System and method for voice activated file transfer

A method comprising:

• storing one or more electronic documents in a memory;
• storing, in the memory a plurality of device connections for an identified user, wherein each device connection is associated with a data device identified by a user selected device name and a data transfer protocol;
• receiving, one or more data interfaces, voice command data from the identified user comprising one or more of the user selected device names;
• determining a data transfer protocol corresponding to a data transfer between devices associated with the two device names;
• selecting a determined data transfer protocol;
• and
• sending the one or more electronic documents to each device associated with the received one or more user selected device names via the one or more data interfaces via the selected data transfer protocol.

A system comprising:

• a multifunction peripheral (MFP) including,
• an MFP processor,
• a data interface including an MFP wireless data interface and a network interface,
• MFP memory storing one or more electronic documents,
• the MFP memory further storing one or more device connections for an identified user, wherein each device connection is associated with a device having a user selected device name, wherein each device having an iOS operating system is associated with an Airdrop transfer protocol using Wi-Fi and Bluetooth, and each device without an iOS operating system is associated with a Bluetooth transfer protocol,
• the MFP processor configured to receive voice command data comprising one or more device names from the identified user via the MFP wireless data interface,
• the MFP processor further configured to determine one or more data transfer protocol corresponding to a data transfers between devices associated with the two or more device names;
• the MFP processor further configured to select one or more determined data transfer protocol;
• and
• the MFP processor further configured to send the one or more electronic documents to each device associated with the each device name in the voice command data via the one or more selected data transfer protocol;
• and
• a portable data device (PDD) including,
• a PDD processor,
• PDD memory,
• a microphone configured to generate the voice command data in accordance with speech input from the identified user, and
• the PDD processor configured to send the voice command data to the MFP wireless data interface via a PDD wireless data interface.