Portable high speed internet access device

• US 20020030844A1
• Filed: 03/13/2001
• Published: 03/14/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 02/02/2000
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Raja Singh Tuli
• Original Assignee: Raja Singh Tuli
• Inventors: TULI, RAJA SINGH
• Granted Patent: US 7,023,572 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 358/1.15
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/565 Conversion or adaptation of application format or content adding application control or application functional data H04L67/561
• CPC Class Codes: H04L 67/5651 Reducing the amount or size of exchanged application data
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/234354 by altering signal-to-noise ratio parameters, e.g. requantization
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/25833 involving client hardware characteristics, e.g. manufacturer, processing or storage capabilities allocation of resources considering hardware capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5044; allocation of resources considering software capabilities in multiprogramming arrangements G06F9/5055
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/41407 embedded in a portable device, e.g. video client on a mobile phone, PDA, laptop constructional details of equipment or arrangements specially adapted for portable computer application G06F1/1626; arrangements specially adapted for mobile receivers in broadcast systems H04H20/57
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 21/4782 Web browsing , e.g. WebTV
• CPC Class Codes: H04N 7/17318 Direct or substantially direct transmission and handling of requests

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.

Claims

1. A device for viewing Internet content such that:

a host computer receives information about a web page from outside and renders that information in memory facilitated by a browser program;

the color depth of the rendered web page is reduced, the web page is digitally compressed and transmitted to the device where it is decompressed for view by a user;

a software program running on the device implements a window with buttons providing web functions which are fixed with respect to the window and implements scrolling of the web page received with respect to the window.

2. A device as claimed in claim 1 such that:

the device enables the user to click on the window and when the user clicks on an area of the window, a message is sent to the host computer and the host computer provides a click down in the same location of the web page, a new web page is loaded, color reduced, compressed and sent to the device;

all information sent to the device is information of the entire new web page.