Patent ID: 6067558
Filing Date: 2000-05-23
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A redirection mechanism for providing increased content for one or more resource constrained devices on an electronic network, said mechanism comprising:a browser associated with a user location;a content server;a peripheral interface comprising an embedded daemon which dynamically generates stub pages that contain applet tags, wherein a specific address at said peripheral interface invokes a stub page generator that takes a parameter following a request address and uses said parameter value as the body of a stub page returned to said browser; anda user interface generator associated with a user interface server, said user interface generator providing system wide addressing and a user interface for management of said resource constrained device, said user interface generator providing information pages to said browser, said information pages including links to addresses for peripheral interface and device specific pages, wherein said peripheral interface and device specific pages are stored on said content server, and wherein user navigation through information pages selects peripheral interface and device specific pages, wherein said browser follows said links to these peripheral interface and device pages.