Patent ID: 7289244

Claim:
A system for viewing Internet content, the system comprising: a portable device; and a host computer coupled to the portable device through a communication link; wherein the host computer receives information defining a web page from outside and renders said information into an image of the web page in memory of the host computer in response to a request for the web page from the portable device, said information including text and graphics; wherein a software program running on the device implements a device browser window with icons which are fixed with respect to a device browser window; wherein the host computer reduces the color depth of a portion of the image of the web page which portion is proportional to the size of the device browser window, digitally compresses and transmits the portion of the image of the web page to the device, where the portion of the image of the web page is decompressed and stored into a display memory on the device for display; and wherein the portion of the image completely shows the content of the portion of the image which is always transmitted from the host computer when requested; wherein the device enables a user to scroll the image of the web page inside the device browser window and sends a message to the host computer informing the host computer scrolling operations occurred in the device browser; and wherein when apart of the image of the web page is brought into the device browser window but has not been sent to the device, the part of the image of the web page is sent from the host computer to the device.