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The patent badge is an abbreviated version of the USPTO patent document. The patent badge covers the following: Patent number, Date patent was issued, Date patent was filed, Title of the patent, Applicant, Inventor, Assignee, Attorney firm, Primary examiner, Assistant examiner, CPCs, and Abstract. The patent badge does contain a link to the full patent document (in Adobe Acrobat format, aka pdf). To download or print any patent click here.
Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Sep. 16, 2008
Filed:
Jan. 28, 2005
Muralidharan Sundararajan, Portland, OR (US);
Vinod Balakrishnan, Beaverton, OR (US);
John L. Light, Beaverton, OR (US);
Trevor A. Pering, Mountain View, CA (US);
Roy Want, Los Altos, CA (US);
Muralidharan Sundararajan, Portland, OR (US);
Vinod Balakrishnan, Beaverton, OR (US);
John L. Light, Beaverton, OR (US);
Trevor A. Pering, Mountain View, CA (US);
Roy Want, Los Altos, CA (US);
Intel Corporation, Santa Clara, CA (US);
Abstract
According to one embodiment of the invention, a method for discovering the presence of at least one source and target mobile device, automatically displaying a graphical interface to show the dataset from the source mobile device, and initiating the transmission of data between the mobile devices, is provided. The method further includes automatically receiving the dataset from the source mobile device, where the dataset is at least a representation of the data on the source device. In one embodiment, the representation is a subset of the data on the device and/or a description of the data on the mobile device. In another embodiment, a method for a navigation system to discover the presence of at least one mobile device, to automatically receive data from the mobile device, and to process the data with navigation operations, is provided.