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User interface to facilitate exchanging files among processor-based devices

  • US 9,049,178 B2
  • Filed: 12/21/2011
  • Issued: 06/02/2015
  • Est. Priority Date: 08/27/2002
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. An article comprising a machine-accessible non-transitory medium having associated instructions, wherein the instructions, when accessed, result in a processor performing:

  • receiving a user request to transfer a digital media file from the processor to at least one specified processor-based device;

    providing a graphical user interface to detect the presence of a thumbnail corresponding to the digital media file hovering over a first desktop icon of a desktop of a display coupled to the processor;

    in response to the presence of the thumbnail, displaying a first menu to indicate a first plurality of potential digital media file destinations without requiring a user selection of a destination;

    detecting the presence of the thumbnail hovering over a second desktop icon of the desktop;

    displaying a second menu to indicate a second plurality of potential digital media file destinations; and

    in response to detecting the presence of the thumbnail hovering over either the first or second desktop icon, displaying the corresponding menu, receiving a selection of a digital media file destination from the corresponding menu, and transferring the digital media file to the selected digital media file destination, which is the at least one specified processor-based device.

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