DEVICE, SYSTEM AND METHOD FOR SELECTING, SHARING AND DISPLAYING ELECTRONIC CONTENT

• US 20110113087A1
• Filed: 03/31/2010
• Published: 05/12/2011
• 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
• Granted Patent: US 9,510,135 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• 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 download of applications H04M1/72406; transfer of messages, e.g. SMS, e-mail or MMS H04M1/7243
• 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 processor;

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

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

wherein in response to a query received by the mobile electronic device, the mobile electronic device presents a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading, and

wherein in response to a request received by the mobile electronic device for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items, the mobile electronic device retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items and the short-range communications subsystem transmits the one or more selected electronic-content-items via a short-range wireless connection.

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 the query received.

3. The device of claim 1, 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 1, wherein the mobile electronic device receives the query originating external the mobile electronic device at the short-range communications subsystem

5. The device of claim 1, wherein the request for one or more selected electronic-content-items is received at the short-range communications subsystem of a mobile electronic device.

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

7. The device of claim 1, wherein the input/output subsystem of the mobile electronic device comprises a user interface of the mobile electronic device.

8. The device of claim 1, wherein when the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available from a content server external the mobile electronic device, the long-range communications subsystem of the mobile electronic device establishes a long-range wireless connection with the content server;

and in response to the request for the one or more selected electronic-content-items, the long-range communications subsystem retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the content server via the long-range wireless connection and the short-range communications subsystem transmits the retrieved one or more selected electronic-content-items via the short-range wireless connection.

9. The device of claim 8, wherein the long-range communications subsystem establishes the long-range wireless connection to the content server after receiving the request.

10. The device of claim 1, wherein when the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items is available from a content server external the mobile electronic device, the long-range communications subsystem of the mobile electronic device establishes a long-range wireless connection with the content server and the long-range communications subsystem retrieves the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items via the long-range wireless connection.

11. The device of claim 10, wherein the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items are stored in an electronic content manager of the mobile wireless device.

12. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

an electronic content manager; and

an electronic content repository controlled by the electronic content manager.

13. The device of claim 12, wherein the electronic content manager of the mobile electronic device retrieves the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items from the electronic content repository.

14. The device of claim 12, 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.

15. 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.

16. The device of claim 1, further comprising:

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

17. 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.

18. 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.

19. 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.

20. The device of claim 1, wherein the short-range communications subsystem of the mobile electronic device transmits an electronic contact list, wherein the electronic contact list is an updated list of electronic content stored on the mobile electronic device.

21. The device of claim 1, wherein when the one or more selected electronic-content-items are not available to be retrieved from the mobile electronic device, the long-range communications subsystem is operable to retrieve the one or more selected electronic-content-items from a server via a communications network.