Data sharing

• US 9,563,341 B2
• Filed: 12/30/2015
• Issued: 02/07/2017
• Est. Priority Date: 03/16/2013
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Crandall Technologies LLC
• Original Assignee: Jerry Alan Crandall
• Inventors: Crandall, Jerry Alan
• Primary Examiner(s): Titcomb, William
• Application Number:
  US14/985,216
• Publication Number:
  US 20160110075A1
• Time in Patent Office: 405 Days
• Field of Search: 715/753
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 1/1694 the I/O peripheral being a single or a set of motion sensors for pointer control or gesture input obtained by sensing movements of the portable computer
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/041 Digitisers, e.g. for touch screens or touch pads, characterised by the transducing means
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04842 Selection of displayed objects or displayed text elements G06F3/0482 takes precedence
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0488 using a touch-screen or digitiser, e.g. input of commands through traced gestures
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/04883 for inputting data by handwriting, e.g. gesture or text
• 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: G09G 2354/00 Aspects of interface with display user
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 2370/16 Use of wireless transmission of display information
• CPC Class Codes: G09G 5/12 Synchronisation between the display unit and other units, e.g. other display units, video-disc players
• CPC Class Codes: H04B 7/26 at least one of which is mobile
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1093 by adding participants; by removing participants
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/1094 Inter-user-equipment sessions transfer or sharing
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 65/403 Arrangements for multi-party communication, e.g. for conferences data switching systems for conference H04L12/18; arrangements for connecting several subscribers to a common circuit, i.e. affording conference facilities H04M3/56; television conferencing systems H04N7/15
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/06 specially adapted for file transfer, e.g. file transfer protocol [FTP]

Abstract

In an embodiment, a method of data sharing is disclosed. The method may include routing a data set to a specific device in response to a data selection and a target selection.

Claims

1. A system comprising:

a touchscreen operable to detect a first touchscreen input indicating a data selection, a first device comprising the touchscreen;

a first non-transitory module configured to access a display parameter indicating a screen resolution, contrast ratio, or three-dimensional (3D) display capability associated with an external display, a second device comprising the external display, the first non-transitory module further configured to identify the external display as an available external display based on the display parameter;

a second non-transitory module configured to cause, based on the identifying of the external display as the available external display, the touchscreen to display an indication of an availability of the external display to thereby enable a user to select the second device, and

a wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit a data set to the second device based on the data selection and a target selection, the target selection being indicated by a second touchscreen input.

2. The system of claim 1, wherein a transceiver is integrated with the first device, the transceiver capable of transmitting radio frequency (RF) transmissions in the RF range of approximately 2.4 to 2.48 gigahertz.

3. The system of claim 1, wherein the wireless transmitter is a router operable to wirelessly route, based on routing instructions, the data set from the first device to the second device.

4. A method comprising:

detecting, with a touchscreen, a first touchscreen input indicating a data selection, a first device comprising the touchscreen;

accessing a display parameter indicating a screen resolution, contrast ratio, or three-dimensional (3D) display capability associated with an external display, a second device comprising the external display;

enabling, based on the display parameter, a target selection of the second device to be indicated by a second touchscreen input; and

wirelessly transmitting, with a wireless transmitter, a data set to the second device based on the data selection and the target selection.

5. The method of claim 4, wherein a transceiver is integrated with the first device, the transceiver capable of transmitting radio frequency (RF) transmissions in the RF range of approximately 2.4 to 2.48 gigahertz.

6. A computer-readable medium storing a set of instructions that when executed cause a computer system to perform a method comprising:

accessing a data selection indicated by a first touchscreen input detected by a touchscreen, a first device comprising the touchscreen;

accessing a display parameter indicating a screen resolution, contrast ratio, or three-dimensional (3D) display capability associated with an external display, a second device comprising the external display;

enabling, based on the display parameter, a target selection of the second device to be indicated by a second touchscreen input; and

causing a wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit a data set to the second device based on the data selection and the target selection.

7. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein a transceiver is integrated with the first device, the transceiver capable of transmitting radio frequency (RF) transmissions in the RF range of approximately 2.4 to 2.48 gigahertz.

8. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the computer system comprises the computer-readable medium, the computer system further comprising:

a bus coupled with the computer-readable medium; and

one or more data processors coupled with the bus, the one or more data processors operable to execute the set of instructions to thereby cause the computer system to perform the method.

9. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the data set includes instructions for causing the second device to access an application from a local memory of the second device.

10. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the first and second touchscreen inputs are detected at first and second locations, respectively, on the touchscreen, the method further comprising:

causing a first graphical user interface (GUI) and a second GUI to be launched on the touchscreen and on the external display, respectively, based on the first and second locations.

11. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the first touchscreen input is detected at a first location on the touchscreen, the method further comprising:

identifying an application based on the first location;

accessing a data file having a data format associated with the application, the data file comprising a plurality of electronic pages (EPs); and

causing the touchscreen to display, in a GUI, a list of a plurality of images corresponding to the plurality of EPs, respectively.

12. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

causing the touchscreen to display, in a GUI, a list of a plurality of images;

accessing a selection of an image from among the plurality of images within the list;

identifying, based on the selection, an electronic page (EP) that corresponds to the image; and

causing the EP to be displayed in a second GUI.

13. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

identifying, in response to the data selection, the second device as being an available device.

14. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the first and second touchscreen inputs are detected at first and second locations, respectively, on the touchscreen, the data selection is a first data selection, and the method further comprises:

enabling a detection of a third touchscreen input at a third location on the touchscreen, the third touchscreen input indicating a second data selection;

enabling a detection of a fourth touchscreen input at a fourth location on the touchscreen, the fourth touchscreen input indicating a target selection of the first device; and

causing an application or program to be launched on the touchscreen based on the second data selection and the target selection of the first device, the third and fourth touchscreen inputs resulting from a gesture that is one of;

a flicking or sliding gesture, and

a multi-touch input.

15. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the method further comprises:

causing, in response to the data selection and the target selection of the second device, an application or program to be launched on the external display.

16. The computer-readable medium of claim 6, wherein the enabling of the target selection of the second device comprises:

identifying the external display as an available external display based on the display parameter; and

causing, based on the identifying of the external display as the available external display, the touchscreen to display an indication of an availability of the external display in an external device list to thereby enable a user to select the second device from the external device list, and

wherein the causing of the wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit the data set to the second device based on the data selection and the target selection comprises;

causing of the wireless transmitter to wirelessly transmit the data set from the first device to the second device based on the data selection and the target selection.