Patent ID: 7835727

Claim:
A method of creating an ad-hoc mosaic comprising the steps of: loading an application having at least a controller mode and a listener mode on a plurality of User Equipments (UEs) each having one or more transducers and each having short range wireless functionality, wherein the short range wireless functionality is one selected from the group consisting of infrared, wireless LAN and Bluetooth; wherein the transducers of the plurality of UEs is one or more selected from the group consisting of a still camera and video camera; setting a first UE into controller mode so as to initiate an ad-hoc mosaic function; setting the remainder of the plurality of UEs, referred to as a common application group, into listener mode; scanning, by the first UE in controller mode, the general area covered by its short range wireless area; contacting, by the first UE in controller mode, the common application group; inviting, by the first UE in controller mode, the common application group to form a group of participating listeners; sending, by the first UE in controller mode, a multicast message to the common application group, to alert the uses in the common application group to activate one or more of the transducers; and combining the resulting set of transducer outputs into a mosaic.