GESTURE BASED SMART DOWNLOAD

• US 20180121073A1
• Filed: 10/27/2016
• Published: 05/03/2018
• Est. Priority Date: 10/27/2016
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Bravo, Elianne A., Lagares-Greenblatt, Heidi
• Granted Patent: US 11,032,698 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• 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 8/24 Transfer of terminal data

Abstract

An aspect includes detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device. One or more candidate receiver devices in the indicated direction and in a line-of-sight of the sender device are located. The data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data are identified. It is determined whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action. The data is transferred to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action.

Claims

1. A computer-implemented method comprising:

detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device;

locating one or more candidate receiver devices in the direction relative to the sender device and in a line-of-sight of the sender device;

identifying data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data;

determining whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action;

transferring the data to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

based on determining that none of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action, indicating to the user that no line-of-sight devices are available to accept the data and to perform the action.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining includes accessing configuration information about the one or more candidate receiver devices via a network.

3. The method of claim 1, wherein the determining includes querying the one or more candidate receiver devices.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the user gesture includes a swipe on a touch screen of the sender device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the user gesture includes a movement of the sender device.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein a plurality of candidate receiver devices are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action, and the method further comprises:

presenting the user with identifiers of the plurality of candidate receiver devices that are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

receiving an identifier corresponding to the selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices in response to the presenting.

7. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

based on determining that at least one of the candidate receiver devices is configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action, presenting the user with an identifier of the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action;

receiving a request from the user to transfer the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action; and

transferring the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action.

8. The method of claim 1, further comprising:

deleting the data from the sender device subsequent to the transferring.

9. A system comprising:

a memory having computer readable instructions; and

a processor for executing the computer readable instructions, the computer readable instructions including;

detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device;

locating one or more candidate receiver devices in the direction relative to the sender device and in a line-of-sight of the sender device;

identifying data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data;

determining whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action;

transferring the data to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

based on determining that none of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action, indicating to the user that no line-of-sight devices are available to accept the data and to perform the action.

10. The system of claim 9, wherein the determining includes accessing configuration information about the one or more candidate receiver devices via a network.

11. The system of claim 9, wherein the determining includes querying the one or more candidate receiver devices.

12. The system of claim 9, wherein the user gesture includes a swipe on a touch screen of the sender device.

13. The system of claim 9, wherein the user gesture includes a movement of the sender device.

14. The system of claim 9, wherein a plurality of candidate receiver devices are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action, and the computer readable instructions further include:

presenting the user with identifiers of the plurality of candidate receiver devices that are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

receiving an identifier corresponding to the selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices in response to the presenting.

15. The system of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions further include:

based on determining that at least one of the candidate receiver devices is configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action, presenting the user with an identifier of the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action;

receiving a request from the user to transfer the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action; and

transferring the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action.

16. The system of claim 9, wherein the computer readable instructions further include:

deleting the data from the sender device subsequent to the transferring.

17. A computer program product comprising a computer readable storage medium having program instructions embodied therewith, the program instructions executable by processing circuitry to cause the processing circuitry to perform:

detecting a user gesture at a sender device, the user gesture indicating a direction relative to the sender device;

locating one or more candidate receiver devices in the direction relative to the sender device and in a line-of-sight of the sender device;

identifying data to be transferred by the sender device and an action to be performed on the data;

determining whether any of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action;

transferring the data to a selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices based on determining that the selected candidate receiver device is configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

based on determining that none of the one or more candidate receiver devices are configured to accept the data and to perform the action, indicating to the user that no line-of-sight devices are available to accept the data and to perform the action.

18. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein a plurality of candidate receiver devices are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action, and the program instructions further cause the processing circuitry to perform:

presenting the user with identifiers of the plurality of candidate receiver devices that are determined to be configured to accept the data and to perform the action; and

receiving an identifier corresponding to the selected one of the one or more candidate receiver devices in response to the presenting.

19. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the program instructions further cause the processing circuitry to perform:

based on determining that at least one of the candidate receiver devices is configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action, presenting the user with an identifier of the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action;

receiving a request from the user to transfer the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action; and

transferring the data to the at least one candidate receiver device configured to accept the data and not configured to perform the action.

20. The computer program product of claim 17, wherein the program instructions further cause the processing circuitry to perform:

deleting the data from the sender device subsequent to the transferring.