US 2018/0027070 A1 · PROXIMITY NETWORK FOR INTERACTING WITH CONTENT OF NEARBY DEVICES

Abstract

Content(s) of nearby device(s) acting as server(s) is presented to be interfaced with at a device acting as a client over a peer-to-peer direct wireless network. Any of the devices can act as a client, a server, or both, concurrently. Once connected, the client device can retrieve, present, interact and operate on the contents of the servers. The content(s) may be presented in the form of an interactive document, a filesystem volume, and/or an API, different from the original structure in which the content(s) are stored at each server. The client directly interacts and operates on the content(s) of the server(s) according to the client-side presentation. The types of interactions the client may perform can vary by presentation, but generally include viewing, browsing, streaming, downloading, uploading, editing, deleting, tagging, liking, commenting and the like.

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Dependent claims

An electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;
a display coupled to the one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the electronic device is a first electronic device of a plurality of electronic devices, and wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, program the one or more processors to:
connect with a second electronic device of the plurality of electronic devices over a first peer-to-peer wireless network link;
receive, from the second electronic device, over the first peer-to-peer wireless network link, a first intermediate data structure for at least one of a content list or content metadata of one or more content items maintained on the second electronic device;
and
present, on the display, a representation of the at least one of the content list or the content metadata of the one or more content items maintained on the second electronic device.

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A computer-implemented method for browsing and interacting with remote content of a first electronic device at a second electronic device connected over a peer-to-peer wireless network link to the first electronic device, the method comprising:

receiving, by a first electronic device storing data thereon, a request from the second electronic device for at least one of a content list or content metadata corresponding to content items included in the data stored on the first electronic device;
fetching and converting, by the first electronic device, one or more content items corresponding to the content list or content metadata from the stored data into a first intermediate data structure;
and
transmitting, by the first electronic device, the first intermediate data structure of the content metadata or content list of the content items to the second electronic device to at least partially cause the first intermediate data structure to be converted into an interactive presentation form and display the interactive presentation form of the content list or content metadata of the content items stored in the data at the second electronic device.

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An electronic device comprising:

one or more processors;
a display coupled to the one or more processors;
and
one or more computer-readable media storing instructions executable by the one or more processors, wherein the electronic device is a first electronic device of a plurality of electronic devices, and wherein the instructions, when executed by the one or more processors, program the one or more processors to:
connect with a second electronic device over a first peer-to-peer wireless network link;
receive a first access request from the second electronic device for at least one of a content list or content metadata corresponding to data stored thereon;
authorize the second electronic device;
fetch and convert one or more content items corresponding to the content list or content metadata into a first intermediate data structure;
and
send, to the second electronic device, over the first wireless network link, the first intermediate data structure for at least one of a content list or content metadata of one or more content items maintained on the second electronic device.

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Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.

Proximity network for interacting with content of nearby devices

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Proximity network for interacting with content of nearby devices

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Abstract

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