Patent ID: 8824965

Claim:
A non-transitory computer-readable medium comprising instructions stored thereon that when executed perform a method for providing electronic content, the method comprising: presenting identifiers of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for transmission to a first electronic device, the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items comprising: one or more selectable electronic-content-items stored on a second electronic device; and one or more selectable electronic-content-items stored in a content repository external to the second electronic device; receiving a request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items; in response to receiving the request, a second electronic device retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items; and the second electronic device transmitting the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first electronic device via a short-range wireless connection between the first and second electronic devices, where the second electronic device retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the content repository external to the second device via a wireless communication subsystem of the second electronic device when the one or more selected electronic-content-items are not stored on the second electronic device.