Patent ID: 7969990

Claim:
Apparatus for rerouting communication data, comprising: a mobile communication device comprising: an announcer device associated with said mobile communication device, and configured for indicating to surrounding equipment that said mobile communication device is available to receive rerouting, thereby to enable receipt of rerouted data from said surrounding equipment, and a scout device associated with said mobile communication device, configured for scanning surroundings of said associated mobile communication device to identify and determine availability of compatible equipment in the vicinity, thereby to reroute data from said mobile communication device to a selected one of said surrounding equipment, wherein said rerouting comprises setting up a bidirectional communication link between said mobile communication device and said selected surrounding equipment, said bidirectional link having a first link direction from said mobile communication device to said selected surrounding equipment and a second link direction from said selected surrounding equipment to said mobile communication device, said bidirectional link carrying streaming data over both directions of said first link direction and said second link direction, and wherein said scout device is operable to determine media type requirements of said compatible equipment; a media transformer, associated with said scout device, for transforming media into a form that accords with said determined media type requirements, wherein a plurality of types correspond to said media type requirements, and further comprising a user interface for allowing a user to select one of said media type requirements for transforming at said media transformer and a media cloner, associated with said media transformer, for making multiple copies of a single incoming data stream, thereby to enable said apparatus to redirect said single incoming data stream to a plurality of locations, at least some of said multiple copies being redirected via said media transformer.