Patent ID: 8850045

Claim:
A method for pairing a first computing device having a first inductive coil, with a second computing device having a second inductive coil, the method comprising: (a) establishing a communication link with the second computing device corresponding to a wireless communication medium; (b) receiving credential information for the second computing device over the wireless communication medium; (c) in response to receiving the credential information, generating a link key using the credential information for pairing with the second computing device over an inductive communication medium; (d) storing the link key for use in inductively pairing the first computing device with the second computing device over multiple communication sessions, wherein each of the multiple communication sessions corresponds to an individual inductive pairing and unpairing of the first computing device and the second computing device; (e) in response to an inductive pairing of the first computing device and the second computing device, automatically sending data to the second computing device, the data corresponding to one of (i) a web uniform resource locator (URL) corresponding to a webpage displayed on a display of the first computing device, or (ii) application data corresponding to an application running on the first computing device and the second computing device, wherein automatically sending the data to the second computing device causes a graphic interface, corresponding to the URL of the webpage or the application data, to be rendered on the display of the second computing device; wherein the inductive pairing of the first computing device and the second computing device includes aligning the first and second inductive coils, and wherein the alignment of the first and second inductive coils is indicated via a visual indicator on the display of at least one of the first computing device or the second computing device.