Patent ID: 8750942

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; establishing a communicative link between the handheld mobile device and the head unit device, wherein establishment of the communicative link does not create a duplicate copy of an asset of the handheld mobile device on the head unit device, and wherein the asset of the handheld mobile device comprises an address book; sending, by the handheld mobile device, an application that comprises a graphical user interface to the head unit device via the communicative link 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 of display of 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; and accessing directly, by the head unit device via the communicative link, the asset of the handheld mobile device that is stored on the handheld mobile device without the need for synchronizing and copying the asset of the handheld mobile device to the head unit device.