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14. The system of claim 10, wherein the handheld device
further comprises a handheld radio code and Wireless sup
port module coupled betWeen the information decoder and
24. A method, comprising the steps of:
fetching a document from a document server;
restricting the fetched document using ?Xed criteria;
restricting the fetched document using dynamic user
de?ned criteria;
presentation component and the gateway device.
15. The system of claim 5, Wherein the document server
is an Internet server.
transmitting the restricted document to a vieWing device;
receiving user input based on the restricted document; and
converting the user input into the user de?ned criteria;
16. The system of claim 5, Wherein the document server
is an Intranet server.
17. The system of claim 5, Wherein the document server
is a World-Wide-Web
server and the document is a 10
18. A system for dynamically ?ltering user-de?ned sec
tions of data, comprising:
criteria comprises the steps of:
a database con?gured to store documents;
receiving commands from a user via a user interface;
a control device con?gured to perform dynamic ?ltering
determining if the command is an unrestricted request;
if the command is an unrestricted request, then deleting or
of a user de?ned section of a document received from
the database; and
a user interface and vieWing device remotely coupled to
the control device, the user interface and vieWing
device being con?gured to convert user input based on
selected portions of the document to ?lter signals and
to transmit the ?lter signals to the control device so that
the control device subsequently ?lters the document
according to the ?lter signals and the interface and
vieWing device subsequently displays the ?ltered data.
marking as temporarily inactive all previous restriction
commands relating to desired information; and
if the command is not an unrestricted request, then
determining if the command is another predetermined
type of command.
26. The method of claim 25, Wherein, if the command is
not an unrestricted request, then performing the steps of:
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19. The system of claim 18, Wherein the document server
stores textual and graphical data, and Wherein the control
device is con?gured to use the ?lter signals to dynamically
?lter user de?ned sections of the textual and graphical data.
tion command list, then checking for previously stored
commands present for the user and the desired infor
mation; and
if the predetermined type of command is not a content
restriction command list, then checking for other com
the user interface and vieWing device is a Wireless hand
held vieWing device; and
mands from the user.
27. The method of claim 24, Wherein the document server
the document is an Internet Web page.
is a World-Wide-Web
21. The system of claim 18, Wherein the database is a
28. A system for controlling the transmission of informa
tion to a Wireless device, comprising:
22. A method, comprising the steps of:
a World-Wide Web
requesting a document through a Wireless device coupled
server With a plurality of Web
pages; and
a gateWay device con?gured to receive an information
to a host device;
receiving the requested document at the host device from
request from the Wireless device identifying the WWW
a document server;
server and to establish a connection to the WWW
?ltering the received document using a predetermined set
of ?lters;
?ltering the received document using a dynamic ?lter
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a fetch and cache component that retrieves and stores
information from a Web page on the WWW server;
device from the Wireless device;
transmitting the ?ltered document from the host device to
the Wireless device;
displaying the ?ltered document on the Wireless device;
storing user input based on the displayed document;
converting the stored user input into the user-de?ned ?lter
criteria;
a restricting stage that removes at least one predeter
mined data type from the information retrieved from
the Web page to generate a ?ltered output;
means for transmitting the ?ltered output to the Wire
less device;
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transmitting the user-de?ned ?lter criteria to the host
device; and
the dynamic ?lter;
Wireless device in response to user input made by
selecting a portion of the Web page to be removed in
Wherein the user-de?ned criteria is based on a selected
portion of the document and Wherein subsequent
requests for the document through the Wireless device
subsequent transmissions from the gateWay device.
29. The system of claim 28, Wherein the gateWay device
are ?ltered to remove the selected portion of the
server and the document is a
an additional restricting stage that receives a ?ltering
command from the Wireless device and that uses the
?ltering command to remove additional data from
the information retrieved from the Web page and
generate the ?ltered output; and
Wherein the ?ltering command is generated by the
storing the user-de?ned criteria at the host device to de?ne
document.
23. The method of claim 22, Wherein the document server
server over a computer netWork, Wherein the gateWay
device comprises:
based on user-de?ned criteria transmitted to the host
Web page.
server and the document is a
Web page.
server and the document is a Web
page.
is a World-Wide-Web
determining Whether the predetermined type of command
is a content restriction command list;
if the predetermined type of command is a content restric
20. The system of claim 19, Wherein:
the control device is a gateWay device;
World-Wide-Web
Wherein the user de?ned criteria is based on a selected
portion of the document.
25. The method of claim 24, Wherein the step of restrict
ing the fetched information using dynamic user de?ned
Web page.
further comprises:
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a compression and encryption module that compresses
and encrypts the ?ltered output prior to transmission to
the Wireless device.