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Remote bookmarking for wireless client devices
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Inventors: Smethers, Paul A.;
Assignee: Openwave Systems, Inc. (Redwood City, CA)
Primary Examiner: Oda; Christine
Assistant Examiner: Benson; Walter
Attorney, Agent or Firm: Beyer Weaver & Thomas, LLP
Improved techniques that enable wireless devices to implement bookmarks with improved transmission efficiency, reduced user navigation and/or reduced amounts of memory resources are disclosed. One aspect of the improved techniques pertains to use of a compact request from a wireless device to an intermediate server when requesting a document or file by selection of a bookmark. Another aspect of the improved techniques is the ability of a user to select a bookmark to request the associated document or file with reduced user interaction (e.g., a single button action). Still another aspect of the improved techniques is that memory resources of the wireless devices need not be consumed to store network addresses (e.g., URLs) for the bookmarks. |
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DETAILED DESCRIPTION Broadly speaking, the invention relates to improved techniques that enable wireless devices to implement bookmarks with improved transmission efficiency, reduced user navigation and/or reduced amounts of memory resources.
One aspect of the invention pertains to use of a compact request from a wireless device to an intermediate server when requesting a document or file by selection of a bookmark.
Another aspect of the invention is the ability of a user to select a bookmark to request the associated document or file with reduced user interaction (e.
g.
, a single button action).
Still another aspect of the invention is that memory resources of the wireless devices need not be consumed to store network addresses (e.
g.
, URLs) for the bookmarks.
These aspects and other aspects described below can be used separately or in combination.
The invention can be implemented in numerous ways, including as a method, an apparatus, a system, and a computer readable medium.
Several embodiments of the invention are discussed below.
As a method for requesting a document on a remote server using a user interface of a wireless client device, one embodiment of the invention includes the operations of obtaining a compact bookmark identifier for a selected bookmarked document, and transmitting a compact request including the compact bookmark identifier to a translation server.
Neither the compact bookmark identifier nor the compact request include a universal resource locator for the selected bookmarked document.
As a method for utilizing bookmarks on a wireless client device, one embodiment of the invention includes the operations of: selecting one of a plurality of bookmarks available to the wireless client device; transmitting a compact request for the document or file represented by the selected bookmark from the wireless client device to an intermediate server; obtaining, from the intermediate server, a universal resource locator for the document or file represented by the selected bookmark; preparing a non-compact request for the document or file represented by the selected bookmark, the non-compact request including the universal resource locator for the document or file represented by the selected bookmark; and forwarding the non-compact request for the document or file represented by the selected bookmark to a remote server identified by at least a portion of the universal resource locator
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