Method and apparatus pertaining to the sharing of content

摘要

A control circuit co-displays a share-content selection opportunity (such as, but not limited to, a user-selectable icon button) when also displaying shareable content. Upon detecting selection of this share-content selection opportunity, the control circuit displays a plurality of different selectable content-sharing services. By one approach these different selectable content-sharing services are displayed in a window that partially, but not fully, overlies the shareable content. These teachings also provide for displaying a preselected service window for a given one of the plurality of different selectable content-sharing services. The preselected service can be selected, for example, on the basis of having been a most-recently selected one of the different selectable content-sharing services (either in general or in conjunction with the particular application as corresponds to the shareable content).

主权项

1. A method comprising:
displaying content while also co-displaying a share-content selection opportunity; detecting selection of the share-content selection opportunity; and in response to the detection, displaying a plurality of different selectable content-sharing services by which a user can share the content, wherein the plurality of different selectable content-sharing services comprises at least one service from each of:
a personal-forwarding service;a publishing service; anda transfer service to share the content with another specifically-targeted physical device, wherein upon detecting selection of the share-content selection opportunity, displaying a preselected service window for a given one of the plurality of different selectable content-sharing services by which a user can share the content, wherein the preselected service window is automatically preselected based at least upon being a most-recently selected one of the different selectable content-sharing services for the particular type of content that is now to be shared.