US Patent 7522675 Digital content preview generation and distribution among peer devices

Methods and devices for end-user generation of content previews including selecting digital content stored on a communications device, and generating a content preview on the communications device from the digital content selected based on content transcoding information. In one embodiment, a mobile wireless communications device (300) includes a content preview generator (340) for generating content previews from content stored in memory based on content transcoding information, and a transmitter (380) for sharing the content previews with other mobile wireless communications devices, for example, in peer-to-peer communications.