Method and apparatus for restructuring of personalized data for transmission from a data network to connected and portable network appliances
DCFirst Claim
1. A system for retrieving and disseminating information, comprising:
- a server including software executing from a digital medium and coupled to the Internet network; and
a digital appliance operated by a person, coupled to the server by a network link and executing an application other than an Internet browser application;
wherein the server collects a record associated uniquely with the person from an Internet source in a first form in which the record is recorded at the Internet source, transforms the record from the first form to a second form specific to the application executing in the digital appliance, and transmits the transformed record to the digital appliance for display.
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Abstract
A system for retrieving and disseminating information records from Internet sources includes a client device and an intermediary server , including software, between the client device and the Internet. The collects a record specific to a client from an individual one of said Internet sources in a first form in which the record is recorded at the Internet source, transforms the record from the first form to a second form specific to an application other than an Internet browser application, the application executable by the client device, and transmits the transformed record to the client device for display in the application other than an Internet browser application executable by the client device. In some cases the client device connects by a data link that is not Internet-compatible link. Data mining on the Internet specific to clients and client devices is taught, with aggregation services and synchronization for keeping a client up-to-date efficiently for changing data content.
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1. A system for retrieving and disseminating information, comprising:
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a server including software executing from a digital medium and coupled to the Internet network; and a digital appliance operated by a person, coupled to the server by a network link and executing an application other than an Internet browser application; wherein the server collects a record associated uniquely with the person from an Internet source in a first form in which the record is recorded at the Internet source, transforms the record from the first form to a second form specific to the application executing in the digital appliance, and transmits the transformed record to the digital appliance for display. - View Dependent Claims (2, 3, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, 13, 14, 15, 16, 17, 18, 19, 20, 22, 23, 24, 25, 26)
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21. A method for retrieving and disseminating information records on behalf of a specific client from Internet sources, comprising steps of:
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(a) collecting a record associated uniquely with the client in a first data form from an Internet source by a server connected to the Internet; (b) transforming the record into a second data form specific to an application other than an Internet browser application, the application executable by a digital appliance operated by the client connectable to the server; and (c) transmitting the transformed record to the digital appliance for display. - View Dependent Claims (27, 28, 29, 30, 31, 32, 33, 34, 35, 36, 37, 38, 39, 40)
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