Patent ID: 6999721
Filing Date: 2006-02-14
Classification: H03J,H04L,H04M,H04W

Abstract:
1. In a wireless network that includes a number of wireless devices including a source wireless device capable of transferring items over the wireless network using a plurality of different wireless transfer technologies, and including a plurality of destination wireless devices capable of receiving items over the wireless network using at least one of the different wireless transfer technologies, a method for facilitating user selection of one or more destination wireless devices from the plurality of destination wireless devices without requiring that the user of the source wireless device identify a wireless transfer technology, the method comprising the following: an act of receiving a user selection of one or more items the source wireless device is to send; an act of detecting the local presence of a plurality of destination wireless devices that are available to receive items in response to receiving the user selection of the one or more items the source wireless device is to send, for each detected locally present destination wireless device in the plurality of destination wireless devices: an act of the source wireless device presenting one selectable entry for each of the detected locally present destination wireless devices at a unified user interface, each selectable entry representing a detected locally present destination wireless device independent of different wireless transfer technologies the locally present destination wireless device is capable of using and independent of the number of distinct communication paths from the source wireless device to the detected locally present destination wireless device; an act of receiving a user selection of a selectable entry for one or more detected locally present destination wireless devices without requiring separate user selection of a wireless transfer technology for transferring the one or more items to each of the one or more selected locally present destination wireless devices; and an act of automatically, and without user intervention, identifying a distinct communication path for technologies for each of the one or more selected locally present destination wireless devices in response to the received user selections, each identified distinct communication path corresponding to a wireless technology to use when transferring the one or more items to a selected locally present destination wireless devices.