Transfer of data-intensive content between portable devices

摘要

Described herein are technologies that facilitate transfer of data-intensive content between portable telephones. Phones are configured to transmit data indicative of phone location to a proxy server by way of respective cellular network data connections. When a user of a phone wishes to acquire content that is labeled as shareable on another phone, the user of the phone initiates a location-based request, which causes the proxy server to provide a list of phones that are estimated to be in Wi-Fi range of such phone. The user thereafter selects a particular phone, and the proxy server instructs that phone to activate its Wi-Fi radio. The phone of the user additionally activates its Wi-Fi radio, and a peer-to-peer connection between phones is established. Thereafter, rich content is transferrable between the phones.

主权项

1. A method for retrieving shareable content hosted by a host mobile telephone, the method executed by a client mobile telephone, the method comprising:
when a wireless radio of the client mobile telephone is powered off, receiving:
an indication that the host mobile telephone and the client mobile telephone are estimated to be at a distance from one another such that a wireless peer-to-peer connection is able to be established between the host mobile telephone and the client mobile telephone; andan identity of the shareable content hosted by the host mobile telephone; responsive to receiving the indication and the identity of the shareable content, powering on the wireless radio of the client mobile telephone; responsive to powering on the wireless radio of the client mobile telephone, establishing the wireless peer-to-peer connection with the host mobile telephone by way of the wireless radio; transmitting a request to the host mobile telephone over the wireless peer-to-peer connection, the request identifies the shareable content; and receiving the shareable content from the host mobile telephone by way of the wireless peer-to-peer connection.