Internet-phone operating system and applications and internet-phone for digital output

A method for outputting digital content from an Internet-Phone to an output device over wireless communication, said Internet-Phone being an Internet enabled smart phone with access to the Internet and a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the Internet-Phone including:

• a voice communication functionality,
• a messaging application,
• a digital camera for image data acquisition,
• a digital imaging application for image editing,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content,
• a document creation application, an e-mail application, and an Internet browsing application, each with access to a least part of the digital content,
• an operating system providing an object model or an application programming interface to facilitate one or more applications that includes said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application access to an output service,
• output manager software for managing output of the digital content to the output device, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Phone and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Phone, the method comprising:
• discovering, with the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Phone over wireless communication, one or more wireless output devices;
• receiving, over the graphical user interface of the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone, at least an indication related to a selected wireless output device from among the one or more wireless output devices discovered over wireless communication with the wireless communication unit;
• obtaining authentication or security information at the Internet-Phone;
• establishing a restricted radio frequency wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device for output of the digital content directly from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device, the established wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device not including an external output server between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device;
• receiving at least an indication of a selected digital document or digital content over the graphical user interface of the Internet-Phone from the user with the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• passing at least part of the selected digital document or digital content from the one or more applications in the Internet-Phone that includes said e-mail application, said document creation application, said digital imaging application and said Internet browsing application to the output manager software in the Internet-Phone, the passing of at least part of the digital document or digital content being facilitated by the object model or the application programming interface provided by the Internet-Phone operating system;
• generating, by the output manager software in the Internet-Phone, an output data from the digital document or digital content received from the one or more applications, the output data being in accordance to a format, a language or an instruction suitable for sending to the selected wireless output device over the established restricted wireless communication connection, and said generating the output data from the digital document or digital content includes an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• sending, through the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Phone, and over the restricted wireless communication connection, the output data to the selected wireless output device for output of the digital document or digital content;
• whereby, the one or more applications that include said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application included in the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone are enabled to output at least part of the digital content from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device over the restricted wireless communication connection established directly between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device.

In an Internet-Phone, Internet-Phone system software containing a program of commands executable by a processor in the Internet-Phone to facilitate output of digital content from the Internet-Phone to a wireless output device, said Internet-Phone being an Internet enabled smart phone with access to Internet and being a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the Internet-Phone including:

• a voice communication functionality,
• a messaging application,
• a digital camera for image data acquisition,
• a digital imaging application for image editing,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content,
• a document creation or document editing application, an e-mail application, and an Internet browsing application, each with access to the digital content,
• an output manager software for encoding digital content into an output data suitable for sending to an output device,
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication between the Internet-Phone and one or more wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Phone, the Internet-Phone system software being further executable by the processor at the Internet-Phone to:
• discover, at the Internet-Phone, one or more wireless output devices via wireless communication with the wireless communication unit;
• receive from the graphical user interface at least an indication of a selected wireless output device from the user through the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• obtain an authentication or security information at the Internet-Phone;
• establish a restricted radio frequency wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device employing at least in part the authentication or security information, the established wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device not including an external output server between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device;
• provide an object model or application programming interface to said one or more applications in the Internet-Phone that includes said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application;
• receive from the graphical user interface at least an indication of a selected digital content from the user through the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• provide the indication of at least part of a selected digital content to one or more applications that includes said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application over the object model or the application programming interface;
• pass at least part of the selected digital content from one or more applications that includes said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application to an output manager software for generating an output data from at least part of the selected digital content, the output data being in accordance to a format, language or instruction suitable for sending to the selected output device over the established wireless communication connection, and said generating the output data from the selected digital content includes an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• send, over the restricted wireless communication connection through the wireless communication unit, the output data to the selected wireless output device for output of at least part of the selected digital content;
• whereby, the Internet-Phone system software enables one or more applications that include said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application included in the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone to output at least part of the selected digital content from the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device over restricted wireless communication connection established directly between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device that does not include an output sever in between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device.

In an Internet-Phone, an output manager for managing output of digital content to a wireless output device, said Internet-Phone being an Internet enabled smart phone with access to Internet and being a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the Internet-Phone includes:

• a voice communication functionality,
• a messaging application,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• a digital camera for image data acquisition,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory unit for storing at least part of the digital content,
• an Internet-Phone operating system having an object model or an application programming interface for communicating with the output manager, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication connection between the Internet-Phone and a selected wireless output devices that are distinct devices from the Internet-Phone, the established radio frequency wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device, the output manager in the Internet-Phone further comprising:
• software for communicating with the operating system of the Internet-Phone over the object model or the application programming interface provided by the Internet-Phone operating system;
• software for receiving, by the output manager in the Internet-Phone, from the graphical user interface, at least an indication related to the selected output device from the user over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• software for obtaining, by the output manager, an authentication or security information at the Internet-Phone,
• software for receiving, by the output manager, from the graphical user interface, at least an indication related to a selected digital content from the user over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• software for receiving, by the output manager in the Internet-Phone, at least part of the digital content from the digital imaging application in the Internet-Phone;
• software for receiving, by the output manager, at the Internet-Phone and over said established radio frequency wireless connection one or more components or data from the selected wireless output device;
• software for conforming, by the output manager, the digital content into an output data, the output data being in accordance to a format, language or instruction suitable for sending to the selected wireless output device over the established radio frequency wireless communication connection, and said conforming the output data from the digital content includes an encoding operation or a compression operation;
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• software for sending, by the output manager over the radio frequency wireless communication connection to the selected wireless output device, the output data for output of the digital content at the selected wireless output device, and the radio frequency wireless connection not including an external output server between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device;
• whereby, the output manager software included in the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone enables the user to output at least part of the digital content from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device over the established wireless communication connection directly between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device that does not include an external output server between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device.