Method and electronic device for content sharing

• US 8,930,492 B2
• Filed: 02/17/2012
• Issued: 01/06/2015
• Est. Priority Date: 10/17/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Brown, Michael Stephen, Little, Herbert Anthony
• Primary Examiner(s): Winder, Patrice
• Assistant Examiner(s): Chang, Julian
• Application Number:
  US13/399,621
• Publication Number:
  US 20130097239A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,054 Days
• Field of Search: 709201-211, 709217-219, 709227-231, 715/751, 715/753, 725/81, 725 86- 98
• US Class Current: 709/217
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/40 of multimedia data, e.g. slideshows comprising image and additional audio data retrieval of still image data G06F16/50; retrieval of audio data G06F16/60; retrieval of video data G06F16/70
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9566 URL specific, e.g. using aliases, detecting broken or misspelled links
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 2216/15 Synchronised browsing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 51/58 Message adaptation for wireless communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/612 for unicast
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/141 Setup of application sessions admission control or resource allocation in data switching networks H04L47/70
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41265 having a remote control device for bidirectional communication between the remote control device and client device unidirectional remote control device H04N21/42204
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/472 End-user interface for requesting content, additional data or services; End-user interface for interacting with content, e.g. for content reservation or setting reminders, for requesting event notification, for manipulating displayed content end-user interfaces for retrieving video data from a database G06F16/739; network services for supporting unicast streaming H04L65/612

Abstract

A content item may be identified at a first electronic device with selection for the content item to be “opened” at a second electronic device. The first electronic device may instruct that the content item be displayed or otherwise made available for further interaction at the second electronic device. A web protocol session may be established between the first electronic device and the second electronic device to allow for an instruction message from the first electronic device to the second electronic device. Upon receiving a user interface command at the first electronic device, the user interface command indicating that the content item should be displayed at the second electronic device, the instruction message is sent to the second electronic device, via the web protocol session. As a result, the content item is caused to be displayed at the second electronic device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

establishing a web protocol session between a first electronic user device and a second electronic user device via a direct radio frequency connection between the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device, wherein the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device are associated with a same user;

receiving, from a first application executing on the first electronic user device via the web protocol session, a request at a web server executing on the second electronic user device;

in response to detecting selection of a user-interface command associated with content displayed on the second electronic user device, sending, from the web server to the first application executing on the first electronic user device, a response to the request, wherein the response includes an instruction to open a second application and to retrieve and display the content with the second application on the first electronic user device.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein a first quantity of features are displayed in the content at the second electronic user device, wherein a second quantity of features are displayed in the content at the first electronic user device, wherein the first quantity is less than the second quantity.

3. The method of claim 1, further comprising sending, to a third electronic user device, an instruction to retrieve and display the content on the third electronic user device simultaneous with the display of the content at the first electronic user device.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein the instruction includes a Uniform Resource Identifier (URI) associated with the content and wherein the URI causes the first electronic user device to retrieve the content from a third electronic user device.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is a hypertext transport protocol GET request.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein the request is at least one of an open GET or a long-polling request message.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein the web protocol session utilizes at least one of hypertext transfer protocol, SPeeDY protocol, or WebSockets protocol.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein withholding the response to the request until the user-interface command is detected.

9. A computer-readable storage device having computer-readable code executable by at least one processor of the second electronic user device to perform the method of claim 1.

10. A second electronic user device comprising:

a display;

a processor coupled to the display and configured to;

display content on the display;

execute a web server;

establish a web protocol session with a first electronic user device via a direct radio frequency connection between the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device, wherein the first electronic user device and the second electronic user device are associated with a same user;

receive, from a first application executing on the first electronic user device, via the web protocol session, a request at the web server executing on the second electronic user device;

in response to detecting selection of a user-interface command associated with the content displayed on the second electronic user device, send, from the web server to the first application executing on the first electronic user device, a response to the request, wherein the response includes an instruction to open a second application and retrieve and display the content with the second application on the first electronic user device.

11. The second electronic user device of claim 10, wherein the second electronic user device is a mobile communications device.

12. The second electronic user device of claim 10, wherein the web protocol session is established via at least one of a Bluetooth connection, a Near Field Communication connection, or a wireless local area network connection.

13. The second electronic user device of claim 10, wherein a first quantity of features are displayed in the content at the second electronic user device, wherein a second quantity of features are displayed in the content at the first electronic user device, wherein the first quantity is less than the second quantity.

14. The second electronic user device of claim 10, further comprising sending, to a third electronic user device, an instruction to retrieve and display the content on the third electronic user device simultaneous with the display of the content at the first electronic user device.

15. The second electronic user device of claim 10, wherein the request is at least one of an open GET request or a long-polling request.

16. The second electronic user device of claim 10, wherein the processor is configured to receive a further request after sending the response.

17. A method comprising:

establishing a web protocol session between a first portable electronic user device and a second electronic user device via a wireless network connection via a direct radio frequency connection between the first portable electronic user device and the second electronic user device, wherein the first portable electronic user device and the second electronic user device are associated with a same user, wherein the first portable electronic user device is a mobile phone;

receiving, from a web client application operating on the first portable electronic user device via the web protocol session, an open-get request at a web server executing on the second electronic user device;

withholding a response to the request until selection of a user-interface command associated with content displayed on the second electronic user device is detected;

in response to detecting the selection of the user-interface command associated with the content displayed on the second electronic user device, sending, from the web server to the first electronic user device, the response to the request, wherein the response includes an instruction to open a second application to retrieve and display, on the first portable electronic user device, content of an application executing on the second electronic user device.

18. The method according to claim 17, wherein the wireless network connection is a direct wireless network connection.

19. The method according to claim 17, wherein the request is a hypertext transport protocol request.