Mobile device methods for enabling pervasive wireless digital media

A wireless mobile data output method for rendering content to one or more wireless output devices from a wireless information apparatus, the content including at least one of an image, graphics, text, video and audio data and being at least partly accessible with the wireless information apparatus, the wireless information apparatus being a distinct device from the one or more wireless output devices and including a wireless communication unit for communicating with the one or more wireless output devices, the wireless information apparatus further including a graphical user interface for interacting with a user, the wireless mobile data output method comprising:

• opening a wireless communication channel at the wireless information apparatus;
• receiving, over the wireless communication channel, at least an indication associated with the one or more wireless output devices,
• authenticating wireless access to the one or more wireless output devices by sending, over the wireless communication channel, one or more security keys, and if the authentication associated with an output device is successful, establishing a secured wireless access from the wireless information apparatus to the output device;
• obtaining, at the wireless information apparatus, at least part of the content;
• conforming, at the wireless information apparatus, at least part of the content into one or more output images and encoding the one or more output images into one or more image layers, at least one image layer including includes encoding with compression;
• generating, at the wireless information apparatus, a device independent intermediate output data that includes said one or more output images, the device independent intermediate output data conforming at least partly to a predefined or standard compression method, format or language;
• and
• delivering the device independent intermediate output data over the secured wireless access to the output device for rendering of the content.

A method of mobile wireless data output from a wireless information apparatus with access to at least part of content to a wireless output device, wherein the wireless information apparatus includes at least one wireless communication unit for communicating with one or more wireless output devices, and a graphical user interface for interacting with a user, the wireless information apparatus being a distinct device from the wireless output device, the mobile wireless data output method comprising:

• obtaining, at the wireless information apparatus, at least part of the content;
• opening a wireless communication channel;
• discovering wirelessly one or more wireless output devices that are available for wireless connection;
• receiving, over the wireless communication channel, an attribute corresponding to each discovered wireless output device, the attribute including one or more of a name, an identity, a device type, a device address, and an indication of a supported output device profile;
• selecting a wireless output device from among the one or more discovered wireless output devices based, at least in part, on the received attribute;
• obtaining a security key at the wireless information apparatus, the security key enabling wireless data transfer to the selected wireless output device;
• sending at least part of the security key over the wireless communication channel and requesting the selected wireless output device to open a secured wireless connection for data transfer;
• receiving, over the wireless communication channel, a response related to an authentication;
• and if the received response is positive, establishing a secured wireless access between the wireless information apparatus and the selected wireless output device;
• conforming, at the wireless information apparatus, at least part of the content into output data encoded with a format or language for transmitting to the selected wireless output device;
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• transmitting the output data from the wireless information apparatus to the selected wireless output device over said secured wireless connection for rendering of the content.