Internet-phone or smart phone with applications for managing and playing digital content, and a mobile device operating system supporting application programming interface

A method for transferring 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 being a mobile and wireless information apparatus, the Internet-Phone including:

• a voice communication function,
• a messaging application,
• an image acquisition function for image data acquisition,
• a digital imaging application,
• an audio application,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory or storage unit for storing at least part of the digital content,
• a document creation application, an e-mail application,
• an Internet browsing application,
• an operating system providing an object model or an application programming interface (API) to facilitate one or more applications that includes at least one of said audio application, said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application interfacing device management applications at the Internet-Phone,
• output manager software for managing at least part the digital content, 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, at the Internet-Phone over the radio frequency wireless communication, the 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 the radio frequency wireless communication;
• obtaining authentication or security information at the Internet-Phone;
• establishing a restricted radio frequency wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the one or more wireless output devices for transferring at least part of the digital content from the Internet-Phone to the one or more wireless output devices, the establishing of the restricted radio frequency wireless connection from the Internet-Phone to the one or more output devices being related to the authentication or the security information obtained at the Internet-Phone;
• 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 at least one of said audio application, 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 the at least part of the selected digital document or digital content being facilitated at least in part by the object model or the application programming interface (API) provided by the Internet-Phone operating system;
• conforming, by the output manager software in the Internet-Phone, output data from the at least part of the selected digital document or digital content received from the one or more applications, the output data being in accordance at least in part to at least one of a format, a standard, a language or an instruction suitable for transferring to the selected wireless output device over the established restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection;
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• transferring, through the wireless communication unit of the Internet-Phone and over the restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection, at least part of the output data to the selected wireless output device;
• whereby, at least part of the selected digital document or digital content from at least one of said audio application, said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application, individually or in any combination, included in the Internet-Phone are transferred from the Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device over the established restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection.

An Internet-Phone including Internet-Phone system software containing a program of commands executable by a processor in the Internet-Phone to facilitate transfer 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 function,
• a messaging application,
• an image acquisition function for image data acquisition,
• a digital imaging application,
• an audio application,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory or storage 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,
• output manager software that when executed by the processing unit provides for one or more functions related to at least one of a decoding, a decrypting, an encrypting, a compressing, a decompressing, and an encoding, individually or in any combination, on the digital content,
• 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 facilitate the Internet-Phone to:
• discover, at the Internet-Phone, the 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 one of the one or more wireless output devices from the user through the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• obtain 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 that includes authentication or security procedures;
• provide an object model or application programming interface (API) to one or more applications in the Internet-Phone that includes at least one of said audio application, 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 the at least part of the selected digital content to the one or more applications that includes at least one of said audio application, 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 the one or more applications that includes at least one of said audio application, said e-mail application, said digital imaging application, said document creation application, and said Internet browsing application to the output manager software for conforming an output data from the at least part of the selected digital content, the output data being in accordance at least in part to at least one of a format, a standard, a language or an instruction suitable for sending to the selected wireless output device over the established restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection;
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• transfer, over the restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection through the wireless communication unit, the output data to the selected wireless output device;
• whereby, the Internet-Phone system software enables one or more applications in the Internet-Phone to transfer at least part of the selected digital content from the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone to the selected wireless output device over the restricted radio frequency wireless communication connection established between the Internet-Phone and the selected wireless output device.

In an Internet-Phone, an output manager for managing transfer 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 function,
• a messaging application,
• a touch sensitive screen,
• an image acquisition function for image data acquisition,
• a graphical user interface for interacting with a user over the said touch sensitive screen,
• a processing unit,
• a memory or storage unit for storing at least part of the digital content,
• an Internet-Phone operating system having an object model or an application programming interface (API) for interfacing with one or more applications at the Internet-Phone, and
• a wireless communication unit that includes a radio frequency controller for establishing radio frequency wireless communication connection between the Internet-Phone and the wireless output device that is a distinct device from the Internet-Phone, the output manager in the Internet-Phone comprising:
• software for communicating with the operating system of the Internet-Phone over the object model or the application programming interface (API) provided by the Internet-Phone operating system;
• software for providing, by the output manager in the Internet-Phone, via the graphical user interface, at least an indication related to the wireless output device to the user over the touch sensitive screen of the Internet-Phone;
• software for obtaining, by the output manager, authentication or security information at the Internet-Phone for accessing service,
• 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 obtaining, by the output manager in the Internet-Phone, at least part of the selected digital content from the memory or storage unit in the Internet-Phone;
• software for receiving, by the output manager at the Internet-Phone, one or more components or data from the wireless output device;
• software for conforming, by the output manager, at least part of the selected digital content into output data, the output data being in accordance at least in part to at least one of a format, a standard, a language, or an instruction suitable for transferring to the wireless output device over the established radio frequency wireless communication connection, and said conforming the output data from the selected digital content includes at least one of an encoding operation, a decoding operation, an encryption operation, a decryption operation, a decompression operation, or a compression operation, individually or in any combination;
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• software for transferring, by the output manager over the radio frequency wireless communication connection to the wireless output device, at least part of the output data;
• whereby, the output manager software included in the mobile and wireless Internet-Phone, when executed by the processing unit, enables the user to transfer at least part of the selected digital content from the Internet-Phone to the wireless output device over the established wireless communication radio frequency connection between the Internet-Phone and the wireless output device.