Personal internet portal (PIP)
AssigneeSBC Knowledge Ventures, L.P.
InventorJonathan Cowper
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Abstract
The disclosure is directed to a limited application computing device including a processor having an input device interface responsive to user input devices, an output interface to provide communication to a display device, a memory interface to access at least one solid-state memory device, and a network interface coupled to a wireless data communication device. The limited application computing device also includes a nonvolatile solid-state memory coupled to the processor via the memory interface. The nonvolatile solid-state memory stores a limited set of non-user changeable applications that may be executed by the processor.
Claims30
A limited application computing device comprising:
- a processor having an input device interface responsive to user input devices, an output interface to provide communication to a display port, a memory interface to access at least one solid-state memory device, and a network interface coupled to a wireless data communication device;
- a nonvolatile solid-state memory coupled to the processor via the memory interface, the nonvolatile solid-state memory storing a limited set of non-user changeable applications that may be executed by the processor.
A method of communicating between a personal internet device and a remote networked computer, the method comprising:
- accessing a wireless access point coupled to a distributed data network using a wireless data interface device;
- executing a web browser related application on the personal internet device that is retrieved from a non-volatile memory embedded within the personal Internet device, wherein no user software applications, other than the web browser related application, may be executed by a processor within the personal Internet device;
- receiving data from the remote networked computer via the wireless data interface and the wireless access point coupled to the distributed data network;
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- displaying the data received from the remote networked computer at a display device.
A method of providing a communication service, the method comprising:
- accessing a remote networked computer having access to a distributed data network, by providing access to a wireless access point coupled to a router device that is coupled for access to the distributed data network;
- wherein the remote networked computer is accessed in cooperation with execution of a web browser application on the personal internet device that is retrieved from a non-volatile memory embedded within the personal internet device, wherein the personal internet device comprises a processor dedicated to execution of non-user changeable applications, the processor having an input device interface responsive to a user input device, an output interface to provide communication to a display device, a memory interface to access data from at least one solid-state memory device, and a wireless network interface coupled to a wireless data communication port, the nonvolatile solid-state memory coupled to the processor via the memory interface, the nonvolatile solid-state memory storing the web browser application that is executable by the processor;
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- communicating data from the networked computer via the wireless network interface, the wireless access point, and the router device over a data communication path to the personal internet device.
A limited application computing device comprising:
- a processor;
- a network interface accessible to the processor;
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- nonvolatile solid state memory coupled to the processor and comprising:
- supplier configured network access instructions operable by the processor to access a particular internet service provider via a private access point and a public access point;
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- web browser related applications operable by the processor to interact with remote computing systems via the particular internet service provider.
Dependencies are inferred from the claim text.