Collaborative phone-based file exchange

摘要

A collaborative phone-based file exchange technique that wirelessly synchronizes a user's work context with his or her mobile phone and makes this context readily available and sharable in collaborative situations. When the user is away from their desk, collaboration with others is possible by sharing/downloading between the mobile phone and a paired PC, which may be a colleague's computer or a meeting room workstation/computer. When the user returns to their office, any recently downloaded files are automatically synchronized back to their office PC.

主权项

1. A computer-implemented process for sharing and displaying files using one or more mobile phones and a computing device, comprising:
a first mobile phone locating a first computing device that is sending a meeting broadcast; the first mobile phone acknowledging the meeting broadcast to the first computing device; receiving at the first mobile phone meeting parameters from the first computing device; and the first mobile phone participating in a meeting wherein the first computing device manages the meeting by allowing one or more mobile phone users to display at least one file during the conduct of a meeting on a shared meeting room display to share and collaboratively manipulate the file displayed on the shared meeting room display as the file is being manipulated using their mobile phones; and automatically, without user action, synchronizing any files shared on the shared meeting room display that were downloaded to the first mobile phone to files on a second computing device.