Patent ID: 8229405

Claim:
A method for publishing and sharing media files, the method comprising: pre-selecting a media file from a collection of media files on a publisher communication terminal for publication; thereafter making the selected media file a published media file available to other communication terminals from the publisher communication terminal; thereafter receiving a discovery request issued from a requestor communication terminal seeking published media files; automatically establishing a connection between the publisher communication terminal and the requestor communication terminal in response to the discovery request; sending an identification of the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal; sending a media file request from the requestor communication terminal to the publisher communication terminal requesting the published media file; automatically sending the published media file from the publisher communication terminal to the requestor communication terminal in response to the media file request; executing playback of the published media file on the requestor communication terminal; and prior to receiving the discovery request, placing the publisher communication terminal in a publisher mode and awaiting the discovery request from the requestor communication terminal.