Portable high speed internet access device
First Claim
1. A method to view Internet content, the method comprising:
- displaying in a first portion of a display of a device a user interface image including one or more buttons for web browsing;
sending a request for a web page from the device to a remote server;
receiving at the device from the remote server in a compressed format a web page image, the web page image being rendered at the remote server from the entire web page which the remote server retrieves from the Internet in response to the request, the web page including text and graphics; and
under exclusive control of the device, selectively displaying a portion of the web page image in a second portion of the display of the device according a user input to the device while the user interface image is displayed in the first portion of the display.
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Abstract
The invention discloses a portable device providing access to the Internet. A host computer runs a browser taking information received from the Internet, renders it onto a virtual display in memory, reduces the color depth, compress and sends it to the device. Thus, the user views a bit map or raster image of a Web page on the device, which also contains a browser software program, that runs on the device containing its own window. This window contains buttons or icons providing web functions and implements scrolling on the web page received with respect to the window. The windows of the browsers in the host computer and device are adjustable in size and may be set to match for text formatting. The size of the web page received from the Internet is the size sent to the device when converted to an image, which varies with each web page received.
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33 Claims
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1. A method to view Internet content, the method comprising:
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displaying in a first portion of a display of a device a user interface image including one or more buttons for web browsing; sending a request for a web page from the device to a remote server; receiving at the device from the remote server in a compressed format a web page image, the web page image being rendered at the remote server from the entire web page which the remote server retrieves from the Internet in response to the request, the web page including text and graphics; and under exclusive control of the device, selectively displaying a portion of the web page image in a second portion of the display of the device according a user input to the device while the user interface image is displayed in the first portion of the display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11)
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12. A device to view Internet content, the device comprising:
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means for displaying in a first portion of the display of a device a user interface image including one or more buttons for web browsing; means for sending a request for a web page from the device to a remote server; means for receiving at the device from the remote server in a compressed format a web page image, the web page image being rendered at the remote server from the entire web page which the remote server retrieves from the Internet in response to the request, the web page including text and graphics; and means for selectively displaying a portion of the web page image, under exclusive control of the device, in a second portion of the display of the device according a user input to the device while the user interface image is displayed in the first portion of the display. - View Dependent Claims (13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 21, 22)
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23. A machine readable medium containing executable computer program instructions which when executed by a data processing system cause said system to perform a method to view Internet content, the method comprising:
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displaying in a first portion of a display of a device a user interface image including one or more buttons for web browsing; sending a request for a web page from the device to a remote server; receiving at the device from the remote server in a compressed format a web page image, the web page image being rendered at the remote server from the entire web page which the remote server retrieves from the Internet in response to the request, the web page including text and graphics; and under exclusive control of the device, selectively displaying a portion of the web page image in a second portion of the display of the device according a user input to the device while the user interface image is displayed in the first portion of the display. - View Dependent Claims (24, 25, 26, 27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33)
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