Patent ID: 6820131
Filing Date: 2004-11-16
Classification: G06F,Y10S

Abstract:
A method of providing a browsing session having an improved selection-to-display time using an apparatus having a wireless transceiver, a display device, a memory and at least one user input device, the method comprising:(a) providing a tree which relates a plurality of computer-readable items that are wirelessly retrievable using the wireless transceiver; (b) in response to a user-initiated selection that a first computer-readable item in the tree be a current item to browse: displaying the first computer-readable item on the display device; wirelessly retrieving a second computer-readable item which is a child of the first computer-readable item in the tree and a third computer-readable item which is a sibling of the first computer-readable item in the tree using the wireless transceiver while said displaying the first computer-readable item on the display device; and storing the second computer-readable item and the third computer-readable item in a local cache provided by the memory; (c) providing a first control and a second control to select, using the at least one user input device, from two wirelessly-retrieved items in the local cache that have not yet been user-selected in the browsing session; (d) while the first computer-readable item is the current item, receiving a user-initiated selection of one of the first control and the second control to select a new current item to browse; and (e) in response to the user-initiated selection in (d): if the first control has been selected, retrieving the third computer-readable item from the local cache and displaying the third computer-readable item on the display device; and if the second control has been selected, retrieving the second computer-readable item from the local cache and displaying the second computer-readable item on the display device.