Notifying remote devices of available content

1. A method of operating a portable electronic device including a display screen, a user interface, a controller, a memory and a transceiver, the method comprising:

monitoring external communications of the portable electronic device to determine when the portable electronic device has downloaded a resource, wherein the resource is an executable application program or an item of content;

creating a database record that associates a network address of a remote server from which the resource was downloaded with the resource;

executing the resource on the controller;

receiving a snapshot command through the user interface; and

in response to the snapshot command:

determining if the resource executing on the controller is an application program or item of content;

capturing a snapshot image of the resource;

obtaining the network address of the remote server from which the resource was downloaded from the database record for the resource;

building a metadata field containing the network address of the remote server from which the resource was downloaded; and

storing the metadata field in the snapshot image.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein obtaining the network address comprises determining a uniform resource indicator (URI) associated with the remote server.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein obtaining the network address comprises retrieving a URI from a table of URI entries associated with resources stored in the portable electronic device and/or retrieving the URI from the resource.

4. The method of claim 1 , wherein the metadata field is an Exif metadata field.

5. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

receiving a forward command through the user interface; and

in response to the forward command, transmitting the snapshot image to a remote terminal using the transceiver.

6. The method of claim 1 , further comprising:

generating a database including the created database records for all resources stored on the electronic device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the snapshot image for an application program comprises a screenshot image of content generated by the application program and displayed within the user interface, and wherein the snapshot image for an item of content comprises a thumbnail image of the item of content.

8. The method of claim 7 , wherein the screenshot image of content generated by the application program comprises a still image and/or a video image.

9. A portable electronic device, comprising:

a display screen configured to display still and/or video images;

a user interface configured to receive a user input;

a transceiver configured to establish a wireless communications link with a remote server and to download a resource that includes an executable application and an item of content from the remote server; and

a controller configured to monitor external communications of the portable electronic device to determine when the resource is downloaded to the portable external communications device, to execute the resource, to receive a snapshot command through the user interface during execution of the resource, and in response to the snapshot command, to determine if the resource executing on the controller is the executable application or the item of content, to capture a snapshot image of the resource, to determine a network address of the remote server from which the resource was downloaded from a database record that associates the network address of the remote server from which the resource was downloaded with the resource, to build a metadata field that contains the network address of the remote server from which the resource was loaded and to store, in a memory of the portable electronic device, the metadata field in the snapshot image.

10. The portable electronic device of claim 9 , the controller is configured to determine the network address by retrieving a uniform resource indicator (URI) from a table of URI entries associated with resources stored in the portable electronic device.

11. The portable electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the snapshot image of the resource comprises an image displayed on the display screen, and the controller is configured to generate metadata including the network address and to include the metadata in the snapshot image.

12. The portable electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the controller is further configured to receive a forward command through the user interface, and in response to the forward command, to transmit the snapshot image to a remote terminal using the transceiver.

13. The portable electronic device of claim 9 , wherein the controller is further configured to store the network address of the remote server in a database, and to associate the network address with the resource in the database.