Method for maintaining remotely accessible information on personal digital devices

• US 20020174110A1
• Filed: 05/16/2001
• Published: 11/21/2002
• Est. Priority Date: 05/16/2001
• Status: Active Grant

• Current Assignee: Xueshan Technologies Inc. (Wi-LAN Inc.)
• Original Assignee: International Business Machines Corporation
• Inventors: Smith, Gordon James
• Granted Patent: US 6,889,224 B2
• Time in Patent Office: Days
• US Class Current: 707/3
• CPC Class Codes: G06F 16/9577 Optimising the visualization of content, e.g. distillation of HTML documents
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/02 Marketing; Price estimation or determination; Fundraising
• CPC Class Codes: G06Q 30/0277 Online advertisement
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99933 Query processing, i.e. searching
• CPC Class Codes: Y10S 707/99945 Object-oriented database structure processing

Abstract

A method for accessing remote information via a personal digital device, the method including the steps of storing embedded information in a memory of the personal digital device, receiving an information query from a user of the personal digital device, and determining if a response to the information query is contained in the embedded information. If the response to the information query is contained in the embedded information, then the embedded information is displayed to the user. Alternatively, if the response to the user query is not found in the embedded information, then a remote information query is executed through a wireless communication device. Additionally, if a remote information query is executed, the method includes the step of storing parameters representing the information query.

Claims

1. A method for accessing remote information via a personal digital device, comprising:

storing embedded information in a memory of the personal digital device;

receiving an information query from a user of the personal digital device;

determining if a response to the information query is contained in the embedded information;

displaying the embedded information to the user if the response is determined to be contained in the embedded information;

executing a remote information query through a wireless communication device if it is determined that the response is not contained in the embedded information; and

storing parameters representing the information query if a remote information query is executed.

2. The method of claim 1, wherein storing embedded information further comprises:

storing an embedded web page in the memory of the personal digital device; and

generating an indexable database representing each of the embedded web pages.

3. The method of claim 2, wherein the indexable database includes entries corresponding to search terms for each individual embedded web page.

4. The method of claim 1, wherein determining if a response to the information query is contained in the embedded information further comprises indexing into a database of query terms, wherein each of the query terms in the database represents an embedded web page.

5. The method of claim 1, wherein storing parameters representing the information query further comprises storing a remote execution query in an indexable database.

6. The method of claim 1, wherein storing embedded information in a memory of the personal digital device further comprises encrypting the embedded information to prevent modification of the information by unauthorized parties.

7. The method of claim 1, wherein storing parameters representing the information query further comprises updating the embedded information in accordance with the stored parameters.

8. The method of claim 7, wherein updating the embedded information further comprises adding an embedded web page to the memory of the personal device, wherein the embedded web page corresponds to a previously stored parameter.

9. A method for accessing an Internet web page on a personal digital device, comprising:

determining if a response to a user query resides within embedded information stored in the personal digital device;

displaying the embedded information to the user if the response is determined to reside in the embedded information;

executing a remote information query process through a wireless communication device if it is determined that the response to the user query does not reside in the embedded information; and

updating the embedded information in accordance with a user query history.

10. The method of claim 9, wherein determining if a response to a user query resides in embedded information further comprises:

searching through a database having entries corresponding to embedded web pages stored on the personal digital device stored therein; and

retrieving an embedded web page corresponding to the user query.

11. The method of claim 9, wherein executing a remote information query process further comprises:

transmitting the user query to a remote computer network; and

receiving a response to the user query.

12. The method of claim 11, wherein transmitting the user query to a remote network further comprises transmitting the user query from the personal digital device to a remote computer network via a wireless communications medium.

13. The method of claim 9, wherein executing a remote information query process further comprises displaying the results of the remote information query to a user.

14. The method of claim 9, wherein updating the embedded information in accordance with a user query history further comprises:

storing user queries corresponding to the remote information query processes in a query history database;

selecting user queries having a high frequency of occurrence from the query history database; and

updating the embedded information with content corresponding to the user queries having a high frequency of occurrence.

15. The method of claim 9, further comprising encrypting the embedded information stored in the personal digital device to prevent unauthorized access to the embedded information.

17. The method of claim 16, wherein storing predetermined web page content further comprises storing embedded web page information in a memory of the personal digital device.

19. The method of claim 16, wherein executing a remote search further comprises transmitting the user query to a remote computer network for processing thereon via a wireless communications device in communication with the personal digital device.

20. The method of claim 16, wherein updating the predetermined web page content further comprises:

storing parameters corresponding to each remote search process;

analyzing the stored parameters corresponding to each remote search process to determine parameters occurring with frequency; and

updating the predetermined web page content with content corresponding to the remote search process to determine parameters occurring with frequency.

21. The method of claim 16, further comprising encrypting the predetermined web page content to prevent unauthorized modification of the predetermined web page content.

16. A method for presenting advertising content to users of personal digital devices, comprising:

storing predetermined web page content in a memory of a personal digital device;

searching a query database representing the predetermined web page content for a match to a user query;

displaying an embedded web page if a match to the user query is found;

executing a remote search process if no match to the user query is found in the query database; and

updating the predetermined web page content with information corresponding to remote search process parameters.

18. The method of claims 16, wherein searching the query database further comprises indexing into the query database for an entry corresponding to an embedded web page representing the user query.