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Date of Patent:
Oct. 01, 2013

Filed:

Dec. 22, 2008
Applicants:

Heath Stallings, Colleyville, TX (US);

Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);

Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Dallas, TX (US);

Jeffrey Wayne Kurtti, Prosper, TX (US);

Andrew Mcclain Allman, Dallas, TX (US);

Inventors:

Heath Stallings, Colleyville, TX (US);

Brian F. Roberts, Dallas, TX (US);

Donald H. Relyea, Jr., Dallas, TX (US);

Jeffrey Wayne Kurtti, Prosper, TX (US);

Andrew McClain Allman, Dallas, TX (US);

Assignee:

Verizon Patent and Licensing Inc., Basking Ridge, NJ (US);

Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
G06F 3/041 (2006.01); G06F 3/048 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
Abstract

A computing device displays an item on a display of the computing device and establishes a wireless connection with one or more other devices. The computing device receives an input gesture on a touch panel of the computing device, where the input gesture has a direction, and determines a geographic direction of the input gesture. The computing device also identifies one of the one or more other devices in the geographic direction and sends the item on the display to the one of the one or more devices in the geographic direction.


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