Accessed location of user interface

• US 9,535,595 B2
• Filed: 10/28/2011
• Issued: 01/03/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 10/28/2011
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Original Assignee: Qualcomm, Inc.
• Inventors: Kodama, Justin, Hornyak, Matthew, Znameroski, Matthew, Vogel, Bradford
• Primary Examiner(s): Kujundzic, Dino
• Application Number:
  US13/284,370
• Publication Number:
  US 20130111360A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,894 Days
• Field of Search: 715/753
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/56 Computer malware detection or handling, e.g. anti-virus arrangements
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 21/606 by securing the transmission between two devices or processes
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/1454 involving copying of the display data of a local workstation or window to a remote workstation or window so that an actual copy of the data is displayed simultaneously on two or more displays, e.g. teledisplay
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 9/452 Remote windowing, e.g. X-Window System, desktop virtualisation protocols for virtual reality H04L67/131

Abstract

A device to render a user interface, detect a user accessing a location of the a user interface, share a portion of the user interface for a second device to render a second user interface, and transmit information of the accessed location for the second device to render a visual indicator at a location of the second user interface based on the information of the accessed location.

Claims

1. A device comprising:

a display;

a communication component;

a controller in communication with the display and the communication component, the controller configured to;

establish a connection to a second device;

cause the display to display a user interface;

determine a shared portion of the user interface to share with the second device,

in response to determining the shared portion of the user interface, determine an object within the shared portion of the user interface, wherein the object comprises a file or an application and wherein the controller is further configured to transmit a copy of the file or the application to the second device to transmit the shared portion of the user interface and the object to the second device,

enable the second device to render a second user interface comprising the shared portion of the user interface and the object by causing the communication component to transmit the shared portion of the user interface and the object to the second device, and

cause the communication component to transmit information to the second device to enable access to contents of the object at the second device.

2. The device of claim 1 wherein the shared portion of the user interface includes at least one of a document, a media, and an application rendered on the user interface.

3. The device of claim 1, further comprising a sensor, and wherein the controller is further configured to determine an accessed location based on information received from the sensor and to cause the network component to transmit the accessed location to the second device, wherein the information includes a coordinate of the user interface, and wherein the second device is configured to use the coordinate as a location in the second user interface.

4. The device of claim 3 wherein the controller is further configured to transmit a type of visual indicator, the second device configured to render the visual indicator on the second user interface.

5. The device of claim 4 wherein the second device is configured to render the visual indicator by modifying the second user interface to include a visual mark at the location of the second user interface.

6. The device of claim 4 wherein the second device is configured to render the visual indicator by magnifying or animating the location of the second user interface based on the information of the accessed location.

7. The device of claim 3 wherein the sensor includes at least one of a touch screen, an image capture component of the device, a radar, and a proximity sensor.

8. The device of claim 3 wherein the communication component includes at least one of a network interface component, a radio component, an Infrared component, and a Bluetooth component.

9. A method for managing a device comprising:

establishing a connection to a second device;

rendering a user interface on a display;

determining a shared portion of the user interface to share with the second device;

in response to determining the shared portion of the user interface, determining an object within the shared portion of the user interface, wherein the object comprises a file or an application and wherein the controller is further configured to transmit a copy of the file or the application to the second device to transmit the shared portion of the user interface and the object to the second device;

transmitting the shared portion of the user interface and the object to a second device to render a second user interface comprising the shared portion of the user interface and the object; and

transmitting information to the second device to enable access to contents of the object at the second device.

10. The method for managing the device of claim 9 further comprising:

determining an accessed location of the shared portion of the user interface;

capturing a message associated with the accessed location; and

transmitting the message to the second device.

11. The method for managing the device of claim 10 wherein the accessed location includes the message from the user.

12. The method for managing the device of claim 10 further comprising receiving information of a second accessed location from the second device.

13. The method for managing the device of claim 12 further comprising rendering a second visual indicator at a location of the user interface based on the second accessed location from the second device.

14. The method for managing the device of claim 13 wherein rendering the second visual indicator includes rendering at least one of a visual mark at the location of the user interface, animating the location of the user interface, or magnifying the location of the user interface based on the second accessed location.

15. The method for managing the device of claim 10 wherein the accessed location includes the coordinate of the accessed location of the user interface.

16. The method for managing the device of claim 15 wherein the accessed location includes the object rendered at the coordinate of the user interface.

17. The method for managing the device of claim 10 wherein the accessed location includes a resolution of the user interface.

18. A non-transitory computer readable medium comprising program code that if executed cause a controller to execute a software application, the software application configured to:

establish a connection to a second device;

render a user interface on a display;

determine a shared portion of the user interface to share with the second device

in response to determining the shared portion of the user interface, determine an object within shared portion of the user interface, wherein the object comprises a file or an application and wherein the controller is further configured to transmit a copy of the file or the application to the second device to transmit the shared portion of the user interface and the object to the second device;

transmit the shared portion the user interface and the object to the second device and enable the second device to display a second user interface comprising the shared portion of the user interface and the object, and

transmit information to the second device to enable access to contents of the object at the second device.

19. The non-transitory computer readable medium of claim 18, wherein the software application is further configured to transmit a video stream of the user interface to the second device to use as the second user interface.