Patent ID: 8588693

Claim:
A method for providing electronic content, comprising: presenting a list of a plurality of selectable electronic-content-items available for downloading to a first mobile electronic device, the list comprising one or more selectable electronic-content-items stored on a second mobile electronic device and one or more selectable electronic-content-items not stored on the second mobile electronic device; receiving a request for one or more selected electronic-content-items of the plurality of selectable electronic-content-items; in response to receiving the request, a second mobile electronic device retrieving the one or more selected electronic-content-items; and the second mobile electronic device transmitting the one or more selected electronic-content-items to the first mobile electronic device via a short-range wireless connection between the first and second mobile electronic devices, where the second mobile electronic device retrieves the one or more selected electronic-content-items from a content server via a long-range communications subsystem of the second mobile electronic device when the one or more selected electronic-content-items are not stored on the second mobile electronic device.