Controller for mobile and pervasive output
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Abstract
Pervasive output capability is provided so that an information apparatus can pervasively output digital content to an output device regardless of the processing power, display screen size and memory space of the information apparatus. This allows small mobile devices with limited display, processing power, and memory to be able to output a digital document (e.g., PDF, HTML, PowerPoint etc) in its full original richness, without resorting to downsizing, truncating, reducing, clipping or otherwise altering the original document. A data output service method for rendering at an output device output content managed from an information apparatus may include obtaining by wireless communication from the information apparatus at least part of a document object relating to the output content, obtaining at least part of an output device object with one or more attributes relating to the output device, and providing the document object and the output device object to a server application operated on a server that is distinct from the information apparatus and the output device, and generating with the server application output data relating to the output device. The output data may then be provided to the output device for rendering the output content as the data output service.
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90 Claims
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1-65. -65. (canceled)
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66. A data output control method that controls interaction between an information apparatus and a selected output device in connection with rendering at the selected output device output content managed with the information apparatus, comprising:
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storing at least part of an output device object having one or more attributes relating to the selected output device; providing the at least part of the output device object to the information apparatus by wireless transmission; and receiving output data from the information apparatus by wireless transmission, the output data relating to the output content managed with the information apparatus, and passing the output data to the selected output device for rendering of the output content. - View Dependent Claims (67, 68, 69, 70, 71, 72, 73, 74, 75, 76, 77, 78, 79)
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80. A data output controller that controls interaction between an information apparatus and a selected output device in connection with the selected output device rendering output content managed with the information apparatus, comprising:
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means for storing at least part of an output device object having one or more attributes relating to the selected output device; means for providing the at least part of the output device object to the information apparatus by wireless communication; and means for receiving output data from the information apparatus, the output data relating to the output content managed with the information apparatus, and for passing the output data to the selected output device for rendering of the output content. - View Dependent Claims (81, 83, 84, 85, 86, 87)
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82. The controller of claim 82 in which the posting or broadcasting includes one or more of a price indicator, a quality of service indicator, and an availability indicator.
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88. In a computer readable medium, data output control software that controls interaction between an information apparatus and a selected output device in connection with the selected output device rendering output content managed with the information apparatus, comprising:
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software for storing at least part of an output device object having one or more attributes relating to the selected output device; software for providing the at least part of the output device object to the information apparatus by wireless transmission; and software for receiving an output data from the information apparatus by wireless transmission, the output data relating to the output content managed with the information apparatus, and for passing the output data to the selected output device for rendering of the output content.
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89. A data output control method that controls interaction between an information apparatus and a selected output device in connection with the selected output device rendering output content managed with the information apparatus, comprising:
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storing at least part of an output device object having one or more attributes relating to the selected output device; providing the at least part of the output device object to the information apparatus; and receiving an output data from the information apparatus, the output data relating to the output content managed with the information apparatus, and passing the output data to the output engine for rendering of the output content at the output device. - View Dependent Claims (90)
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