DATA COMMUNICATION SYSTEM, METHOD AND PERSONAL ARTICLE

• Main Authors: SELLEN, ABIGAIL JANE, MURPHY, RACHEL LUCY, BIJSMANS, JEROEN, GEERT
• Format: Patent
• Language: English; French; German
• Published: 15.12.2004
• Edition: 7
• Subjects: ELECTRONIC TIME-PIECES; HOROLOGY; PHYSICS

Devices exist that can access and retrieve data from the Internet. These devices use a web-browser of some form to achieve this end. To retrieve a-rid render web-pages using a web-protocol, such as, for example, HTTP or WAP, requires a relatively sophisticated client device. Such a client device requires large amounts of memory and a relatively powerful processor to run the web-browser to access data sources such as, for example, the Internet directly. However, often users are only interested in specific, small volume, data such as a current share or stock price, exchange rate or temperature, for example. Hence, using such a relatively sophisticated device as described above to achieve a relative simple aim is unsuitable. Therefore, embodiments provide a data communication system comprising data specification means for a user to specify at least one data item and preferably a number of items of data, data capture means for capturing specified at least an item of specified data from data sources and a data display device for downloading, wirelessly, at least one item of data from the data capture means, wherein the data display device is incorporated in a personal article.