Patent ID: 8866699

Claim:
A method for interacting with a mobile device using an external display, the method comprising: sending representation data from a mobile device to a host system; sending a code corresponding to each representation of the representation data to the host system; arranging a plurality of representations from the representation data at the host system; rendering the plurality of representations of the arranged representation data on an external display; selecting at least one representation of the plurality of representations from a combination of an object and an action from a set of actions to be performed on the object on the mobile device; inputting the selected at least one representation and the code to the mobile device; mapping the inputted at least one representation to the combination of the object and the action; and performing the action upon the object at the mobile device in response to the inputting, wherein the code is displayed with each of the plurality of representations on the external display, and wherein the code corresponding to each of the plurality of representations encodes a respective object and a respective action to be performed on the respective object on the mobile device.