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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 18, 2014
Filed:
Feb. 22, 2010
Eric Hanson, Emeryville, CA (US);
Joshua David Fagans, Redwood City, CA (US);
Eric Hanson, Emeryville, CA (US);
Joshua David Fagans, Redwood City, CA (US);
Apple Inc., Cupertino, CA (US);
Abstract
Among other things, methods, systems and computer program products are disclosed for manipulating media. In one aspect, one or more processes executing on a host computer system detect that a portable electronic device is within a predefined communications proximity relative to the host computer system, establish wireless communications and exchange information with the portable electronic device sufficient to determine that metadata relating to one or more items of visual media content reside on the portable electronic device. The metadata is used to retrieve the one or more items of visual media content from a storage location separate from the portable electronic device. The retrieved one or more items of visual media content are added to a list of visual media content available for presentation on a presentation device associated with the host computer system.