Web page searching device for a portable telephone

• US 7,065,529 B1
• Filed: 06/07/2000
• Issued: 06/20/2006
• Est. Priority Date: 05/24/2000
• Status: Expired due to Fees

• Current Assignee: Wedge Co., Ltd.
• Original Assignee: Wedge Co., Ltd.
• Inventors: Watanabe, Shigeo
• Primary Examiner(s): Gaffin, Jeffrey
• Assistant Examiner(s): Alaubaidi, Haythim
• Application Number:
  US10/296,316
• Time in Patent Office: 2,204 Days
• Field of Search: 707/3, 707/10, 707/102
• US Class Current: 1/1
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/957 Browsing optimisation, e.g. caching or content distillation
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/04 specially adapted for terminals or networks with limited capabilities; specially adapted for terminal portability
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/289 Intermediate processing functionally located close to the data consumer application, e.g. in same machine, in same home or in same sub-network
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/564 Enhancement of application control based on intercepted application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/75 Indicating network or usage conditions on the user display
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 69/329 in the application layer [OSI layer 7]
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 9/40 Network security protocols
• CPC Class Codes: H04M 1/72445 for supporting Internet browser applications
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99943 Generating database or data structure, e.g. via user interface

Abstract

To provide a web page searching device for a portable telephone, the device to search data and transmit search results as a web page to the terminal device of a user wishing to acquire such data using the web display function in a portable telephone. A web page searching device for a portable telephone comprises at least a web server and a mail server for providing data via the Internet. The web page searching device further comprises a web publisher database for creating a web page and a web publication database. The web server comprises a function for transmitting web pages to user terminal devices, the web pages including a region part, a category search part, a keyword search part, the results of these searches, and a portable telephone display part replicating the web page to be displayed in a portable telephone; and a function for transmitting the search results as a web page to the portable telephone of the user.

Claims

1. A web page searching device for a portable telephone employing a computer system that comprises at least a web server and a mail server for providing data via the Internet for searching the data using a user'"'"'s terminal having a screen larger than a display area of the portable telephone to users wishing to acquire data with a web display function of portable telephones, the web page searching device comprising:

a web publisher database storing data for publications placed on web pages transmitted to said user'"'"'s terminal and said portable telephone by the web server including at least region data identifying the publishing region, category data identifying the publication category, publication data identifying the publication contents, registrant data identifying the publisher registering the publication, and the e-mail address of the publisher; and

a web publication database having at least region data identifying the publishing region, category data identifying the publication category, publication data identifying the publication contents, and the registration date of the publication;

wherein the web server comprises;

a function for transmitting web pages to the user'"'"'s terminal devices, the web pages including at least a region part specifying the publishing region, a category search part for searching by a category of publication, a keyword search part for searching by keywords in the publication, the results of these searches, a portable telephone display part replicating the web page to be transmitted and displayed in a portable telephone, and an e-mail address specifying part for sending e-mails publishing addresses of the web pages for displaying the region data specified by the region specifying part; and

a function for transmitting, to said portable telephone, web pages with a same constitution as that of the web pages displayed on said portable telephone display part replicating the web pages of said user'"'"'s terminal device based on the search results.

2. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 1, wherein the mail server has a function for sending e-mails publishing a web page address displaying the region data specified in the region part to the portable telephone specified by said e-mail address specifying part.

3. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 1, wherein the web server has a function for transmitting a web page to the user terminal device, the web page including one or more address books capable of recording web page addresses for a portable telephone that are obtained in searches.

4. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 3, wherein the web page addresses are stored in the address book using a cookie function capable of saving and reading prescribed data obtained by a web browser in the user terminal device that displays the web page.

5. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 3, wherein the web server has a function for transmitting, to said user'"'"'s terminal, a web page with an e-mail address part to send e-mails publishing the web page addresses registered with the address book to the portable telephone;

and the mail server has a function for sending the e-mails publishing a web page address registered with in the address book to the portable telephone specified by the e-mail address part.

6. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 1, wherein the web server has a function for registering the web page of a web page owner that can be displayed on the portable telephone;

and a function for recording data about the owner in both the web publisher database and the web publication database and for transmitting a web page for registering the web page of said owner to the user terminal device.

7. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 1, wherein the web server has a function for creating a web page for a data provider wishing to publish data capable of being displayed on the portable telephone;

and a function for recording data about the data provider wishing to publish data in both the web publisher database and the web publication database and for transmitting a web page for registering the web page of said data provider to the user terminal device.

8. A web page searching device for a portable telephone as recited in claim 1, wherein the web publication database stores data describing the period of publication;

and the web server has a function for recording this publication period data in the web publication database and for transmitting a web page belonging to the data provider to the user terminal device during this publication period.