Patent ID: 8768256

Claim:
A computing device, comprising: a touch screen display; one or more processors; at least one memory device; a near field communication (NFC) interface to be communicatively coupled to a near field communication interface of at least one electronic device, a network transceiver to communicate with a cellular communications network; and a wireless transceiver to communicate with the at least one electronic device, where the at least one electronic device supports a predetermined communications protocol, wherein the at least one memory device stores one or more applications that are executed by the one or more processors to process data stored in the at least one memory device or received by at least one of the network transceiver and the wireless transceiver, and wherein when the NFC interface is communicatively coupled to the near field communication interface of the at least one electronic device, the one or more processors to instantiate a Bluetooth or WiFi connection between the wireless transceiver of the computing device and the at least one of electronic device over a wireless link, the instantiated Bluetooth or WiFi connection to exchange content via the wireless link.