Patent ID: 7130585

Claim:
In a wireless network that includes a number of wireless devices including a source wireless device capable of transferring items over the wireless network using a plurality of different wireless transfer technologies, and including a plurality of destination wireless devices capable of receiving items over the wireless network using at least one of the different wireless transfer technologies, a method for facilitating user selection of one or more destination wireless devices without requiring user identification of a wireless transfer technology, the method comprising the following: an act of identifying one or more wireless technologies that detected destination devices are capable of using, each different wireless technology corresponding to a distinct communication path from the source device to one of the destination devices; an act of receiving a user selection of an entry for one or more destination devices without requiring separate user selection of a wireless technology for transferring one or more items to each of the selected destination devices; and an act of automatically, and without user intervention, identifying a distinct communication path for each selected destination device in response to the received user selections, each identified communication path corresponding to a wireless technology to use when transferring the one or more items to a selected destination device.