Patent ID: 7590385
Filing Date: 2009-09-15
Classification: H04M

Abstract:
1. A consumer electronic device configured for making its content available comprising: an output means configured to generate a human perceptual signal of content, wherein the content is to be made available to share with a further electronic device in a vicinity of the consumer electronic device; a transmitter configured to transmit a human non-perceptual signal; and a control unit configured (i) to control the output means, (ii) to create a representation of the human perceptual signal of the content being generated by the output means, and (iii) to instruct the transmitter to broadcast a human non-perceptual signal comprising the representation; wherein the control unit is further configured to instruct the output means to make a received human perceptual signal, generated from a further human non-perceptual signal that is received from a further electronic device for accessing new content, more noticeable in response to being received from a nearby further electronic device and less noticeable in response to being received from a remote further electronic device.