Cross device information exchange using gestures and locations

摘要

A method, apparatus and software related product (e.g., a computer readable memory) are presented for exchanging information between two or more devices when they are in a close proximity using gestures and web technologies. According to an embodiment, the identification of one or more devices using gestures is asynchronous, so that the two or more devices do not have to be shaken together at the same time synchronously, which is one advantage over conventional approaches. Another advantage is that various embodiments described herein do not require a user to download any special software (application), and it can work on all platforms, for example, with HTML5-compliant browsers.

主权项

1. A method comprising:
receiving, by a server from a first device, a request for a gesture token, the request comprising a location of the first device; in response to the receiving of the request, determining, by the server, a first gesture token for the first device; storing, by the server, a first device entry comprising the location of the first device and the first gesture token in a data storage; in response to the receiving of the request for the gesture token, sending, by the server, a signal comprising the first gesture token to the first device, so that the predefined mobile device movement is provided to the mobile device in response to information displayed on the first device, the displayed information comprising instructions about the predefined mobile device movement and about a web page to be navigated to by the mobile device; receiving, by the server from a mobile device, a captured signal comprising a confirmation of detecting, by the mobile device, a predefined mobile device movement, the captured signal further comprising a location of the mobile device, the captured signal being asynchronous in time with the received request for the gesture token; matching, by the server, the received capturing signal to stored entries comprising the first device entry; and when a match is uniquely found between the location of the first device and the location of the mobile device and between the first gesture token and the predefined mobile device movement, performing, by the server, one or more actions related to one or more of the first device and the mobile device.