Copy and Paste Between Devices

Abstract

A device may comprise at least one wireless transceiver, a memory configured to store a local pasteboard, and a processor. The processor may be configured to receive local selections of data to be placed on a local pasteboard, broadcast advertisements indicating that the local data is on the local pasteboard, and wirelessly transmit the local data to remote device pasteboards. The processor may also be configured to receive advertisements indicating that remote data is available on remote pasteboards of other devices, request the remote data in response to a paste command, wirelessly receive the remote data, and paste the remote data.

What is claimed is: 
     
         1 . A method comprising:
 receiving, at a first device, a selection of data to be placed on a first pasteboard of the first device;   wirelessly broadcasting, with the first device, an advertisement comprising information indicative of the presence of the data on the first pasteboard;   wirelessly receiving, at the first device, a request for the data on the first pasteboard from a second device; and   wirelessly transmitting, with the first device, the data on the first pasteboard directly to a second pasteboard of the second device.