Patent ID: 7512685
Filing Date: 2009-03-31
Classification: H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. A wireless communication method for selective transmission of data among a group of mobile computing devices, comprising: broadcasting, from a particular mobile computing device, an inquiry message to determine a group of mobile computing devices within direct wireless communications range of the particular mobile computing device; presenting, on a graphical user interface of the particular mobile computing device, a list of one or more mobile computing devices within direct communications range that respond to the inquiry message; receiving a selection of at least one of the mobile computing devices from the list for receiving a transfer of data stored on the particular mobile computing device, the selecting performed at the graphical user interface by a user; prompting, using the graphical user interface and only in response to a received selection comprising a single mobile computing device, the user to select a wireless communication type selected from the group consisting of an infrared link and a radio frequency (RF) link, otherwise automatically selecting the radio frequency link; and performing the transfer of data stored on the particular mobile computing device to the at least one mobile computing devices using the wireless communication type selected at the particular mobile computing device.