Patent ID: 8001209

Claim:
An information notification device, comprising: a non-commercial, private network receiver configured to receive an entirety of received information downloaded by a computer and forwarded from the computer, wherein the receiver is configured to operate at a receiving power during transmissions by a transmitter coupled to the computer and to operate at a reduced power, with respect to the receiving power, between the transmissions by the transmitter, the receiver being further configured to be restored to the receiving power for a first predefined duration before a first scheduled transmission the transmitter and to remain at the receiving power for a second predefined duration after the first scheduled transmission by the transmitter, and the receiver being still further configured to increase a length of the first predefined duration for a second scheduled transmission by the transmitter if no transmission is received during the first scheduled transmission; and a display configured to display less than the entirety of the received information, wherein the less than the entirety of the received information includes at least a header.