Patent ID: 6774767
Filing Date: 2004-08-10
Classification: G06F

Abstract:
A messaging device for displaying messages in response to data constituting said messages transmitted by a remote system over a high speed network at a predetermined network data rate constituting a certain bandwidth of the network, said messaging device comprising:(a) a visual display device having a plurality of discrete display elements; (b) at least one memory in the visual display device; (c) a network interface within said visual messaging device for receiving said data transmitted by the remote system and for storing such received data in packets in the at least one memory at said network data rate without reducing the bandwidth of the high speed network; (d) a processor within said visual messaging device, said processor adapted to retrieve the data packets from the at least one memory, processing the retrieved data packets according to one or more programs associated with the at least one processor to build the messages for display on said visual display device, said processor further adapted for storing the built messages in the at least one memory in a select order in substantially real time; (e) a display driver for retrieving said built messages from the at least one memory in said select order, said display driver in response to said built messages activating and deactivating said visual display device to display said messages; and (f) thereby enabling the visual messaging device to receive, process and display on the visual display device messages transmitted by the remote system substantially in real time.