine the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to, to generate the judgment information; a management module which is configured to generate application information according to the judgment information; and a sending module, configured to transmit the application information to the receiving device through the touch-display module.

Claims

1. A transmission device, comprising:

a touch-display module, comprising one or a plurality of display areas, wherein each of the display areas displays a respective display result corresponding to the same or different applications;

a link module, configured to establish a touch link with one or a plurality of receiving devices through the touch-display module;

a judgment module, configured to determine the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to, to generate the judgment information;

a management module, configured to generate application information according to the judgment information; and

a sending module, configured to transmit the application information to the receiving device through the touch-display module.

2. The transmission device of claim 1, further comprising:

a search module, configured to search for the application corresponding to the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to and transmit a search result to the judgment module, after the judgment module knows the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to.

3. The transmission device of claim 2, wherein the judgment module transmits the judgment information to the management module according to the search result, after obtaining the search result.

4. The transmission device of claim 1, wherein the judgment module also determines whether a size of an executed file of the application is larger than a default value.

5. The transmission device of claim 4, wherein when the size of the executed file of the application is larger than the default value, the application information transmitted by the sending module only comprises names of the application and the executed file;

and

when the size of the executed file of the application is not larger than the default value, the application information transmitted by the sending module comprises names of the application and the executed file and data of the executed file.

6. The transmission device of claim 4, further comprising:

a receiving module, configured to receive a request transmitted from the receiving device through the touch-display module, wherein the sending module transmits data corresponding to the request to the receiving device through the touch-display module.

7. The transmission device of claim 1, wherein the link module establishes the touch link with the receiving devices by a touch link technology at the same time, or individually.

8. The transmission device of claim 1, wherein a second touch-display module of the receiving device further comprises a plurality of second display areas and the second display areas are in physical proximity to the same or different display areas of the touch-display module at the same time, or individually.

9. The transmission device of claim 8, wherein each second display area is preset to display the display result corresponding to a specific application of the applications.

10. The transmission device of claim 8, wherein when one of the second display areas is in physical proximity to the display areas, the judgment module determines which display area the second display area is in physical proximity to according to a percentage of physical proximity areas.

11. The transmission device of claim 1, wherein when the touch link is a failure, a reconnection mechanism is performed by the link module.

12. The transmission device of claim 1, wherein when the sending module fails to transmit the application information, a transmission mechanism is performed by the link module.

13. A receiving device, comprising:

a touch-display module, configured to be in physical proximity to one or a plurality of display areas of a transmission device;

a link module, configured to establish a touch link with the transmission device through the touch-display module; and

a receiving module, configured to receive application information corresponding to the display area in physical proximity from the transmission device through the touch-display module, wherein the touch-display module displays a display result corresponding to the application information according to the application information.

14. The receiving device of claim 13, wherein the application information comprises names of application and executed file.

15. The receiving device of claim 14, further comprising:

a judgment module, configured to determine whether the receiving device installs the application and has the executed file to generate judgment information;

a management module, configured to determine how to obtain the application and the executed file according to the judgment information; and

a processing module, configured to execute the application and the executed file to display the display result on the touch-display module, after obtaining the application and the executed file.

16. The receiving device of claim 15, further comprising:

a sending module, configured to transmit a request through the touch-display module.

17. The receiving device of claim 16, wherein if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device does not have the executed file, the management module instructs the sending module to transmit the request to the transmission device through the touch-display module.

18. The receiving device of claim 15, wherein if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device does not install the application, the management module orders the application to be downloaded.

19. The receiving device of claim 18, wherein when failing to download the application, the management module executes a re-download mechanism.

20. The receiving device of claim 15, wherein if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device has installed the application and had the executed file, the management module instructs the processing module to execute the application and the executed file.

21. The receiving device of claim 13, wherein the touch-display module comprises one or a plurality of second display areas, and the second display areas of the touch-display module are in physical proximity to the same or different display areas of the touch-display module of the transmission device at the same time or individually.

22. A method of sharing data for a transmission device, comprising:

displaying a display result of an application executed on a display area of the transmission device or displaying display results of different applications executed on a plurality of display areas of the transmission device, wherein the display areas are comprised in a touch-display module;

establishing a touch link with one or a plurality of receiving devices through the touch-display module;

determining the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to, to generate the judgment information;

generating application information according to the judgment information; and

transmitting the application information to the receiving device through the touch-display module.

23. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

searching for the application corresponding to the display area which the receiving device is in physical proximity to for generating a search result, after determining that the receiving device is in physical proximity to the display area; and

comprising the search result in the judgment information.

24. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

determining whether a size of an executed file of the application is larger than a default value.

25. The method of claim 24, wherein when the size of the executed file of the application is larger than the default value, the application information only comprises names of the application and the executed file;

and when the size of the executed file of the application is not larger than the default value, the application information comprises names of the application and the executed file and data of the executed file.

26. The method of claim 24, further comprising:

receiving a request transmitted from the receiving device through the touch-display module and

transmitting the executed file to the receiving device according to the request.

27. The method of claim 22, wherein the touch link with the receiving devices is established at the same time, or individually.

28. The method of claim 22, wherein the receiving device comprises a second touch-display module, and the second touch-display module of the receiving device further comprises a plurality of second display areas and the second display areas are in physical proximity to the same or different display areas of the touch-display module at the same time, or individually.

29. The method of claim 28, wherein each second display area is preset to display the display result corresponding to one of the applications.

30. The method of claim 28, further comprising:

determining which display area the second display area is in physical proximity to according to a percentage of physical proximity areas when one of the second display areas is in physical proximity to the display areas.

31. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

performing a reconnection mechanism when the touch link is a failure.

32. The method of claim 22, further comprising:

performing a transmission mechanism when the sending module fails to transmit the application information.

33. A method of sharing data for a receiving device, comprising:

being in physical proximity to one or a plurality of display areas of a transmission device by the receiving device;

establishing a touch link with the transmission devices by a touch-display module of the receiving device;

receiving application information corresponding to the display area in physical proximity from the transmission device; and

displaying a display result corresponding to the application information according to the application information.

34. The method of claim 33, wherein the application information comprises names of application and executed file.

35. The method of claim 34, further comprising:

determining whether the receiving device installs the application and has the executed file to generate judgment information;

determining how to obtain the application and the executed file according to the judgment information; and

executing the application and the executed file to display the display result on the touch-display module, after obtaining the application and the executed file.

36. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

downloading the application if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device does not install the application.

37. The method of claim 36, further comprising:

executing a re-download mechanism when failing to download the application.

38. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

transmitting a request to the transmission device if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device does not have the executed file.

39. The method of claim 35, further comprising:

executing the application and the executed file if the judgment information indicates that the receiving device has installed the application and had the executed file.

40. The method of claim 35, wherein the receiving device comprises one or a plurality of second display areas, and the second display areas of the touch-display module are in physical proximity to the same or different display areas of the touch-display module of the transmission device at the same time or individually.