Display on wireless mobile device

• US 7,272,407 B2
• Filed: 02/18/2003
• Issued: 09/18/2007
• Est. Priority Date: 02/18/2003
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Original Assignee: Hewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P. (HP Inc.)
• Inventors: Pathak, Rabindra, Blume, Leo Robert, Strittmatter, Michael, McCoog, Philip A.
• Primary Examiner(s): Anderson; Matthew
• Assistant Examiner(s): SHARMA, SUJATHA R
• Application Number:
  US10/369,042
• Publication Number:
  US 20040176117A1
• Time in Patent Office: 1,673 Days
• Field of Search: 455/41.2, 455/41.3, 455/420, 455517-519, 455/500, 370/338
• US Class Current: 455/500
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/2809 indicating that an appliance service is present in a home automation network monitoring functionality H04L43/0817; discovery or management thereof, e.g. service location protocol [SLP] or web services, H04L67/51
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 12/281 indicating a format for calling an appliance service function in a home automation network for remote control or remote monitoring of applications H04L67/025
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72412 using two-way short-range wireless interfaces
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72484 wherein functions are triggered by incoming communication events
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 8/22 Processing or transfer of terminal data, e.g. status or physical capabilities
• CPC Class Codes: H04W 88/02 Terminal devices

Abstract

In one embodiment, a method is provided for a wireless mobile device where data is received over a wireless data connection indicative of presence of compatible components and a selection of the compatible components are displayed. Data is continued to be received further identifying the compatible components. The displayed selection of compatible components is changed in accordance with a convention and based on the continued receipt of data where the method is performed automatically by a wireless mobile device.

Claims

1. A method comprising:

receiving data over a wireless data connection indicative of presence of compatible components;

displaying a selection of the compatible components;

continued receiving data further identifying the compatible components; and

changing the displayed selection of compatible components in accordance with a convention and based on the continued receipt of the data that further identifies the compatible components; and

wherein the method is performed automatically by a wireless mobile device.

2. The method as set forth in claim 1, where the changing comprises reordering the displayed selection of compatible components.

3. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

initiating a search process; and

determining capabilities of the compatible components from the received data.

4. The method as set forth in claim 1, where the continued receiving data comprises asynchronously receiving the data while performing another function.

5. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising;

filtering selected compatible components from the displayed selection of compatible components.

6. The method as set forth in claim 5, where the filtering comprises:

changing a displayed icon representative of a compatible component detennined to be undesirable.

7. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

sorting selected compatible components based on attributes derived from the continued receipt of data.

8. The method as set forth in claim 7, where the sorting comprises:

reordering the displayed section of compatible components based on an attribute selected from the set of alphanumeric, prior use, most frequently used, selected capabilities, and user defined.

9. The method as set forth in claim 1, further comprising:

comparing received data from a compatible component to stored data representing previously identified components.

25. The method as set forth in claim 1 wherein the displaying includes displaying image forming devices determined from the compatible components.

26. The method as set forth in claim 1 further including:

filtering the compatible components to determine which are image forming devices; and

displaying icons for each of the image forming devices determined from the compatible components.

27. The method as set forth in claim 26 wherein the changing includes reordering the icons displayed for the image forming devices based on continued receipt of imaging capabilities from the image forming devices.

28. The method as set forth in claim 27 where the reordering is based on a relevance determined for each of the image forming devices based on associated imaging capabilities.

10. A mobile device comprising:

wireless transceiver logic configured for selective data communication with other wireless devices;

search logic having access to data communicated from the other wireless devices during a wireless discovery process, the search logic configured to organize the data communicated from the other wireless devices including data relating to identification of the other wireless devices, and subsequently reorganize the data based on characteristics including the data related to the identification communicated from the other wireless devices; and

a display in operative connection with the search logic, the display capable of displaying the organized data.

11. The mobile device as set forth in claim 10, further comprising;

a data structure in data communication with the wireless transceiver logic, the data structure capable of storing data including the data communicated from the other wireless devices.

12. The mobile device as set forth in claim 11, where the data structure is configured for data communication with the search logic and stores data including the organized data from the search logic.

13. The mobile device as set forth in claim 11, where the data structure comprises non-volatile memory.

14. The mobile device as set forth in claim 11, where the search logic comprises:

filtering logic in data communication with the data structure, the filtering logic configured to selectively filter data representative of other wireless devices based on a protocol.

15. The mobile device as set forth in claim 11, where the search logic comprises:

sorting logic in data communication with the data structure, the sorting logic configured to sort data representative of other wireless devices based on one or more attributes received from the other wireless devices.

16. The mobile device as set forth in claim 10, further comprising:

an historical data structure for storing characteristics of the other wireless devices previously received.

17. The mobile device as set forth in claim 16, where the search logic comprises:

fast filtering logic in data communication with the data structure and the historical data structure, the fast filtering logic configured to selectively filter data representative of other wireless devices upon comparison of characteristics determined from the other wireless devices and characteristics in the historical data structure.

18. The mobile device as set forth in claim 16, where the search logic comprises:

fast sorting logic in data communication with the data structure and the historical data structure, the fast sorting logic configured to sort data representative of other wireless devices upon comparison of characteristics determined from the other wireless devices and characteristics in the historical data structure.

29. The mobile device as set forth in claim 10 where the search logic includes a filter logic configured to filter the data communicated from other wireless devices and determine which of the other wireless devices are imaging devices, and to cause the display to display data representing the imaging devices.

30. The mobile device as set forth in claim 10 further including logic to cause the display to display a printer icon for each printing device identified by the search logic based on the data communicated from the other wireless devices.

31. The mobile device as set forth in claim 10 where the other wireless devices include one or more image forming devices and the mobile device being configured to transmit wireless print requests to a selected image forming device.

19. An article of manufacture embodied in computer-readable medium for use in a device configured to display results of a search for compatible wireless devices, the article of manufacture comprising:

wireless transceiver logic configured to cause a processor to receive characteristic data from comparable wireless devices;

display logic configured to cause a processor to access the characteristic data presently communicated from the compatible wireless devices, where the display logic iteratively arranges representations of individual compatible wireless devices according to an algorithm using the data presently communicated subsequent data received; and

categorizing logic configured to cause a processor to access the characteristic data presently communicated from the compatible wireless devices, and to access characteristic data previously communicated from wireless devices, where the categorizing logic influences the arrangement and display of individual device representations based on a comparison of the data presently communicated and the data previously communicated.

20. A method, comprising:

wirelessly receiving, by a mobile phone, information about imaging capabilities of a printer presently capable of wirelessly receiving a print job from the mobile phone;

displaying, by the mobile phone, an icon to represent the printer;

while displaying the icon, wirelessly receiving, by the mobile phone, additional information about imaging capabilities of the printer; and

dynamically updating, by the mobile phone, the displayed icon so as to visually indicate to a user the additional information.

21. The method as set forth in claim 20, wherein the additional information comprises an indication that the printer is a bluetooth print profile (BPP) printer;

and wherein the updating comprises modifying the icon to visually indicate that the printer is a BPP printer.

22. The method as set forth in claim 20 further including:

wirelessly receiving, by the mobile phone, information from a plurality of printers;

the displaying includes displaying an icon for each of the plurality of printers; and

the dynamically updating includes changing a visual indication of each icon based on determined capabilities of the plurality of printers as additional information is received by the mobile device from the plurality of printers.

23. The method as set forth in claim 20 wherein the additional information includes data representing the imaging capabilities of the printer that causes the displayed icon to be updated.

24. The method as set forth in claim 20 wherein the dynamically updating includes updating the displayed icon to represent a change in status of the printer as the additional information about the printer is received.