Patent ID: 8713449
Filing Date: 2014-04-29
Classification: G06F,H04L

Abstract:
1. A method for transferring shareable files from an initiating apparatus to one or more accepting touch-screen apparatus, said method comprising: detecting a user motion of two or more fingers on a touch-screen of the initiating apparatus identifying selected files as shareable files; establishing a network connection: sending sharing parameters over the network connection to a server to provide the server with the sharing parameters, the sharing parameters defining how the shareable files may be shared with other touch-screen apparatus; and transferring the sharable files to the server to enable the server to send the shareable files to other touch-screen apparatus that meet the sharing parameters; detecting a touch event involving two or more fingers on one of the one or more accepting touch-screen apparatus; and transferring the sharable files from the server to the one of the one or more accepting touch-screen apparatus, wherein the sharing parameters include a time period for detecting the touch event on the one or more accepting touch-screen apparatus.