Patent ID: 8774048

Claim:
A method comprising: detecting a plurality of devices; receiving a selection of a source device from the plurality of detected devices; receiving a selection of a destination device from the plurality of detected devices; receiving multimedia content over a first wireless communication channel established using one or more wireless modems from a first application of the source device; establishing, with the one or more wireless modems, a second wireless communication channel for enabling communication for a second application of the destination device; determining channel data corresponding to one or more characteristics associated with the second wireless communication channel, wherein determining the channel data comprises determining a level of bandwidth required over the second wireless communication channel to forward the multimedia content; configuring at least one of the wireless modems based on the channel data; transforming the received multimedia content from a first format to a second format based on resource data, wherein the resource data comprises one or more of a remaining battery power, a remaining operating time, a memory utilization, a storage device utilization, and a current total power consumption; and forwarding, with the configured one of the wireless modems, the transformed multimedia content to the second application.