Patent ID: 8548532

Claim:
A method of communicatively coupling a handheld mobile device and a head unit device comprising: monitoring, by the handheld mobile device, a port of the handheld mobile device; sending, by the handheld mobile device, an application that comprises a graphical user interface to the head unit device when the head unit device contacts the handheld mobile device via the port of the handheld mobile device, wherein the application executes on the head unit device to present the graphical user interface on the head unit device, and wherein the graphical user interface is analogous in appearance to a graphical user interface of the handheld mobile device; conducting, by the handheld mobile device, an operation of the handheld mobile device using the head unit device as a user interface for the handheld mobile device, wherein the operation of the handheld mobile device comprises a phone call, a text message, an email, or a web session; accessing directly via the head unit device assets of the handheld mobile device without the need for synchronizing and copying the assets of the handheld mobile device, wherein the assets comprise at least one of contacts and an address book; and sending, by the handheld mobile device, the application to another handheld mobile device, wherein the application executes on the other handheld mobile device to present the graphical user interface on the other handheld mobile device.