Patent ID: 6993552

Claim:
In a system including a plurality of devices that are logically interconnectable over multiple wireless networks that each have a different communication protocol, wherein one or more devices transfer objects to a receiving device over the wireless networks, a method for managing incoming object transfers received from the one or more devices without regard to the wireless network used by each of the one or more devices, the method comprising: a step for receiving, at a receiving device, one or more object transfers from one or more devices, wherein an object is received at the receiving device in each of the one or more object transfers corresponding to one or more applications; a step for generating a corresponding notification regarding the receipt of each object; a step for storing each object in a temporary storage of the receiving device; a step for prompting a user at the receiving device with the corresponding notification, that each object has been received and also providing the user at the receiving device selectable options to either accept or reject each corresponding object; a step for persistently storing, at the receiving device, each object that is accepted, and such that the objects received at the receiving device are only stored in persistent memory and subsequently processed by the receiving device upon being accepted by the user at the receiving device in response to the prompting; and a step for deleting, at the receiving device, each object that is rejected by the user at the receiving device, and in such a manner that the deleted objects are deleted without being stored in persistent memory of the receiving device and without being processed by the corresponding one or more applications at the receiving device.