18977666. Electronic Devices with Intuitive Sharing Capabilities (Apple Inc.)

Electronic Devices with Intuitive Sharing Capabilities

Organization Name

Apple Inc.

Inventor(s)

Adam S. Meyer of Cupertino CA US

Peter C. Tsoi of Redwood City CA US

Stuart J. Wood of London GB

Duncan Robert Kerr of San Francisco CA US

Martha Evans Hankey of San Francisco CA US

John B. Morrell of Los Gatos CA US

Electronic Devices with Intuitive Sharing Capabilities

This abstract first appeared for US patent application 18977666 titled 'Electronic Devices with Intuitive Sharing Capabilities

Original Abstract Submitted

An electronic device may use information about the location of nearby devices to make sharing with those devices more intuitive for a user. When two devices are pointed towards one another, each device may automatically present the option to share information with the other device. When a user wishes to share information with one or more devices in a group of users, an array of icons representing the nearby users may be positioned on the display according to the locations of the nearby users so that the sharing user can easily select which user he or she wishes to share with. A sharing user may broadcast a signal and nearby users may elect to receive the signal by pointing their devices towards the sharing user. A user of two devices may share information between the two devices and may use one device to manipulate the information on the other device.