Data transfer between devices

• US 9,313,290 B2
• Filed: 05/17/2012
• Issued: 04/12/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 05/17/2012
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Original Assignee: NCR Corporation
• Inventors: Joy, Ian M.
• Primary Examiner(s): Agosta, Steve D
• Application Number:
  US13/474,292
• Publication Number:
  US 20130310063A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,426 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 4554561-457, 455/466, 370/329, 370/338, 715/761, 715/769, 715/863, 709/206, 709/228, 345/156
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/017 Gesture based interaction, e.g. based on a set of recognized hand gestures interaction based on gestures traced on a digitiser G06F3/04883
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/563 Data redirection of data network streams
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/021 Services related to particular areas, e.g. point of interest [POI] services, venue services or geofences
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/023 using mutual or relative location information between multiple location based services [LBS] targets or of distance thresholds
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/026 using orientation information, e.g. compass
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/027 using movement velocity, acceleration information
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/21 for social networking applications

Abstract

A method of implementing data transfer from a mobile device is described. The method comprises: (i) receiving positional information from the mobile device; (ii) receiving directional information from the mobile device; and (iii) receiving data from the mobile device. The method further comprises: (iv) ascertaining a receiving device based on the received directional information; and (v) providing the data received from the mobile device to the ascertained receiving device.

Claims

1. A method of implementing data transfer from a mobile device, the method comprising:

(i) receiving, by a server, positional information sent from the mobile device and receiving, by the server, an orientation of the mobile device and the orientation sent from the mobile device, wherein receiving further includes registering the mobile device when the mobile device enters an office that defines an interaction environment, receiving a share group creation request from the mobile device and prompting the mobile device for parameters;

(ii) receiving, by the server, directional information sent from the mobile device, wherein the directional information is ascertained by the mobile device using an internal accelerometer, thereby detecting how a user of the mobile device is moving the mobile device and the directional information received as at least a portion of the parameters for the share group creation request, transmitting the portion of the parameters to a management application, receiving a group request confirmation from the management application, and notifying the user operating the mobile device of the group request confirmation;

(iii) receiving, by the server, data sent from the mobile device;

(iv) ascertaining, by the server, the receiving device based on the received directional information and the orientation of the mobile device, and ascertaining a plurality of receiving devices selected by the user of the mobile device in addition to the received directional information from the mobile device, and ascertaining the receiving device based also on received velocity and/or acceleration information from the mobile device; and

(v) providing, by the server, the data received from the mobile device to the ascertained receiving device.

2. A method according to claim 1, wherein steps (i) to (iii) are implemented concurrently or in any desired order.

3. A method according to claim 1, wherein ascertaining a receiving device based on the received directional information includes ascertaining a device located in the direction of motion provided by the user of the mobile device.

4. A method according to claim 1, wherein providing the data received from the mobile device to the ascertained receiving device includes providing the ascertained receiving device with an identification of the mobile device.

5. A management application executing on the server and operable to implement the steps of claim 1.