Device, system and method for selecting, sharing and displaying electronic content

• US 9,510,135 B2
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Issued: 11/29/2016
• Est. Priority Date: 11/06/2009
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Malikie Innovations Limited (Key Patent Innovations Limited)
• Original Assignee: Blackberry Limited
• Inventors: Lazaridis, Mihal
• Primary Examiner(s): HUQ, FARZANA B
• Application Number:
  US12/751,235
• Publication Number:
  US 20110113087A1
• Time in Patent Office: 2,435 Days
• Field of Search: 709/203, 709206-207, 709/218, 709/239, 709/248, 455/3.01, 455 303- 306, 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/304, 455/466
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/176 Support for shared access to files; File sharing support
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/34 involving the movement of software or configuration parameters network booting or remote initial program loading [RIPL] G06F9/4416
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/02 including a Bluetooth interface
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/16 including more than one display unit
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 2250/64 file transfer between terminals
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 4/80 Services using short range communication, e.g. near-field communication [NFC], radio-frequency identification [RFID] or low energy communication
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 76/12 Setup of transport tunnels

Abstract

The present disclosure provides a device, system and method to present electronic content on a first mobile electronic device in communication and configured to receive electronic content from a second electronic device.

Claims

1. A mobile electronic device, comprising:

a short-range communications subsystem;

a long-range communications subsystem;

a processor coupled to and in cooperative arrangement with the short range communications subsystem and the long-range communications subsystem, the processor configured to;

retrieve, based on establishing a short-range wireless connection via the short-range communications subsystem, a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items from a server;

present, based on retrieving the list, the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available to a remote electronic device, the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items comprising selectable electronic-content-items that are not stored on the mobile electronic device and are stored on a server;

receive, based on presenting the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items, a selection identifying one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items;

retrieve, based on receipt of the selection, the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the server via the long-range communications subsystem and a communications network;

transmit, based on receipt of the selection identifying one or more selected electronic-content-items and based on retrieval of the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the server, the one or more selected electronic-content-items via a short-range wireless connection to the remote electronic device, and

wherein the short-range communications subsystem of the mobile electronic device transmits an electronic contact list, wherein the electronic contact list comprises an updated list of electronic content stored on the mobile electronic device.

2. The device of claim 1, wherein the short-range communications subsystem of the mobile electronic device transmits the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items via the short-range wireless connection in response to a query received.

3. The device of claim 2, wherein the mobile electronic device further comprises an input/output subsystem having a user interface at which the query is received by the mobile electronic device.

4. The device of claim 2, wherein the mobile electronic device receives the query originating from the remote electronic device at the short-range communications subsystem.

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the selection identifying one or more selected electronic-content-items is received at an input/output subsystem of the mobile electronic device.

6. The device of claim 5, wherein the input/output subsystem of the mobile electronic device comprises a user interface of the mobile electronic device.

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the long-range communications subsystem establishes a long-range wireless connection to the server after receiving the selection.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items are stored in an electronic content manager of the mobile electronic device.

9. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an electronic content manager; and

an electronic content repository controlled by the electronic content manager.

10. The device of claim 9, wherein the mobile electronic device retrieves the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items from a content server external the mobile electronic device and stores the retrieved plurality of selectable electronic-content-items in the electronic content repository of the mobile electronic device.

11. The device of claim 1, wherein the mobile electronic device further comprises an electronic content repository in which the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items are stored.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

a display subsystem having a display and a controller for controlling the display.

13. The device of claim 1, wherein the short-range communications subsystem enables external communication of the mobile electronic device within a short-range;

and

wherein the long-range communications subsystem enables external communication of the mobile electronic device within a long-range that is substantially greater than the short-range.

14. The device of claim 1, wherein the short-range communications subsystem establishes a short-range wireless connection between the mobile electronic device and another mobile electronic device.

15. The device of claim 1, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items comprise one or more of an electronic book, video, music, multimedia, and an e-mail attachment.