Patent ID: 8732311

Claim:
A personal computing device comprising: a digital processor; non-volatile memory coupled to said digital processor and including a core operating system; a wireless network communication port coupled to said digital processor operative to send a request to a network server over a global network for a selected portion of a requested object or document that was not locally stored on said personal computing device and an action to be performed on said selected portion of said object or document; and read/write memory coupled to said digital processor and operative to receive only said selected portion of said requested object or document and only one application module that was downloaded by said network server to said personal computing device to perform said action on said selected portion of said requested object or document responsive to said request; wherein said selected portion of a requested object or document is less that an entirety of said requested object or document and wherein said one application module is one of a plurality of application modules comprising an application program capable of performing a plurality of actions on said requested object or document; and wherein said network server determines said one application module responsive to one or more attributes of said selected portion of said requested object or document.