Strategies for Sending Content to a Target Device
AssigneeMicrosoft Corporation
InventorsDarren A. Apfel, Suresh Parameshwar, Sarthak D. Shah, Zankar P. Thakkar
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Abstract
A strategy is described for forwarding content accessed using a first device to a second device. For instance, the first device can comprise a personal computer and the second device can comprise a mobile telephone. The strategy employs general purpose content-forwarding (CF) functionality. Different providers of content can rely on the same general purpose CF functionality to forward content to the second device, without requiring time-intensive and cumbersome manual modification of the CF functionality for each application.
Claims20
A method for sending content to a target address, comprising:
- receiving at least one parameter associated with a context in which a user is invoking content-forwarding functionality;
- customizing the content-forwarding functionality based on said at least one parameter, to provide customized content-forwarding functionality;
- and
- providing the customized content-forwarding functionality to the user, wherein the customized content-forwarding functionality allows the user to forward content to the target address.
The method of claim, wherein the content that is forwarded to the target device comprises one or more of:
- a search result;
- a map;
- an image;
- audio information;
- or
- configuration information.
A system for sending content to a target address, comprising:
- a first device;
- a second device associated with the target address;
- a base user interface application that provides a base user interface presentation;
- an interface provider for providing a content-forwarding user interface presentation, for display to a user at the first device in conjunction with the base user interface presentation;
- and
- request processing functionality for processing request information entered by the user at the first device, via the content-forwarding user interface presentation,
- wherein the request information enables the request processing functionality to forward content to the second device.
A method for populating a base user interface presentation with at least one content-forwarding icon:
- identifying a base user interface presentation;
- analyzing the base user interface presentation to determine whether it contains at least one information item that is deemed potentially desirable to send to a target address, based on at least one selection criterion;
- and
- annotating said at least one information item with said at least one content-forwarding icon, wherein said at least one content-forwarding icon can be invoked by a user to send said at least one information item to the target address.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.