Wireless data server for transient clients

• US 20040215712A1
• Filed: 04/11/2003
• Published: 10/28/2004
• Est. Priority Date: 04/11/2003
• Status: Abandoned Application

• Current Assignee: Michael Roy Henricks
• Original Assignee: Michael Roy Henricks
• Inventors: Henricks, Michael Roy
• Application Number:
  US10/410,862
• Publication Number:
  US 20040215712A1
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 709/203
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9537 Spatial or temporal dependent retrieval, e.g. spatiotemporal queries
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/14 Session management for real-time applications in data packet communications networks H04L65/1066
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/52 specially adapted for the location of the user terminal
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]

Abstract

A system to distribute HTML, audio, and other data to transient computer clients. The system automatically downloads the data when the client is in range and prepares the data for display even when the user is out of the server'"'"'s range. The invention includes the organization of the displayed data and a means to update and monitor the remote servers.

Claims

1. A means to automatically transfer data from a wireless network server to a mobile client computer as it passes within range of a server.

2. The integration of the data received in (1) into a growing data set kept on the client computer.

3. A means to organize web pages gathered as in (1) into a cohesive web site using the geographical relationships of the sites to one another by grouping them according to a grid and updating a bitmap and HTML data to create a composite navigational display.

4. The use of “

web-server”

software running on the client to provide mobile access to the data organized in (3).

5. Using the data gathered in (1) for audio or text tour guides.

6. A means to monitor and update the remote server computers as in (1) via a moving maintenance client.

7. In (1), the use of a broadcast port on the wireless network to efficiently deliver the sequential data packets to multiple clients at once.

8. In (7), the use of individual sockets for each client to request the server re-send a missing or damaged packet.