Patent ID: 8640204

Claim:
A wireless hand held group member device, comprising: a communications interface to provide an application specific interface operable to communicate with a plurality of other devices that also contain respective application specific interface via at least one wireless network and the communication interface also including telephone circuitry to communicate over a wireless telephone network; memory; and processing circuitry configured to operate with the communications interface and the memory, wherein the processing circuitry, in combination with the communications interface and memory, is operable to: associate the plurality of devices into a group to create a plurality of group member devices, wherein the wireless handheld group member device is to operate as a primary group member, in which the primary group member is to control sharing of shared media, services, and resources among the group member devices and in which the primary group member accesses a remote device for the group member devices via the wireless telephone network; receive a request message from a second group member device to access at least one of an external media, services, and resources of the remote device that is not one of the group member devices; and communicate with the second group member device to respond to the requested access via the communication interface by providing a menu of options for accessing the remote device, wherein the primary group member is responsive to a selected menu option by the second group member device to grant the access, when the primary group member determines that the access by the second group member is permitted, and wherein the primary group member accesses the remote device utilizing an access authorization of the primary group member permitted for accessing the remote device and transfers data from the remote device to the second group member device via the primary group member.