Patent ID: 8656316

Claim:
A system for presenting electronic content, comprising: a first mobile electronic device having a first processor, a first short-range communications subsystem coupled to the first processor, and a first display coupled to the first processor; and a second mobile electronic device having a second processor, a second short-range communications subsystem coupled to the second processor, a long-range communications subsystem coupled to the second processor and operable to couple to a content server via a communication network, and a second display coupled to the second processor, wherein a short-range wireless connection is established between the first and second short-range communications subsystems of the first and second mobile electronic devices and wherein the coupling of the first and second short-range communications subsystems via the short-range wireless connection creates a personal area network (PAN) between the first and second mobile electronic devices and wherein the first mobile electronic device and the second mobile electronic device are configured to transmit between them one or more of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items via the short-range wireless connection; wherein, in response to a query received by the second mobile electronic device, the second mobile electronic device establishes a long-range wireless connection to the content server, queries the content server for a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading, and presents, via the short-range wireless connection with the first mobile electronic device, the list of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading to the first mobile electronic device, wherein in response to a request for one or more selected electronic-content-items received by the second mobile electronic device from the first mobile electronic device, the second mobile electronic device re-establishes the long-range wireless connection to the content server and retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items from the content server, and the second short-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device transmits the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via the short-range wireless connection, and wherein at least one of the first mobile electronic device and the second mobile electronic device comprises one or more navigation elements and the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items are navigable and selectable at the at least one of the first mobile electronic device and the second mobile electronic device using the one or more navigation elements.