Serving data from a resource limited system

DETAILED DESCRIPTION The present invention provides a method for serving data from a networked device.
Data is generated from a resource object associated with Page Items representing fragments of data (e.
g.
HTML statements or other text information).
A data resource request signal (e.
g.
an HTTP GET message, a signal generated by the device hardware) is received at a first device.
A first resource object is selected in the first device.
For a plurality of sequential page items associated with the first resource object, successive data fragments are generated according to instructions specified by the successive page items.
At least the successive data fragments are concatenated (e.
g.
placed in sequence in a buffer) to form a stream of formatted data.
The stream of web page data is transmitted to a second networked device via the network.
Preferred implementations may include one or more of the following features.
The data resource request signal may be a signal generated within the first device.
The data resource request signal may be a message received from the second device via the network.
The message received from the second device may be an email message.
The message received from the second device may be an HTTP message.
The request message received from the second device may further contain web page form data (e.
g.
a plurality of name=value pairs representing responses to HTML form inputs), a second resource object in the first device may be identified, and, for name=value pairs specified in the web page form data page, items associated with the second resource object may be selected such that the name associated with the page item corresponds to the name of the name=value pair and the value of the name=value pair may be processed according to instructions specified by the selected page item.
The instructions specified by a page item may include substituting tokens with text strings according to a lookup dictionary.
The instructions specified by a page item may include generating data fragments according to instructions specified by a plurality of page items specified by the page item