Patent ID: 8661352
Filing Date: 2014-02-25
Classification: G06F,G06Q

Abstract:
1. A method for a user of a communications device to share a data item with one or more of a plurality of data recipients, being other persons or groups of people accessing other communications devices in direct wireless communication with the user, the method comprising the steps of: selecting one or more data items to share; displaying symbols in a two-dimensional geometrical space on a touch-sensitive display of the communications device, each symbol comprising a representation of an individual or group of the data recipients, one or more of the symbols being positioned so as to reflect a physical or notional location relative to the user of the individual or group represented by said symbol; selecting one or more of the symbols as a destination for the one or more data items by pointing the communications device at the intended recipient that is represented by the corresponding symbol, wherein the step of selecting one or more of the symbols further includes holding the display in a vertical orientation so that any selected symbol appears in an autoselect position on the display; displaying images associated with the symbols as if hanging in 3-dimensional physical space if the user moves the physical spatial orientation of the device away from a generally horizontal plane, so that display appears to be a window into the 3-dimensional physical space around the user; and sharing the data item with the pointed-at intended recipient by the user (i) touching with a finger a central portion of the touch-sensitive display which represents said user, and (ii) flicking or sliding the finger towards or to the symbol of the pointed-at intended recipient.