Patent ID: 7729298

Claim:
A wireless handheld device for manipulating a shared multimedia object, the device comprising: a transceiver operable to wirelessly transmit to and receive from a second wireless handheld device on at least one physical communication link having a plurality of physical communication channels, wherein each of the physical communication channel is separate from each other, wherein the device transmits a request to the second wireless handheld device for receiving a set of manipulation capabilities of the second wireless handheld device on the shared multimedia object, wherein the set of manipulation capabilities indicates a set of manipulation actions that the second wireless handheld device is able to perform on the shared multimedia object; and a user input that receives at least one manipulation instruction, wherein the at least one manipulation instruction is based on the set of manipulation capabilities received from the second wireless handheld device, wherein the device communicates with the second wireless handheld device in a first physical communication channel and transmits at least one manipulation instruction to the second wireless handheld device in a second physical communication channel so as to manipulate a presentation of at least one shared multimedia object on the second wireless handheld device that has been previously acquired with a multimedia object capturing device coupled to one the first wireless handheld device and the second wireless handheld device.