Patent ID: 6859819

Claim:
A method for implementing force feedback over a network, the method comprising: enabling an establishment of a connection between a server machine and a client machine over a network, said client machine including a visual display and a force feedback device providing, computer controlled physical force feedback to a user of said force feedback device; enabling reception of web page information from said server machine over said network, said web page information including screen display information representing a visual layout of a web page and force feedback information related to said visual layout of said web page; enabling a display of said web page on said visual display of said client machine based upon said screen display information; enabling reception of input information from said force feedback device for positioning, a pointer image with respect to said visual layout of said web page; and enabling a force feedback signal to be output to said force feedback device, said force feedback signal based upon said input information and based upon said web page information received over said network, wherein said force feedback signal causes said force feedback device to output computer controlled physical force feedback to said user correlated with said visual layout of said web page on said visual display, said force feedback being based upon said force feedback signal.