Patent ID: 7042473

Claim:
A method of displaying a resized representation of a markup language based Web page on a handheld device, wherein the handheld device comprises a browser, a virtual memory functionally connected to a horizontal pixel counter and a horizontal pixel filter and to a vertical pixel counter and a vertical pixel filter, a display memory functionally connected to the horizontal pixel filter and to the vertical pixel filter, and a display functionally connected to the display memory, the method comprising the steps of: loading said Web page into the virtual memory for deriving the resized representation of the Web page; reading from the virtual memory a bit stream of horizontal pixels and a bit stream of vertical pixels, and feeding the bit streams to the horizontal pixel counter and the vertical pixel counter respectively; counting the horizontal pixels from the horizontal bit stream with the horizontal pixel counter and removing a portion of the horizontal pixels with the horizontal pixel filter; counting the vertical pixels from the vertical bit steam with the vertical pixel counter and removing a portion of the vertical pixels with the vertical pixel filter; storing the remaining horizontal and vertical pixels in the display memory; and displaying the resized representation of the Web page from the display memory.