Personal digital assistant and information transmission apparatus for use with the personal digital assistant

• US 6,487,597 B1
• Filed: 08/03/1999
• Issued: 11/26/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 08/06/1998
• Status: Expired due to Term

• Current Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Original Assignee: Casio Computer Company Limited
• Inventors: Horie, Takuya, Yanagisawa, Masaaki
• Primary Examiner(s): Meky, Moustafa M.
• Application Number:
  US09/366,077
• Time in Patent Office: 1,211 Days
• Field of Search: 709/200, 709/201, 709/203, 709/217, 709/218, 709/219, 709/227, 709/228, 709/229, 709/230, 709/231, 709/232
• US Class Current: 709/227
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 3/0481 based on specific properties of the displayed interaction object or a metaphor-based environment, e.g. interaction with desktop elements like windows or icons, or assisted by a cursor's changing behaviour or appearance

Abstract

An information transmission apparatus is provided which has a connection unit for connection with a personal digital assistant in a wired, wireless or optical manner for transmitting information. When a portion of data displayed by an active one of programs is specified and a transmission command is given, the transmission apparatus transmits the specified portion of the data as a new file to the personal digital assistant, which receives the transmitted file, stores the same in a data area depending on the kind of the file, and displays the file in a display form depending on the kind of the file.

Claims

1. An information display apparatus comprising:

a display device;

data specifying for specifying any range of data displayed on said display device; and

file producing and registering means for automatically producing a file containing data in the specified range, for automatically giving the file a file name which includes predetermined data in the specified range, and for automatically registering the produced file.

2. The information display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said file producing and registering means comprises first registering means for registering the data in the specified range in a file form corresponding to a form of the data in the specified range.

3. The information display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first registering means comprises:

data kind detecting means for detecting a kind of the data in the specified range; and

second registering means for registering the data in the specified range in the file form depending on the kind of data detected by said data kind detecting means.

4. The information display apparatus according to claim 3, wherein the data kind detecting means detects the kind of the data in the specified range based on a predetermined delimiter contained in the data in the specified range.

5. The information display apparatus according to claim 2, wherein said first registering means, responsive to a user specifying the file form, registers the data in the specified range in the file form depending on the form of the data in the specified range.

6. The information display apparatus according to claim 1, wherein said file producing and registering means comprises:

divided file producing means for determining whether or not a quantity of the data in the specified range exceeds a predetermined quantity, for dividing the data in the specified range into a plurality of data pieces if the quantity of the data in the specified range exceeds the predetermined quantity, and for producing a like number of subfiles containing the divided plurality of data pieces, respectively, each subfile having a different name including the file name and additional data; and

divided file registering means for registering the respective subfiles produced by said divided file producing means.

8. The information display apparatus according to claim 1, further comprising sending means for sending the file registered by said file producing and registering means to an external portable information terminal.

7. The information display apparatus according to claim wherein said divided file producing means comprises dividing means for dividing the data in the specified range into the plurality of data pieces so that data in one subfile overlaps with data in an adjacent subfile at a boundary formed therebetween.

9. A computer readable program for causing a computer to perform a process comprising:

automatically producing a file containing data in a range specified by a user out of data displayed on a display device; and

automatically giving the file a name which includes predetermined data in the specified range, and automatically registering the produced file.

10. The computer readable program according to claim 9, wherein the program further enables the computer to send the registered file to an external portable information terminal.