Patent ID: 8260883

Claim:
A method for transferring an object from a sending device to a recipient, comprising: determining which one of a plurality of wireless devices is a catching device associated with the recipient for receiving the object from the sending device, wherein the plurality of the wireless devices are not in physical proximity to the sending device, and wherein the determining includes: both the sending device and the plurality of the wireless devices communicating timing of detected inertial sensor events to a server for determining which one of the plurality of the wireless devices is the catching device, wherein the inertial sensor events comprise a respective shaking or physical contact to each of the sending device and the catching device, the sending device receiving from the server a determination of which one of the plurality of the wireless devices is the catching device based on the similarly-timed inertial sensor events; receiving on the sending device a user gesture representing a flick of a displayed object that is associated with the object for selection of the object; transferring the object to the server; and transferring the object or a reference to the object from the server to the catching device.