Method for downloading a structured file from a server to a terminal device, and a corresponding terminal device

Terminal device for downloading a structured file, containing formatted text and other information, from a server to a terminal device, by using software in the device, over a telecommunications link, in which the terminal device includes at least

• means for receiving the file from the telecommunications link, as an information flow of a series of characters, the file thus containing consecutive information levels, each with an initial identifier,
• a processor and a memory for processing and opening the structured file,
• a display for showing information of the structured file,
• an application program for processing the information contents of the information levels at following steps:
• receiving of the information flow of the structured file while storing the characters received in the memory in a selected area of the memory,
• detecting each initial identifier from the information flow, in order to distinguish the information layers from each other and storing the corresponding information in the second selected area of the memory,
• processing each stored information level in the memory separately, in such a way that its content is transferred from the memory to the display, according to the application program.