Seamless integration of portable computing devices and desktop computers

• US 20070002011A1
• Filed: 06/30/2005
• Published: 01/04/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 06/30/2005
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Microsoft Technology Licensing LLC (Microsoft Corporation)
• Original Assignee: Microsoft Corporation
• Inventors: Cucerzan, Silviu-Petru, Kong, Yuan, Huang, Xuedong, Kurlander, David
• Granted Patent: US 7,646,755 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 345/156
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/12 specially adapted for proprietary or special-purpose networking environments, e.g. medical networks, sensor networks, networks in vehicles or remote metering networks

Abstract

Portable computing devices automatically interface with other computing devices to interact in a collaborative effort toward providing a single, seamless computing experience for a user. As a user walks into a room with a cellular telephone certain functionality and data can be automatically unloaded to a desktop computer or other device based on a user or device identification or state. For example, a conversation on a cellular telephone can be automatically migrated to a desktop telephone as a user sits down. As a user is about to leave a room for a meeting, the desktop computer can update the telephone with latest versions of certain files. Thus, devices can automatically aggregate and/or decouple to provide a user with a single computing experience. These portable devices can broadcast an extensible set of services to other devices as well as to a host computer or server.

Claims

1. A system that facilitates device interactions between a first device and a second device, comprising:

a detection component that senses a first device in a wireless communication range of a second device; and

a coupling component that automatically facilitates collaboration of a service between the first device and the second device based at least in part upon a state of the first device.

2. The system of claim 1, the wireless communication range is based at least in part upon one of an infrared, Bluetooth, cellular, and Wi-Fi wireless transmission protocol.

3. The system of claim 1, the state of the first device is determined based at least in part upon a location identification system.

4. The system of claim 1, the first device is a cellular telephone, the second device is a personal computer and the service is one of a voice communication, video communication, textual communication and binary communication.

5. The system of claim 1, the coupling component automatically facilitates synchronization of data between the first device and the second device based at least in part upon the state of the first device.

6. The system of claim 1, the coupling component facilitates control of the second device via the first device.

7. The system of claim 1, further comprising an authentication component that verifies a permission associated with the first device prior to collaboration of the service.

8. The system of claim 1, further comprising a security component that performs encryption prior to collaboration of the service.

9. The system of claim 1, the service is at least one an access of a text file, image file, digitally encoded voice file, and digitally encoded video file.

10. The system of claim 9, the coupling component automatically synchronizes the service between the first device and the second device.

11. The system of claim 1, further comprising a third device, the coupling component automatically collaborates an additional service between the first device, the second device and the third device.

12. The system of claim 1, the detection component further comprises a device identifier component that determines a device type of the first device and communicates the device type to the coupling component, the coupling component facilitates collaboration of the service based at least in part upon the device type.

13. The system of claim 1, further comprising an artificial intelligence (AI) component that infers an action that a user desires to be performed automatically.

14. The system of claim 1, further comprising a rule-based logic component that automates collaboration of the service based at least in part upon a predefined rule.

15. A computer-readable medium having stored thereon computer-executable instructions for carrying out the system of claim 1.

16. A computer-implemented method of integrating devices, comprising:

detecting a first device in a wireless communication range of a second device;

automatically broadcasting a data signal from the first device to a second device; and

collaborating a service between the first device with the second device to establish a unified computing experience.

17. The computer-implemented method of claim 16, further comprising wirelessly transmitting data files between the first device and the second device.

18. The computer-implemented method of claim 17, further comprising wirelessly synchronizing the service on the first device from the second device.

19. A system that facilitates aggregating a service between a first device and a second device, comprising:

means for detecting the first device in wireless communication with the second device;

means for authenticating the first device to establish a permission to communicate with the second device;

means for coupling the first device with the second device based at least in part upon the permission;

means for automatically transferring a service from one of the first device and the second device to the other of the first device and the second device; and

means for aggregating the transferred service with at least one existing service of the other of the first device and the second device.

20. The system of claim 19, further comprising means for automatically decoupling the first device from the second device, the transferred service is automatically synchronized with the other of the first device and the second device prior to decoupling the first device from the second device.