Display on wireless mobile device
AssigneeHewlett-Packard Development Company, L.P.
InventorsMichael Strittmatter, Leo Robert Blume, Phillip A. McCoog, Rabindra Pathak
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Abstract
In one embodiment, a system includes a search logic for a mobile device. The search logic is configured to perform a discovery process that causes a radio frequency transceiver to discover electronic devices having a compatible radio frequency transceiver. The search logic is configured to execute asynchronously with one or more different processes. A display logic is configured to display a device identifier for each of the electronic devices that are discovered.
Claims22
A method comprising:
- receiving data over a wireless data connection indicative of presence of compatible components;
- displaying a selection of the compatible components;
- continued receiving data further identifying the compatible components;
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- changing the displayed selection of compatible components in accordance with a convention and based on the continued receipt of data;
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- wherein the method is performed automatically by a wireless mobile device.
2 The method as set forth in claim 1, where the changing comprises reordering the displayed selection of compatible components.
A mobile device comprising:
- wireless transceiver logic configured for selective data communication with other wireless devices;
- search logic having access to data communicated from the other wireless devices, the search logic configured to organize the data communicated from the other wireless devices and subsequently reorganize the data based on characteristics including the data communicated from the other wireless devices;
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- a display in operative connection with the search logic, the display capable of displaying the organized data.
An article of manufacture embodied in computer-readable medium for use in a device configured to display results of a search for compatible wireless devices, the article of manufacture comprising:
- wireless transceiver logic configured to cause a processor to receive characteristic data from compatible wireless devices;
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- display logic configured to cause a processor to access the characteristic data presently communicated from the compatible wireless devices, where the display logic iteratively arranges representations of individual compatible wireless devices according to an algorithm using the data presently communicated, and subsequent data received.
A method, comprising:
- wirelessly receiving, by a mobile phone, information about a printer presently capable of wirelessly receiving a print job from the mobile phone;
- displaying, by the mobile phone, an icon to represent the printer;
- while displaying the icon, wirelessly receiving, by the mobile phone, additional information about the printer;
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- dynamically updating, by the mobile phone, the displayed icon so as to visually indicate to a user the additional information.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.