Patent ID: 8244233

Claim:
A method for operating a virtual whiteboard using a mobile phone device, comprising the steps of: generating the virtual whiteboard, wherein the mobile phone device is coupled to the virtual whiteboard to input data to the virtual whiteboard; connecting the mobile phone device to an external display device; displaying the virtual whiteboard on the external display device; and operating the virtual whiteboard using the mobile phone device; wherein markings on the virtual whiteboard correspond to spatial movements of the mobile phone device, wherein the operating step has three modes, an idle mode, a writing mode, and an erasing mode, wherein the virtual whiteboard having a virtual tray disposed thereon and the virtual tray having a plurality of writing instruments and an eraser, wherein upon activating the virtual whiteboard, the virtual whiteboard enters the idle mode, wherein the virtual whiteboard enters the writing mode upon the mobile phone device detecting the spatial movement of the mobile phone device being directed in reaching into the virtual tray for one of the writing instruments and activating it as a current writing instrument, wherein the virtual whiteboard enters the idle mode from the writing mode upon the mobile phone device detecting the spatial movement of the mobile phone device being directed in putting into the virtual tray the current writing instrument, wherein the virtual whiteboard enters the erasing mode upon the mobile phone device detecting the spatial movement of the mobile phone device being directed in reaching into the virtual tray for the eraser, and wherein the virtual whiteboard enters the idle mode from the erasing mode upon the mobile phone device detecting the spatial movement of the mobile phone device being directed in putting into the virtual tray the eraser.