Method of transmitting network material to handheld devices

• US 20030065745A1
• Filed: 10/01/2001
• Published: 04/03/2003
• Est. Priority Date: 10/01/2001
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Imirage Incorporated
• Original Assignee: Imirage Incorporated
• Inventors: Ludlow, Walter James, Wolfe, Lawrence V.
• Application Number:
  US09/968,208
• Publication Number:
  US 20030065745A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/219
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/02 based on web technology, e.g. hypertext transfer protocol [HTTP]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/561 Adding application-functional data or data for application control, e.g. adding metadata
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

The present invention is a method of providing information to the user of a global computer network comprising the steps of: (a) marking pieces of material from a computer readable page; (b) receiving from a handheld device a request for information from the computer readable page; (c) extracting the marked pieces of material from the computer readable page; and (d) transmitting the marked pieces of material to the handheld device.

Claims

1. A method of providing information to the user of a global computer network comprising the steps of:

(a) marking pieces of material from a computer readable page;

(b) receiving from a handheld device a request for information from said computer readable page;

(c) extracting said marked pieces of material from said computer readable page; and

(d) transmitting said marked pieces of material to said handheld device.

2. The method of claim 1 further comprising the steps of determining what type of handheld device is requesting said information and transmitting said marked pieces of material in a form particularly suitable for display on said handheld device.

3. The method of claim 1 further comprising the step of contacting an existing server to provide said computer readable page between steps (c) and (d).

4. The method of claim 1, wherein said step of marking pieces of material includes adding identifiable characters to the existing code comprising said material.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein said marked pieces of material are first identified by the owner of said computer readable page and then marked.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein said marked pieces of material comprise all of the text from the computer readable page.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein said request for information made by said handheld device is received from a WAN.

8. The method of claim 1, wherein said request for information made by said handheld device is received from a LAN.

9. A method of providing information to the user of a global computer network comprising the steps of:

(a) identifying pieces of material from an existing computer readable page, wherein said computer readable page is viewable to a user of a computer network;

(b) marking said identified pieces of material from said computer readable page;

(c) receiving from a handheld device a request for information from said computer readable page;

(d) contacting an existing server to provide said computer readable page;

(e) receiving from said existing server said computer readable page;

(f) extracting said marked pieces of material from said computer readable page; and

(g) transmitting said marked pieces of material to said handheld device.

10. The method of claim 9 further comprising the steps of determining what type of handheld device is requesting said information and transmitting said marked pieces of material in a form particularly suitable for display on said handheld device.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein said step of marking pieces of material includes adding identifiable characters to the existing code comprising said material.

12. The method of claim 9, wherein said marked pieces of material are first identified by the owner of said computer readable page and then marked.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein said marked pieces of material comprise all of the text from the computer readable page.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein said request for information made by said handheld device is received from a wireless server.

15. A method of providing information to the user of a global computer network comprising the steps of:

(a) marking pieces of material from a computer readable page, said computer readable page hosted by a first server;

(b) receiving on a second server a request from a handheld device for information from said computer readable page;

(c) contacting said first server and obtaining from said first server said computer readable page;

(d) extracting said marked pieces of material from said computer readable page; and

(e) transmitting said marked pieces of material from said second server to said handheld device.