US20080126940A1 - Portable high speed internet device integrating cellular telephone and palm top computer - Google Patents

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US20080126940A1 US12/026,499 US2649908A US2008126940A1 US 20080126940 A1 US20080126940 A1 US 20080126940A1 US 2649908 A US2649908 A US 2649908A US 2008126940 A1 US2008126940 A1 US 2008126940A1
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  • the background of the present invention includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,925,103, Internet Access Device. which describes an improved Internet access system, vastly different from the present invention.
  • Other prior art would include palm top computers, hand-held computers and cellular telephones that have limited processing power due to design restrictions. Thus, these computers are much slower for accessing the Internet and World Wide Web.
  • the present invention enhances the server's processing speed, data transfer and retrieval to and from the portable devices, with the aid of specialized embedded software in the server.
  • the result is a cost effective Internet access solution.
  • the principal embodiment of the present invention discloses a portable device that comprises a modem that connects to a cellular telephone.
  • the device has a wireless connection to the Internet.
  • a host computer which may also be a Web server connects directly to the Internet.
  • the host computer comprises multiple software programs, for example a Browser Translator, which translates HTML images into black and white bit map or raster images.
  • the compressed bit map or raster images are sent to the portable device, and the device decompresses the images.
  • the user views a bit map image of a Web page.
  • the portable device comprises methods for pointing and clicking on text and images representing links to other Web pages. Clicking events are sent to the host computer that performs the commands via a virtual browser. The host computer then sends the required information to the portable device as a compressed image. The portable device decompresses the image and the user views a new page.
  • the server may also send a message to the device containing information pertaining to locations of links. Icons, graphics, or text that are already in bold, and which represent links to other Web sites must be conveyed to the user but it is difficult to represent such items in bold on the device.
  • the server may transmit a message to the device containing the specification of all the areas that would constitute a link on the page so that the palm top device would know where a link exists. Therefore, when a user passes the cursor over that area the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. The user recognizes that the icon is a link and may therefore click upon it.
  • the process of capturing the raster image, reducing it to black and white, sending it to the device and displaying it on the screen of the device is done over the standard wireless mark up language or WAP protocols.
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of the host computer, the portable device with wireless connection and the user.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates portions of the image with respect to the displayable area.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates sub-divisions of the image to be displayed.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the portable device, the direct server and the host server.
  • the principal embodiment of the present invention aims to provide a device that allows a user to access the Internet or the World Wide Web (WWW), which device is similar to a combination of a palm top computer and a cellular phone.
  • the device is a cellular type phone (or a wireless phone) which also contains a screen for the user to view contents of a web page all integrated into one portable device.
  • It is a further aim of the present invention to reduce the cost of the device.
  • It is a further aim of the present invention is to increase the speed of refreshing the screen when the user clicks on a link and commands another page to be displayed.
  • Palm Pilot VII and Windows CE type devices contain an operating system, and within the operating system a mini-browser to interpret information received from the WWW or Internet and then display this information on the screen.
  • FIG. 1 A host computer 1 is depicted that is connected to the Internet and may also be a Web server.
  • Running in the host computer is a Web server program 2 .
  • the Web server software receives HTML, JAVA, etc. information and transmits this information to another software, the Browser Translator 4 .
  • This software translates the information, (i.e. the entire image comprising graphics and text) received in the form of HTML, Java, etc. (information may be gathered from different sources) and translates it to a black and white bit map or raster image.
  • the software translates the information into a raster or color image.
  • the image 5 contains the information that would normally be displayed on a single Web page.
  • the translation program therefore, also acts as a virtual browser 6 .
  • contains the image 5 to be displayed in a browser window 6 is usually larger than the displayable area of the browser window 6 .
  • the image 5 is further divided into sections 7 , 8 , 9 , and 10 , as shown in FIG. 3 .
  • the image is divided after the bitmap or raster is created.
  • the reason for the division (as will be explained later) is for the purpose of display priority on the user's display.
  • the image 5 is then sent to another program 11 running on the host computer 1 ( FIG. 1 ), which compresses the image using a loss-less compression method.
  • the compression method may be group 3 or group 4 , or another method.
  • the programs 4 and 11 can have multiple instances running simultaneously on the host server for the purpose of connecting to multiple users.
  • the compressed image, after being processed by program 11 is sent to the user, using a protocol in which information may be broken down into packets.
  • the information is received by a palm top phone device 12 that has the ability to display a monochrome image, in its display window 13 .
  • the information is decompressed and displayed in the order of priority such that part of image 7 , which substantially or completely covers the displayable area 13 ( FIG. 2 ), of the palm device is decompressed and displayed first and then sequentially the portions 8 , 9 , 10 of the image are decompressed and stored in an internal memory of the palm top device to be displayed later when the user scrolls up, down, or sideways to these parts of the image. So the parts of the image that are not immediately displayed are received and decoded in sequence of priority of which image the user may want to see next.
  • a CPU resident in the palm top phone device therefore has the ability to decompress a bit map or raster image that may be larger than the size of the display and allow the user to traverse this bit map or raster image.
  • the primary method of traversing the image is through conventional scroll bars positioned at the sides of the image.
  • the resident CPU on the palm top phone device has no ability to determine which parts part or parts of the image, that is being displayed, represent links to other Web pages etc.
  • the translator program 4 ( FIG. 1 ) translates the image in the virtual browser 6 such that the words that represent links on the page 5 ( FIG. 2 ) are translated to be slightly bolder. The user may therefore consider text that is bold to be links.
  • the palm top phone device provides the user with a pointing device.
  • This pointing device may be a touch screen or tracking ball, etc.
  • the palm top phone device also allows the user to click on specified areas. As soon as the user clicks on part of an image, the shape of the pointer changes from an arrow to an hourglass. A message is sent to the host computer. transmitting the location of the clicked down event.
  • a program 14 interprets the message and provides a virtual click down in the virtual browser created in the translator program 4 . If the user has pressed in an area of the image that does not represent a link or text box, a message is dispatched to the palm top phone device which immediately changes the hourglass shape of the pointer back to an arrow (in the case of a touch screen. from an hour glass to nothing).
  • a new Web page is extracted from the Internet or WWW, translated by translator program 4 ( FIG. 1 ) into a bit map or raster, and compressed by compression program 11 and dispatched to the palm top device where a new page is displayed.
  • the image 5 may be continuously being updated and translated and sent to the palm top phone device where it is continuously being refreshed. This occurs once every few seconds.
  • the server only responds, i.e. it only refreshes the screen when the user clicks on a link or on a text box.
  • the server may also send a message to the device containing information pertaining to locations of links. For example, icons, graphics, or text that is already in bold. representing links to other Web sites must be conveyed to the user but it is difficult to represent such items in bold on the device.
  • the server may transmit a message to the device containing the specification of all the areas that would constitute a link on the page so that the palm top phone device would know where a link exists. So when a user passes the cursor over that area the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. The user recognizes that the icon is a link and may therefore click upon it. The cursor changes to an hourglass and a message is sent to the server transmitting the location of the clicked down event.
  • a program 14 interprets the message and provides a virtual click down in the virtual browser created in the translator program 4 .
  • a new Web page is extracted from the Internet or WWW, translated by translator program 4 ( FIG. 1 ) into a bit map or raster, and compressed by compression program 11 and dispatched to the palm top phone device where a new page is displayed.
  • the cursor When the user clicks in a text box or in a box in the display area into which letters or numbers must be input, the cursor first changes into an hourglass, and a message is sent to the host server.
  • the host server recognizes that the click down event has occurred in the text box, and sends a message back to the palm top device to inform the palm top device to pop-up a keyboard on part of the screen.
  • the user then types, using the pointer, the letters or words to be entered into the text box and presses “enter” or “go”.
  • the keyboard then disappears and the cursor changes back to an hourglass shape (in another embodiment, the keyboard could be replaced with a real keyboard or with an area that recognizes users handwriting).
  • the user may use the keyboard of the phone device that is already provided for the purpose of dialing his/her phone numbers.
  • the alphanumeric information would then be typed in a similar fashion as it is typed for speed dial numbers on these phones currently.
  • the information typed into the text box is transmitted in a message to the host computer.
  • the host computer enters the information into a text box in the virtual browser.
  • the user sees, after a short pause, as the image is refreshed on the palm top device, that the words, or letters or numbers have been entered into the text box. Further to this, the host computer may also break up the image such that the portion that has been changed, i.e. the text box area, is sent first.
  • images are only refreshed when as event occurs such as a mouse down event on a link or in a text box.
  • the server may also send a message to the palm top phone device, together with the raster black and white image and the message containing the link areas, a message containing the location and area of the text boxes.
  • the device realizes that the user intends to input text and provides him with a keyboard on the screen (or other means disclosed earlier). After the user enters the text, the message is sent to the server in the normal fashion described earlier.
  • the palm top phone device sends the information and messages through the phone's wireless connection.
  • the palm top device only contains enough memory to store the current displayable page.
  • a back or forward button When the user presses a back or forward button, a message is sent to the host server, and the host server sends the reference page.
  • the back and forward buttons etc. may be hard wired into the palm top phone device, or may be part of the display area.
  • buttons (and other things) on the virtual browser may be sent as part of the compressed image and buttons such as forward and back may be treated the same way as links are handled as previously described.
  • buttons such as forward and back may be treated the same way as links are handled as previously described.
  • the back and forward buttons are hard coded as part of the device.
  • the palm top device may contain a large screen to be used in a fashion similar to a home Internet appliance.
  • the image transferred between the host computer and the remote device may be a color image and the compression method used may be of a Jpeg or other compression methods used for color images.
  • a gray scale image may also be used to reduce bandwidth or display costs.
  • the device includes no screen, but only outputs to be hooked to a television screen or external monitor for display.
  • the remote device in the principal embodiment only has the ability to decompress the image it receives; display the image it receives; allow the user to scroll through the image; provide the user with a pointing device to point and click on the image; send messages providing location of click down event; provide the user with a method to input letters and numbers; send a message containing these letters and numbers.
  • the principal embodiment contains no other structured or intelligent information about the image.
  • this entire process of capturing the raster image, reducing it to black and white, sending it over to the device and showing it on the screen of the device could be done over the standard wireless mark up language or WAP protocols, as illustrated in FIG. 4 .
  • a standard cellular telephone 15 with a standard protocol such as wireless mark up language or WAP no matter which Web page it wants to view will always try to log on the host server.
  • the host server 16 in this case, is not in direct contact with the device, but acts like a standard Web server that serves Web pages.
  • the device makes contact with the Internet through its standard wireless connections and possibly to a server called the direct-server 17 .
  • the direct-server 17 When the device wants to log onto any Web-page, it always first sends the address for the host server 16 and then communicates to the host server of the actual Web page it wants to see.
  • the host server then pulls that particular Web page from the Internet, rasterizes it, converts it to black and white, compresses the image and encloses it in the standard protocol, such as wireless mark up language or WAP or HTML.
  • the device therefore, through the Internet is communicating only, or is logged onto only, the Web page of the host server.
  • the host server takes the actual page from the Internet and rasterizes it and sends it.
  • any standard telephone that has Internet access using one of the standard protocols can be used that has the ability to show a graphic image.

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The invention discloses a portable device that is similar to a combination of a palm top computer and a cellular telephone, and which allows the user to access the Internet and World Wide Web. A host computer that may also be a Web server, is connected to the Internet and comprises various software programs to translate, rasterize and compress images received from the Internet. The compressed images are sent the portable device and the device is capable of decompressing the compressed image. Thus, the user views a bit map image of a Web page. The portable device further comprises methods of pointing and clicking on text and images which represent links to other pages. All commands that the user enters into the portable device are sent to the host computer; which performs the commands via a virtual browser, and sends the information back to the portable device.

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    RELATED APPLICATION
  • This application is a divisional application of co-pending U.S. application Ser. No. 10/448,700, filed May 29, 2003, entitled “Portage High Speed Internet Device Integrating Cellular Telephone and Palm Top Computer”, which is a divisional application of co-pending U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/504,807, filed Feb. 16, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 6,633,314, which is a continuation-in-part (CIP) application of U.S. patent application Ser. No. 09/496,172, filed Feb. 2, 2000, now U.S. Pat. No. 7,068,381, which is hereby incorporated herein by this reference in its entirety.
  • PRIOR ART
  • The background of the present invention includes U.S. Pat. No. 5,925,103, Internet Access Device. which describes an improved Internet access system, vastly different from the present invention. Other prior art would include palm top computers, hand-held computers and cellular telephones that have limited processing power due to design restrictions. Thus, these computers are much slower for accessing the Internet and World Wide Web.
  • The present invention enhances the server's processing speed, data transfer and retrieval to and from the portable devices, with the aid of specialized embedded software in the server. The result is a cost effective Internet access solution.
  • SUMMARY
  • It is an object of the present invention to disclose a portable device, similar to a combination of a cellular telephone and palm top computer, that can access the Internet and World Wide Web, at extremely low costs. It is another object of the present invention to provide fast access to the Internet such that refreshing pages is quick and efficient.
  • The principal embodiment of the present invention discloses a portable device that comprises a modem that connects to a cellular telephone. Thus, the device has a wireless connection to the Internet. A host computer, which may also be a Web server connects directly to the Internet. The host computer comprises multiple software programs, for example a Browser Translator, which translates HTML images into black and white bit map or raster images. The compressed bit map or raster images are sent to the portable device, and the device decompresses the images. Thus, the user views a bit map image of a Web page.
  • The portable device comprises methods for pointing and clicking on text and images representing links to other Web pages. Clicking events are sent to the host computer that performs the commands via a virtual browser. The host computer then sends the required information to the portable device as a compressed image. The portable device decompresses the image and the user views a new page.
  • In a further embodiment, the server may also send a message to the device containing information pertaining to locations of links. Icons, graphics, or text that are already in bold, and which represent links to other Web sites must be conveyed to the user but it is difficult to represent such items in bold on the device. Thus, the server may transmit a message to the device containing the specification of all the areas that would constitute a link on the page so that the palm top device would know where a link exists. Therefore, when a user passes the cursor over that area the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. The user recognizes that the icon is a link and may therefore click upon it.
  • In another embodiment, the process of capturing the raster image, reducing it to black and white, sending it to the device and displaying it on the screen of the device, is done over the standard wireless mark up language or WAP protocols.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS
  • FIG. 1 illustrates a block diagram of the host computer, the portable device with wireless connection and the user.
  • FIG. 2 illustrates portions of the image with respect to the displayable area.
  • FIG. 3 illustrates sub-divisions of the image to be displayed.
  • FIG. 4 illustrates the portable device, the direct server and the host server.
  • DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE PRESENT INVENTION
  • The principal embodiment of the present invention aims to provide a device that allows a user to access the Internet or the World Wide Web (WWW), which device is similar to a combination of a palm top computer and a cellular phone. The device is a cellular type phone (or a wireless phone) which also contains a screen for the user to view contents of a web page all integrated into one portable device. It is a further aim of the present invention, to reduce the cost of the device. It is a further aim of the present invention, is to increase the speed of refreshing the screen when the user clicks on a link and commands another page to be displayed.
  • Currently, existing palm top devices such as the Palm Pilot VII and Windows CE type devices contain an operating system, and within the operating system a mini-browser to interpret information received from the WWW or Internet and then display this information on the screen. This requires a powerful microprocessor. This is similar to cellular phones except the cellular phones have lesser expensive microprocessors but can only usually display some key words such as over a WAP type protocol or wireless markup language.
  • The principal embodiment of the present invention is disclosed in FIG. 1. A host computer 1 is depicted that is connected to the Internet and may also be a Web server. Running in the host computer, is a Web server program 2. When a remote user 3 requests to view a Web page (or electronic message etc.) the Web server software receives HTML, JAVA, etc. information and transmits this information to another software, the Browser Translator 4. This software translates the information, (i.e. the entire image comprising graphics and text) received in the form of HTML, Java, etc. (information may be gathered from different sources) and translates it to a black and white bit map or raster image. In another embodiment, the software translates the information into a raster or color image. The image 5, as shown in FIG. 2, contains the information that would normally be displayed on a single Web page. The translation program therefore, also acts as a virtual browser 6. As can be seen in FIG. 2, contains the image 5 to be displayed in a browser window 6 is usually larger than the displayable area of the browser window 6.
  • The image 5 is further divided into sections 7, 8, 9, and 10, as shown in FIG. 3. The image is divided after the bitmap or raster is created. The reason for the division (as will be explained later) is for the purpose of display priority on the user's display. The image 5 is then sent to another program 11 running on the host computer 1 (FIG. 1), which compresses the image using a loss-less compression method. The compression method may be group 3 or group 4, or another method.
  • The programs 4 and 11 can have multiple instances running simultaneously on the host server for the purpose of connecting to multiple users. The compressed image, after being processed by program 11, is sent to the user, using a protocol in which information may be broken down into packets.
  • The information is received by a palm top phone device 12 that has the ability to display a monochrome image, in its display window 13. The information is decompressed and displayed in the order of priority such that part of image 7, which substantially or completely covers the displayable area 13 (FIG. 2), of the palm device is decompressed and displayed first and then sequentially the portions 8, 9, 10 of the image are decompressed and stored in an internal memory of the palm top device to be displayed later when the user scrolls up, down, or sideways to these parts of the image. So the parts of the image that are not immediately displayed are received and decoded in sequence of priority of which image the user may want to see next.
  • A CPU resident in the palm top phone device therefore has the ability to decompress a bit map or raster image that may be larger than the size of the display and allow the user to traverse this bit map or raster image. The primary method of traversing the image is through conventional scroll bars positioned at the sides of the image.
  • The resident CPU on the palm top phone device has no ability to determine which parts part or parts of the image, that is being displayed, represent links to other Web pages etc. Thus, the translator program 4 (FIG. 1) translates the image in the virtual browser 6 such that the words that represent links on the page 5 (FIG. 2) are translated to be slightly bolder. The user may therefore consider text that is bold to be links.
  • The palm top phone device provides the user with a pointing device. This pointing device may be a touch screen or tracking ball, etc. The palm top phone device also allows the user to click on specified areas. As soon as the user clicks on part of an image, the shape of the pointer changes from an arrow to an hourglass. A message is sent to the host computer. transmitting the location of the clicked down event. A program 14 interprets the message and provides a virtual click down in the virtual browser created in the translator program 4. If the user has pressed in an area of the image that does not represent a link or text box, a message is dispatched to the palm top phone device which immediately changes the hourglass shape of the pointer back to an arrow (in the case of a touch screen. from an hour glass to nothing). Further to this, if the user has clicked on a part of the image which represents a link, a new Web page is extracted from the Internet or WWW, translated by translator program 4 (FIG. 1) into a bit map or raster, and compressed by compression program 11 and dispatched to the palm top device where a new page is displayed. In a further embodiment, the image 5 may be continuously being updated and translated and sent to the palm top phone device where it is continuously being refreshed. This occurs once every few seconds. In the principle embodiment therefore, the server only responds, i.e. it only refreshes the screen when the user clicks on a link or on a text box.
  • In a further embodiment, the server may also send a message to the device containing information pertaining to locations of links. For example, icons, graphics, or text that is already in bold. representing links to other Web sites must be conveyed to the user but it is difficult to represent such items in bold on the device. Thus, the server may transmit a message to the device containing the specification of all the areas that would constitute a link on the page so that the palm top phone device would know where a link exists. So when a user passes the cursor over that area the cursor changes from an arrow to a hand. The user recognizes that the icon is a link and may therefore click upon it. The cursor changes to an hourglass and a message is sent to the server transmitting the location of the clicked down event. A program 14 interprets the message and provides a virtual click down in the virtual browser created in the translator program 4. A new Web page is extracted from the Internet or WWW, translated by translator program 4 (FIG. 1) into a bit map or raster, and compressed by compression program 11 and dispatched to the palm top phone device where a new page is displayed.
  • When the user clicks in a text box or in a box in the display area into which letters or numbers must be input, the cursor first changes into an hourglass, and a message is sent to the host server. The host server recognizes that the click down event has occurred in the text box, and sends a message back to the palm top device to inform the palm top device to pop-up a keyboard on part of the screen. The user then types, using the pointer, the letters or words to be entered into the text box and presses “enter” or “go”. The keyboard then disappears and the cursor changes back to an hourglass shape (in another embodiment, the keyboard could be replaced with a real keyboard or with an area that recognizes users handwriting). In a further embodiment, the user may use the keyboard of the phone device that is already provided for the purpose of dialing his/her phone numbers. The alphanumeric information would then be typed in a similar fashion as it is typed for speed dial numbers on these phones currently. The information typed into the text box is transmitted in a message to the host computer. The host computer enters the information into a text box in the virtual browser.
  • The user sees, after a short pause, as the image is refreshed on the palm top device, that the words, or letters or numbers have been entered into the text box. Further to this, the host computer may also break up the image such that the portion that has been changed, i.e. the text box area, is sent first.
  • In another embodiment, the present invention, images are only refreshed when as event occurs such as a mouse down event on a link or in a text box.
  • In a further embodiment only those portions of the image that changes may be transmitted from the host computer to the palm top phone device. Other images in the virtual browser that are continuously changing, such as banner advertisements, may be the only other images sent to the palm top computer as they change.
  • In a further embodiment, the server may also send a message to the palm top phone device, together with the raster black and white image and the message containing the link areas, a message containing the location and area of the text boxes. In this case when the user clicks in a text box, the device realizes that the user intends to input text and provides him with a keyboard on the screen (or other means disclosed earlier). After the user enters the text, the message is sent to the server in the normal fashion described earlier.
  • In the principal embodiment, the palm top phone device sends the information and messages through the phone's wireless connection.
  • Furthermore, the palm top device only contains enough memory to store the current displayable page. When the user presses a back or forward button, a message is sent to the host server, and the host server sends the reference page. The back and forward buttons etc. may be hard wired into the palm top phone device, or may be part of the display area.
  • Further to this, part of the image representing buttons (and other things) on the virtual browser may be sent as part of the compressed image and buttons such as forward and back may be treated the same way as links are handled as previously described. In the principle embodiment therefore the back and forward buttons are hard coded as part of the device.
  • In a further embodiment, the palm top device may contain a large screen to be used in a fashion similar to a home Internet appliance.
  • In a further embodiment, the image transferred between the host computer and the remote device. (previously the palm top device) may be a color image and the compression method used may be of a Jpeg or other compression methods used for color images. A gray scale image may also be used to reduce bandwidth or display costs.
  • In a further embodiment, the device includes no screen, but only outputs to be hooked to a television screen or external monitor for display.
  • The remote device in the principal embodiment only has the ability to decompress the image it receives; display the image it receives; allow the user to scroll through the image; provide the user with a pointing device to point and click on the image; send messages providing location of click down event; provide the user with a method to input letters and numbers; send a message containing these letters and numbers.
  • The principal embodiment contains no other structured or intelligent information about the image.
  • In another embodiment, this entire process of capturing the raster image, reducing it to black and white, sending it over to the device and showing it on the screen of the device could be done over the standard wireless mark up language or WAP protocols, as illustrated in FIG. 4.
  • A standard cellular telephone 15 with a standard protocol such as wireless mark up language or WAP, no matter which Web page it wants to view will always try to log on the host server. The host server 16 in this case, is not in direct contact with the device, but acts like a standard Web server that serves Web pages. The device makes contact with the Internet through its standard wireless connections and possibly to a server called the direct-server 17. When the device wants to log onto any Web-page, it always first sends the address for the host server 16 and then communicates to the host server of the actual Web page it wants to see. The host server then pulls that particular Web page from the Internet, rasterizes it, converts it to black and white, compresses the image and encloses it in the standard protocol, such as wireless mark up language or WAP or HTML.
  • The device therefore, through the Internet is communicating only, or is logged onto only, the Web page of the host server.
  • The host server takes the actual page from the Internet and rasterizes it and sends it.
  • In this case, any standard telephone that has Internet access using one of the standard protocols can be used that has the ability to show a graphic image.

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1. A method to display a document the method comprising:
sending a request for a remote document from a device to a remote server, the remote document having first displayable information in a non-image format
receiving at the device a compressed image from the remote server, the compressed image being rendered from the remote document, a portion of the compressed image being rendered from the first displayable information;
decompressing the compressed image to generate a decompressed image; and
selectively displaying only a portion of the decompressed image according a user input to the device.
2. A method as in claim 1 wherein said selectively displaying comprises:
receiving an input of scrolling the decompressed image; and
displaying a portion of the decompressed image according to the input of scrolling.
3. A method as in claim 1 wherein the first displayable information comprises at least one of:
a) text; and
b) Java.
4. A method as in claim 3 wherein the remote document further has at least one of:
a) icons;
b) graphics; and
c) text box;
5. A method as in claim 1 wherein the compressed image comprises a plurality of sections; and, the plurality of sections are received in a sequence according to a display priority.
6. A method as in claim 5 wherein a first section of the plurality of sections is received, decompressed and displayed before a second section of the plurality of sections is received.
7. A method as in claim 6 further comprising:
storing the second section in the device;
displaying a portion of the second section in response to receiving a user input to display the portion of the second section.
8. A method as in claim 1 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server through a wireless telecommunication link.
9. A method as in claim 8 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server in one of:
a) a wireless mark up language; and
b) WAP.
10. A method as in claim 1 further comprising:
receiving location information from the remote server, the location information specifying in the decompressed image at least one location at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
communicating the location information to a user of the device.
11. A method as in claim 10 wherein the at least one location comprises a location of one of:
a) a link to a document; and
b) a text box.
12. A method as in claim 10 wherein said communicating comprises:
determining whether or not a cursor is displayed on the device at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
displaying a feedback in response to a determination that the cursor is displayed on the device at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document.
13. A method as in claim 12 wherein said displaying the feedback comprises:
changing a shape of the cursor.
14. A method as in claim 1 further comprising:
storing the decompressed image in memory of the device in response to a user input; and
retrieving the decompressed image from the memory for displaying on the device in response to a user input.
15. 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 display a document, the method comprising:
sending a request for a remote document from a device to a remote servers the remote document having first displayable information in a non-image format;
receiving at the device a compressed image from the remote server, the compressed image being rendered from the remote document, a portion of the compressed image being rendered from the first displayable information;
decompressing the compressed image to generate a decompressed image; and
selectively displaying only a portion of the decompressed image according a user input to the device.
16. A medium as in claim 15 wherein said selectively displaying comprises:
receiving an input of scrolling the decompressed image; and
displaying a portion of the decompressed image according to the input of scrolling.
17. A medium as in claim 15 wherein the first displayable information comprises at least one of:
a) text; and
b) Java.
18. A medium as in claim 17 wherein the remote document further has at least one of
a) icons;
b) graphics; and
c) text box;
19. A medium as in claim 15 wherein the compressed image comprises a plurality of sections; and, the plurality of sections are received in a sequence according to a display priority.
20. A medium as in claim 19 wherein a first section of the plurality of sections is received, decompressed and displayed before a second section of the plurality of sections is received.
21. A medium as in claim 20 wherein the method further comprises:
storing the second section in the device;
displaying a portion of the second section in response to receiving a user input to display the portion of the second section.
22. A medium as in claim 15 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server through a wireless telecommunication link.
23. A medium as in claim 22 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server in one of:
a) a wireless mark up language; and
b) WAP.
24. A medium as in claim 15 wherein the method further comprises:
receiving location information from the remote server, the location information specifying in the decompressed image at least one location at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
communicating the location information to a user of the device.
25. A medium as in claim 24 wherein the at least one location comprises a location of one of:
a) a link to a document; and
b) a text box.
26. A medium as in claim 24 wherein said communicating comprises:
determining whether or not a cursor is displayed on the device at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
displaying a feedback in response to a determination that the cursor is displayed on the device at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document.
27. A medium as in claim 26 wherein said displaying the feedback comprises:
changing a shape of the cursor.
28. A medium as in claim 15 wherein the method further comprises:
storing the decompressed image in memory of the device in response to a user input; and
retrieving the decompressed image from the memory for displaying on the device in response to a user input.
29. 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 serve a document for displaying on a remote device, the method comprising:
receiving at a server a request for a document from the remote device, the document having first displayable information in a non-image format;
rendering the document into an image, a portion of the image being rendered from the first displayable information, the image being larger than a display area of the remote device;
compressing the image into a compressed image; and
causing a wireless transmission of the compressed image to the remote device.
30. A medium as in claim 29 wherein the remove device is capable of scrolling an image decompressed from the compressed image for displaying in the display area of the remote device.
31. A medium as in claim 29 wherein the first displayable information comprises at least one of:
a) text; and
b) Java.
32. A medium as in claim 31 wherein the document further has at least one of:
a) icons;
b) graphics; and
c) text box;
33. A medium as in claim 29 wherein the compressed image is transmitted to the remote device through a wireless telecommunication link.
34. A medium as in claim 33 wherein the compressed image is transmitted to the remote device in one of:
a) a wireless mark up language; and
b) WAP.
35. A medium as in claim 33 wherein the method further comprises:
sending location information to the remote device, the location information specifying in the image at least one location at which a user input can be accepted at the remote device for an operation at the server with respect to the document.
36. A medium as in claim 35 wherein the at least one location comprises a location of one of:
a) a link to a document; and
b) a text box.
37. A device to display a document, the device comprising:
means for sending a request for a remote document to a remote server, the remote document having first displayable information in a non-image format;
means for receiving a compressed image from the remote server, the compressed image being rendered from the remote document, a portion of the compressed image being rendered from the first displayable information;
means for decompressing the compressed image to generate a decompressed image; and
means for selectively displaying only a portion of the decompressed image according a user input.
38. A device as in claim 37 wherein said means for selectively displaying comprises:
means for receiving an input of scrolling the decompressed image; and
means for displaying a portion of the decompressed image according to the input of scrolling.
39. A device as in claim 38 wherein the first displayable information comprises at least one of:
a) text; and
b) Java.
40. A device as in claim 39 wherein the remote document further has at least one of:
a) icons;
b) graphics; and
c) text box;
41. A device as in claim 37 wherein the compressed image comprises a plurality of sections; and, the plurality of sections are received in a sequence according to a display priority.
42. A device as in claim 41 wherein a first section of the plurality of sections is received, decompressed and displayed before a second section of the plurality of sections is received.
43. A device as in claim 42 further comprising:
means for storing the second section;
means for displaying a portion of the second section in response to receiving a user input to display the portion of the second section.
44. A device as in claim 37 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server through a wireless telecommunication link.
45. A device as in claim 44 wherein the compressed image is received from the remote server in one of:
a) a wireless mark up language; and
b) WAP.
46. A device as in claim 37 further comprising:
means for receiving location information from the remote server, the location information specifying in the decompressed image at least one location at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
means for communicating the location information to a user of the device.
47. A device as in claim 46 wherein the at least one location comprises a location of one of:
a) a link to a document; and
b) a text box.
48. A device as in claim 46 wherein said means for communicating comprises:
means for determining whether or not a cursor is displayed at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document; and
means for displaying a feedback in response to a determination that the cursor is displayed at a location on the decompressed image at which a user input can be accepted for an operation at the remote server with respect to the remote document.
49. A device as in claim 48 wherein said means for displaying the feedback comprises:
means for changing a shape of the cursor.
50. A device as in claim 37 further comprising:
means for storing the decompressed image in response to a user input; and
means for retrieving the decompressed image for displaying in response to a user input.
51. A data processing system to serve a document for displaying on a remote device, the data processing system comprising:
means for receiving a request for a document from the remote device, the document having first displayable information in a non-image format;
means for rendering the document into an image, a portion of the image being rendered from the first displayable information, the image being larger than a display area of the remote device;
means for compressing the image into a compressed image; and
means for causing a wireless transmission of the compressed image to the remote device.
52. A data processing system as in claim 51 wherein the remove device is capable of scrolling an image decompressed from the compressed image for displaying in the display area of the remote device.
53. A data processing system as in claim 51 wherein the first displayable information comprises at least one of:
a) text; and
b) Java.
54. A data processing system as in claim 53 wherein the document further has at least one of:
a) icons;
b) graphics; and
c) text box;
55. A data processing system as in claim 51 wherein the compressed image is transmitted to the remote device through a wireless telecommunication link.
56. A data processing system as in claim 55 wherein the compressed image is transmitted to the remote device in one of:
a) a wireless mark up language; and
b) WAP.
57. A data processing system as in claim 55 further comprising:
means for sending location information to the remote device, the location information specifying in the image at least one location at which a user input can be accepted at the remote device for an operation at the data processing system with respect to the document.
58. A data processing system as in claim 57 wherein the at least one location comprises a location of one of:
a) a link to a document; and
b) a text box.
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