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Short range wireless peer-to-peer file sharing

  • US 9,344,485 B2
  • Filed: 05/13/2013
  • Issued: 05/17/2016
  • Est. Priority Date: 05/13/2013
  • Status: Active Grant
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1. A method of short range wireless peer-to-peer file sharing comprising:

  • establishing a short range wireless communications link between a local computing device and a peer computing device;

    transmitting to the peer computing device over the short range wireless communications link a consolidated catalog of accessible files stored locally in the local computing device and remotely in a remote computing device;

    receiving from over the short range wireless communications link a request by the peer computing device to retrieve a selected one of the files; and

    responsive to a determination that the selected one of the files is stored remotely in the remote computing device, facilitating the retrieval by the peer computing device of the selected one of the files from the remote computing device for delivery to the peer computing device,wherein the local computing device facilitates the retrieval of the selected one of the media files from the remote computing device for delivery to the peer computing device by;

    disconnecting the short range wireless communications link;

    recording a reference to the request in the local computing device;

    establishing a communicative connection to the remote computing device;

    retrieving the selected one of the files from the remote computing device;

    re-establishing the short range wireless communications link with the peer computing device; and

    transmitting the retrieved selected one of the files to the peer computing device over the re-established short range wireless communications link.

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