Gestures for sharing content between multiple devices

1. A method for sharing multimedia content, comprising:

detecting selection of multimedia content at a first device, the selection causing the multimedia content to be automatically rendered on a display portion of the first device;

detecting selection of an icon of a second device from a user interface on the first device, wherein the user interface identifies icons of a plurality of devices belonging to one or more users that have an established communication pairing with the first device; and

identifying a gesture made with the first device while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the first device, the gesture acting as a trigger for sharing the multimedia content currently rendering on the first device with the second device, the gesture causing the multimedia content to be automatically transmitted to the second device for rendering at a display of the second device, wherein the gesture is a hold-and-throw gesture defined as a combination of a hold action and a throw action, wherein the throw action is performed with a physical action of movement of the first device away from a user providing the gesture while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the first device with the hold action, and

wherein the operations are performed by a processor.

2. The method of claim 1 , wherein each of the plurality of icons represents one of a distinct second device, a user associated with the distinct second device, a group of distinct second devices, or a group of users associated with the distinct second devices that have established communication pairing with the first device.

3. The method of claim 2 , wherein each of the icons is associated with a selection indicator such that the selection of a particular icon from the icons causes the selection indicator of the particular icon to be activated for duration of the selection.

4. The method of claim 1 , further includes updating a share indicator at the first device in response to sharing of the multimedia content with the second device.

5. The method of claim 4 , wherein the share indicator is any one of a haptic feedback, a text box, a check box, an audio feedback, a static image, an animated image, or any combinations thereof.

6. The method of claim 1 , wherein the first device is a mobile computing device.

7. The method of claim 1 , wherein the second device is one of a television used for rendering the selected multimedia content publicly or a mobile computing device used for rendering the selected multimedia content privately.

8. The method of claim 1 , further includes defining attributes for the multimedia content for private sharing.

9. The method of claim 1 , further includes defining attributes for the multimedia content for public sharing.

10. The method of claim 1 , wherein the communication pairing between the first device and the second device is established using a streaming protocol.

11. The method of claim 1 , wherein rendering at the display further includes promoting the multimedia content shared by a user with a main device for rendering in a main portion based on number of other users that have shared the multimedia content, wherein the second device is a main device.

12. The method of claim 1 , wherein the multimedia content includes multimedia content provided by one or more content providers, multimedia content generated and shared by the user initiating the selection of the second device, multimedia content generated and shared by one or more other users, or any combinations thereof.

13. A method for retrieving multimedia content, comprising:

detecting multimedia content being rendered on a display portion of a first device;

detecting selection of an icon of a second device at a user interface rendered on the first device, wherein the user interface identifies icons of a plurality of devices that have established communication pairing with the first device; and

identifying a gesture made with the first device while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the user interface of the first device, the gesture acting as a trigger causing retrieval of the multimedia content currently rendering on the second device, the retrieval causing the multimedia content to be rendered at the display portion of the first device, wherein the gesture is a hold-and-grasp gesture defined as a combination of a hold action and a grasp action, wherein the grasp action is performed with a physical action of movement motion of the first device toward a user providing the gesture while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the first device with the hold action, and

wherein the operations are performed by a processor.

14. The method of claim 13 , wherein the multimedia content is shared multimedia content.

15. The method of claim 13 , wherein each of the plurality of icons representing a distinct device or a user representing the distinct device that has multimedia content for sharing.

16. The method of claim 13 , wherein the second device is a television or a mobile computing device.

17. The method of claim 13 , wherein the first device is a mobile computing device.

18. A system for sharing multimedia content, comprising:

a client device configured to render multimedia content on a display portion of the client device, the client device equipped with a gesture recognition application configured to be executed on a processor associated with the client device, the gesture recognition application including,

a device selector module configured to detect selection of an icon of a second device from a user interface rendered at the display portion of the client device and to activate a selection indicator for the selected second device at the user interface;

a gesture interpreter configured to detect gesture made with the client device while the icon of the second device continues to be selected on the user interface and triggering sharing of the multimedia content between the client device and the second device, wherein the sharing of the multimedia content includes transmitting the multimedia content to the second device for rendering at the display portion of the second device when the gesture is a hold-and-throw gesture defined as a combination of a hold action and a throw action, wherein the throw action is performed with a physical action of movement of the client device away from a user providing the gesture while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the client device with the hold action, or retrieving the multimedia content currently rendering on the second device for automatic rendition at the display portion of the client device, when the gesture is a hold-and-grasp gesture defined as a combination of a hold action and a grasp action, wherein the grasp action is performed with a physical action of movement of the client device toward the user providing the gesture while the icon of the second device continues to be selected at the client device with the hold action.

19. The system of claim 18 , wherein the client device is a mobile device and the second device is one of mobile device or a television.