Pushing Web Pages into Personal Digital Assistants Enrique Costa Montenegro Departamento de Ingeniería Telemática ETSI Telecomunicación Universidad de Vigo, Spain kike@det.uvigo.es
Introduction Context-driven services need to push contents into PDAs Minimum client participation Inefficiency of periodic reloads Network overload Real time constraints Single push at the right moment
Scenario I: Mall Walking customers with wireless PDAs Auxiliar Bluetooth/RFID/... location network Different web pages associated to different positions Goals: Event notification: restaurants, cinemas, special offers... Advertisements
Scenario II: Museum Walking visitors with wireless PDAs Auxiliar Bluetooth/RFID/... location network Different web pages associated to different museum halls Additional features: Alarm to suggest manual update In-depth information links
Our Solution
Our Solution (II) A) URL sent from server to PDA connection server at a given port B) PDA connection server submits URL to browser C) Browser asks for the URL D) Web server sends Web page to PDA
Conclusions Need to push URLs into PDAs in some context-driven scenarios HTTP reloads or Javascript approaches do not scale well Connection server prototype developed (7 Kb binary) Future upgrade: Java for individual frame upload
Questions!!
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