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Showing papers on "Internet appliance published in 2000"


Patent
24 Jul 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a cross-referencing resource, which may take the form of an independent HTTP server, an LDAP directory server or the existing Internet Domain Name Service (DNS), receives Internet request messages containing all or part of a universal product code and returns the Internet address at which information about the identified product, or the manufacturer of that product, may be obtained.
Abstract: Methods and apparatus for disseminating over the Internet product information produced and maintained by product manufacturers using existing universal product codes (bar codes) as access keys A cross-referencing resource, which may take the form of an independent HTTP server, an LDAP directory server, or the existing Internet Domain Name Service (DNS), receives Internet request messages containing all or part of a universal product code and returns the Internet address at which information about the identified product, or the manufacturer of that product, may be obtained By using preferred Web data storage formats which conform to XML, XLS, XLink, Xpointer and RDF specifications, product information may be seamlessly integrated with information from other sources A “web register” module can be employed to provide an Internet interface between a shared sales Internet server and an otherwise conventional inventory control system, and operates in conjunction with the cross-referencing server to provide detailed product information to Internet shoppers who may purchase goods from existing stores via the Internet

1,022 citations


Patent
03 May 2000
TL;DR: An in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet-based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business.
Abstract: An in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business The in-vehicle device and the Internet based data processing resources can effectuate a wide variety of e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business including accessing auto part databases, warranty, customer, and other remote databases In addition, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include vehicle security and vehicle service management, data communicating Internet based radio, audio, MP3, MPEG, video, and other types of data Furthermore, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include interactive advertising, promotional offers, coupons, and supporting other remote data communications The in-vehicle device can also include functionality for remote monitoring of vehicle performance, data communicating and accessing remote Internet based content and data, and effectuating adjustments and control of vehicle operation Remote monitoring and control of vehicle operation can be by way of an Internet based data processing resource and can include engine control system programming and setting adjustment, vehicle monitoring, and transmission of vehicle telemetry and metric data Vehicle telemetry and metric data can include global positioning system (GPS) data, vehicle operational data, engine performance data, and other vehicle data The in-vehicle device can also wirelessly data communicate with a communication interface device (COM device) or an Internet appliance Such COM devices or Internet appliances can data communicate wirelessly with an in-vehicle device and simultaneously data communicate in a wired or wireless mode of operation to Internet based data processing resources, and to other data processing resources

258 citations


Patent
14 Jun 2000
TL;DR: In this article, an in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business.
Abstract: An in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business. The in-vehicle device and the Internet based data processing resources can effectuate a wide variety of e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business including accessing auto part databases, warranty, customer, and other remote databases. In addition, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include vehicle security and vehicle service management, data communicating Internet based radio, audio, MP3, MPEG, video, and other types of data. Furthermore, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include interactive advertising, promotional offers, coupons, and supporting other remote data communications. The in-vehicle device can also include functionality for remote monitoring of vehicle performance, data communicating and accessing remote Internet based content and data, and effectuating adjustments and control of vehicle operation. Remote monitoring and control of vehicle operation can be by way of an Internet based data processing resource and can include engine control system programming and setting adjustment, vehicle monitoring, and transmission of vehicle telemetry and metric data. Vehicle telemetry and metric data can include global positioning system (GPS) data, vehicle operational data, engine performance data, and other vehicle data. The in-vehicle device can also wirelessly data communicate with a communication interface device (COM device) or an Internet appliance. Such COM devices or Internet appliances can data communicate wirelessly with an in-vehicle device and simultaneously data communicate in a wired or wireless mode of operation to Internet based data processing resources, and to other data processing resources.

157 citations


Patent
30 Nov 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a method and system for performing speech recognition for an internet appliance using a remotely located speech recognition application, which includes an Internet appliance that is connected through a network with either a stand-alone computer or a server computer located at the Internet Service Provider.
Abstract: A method and system for performing speech recognition for an internet appliance using a remotely located speech recognition application. The invention includes an internet appliance that is connected through a network with either a stand-alone computer or a server computer located at the Internet Service Provider. Verbal commands directed to an internet appliance are received as analog signals and converted to digital signals. The digital signals are remotely translated into a set of instructions by a dedicated hardware device or a software program that operates a speech recognition application at either a stand-alone computer or server computer located at an Internet Service Provider in a form recognizable by the internet appliance. The internet appliance receives and executes the translated instructions.

137 citations


Patent
24 Apr 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, an in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business.
Abstract: An in-vehicle device data communicates with Internet based data processing resources for the purpose of transacting e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business. The in-vehicle device and the Internet based data processing resources can effectuate a wide variety of e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business including accessing auto part databases, warranty, customer, and other remote databases. In addition, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include vehicle security and vehicle service management, data communicating Internet based radio, audio, MP3, MPEG, video, and other types of data. Furthermore, e-mail, e-commerce, and e-business transactions can include interactive advertising, promotional offers, coupons, and supporting other remote data communications. The in-vehicle device can also include functionality for remote monitoring of vehicle performance, data communicating and accessing remote Internet based content and data, and effectuating adjustments and control of vehicle operation. Remote monitoring and control of vehicle operation can be by way of an Internet based data processing resource and can include engine control system programming and setting adjustment, vehicle monitoring, and transmission of vehicle telemetry and metric data. Vehicle telemetry and metric data can include global positioning system (GPS) data, vehicle operational data, engine performance data, and other vehicle data. The in-vehicle device can also wirelessly data communicate with a communication interface device (COM device) or an Internet appliance. Such COM devices or Internet appliances can data communicate wirelessly with an in-vehicle device and simultaneously data communicate in a wired or wireless mode of operation to Internet based data processing resources, and to other data processing resources.

127 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
07 Dec 2000-Nature

123 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: New services the authors can expect from Internet telephony, the technical challenges and solutions, and the emerging products that promise to support Internettelephony are discussed.
Abstract: The rapid proliferation of the Internet has given rise to a strong interest in carrying telephony over the Internet. Because the Internet supports data communications, a range of other services can be bundled together with Internet telephony. The Internet, however, was designed for non-real-time data communications, and hence it poses several technical challenges that must be overcome before the Internet can be successfully used for carrying telephone services. This article discusses new services we can expect from Internet telephony, the technical challenges and solutions, and the emerging products that promise to support Internet telephony.

122 citations


Patent
11 Sep 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method are provided that allow a user to perform information management tasks and access the Internet. The system includes a terminal that is part of a family and capable of wireless communication, a gateway, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), a server for authenticating the terminal, a global unit for providing the internet address of the server to the terminal and browser logic stored in the terminal or the server.
Abstract: A system and method are provided that allow a user to perform information management tasks and access the Internet. The system includes a terminal that is part of a family and capable of wireless communication, a gateway, an Internet Service Provider (ISP), a server for authenticating the terminal, a global unit for providing the internet address of the server to the terminal, and browser logic stored in the terminal or the server. The method includes the steps of powering on the terminal, establishing a communication link with the gateway to obtain an internet address for the terminal relative to the internet address of the gateway, obtaining an internet address for the server, and establishing a family communication session between the terminal and the server to allow access to information management services, and launching a browser to provide an interface to the internet.

116 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The first Internet card includes a web server and a trusted proxy, which add security features to the web connections, and the first results are presented here.

115 citations


Patent
08 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a network server is adapted to connect on the network with Internet appliances, and to fully configure such appliances over a network connection to access and operate on the Internet.
Abstract: A network server is adapted to connect on the network with Internet appliances, and to fully configure such appliances over a network connection to access and operate on the Internet. In a preferred embodiment the appliances have first control routines adapted to cooperate with second routines at the server, and also a network address for connection. An initiation signal by a user at a network-connected appliance launches the first routines, causing the appliance to invoke the network address and to establish network communication with the server and to initiate configuration interaction. In some cases special telephone numbers are provided with new appliances, and the dial-up server, through Destination Number Information Service (DNIS) uses the dial-up number in conjunction with a data repository to select appropriate software for interfacing with and configuring a connecting appliance. A full range of services may be provided, including value-added services, such a browsers and browser configuration.

112 citations


Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: As the most important innovation since the development of the printing press, the Internet has the potential to radically transform the way individuals go about conducting their business with each other, but also the very essence of what it means to be a human being in society.
Abstract: There is a revolution happening-a startling and amazing revolution that is altering everything from our traditional views of how advertising and communication media work to how people can and should communicate with each other. That revolution is the Internet-the massive global network of interconnected packet-switched computer networks-and as the most important innovation since the development of the printing press, the Internet has the potential to radically transform not just the way individuals go about conducting their business with each other, but also the very essence of what it means to be a human being in society. Since the introduction of the first graphicallyoriented Web browser, Mosaic, in 1993, the Internet has experienced phenomenal growth, both in terms of the number of computers and devices connected to it and the number of individuals and firms providing and accessing content on it Hoffman et al. 2000. The first significant commercial activity appeared on the Web by 1994and in the ensuing five years, the commercialization of the Internet has exploded. There are now very few countries and territories left in the entire world that do not have at least one host computer connected to the Internet Rutkowski 1999. At the same time, electronic commerce, as a research area, a business, and, indeed, an entire new industry, is still very much in its infancy. There is much confusion and complexity and not nearly enough solid information.

Patent
11 Aug 2000
TL;DR: The universal Internet based telephony system is implemented as a process that is accessible via an Internet WEB page and executes on the WEB server that hosts the web page and/or a back-end Internet telephony server which is accessed and controlled by the web server as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: The universal Internet based telephony system is implemented as a process that is accessible via an Internet WEB page and executes on the WEB server that hosts the WEB page and/or a back-end Internet telephony server which is accessed and controlled by the WEB server. The customer accesses the universal Internet based telephony system via any existing Java Enabled Internet Browser software resident on the customer's personal computer, either as an adjunct process thereon, or as a dedicated Internet telephony process. When a customer accesses the Internet WEB page and clicks on the universal Internet based telephony system icon, the WEB server on which the WEB page resides executes the resident universal Internet based telephony system hyperlink script and transfers a newly opened browser session to the universal Internet based telephony system WEB site. Once connected to the customer's personal computer, the universal Internet based telephony system WEB site presents the customer with the data entry fields for his/her account number the telephone number of the desired destination (called party). The WEB server uploads an applet to the customer's personal computer to run on the client machine without disturbing the customer's existing WEB page access, by opening up a separate window on the customer's personal computer for the Universal Internet based telephony system, to be seen and operated by the user. The universal Internet based telephony system WEB site then implements the Internet telephony communication connection between the customer's personal computer and the designated destination.

Book
01 Jul 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors address some major Internet commerce issues and the challenges to be met in achieving automated and secure Internet trading, including the development of intelligent tools, business models to maximise the benefits of agent technologies, agent-based payments, recommender systems, Web-based smart card agents, Internet lottery systems and wireless virtual communities.
Abstract: The Internet is revolutionizing retail merchandising and shopping. This text addresses some major Internet commerce issues and the challenges to be met in achieving automated and secure Internet trading. Among the topics covered are the development of intelligent tools, business models to maximise the benefits of agent technologies, agent-based payments, recommender systems, Web-based smart card agents, Internet lottery systems and wireless virtual communities.

Patent
02 May 2000
TL;DR: In this article, the authors propose a system that allows a user to operate Internet appliances and/or wireless devices without the versatility of a PC and still "read" the electronic attachments to the email as well as retaining the original email with the original attachment for processing by a PC.
Abstract: Electronic messages with electronic attachments sent by a device over a communication network, such as the Internet or the World Wide Web, to a receiver is first stored on a server computer. The electronic attachment is opened by a computer having a program that is capable of reading the attachment. The contents of the electronic attachment are then reformatted into a second electronic message using standard protocol, such as HTML and is sent back to the receiver. Thus, the receiver will receive two electronic messages: first, the original electronic mail with the electronic attachment and a second message in which the electronic message is embedded in the message. The advantage is that a user can operate Internet appliances and/or wireless devices without the versatility of a PC and still “read” the electronic attachments to the email as well as retaining the original email with the original attachment for processing by a PC.

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The purpose of this article is to survey the state-of-the-art technologies in enabling the QoS support for voice communications in the next-generation Internet and discuss the IETF QoS framework, specifically the Intserv and Diffserv framework.
Abstract: The Internet is under rapid growth and continuous evolution in order to accommodate an increasingly large number of applications with diverse service requirements. In particular, Internet telephony, or voice over IP is one of the most promising services currently being deployed. Besides the potentially significant cost reduction, Internet telephony can offer many new features and easier integration with widely adopted Web-based services. Despite these advantages, there still exist a number of barriers to the widespread deployment of Internet telephony. The most prominent one, however, is how to ensure the QoS needed for voice conversation. The purpose of this article is to survey the state-of-the-art technologies in enabling the QoS support for voice communications in the next-generation Internet. In this article, we first review the existing technologies in supporting voice over IP networks, including the basic mechanisms in the IETF Internet telephony architecture and ITU-T H.323-related Recommendations. We then discuss the IETF QoS framework, specifically the Intserv and Diffserv framework. Finally, we present two leading companies' (Cisco and Lucent) solutions to offering IP telephony services as examples to illustrate how real systems are implemented.

Patent
18 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, a system and method for enabling a user to navigate among a plurality of internet websites of interest to the user, including a graphical user interface which includes a guide for navigating among the internet websites, and to obtain access to a selected one of the Internet websites.
Abstract: In a system and method for enabling a user to navigate among a plurality of internet websites of interest to the user, the system includes a graphical user interface which includes a guide for enabling the user to navigate among the internet websites, and to obtain access to a selected one of the internet websites. The guide includes an array of web channel buttons, each of which includes a web channel number and a web channel title, and each of which is associated with and enables access to at least one internet website. The internet websites associated with each web channel button may comprise internet websites commonly accessed by the user or selected for the user, which are relevant to topics of interest to the user. An internet program guide accessible from the web channel guide enables customization of the at least one internet website associated with each of the array of web channel buttons, so as to enable further access to internet websites of internet to the user. Each web channel button can be efficiently activated to enable selection and access to the internet websites of interest to the user. A guide strip identifies the internet website selected and presented in a display, for integrated navigation between internet websites and television channels.

01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The architecture of Internet telephony is sufficiently different to make it necessary to revisit the issue of feature interaction in this context, and several new techniques, explicitness, authentication, and verification testing, become possible in the Internet environment.
Abstract: While Internet telephony aims to provide services at least equal to traditional telephony, the architecture of Internet telephony is sufficiently different to make it necessary to revisit the issue of feature interaction in this context While many basic feature interaction problems remain the same, Internet telephony adds additional complications Complications arise since functionality tends to be more distributed, users can program the behavior of end systems and signaling systems, the distinction between end systems and network equipment largely vanishes and the trust model implicit in the PSTN architecture no longer holds On the other hand, Internet telephony makes end point addresses plentiful and its signaling makes it easy to specify in detail the desired network behavior Many techniques for resolving interactions in the PSTN are no longer easily applied, but several new techniques, explicitness, authentication, and verification testing, become possible in the Internet environment

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The author predicts the future of the Internet, which means that as broadband is deployed and the Internet heads toward all-optical, there will be a lot more e-mail, aA lot more Web commerce, and so on.
Abstract: The author predicts the future of the Internet. The Internet was first used for remote terminal login, then file transfer, e-mail, and newsgroups. A long time later, we got Web publishing. Now there's Web commerce. Where next? Well, as broadband is deployed and the Internet heads toward all-optical, there will be a lot more e-mail, a lot more Web commerce, and so on. But what new applications will develop? For one thing, the Internet will subsume the telephone network. Telephone traffic is increasing less than 10 percent per year, while Internet traffic is doubling every four months. If Internet traffic did not surpass telephony by the end of the millennium, it will soon. Voice over Internet Protocol (VoIP) will be a trivia sidelight of the Internet right after that. After telephone, television. Internet protocols and bandwidth will need upgrading before television can be carried well, but it inevitably will move to the Internet. Why? The Internet can make television interactive: give it a million channels. The author does not mean turning your TV into a PC monitor, and he doesn't mean carrying the Internet on television networks (CTMs). He means carrying television on the Internet, in packets, using Internet packets: TVoIP. After that: Internet telepresence. There will be major substitutions of communication for travel. Less commuting. Less tedious business travel to press the flesh. We'll wire up our homes and (mostly) stay there.

Patent
21 Nov 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a telephone interface and voice recognition driven Internet browser system and method for accessing/browsing the Internet or other remote computing services on a cable or satellite television includes a phone for receiving a voice signal from a user.
Abstract: A telephone interface and voice recognition driven Internet browser system and method for accessing/browsing the Internet or other remote computing services on a cable or satellite television includes a phone for receiving a voice signal from a user. The voice signal controls a telephone interface, which displays Internet contents or other computing services on the television via a cable or satellite television channel/media. The system also includes a voice recognizer, preferably operated on a supercomputer or located in the phone, for recognizing/interpreting/analyzing a plurality of voice signals and generating command signals to access/browse the Internet or other computer services. The voice recognizer is capable of recognizing/interpreting/analyzing voice signals transmitted from a plurality of users in real time. The system further includes a stack of computers and an Internet browser. Each of the stack of computers is capable of accessing/browsing the Internet and retrieving/organizing requested Internet contents via the Internet browser. The requested Internet contents are sent to the user via a cable or satellite television channel/media with a frame grabber, an intelligent router, or a pre-downloaded system.

Patent
30 Nov 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, a method and a system are described for directing a client to the most optimal, most available Web site or content in a distributed content environment using an Internet Site Selector, which is an Internet appliance that optimizes the performance of domains hosted on mirrored, geographically distributed Web sites.
Abstract: A method and a system are described for directing a client to the most optimal, most available Web site or to the most optimal content in a distributed content environment, using an Internet Site Selector, which is an Internet appliance that optimizes the performance of domains hosted on mirrored, geographically distributed Web sites. The system includes various components including the Internet Site Selectors which co-locate with each Web site. The method comprises a number of steps including sending client requests to a primary or main site, redirecting by an Internet Site Selector coupled to the primary or main site the modified client requests to all other participating Internet Site Selectors. Several modes and deployments of the Internet Site Selectors, including geographic site selection, multiple Internet Site Selectors at each Web site, Internet Site Selector grouping, Internet Site Selectors in content routing are described.

Patent
29 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, the authors present a method and system that allows a user to remotely use and manage navigation data, such as cookies and bookmarks, thereby enhancing navigation of the internet.
Abstract: A unique method and system to remotely store and manage a computer user's internet navigation data from any computer in the world having access to the internet. More particularly, the present invention relates to a method and system that allows a user to remotely use and manage navigation data, such as cookies and bookmarks, thereby enhancing navigation of the internet. This is accomplished by storing the data at a secure remote server and using a module coupled to the user's internet browser to redirect requests to access or store the internet navigation data to the remote server instead of the user's local computer memory.

Patent
13 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a computer-implemented method implemented via the Internet for coordinating a current or future event between a user of a mobile Internet device and other users communicating through the Internet is presented.
Abstract: A computer-implemented method implemented via the Internet for coordinating a current or future event between a user of a mobile Internet device and other users communicating through the Internet. The method includes receiving the current or future activity information pertaining to the future event from the user via the mobile Internet device. The current activity pertains to an activity occurring at a current time relative to a time the future activity information is received. The future activity pertains to an activity occurring at a future time relative to a time the future activity information is received. The method further includes transmitting the current or future activity information to a backend database coupled to the Internet, the backend database being remote from the mobile Internet device. The method further includes rendering the current or future activity information accessible to at least one recipient via the Internet. The recipient represents a subset of the users coupled to the Internet and having access privilege to information pertaining to the current or future event involving the user.

Patent
13 Apr 2000
TL;DR: In this paper, desktop computers sharing components and having divergent operating systems, hard drive(s) and memory for the expressed purpose of segregating the day-to-day data processing functions and files from access to the Internet and downloading information and e-mail therefrom.
Abstract: The invention is desktop computers sharing components and having divergent operating systems, hard drive(s) and memory for the expressed purpose of segregating the day to day data processing functions and files from access to the Internet and downloading information and e-mail therefrom.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
17 Sep 2000
TL;DR: The goal of this paper is to review the field of processors for mobile applications, and survey a spectrum of processors, their system software, and the accompanying hardware components.
Abstract: Mobile processors form a large and very fast growing segment of semiconductor market. Although they are used in a great variety of embedded systems such as personal digital organizers (PDAs), smart cards, internet appliances, laptops, smart badges, cellular phones, wearable computers, and sensor networks, they share the common need for low power, code density, security, cost sensitivity and multimedia and communication processing. The goal of this paper is to review the field of processors for mobile applications. We survey a spectrum of processors, their system software, and the accompanying hardware components. The emphasis is on classification and identification of major technology and architecture trends. Companion to this paper is a WWW page [Mob00] which provides comprehensive additional material about mobile processors.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
01 Apr 2000
TL;DR: It is suggested that correctly designed portable Internet appliances will fill a special role in peoples' daily lives, particularly if these devices share information with each other and will allow spontaneous access to information and communication anywhere.
Abstract: To understand how web access from a portable tablet appliance changes the way people use the Internet, MediaOne gave families pen-based tablet computers with a wireless connection to our high-speed data network. We used ethnographic and usability methods to understand how tablets would be integrated into household activities and to define user requirements for such devices. Participants viewed the tablet as conceptually different from a PC. The tablet enabled a high degree of multitasking with household activities, yet flaws in form and function affected use. Results suggest that correctly designed portable Internet appliances will fill a special role in peoples' daily lives, particularly if these devices share information with each other. They will allow spontaneous access to information and communication anywhere.

Book ChapterDOI
01 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The IPv6 designers of the Internet of the future, as they debated the key parameters of the new Internet protocol IPng (now usually known as IPv6, Internet Protocol version 6), revealed both technical caution and their inclusive aspirations for the Internet as discussed by the authors.
Abstract: The designers of the Internet of the future, as they debated the key parameters of the new Internet protocol IPng (now usually known as IPv6, Internet Protocol version 6), revealed both technical caution and their inclusive aspirations for the Internet. The language in the above quotation transcends typical technicaldiscourse and explicitly brings in social and ethical considerations: ‘it would be immoral not to consider that all humans will eventually be connected’. The IPv6 designers certainly wanted to ensure that Internet address space, if nothing else, would not become a scarce resource in the foreseeable future.

Patent
06 Dec 2000
TL;DR: In this article, a proxy/intermediary server between the handheld device and the Internet is described, and the system retrieves the content from the Internet, transforms, reformats, and translates the content into a more usable format, and then returns the transformed content to the device.
Abstract: Because of their nature, handheld computing/electronic devices with access to the Internet can experience limited access to content available on the Internet. For example, web sites may be inaccessible or the devices' view of a web page may be restricted. Herein is described a system that reduces these limitations by acting as a proxy/intermediary server between the handheld device and the Internet. When such a device makes a request for information from the Internet, that request goes through the system. The system retrieves the content from the Internet, transforms, reformats, and translates the content into a more usable format, and then returns the transformed content to the device. The result is the device has access to more Internet sites and is also able to view Internet content that it otherwise would not be able to see.

18 Jul 2000
TL;DR: An overview of multimedia conferencing on the Internet is provided, to provide the reader with an overview of how the components fit together and some of the assumptions made.
Abstract: This article provides an overview of multimedia conferencing on the Internet. The protocols mentioned are all specified elsewhere as internet-drafts or RFCs. Each RFC gives details of the protocol itself, how it works and what it does. This document attempts to provide the reader with an overview of how the components fit together and some of the assumptions made. The term “conferencing” is used in two different ways: firstly, to refer to bulletin boards and mail list style asynchronous exchanges of messages between multiple users; secondly, to refer to synchronous or so-called “real-time” conferencing, including audio, video, shared whiteboads and other applications. This document is about the architecture for this latter application, in the Internet. There are other infrastructures for conferencing in the world: POTS (Plain Old Telephone System) networks often provide voice conferencing and phone-bridges, while the ISDN provides H.320[1] for small, strictly organised video-telephony conferencing. The architecture that has evolved in the Internet is far more general as well as being scalable to very large groups, and permits the open introduction of new media and new applications as they are devised. There are a number of components to this architecture, and the rest of this document describes these as follows:

Journal ArticleDOI
TL;DR: The capabilities and drawbacks of the latest generation of PDAs using the Bluetooth and Wireless Application Protocol networking technologies and the latest cellular phone technology performing similar functions to PDAs are discussed.
Abstract: Proponents of personal digital assistants (PDA) say that it will be these hand-held units that tie the on-the-go executive of the future to the Internet. However, looking just as strong is the other big contender for providing wireless Internet access-the next generation cell phone. This article discusses the capabilities and drawbacks of the latest generation of PDAs using the Bluetooth and Wireless Application Protocol networking technologies. The article also discusses the latest cellular phone technology performing similar functions to PDAs. The cost of connecting a PDA to the Internet is also discussed.

Proceedings ArticleDOI
04 Jan 2000
TL;DR: The server-based model and the corresponding Internet architecture are introduced and two case studies, which use the proposed architecture for application deployment, are described.
Abstract: In recent years, business on the Internet has exponentially increased. Consequently, the deployment and management of business applications on the Internet is becoming more and more complex, which requires the development of new Internet architectures suitable to efficiently run these business applications. We present and evaluate several computing models for application service providers and introduce the server-based model and the corresponding Internet architecture. Two case studies, which use the proposed architecture for application deployment, are also described.