Patent ID: 8547342

Claim:
A method comprising: displaying, by a computing device, an item on a display of the computing device; establishing, by the computing device, a wireless connection with one or more of a plurality of devices; receiving, by the computing device, information regarding an input gesture that includes sliding an object along a surface of the display; determining a directional vector for the input gesture, identifying a relative direction of the input gesture on the display, determining, by the computing device, a geographic direction associated with the input gesture by applying the relative direction to the directional vector; determining, by the computing device, that two or more devices, of the plurality of devices, are in line with the geographic direction; selecting, by the computing device, a particular device, of the two or more devices, that is in line with the geographic direction; and sending, by the computing device, a copy of data associated with the item from the computing device to the particular device that is in line with the geographic direction.