Methods and apparatus for downloading data between an informatio

Details Methods and apparatus for downloading data between an informatio Methods and apparatus for downloading data between an informatio

1998-01-12

2000-07-11

Vu, Viet D.

Electrical computers and digital processing systems: multicomput

Computer-to-computer session/connection establishing

709217, 709232, 709250, 455556, G06F 1300

Patent

active

060887303

ABSTRACT:
To provide an improved information processing apparatus and a method for controlling the same, which enables to smoothly transfer data, such as processed results obtained from execution of an application program, an HTML file acquired from a Web server in accordance with the TCP/IP protocol or the like, to an external device (PDA) by using an infrared communication function. The disclosed information processing apparatus periodically accesses a predetermined server machine (e.g., a Web server) to acquire a desired file (e.g., an HTML file). This file acquisition operation is carried out without the involvement of operations of an infrared transceiver. In other words, the information processing apparatus attempts to continually perform caching of the most recent download data. As a result, when the PDA as an external device is set into an infrared communication mode and a user simply holds the PDA to a station discoverable region of the information processing apparatus, a connection between them is established, thereby enabling the PDA to receive the most recent data.

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