Zero-click sharing of application context across devices

Patent metadata

Field	Value
Publication number	US-9237189-B2
Application number	US-201313775737-A
Country	US
Kind code	B2
Filing date	Feb 25, 2013
Priority date	May 9, 2011
Publication date	Jan 12, 2016
Grant date	Jan 12, 2016

Abstract

A first client device performs a handoff operation to a second client device by transmitting application information, associated with a first application, to the second client device when the first client device is positioned within a predefined proximity of the second client device. The first application has a first client device user interface state when the handoff operation is performed. Further, the first client device, in response to receiving from another client device application information associated with a second application executed by the other first client device, executes a third application corresponding to the second application with a user interface state corresponding to a user interface state of the other client device.

First claim

What is claimed is:

1. A computer-implemented method, comprising:
establishing, at a first client device, a communication link with a second client device;
receiving, at the first client device, application information associated with a first application executing at the second client device, the second client device having a user interface state of the first application, at least a portion of the application information being received via the communication link; and
executing…

Assignees

• Google Inc

Inventors

• Parks Jason
• Pelly Nicholas Julian
• Hamilton Jeffrey William
• Hamilton Robert William
• Hooft Maarten W

Classifications

• G06F9/4856 Primary

  Physics · mapped topic

• H04L69/329

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04W4/80

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04L67/148

  Electricity · mapped topic

• H04B5/77

  Electricity · mapped topic