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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Apr. 28, 2009
Filed:
Nov. 21, 2005
James Alan Billmaier, Woodinville, WA (US);
Edward Paul Flinchem, Seattle, WA (US);
James Alan Billmaier, Woodinville, WA (US);
Edward Paul Flinchem, Seattle, WA (US);
Other;
Abstract
A wireless handheld user device or cellphone that includes the ability to transmit to a recipient digital content that is presently being presented to a user. The device includes a component that presents video or audio, a peer-to-peer activator and a processing device coupled to the component and the peer-to-peer activator. The processor includes a component that selects at least one recipient and a component that wirelessly transmits the presented at least one video or audio to the selected at least one recipient upon activation of the peer-to-peer activator. In one aspect of the invention, the transmission component includes a component that automatically selects a data protocol for the presented at least one video or audio and a component that automatically selects a transmission means from a plurality of transmission means based on cost of transmission and/or a previously defined level of urgency.