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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.

Date of Patent:
Nov. 07, 2017

Filed:

Nov. 30, 2012
Applicant:

Lenovo (Singapore) Pte. Ltd., Singpaore, SG;

Inventors:

Philip Lee Childs, Durham, NC (US);

Michael Terrell Vanover, Raleigh, NC (US);

Hui Wang, Beijing, CN;

Shaowei Chen, Beijing, CN;

Assignee:
Attorney:
Primary Examiner:
Assistant Examiner:
Int. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2006.01);
U.S. Cl.
CPC ...
H04N 5/76 (2013.01);
Abstract

An aspect provides a method, including: ascertaining, at a first device, a request to transfer media data to another device; determining, at the first device, a plurality of connected devices for potential transfer of media data corresponding to the request; providing, at the first device, a disambiguation cue to a user; ascertaining via the disambiguation cue a target device from the plurality of connected devices for transfer of the media data; and transferring the media data to the target device. Other aspects are described and claimed.


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