Patent ID: 7532196

Claim:
A method of coordinating resources of mobile computing devices to jointly execute tasks, the method comprising: receiving a first user gesture input at a first mobile computing device; receiving a second user gesture input at a second mobile computing device, wherein the first and second gesture inputs are received respectively at the first and second mobile computing devices; determining whether the first and second user gesture inputs together form one of a plurality of different synchronous gesture types, wherein determining whether the first and second gesture inputs received at the first and second mobile computing devices form one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types further comprises determining whether the first and second user gesture inputs received at the first and second mobile computing devices are of corresponding types and are synchronized in time by being received within a predetermined time period of each other; and combining resources of the first and second mobile computing devices, in response to a determination being made that the first and second user gesture inputs received at the first and second mobile computing devices are of corresponding types and are synchronized in time to form one of the plurality of synchronous gesture types, to jointly execute a particular task associated with the one of the plurality of different synchronous gesture types.